East of England Women's County Championship
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Format | Limited overs cricket |
Tournament format | League system |
Number of teams | 6 |
Current champion | Buckinghamshire |
Website | East of England Women's County Championship |
The East of England Women's County Championship is an English cricket competition. It was originally conceived in 2020 as a 50-over competition to provide longer-format cricket in the region after the abolition of the Women's County Championship. However, the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the start of the season and caused that year's national Women's Twenty20 Cup to be cancelled, resulting in a decision to play a 45-over competition (to allow extra time for sanitisation breaks) as well as a separate Twenty20 competition.[1]
Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Norfolk competed in 2020. The 45-over tournament was won by Hertfordshire and the Twenty20 tournament was won by Buckinghamshire.[2][3]
The 2021 edition was competed as a 45-over tournament, with Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire joining to make it a six-team event.[4] Each team played the other teams once in a round robin format, starting on 2 May, with the team with the most points being crowned champions.[5] Buckinghamshire won the tournament, winning four of their five matches to finish top of the league with 73 points, with Hertfordshire second with 70 points.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Keeping the flag flying: Women's county cricket lives on". The Cricketer. 16 February 2021. Retrieved 26 April 2021.
- ^ "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2020". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Women's 1st XI T20 Championship - 2020". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "DEEP DIVE: Women's County Cricket In 2021". CricketHer. 22 December 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Fixtures & Results". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
- ^ "Women's 1st XI Championship - 2021/Table". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
- Women's cricket in England
- English domestic cricket competitions
- Cricket in Buckinghamshire
- Cricket in Cambridgeshire
- Cricket in Hertfordshire
- Cricket in Huntingdonshire
- Cricket in Lincolnshire
- Cricket in Norfolk
- 2020 establishments in England
- Cricket competition stubs