2010 Women's County Championship

The 2010 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 14th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to September and saw 33 county teams and teams representing Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of divisions. Sussex Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, their fifth title.

2010 Women's County Championship
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format50 over
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsSussex (5th title)
Participants37
Most runsLydia Greenway (628)
Most wicketsDanni Wyatt (24)
2009
2011

Competition format

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Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned County Champions. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side.

The championship worked on a points system, with placings decided by average points of completed games. The points are awarded as follows:[1]

Win: 10 points + bonus points.
Tie: 5 points + bonus points.
Loss: Bonus points.
Abandoned or cancelled: Match not counted to average.

Bonus points are awarded for various batting and bowling milestones. The bonus points for each match are retained if the match is completed.

Teams

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The 2010 Championship was divided into five divisions: Divisions One to Four with six teams apiece and Division Five with 13 teams split across three regional groups.

Teams in each group played each other twice.

Division One Berkshire Kent Nottinghamshire Somerset Sussex Yorkshire
Division Two Cheshire Essex Middlesex Surrey Warwickshire Worcestershire
Division Three Devon Hampshire Lancashire Scotland Staffordshire Wales
Division Four Cornwall Derbyshire Durham Hertfordshire Netherlands Northamptonshire
Division Five East Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Oxfordshire Norfolk Suffolk
Division Five North Cumbria Ireland Leicestershire and Rutland Northumberland Shropshire
Division Five South & West Buckinghamshire Dorset Gloucestershire Wiltshire

Division One

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Sussex (C) 10 8 2 0 0 21 39 0 140 14.00
Kent 10 7 3 0 0 29 33 0 132 13.20
Berkshire 10 6 4 0 0 22 27 0 109 10.90
Yorkshire 10 5 5 0 0 24 29 0 103 10.30
Nottinghamshire 10 2 8 0 0 17 25 0 62 6.20
Somerset (R) 10 2 8 0 0 20 20 0 60 6.00

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[2]

Division Two

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Middlesex (P) 10 8 2 0 0 29 35 0 144 14.40
Essex 10 8 2 0 0 29 34 0 143 14.30
Warwickshire 10 6 4 0 0 23 33 0 116 11.60
Surrey 10 5 4 0 1 18 28 0 96 10.67
Cheshire 10 2 7 0 1 18 26 0 64 7.11
Worcestershire (R) 10 0 10 0 0 8 27 0 35 3.50

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[3]

Division Three

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Wales (P) 10 8 2 0 0 21 32 0 133 13.30
Staffordshire 10 6 3 0 1 23 35 0 118 13.11
Lancashire 10 6 3 0 1 18 35 0 113 12.56
Devon 10 7 3 0 0 23 32 0 125 12.50
Scotland 10 2 8 0 0 11 23 0 54 5.40
Hampshire (R) 10 0 10 0 0 16 22 0 38 3.80

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[4]

Division Four

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Netherlands (P) 5 4 1 0 0 14 19 0 73 14.60
Derbyshire 9 6 3 0 0 21 33 0 114 12.67
Northamptonshire 9 5 4 0 0 17 30 0 97 10.78
Hertfordshire 9 4 3 0 2 13 22 0 75 10.71
Durham 9 4 4 0 1 16 23 0 79 9.88
Cornwall (R) 9 0 8 0 1 7 13 0 20 2.50

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[5]

Division Five

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East

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire[a] (P) 6 5 0 0 1 13 20 0 83 16.60
Norfolk 6 3 2 0 1 6 18 0 54 10.80
Oxfordshire 6 2 4 0 0 8 19 0 47 7.83
Suffolk 6 1 5 0 0 4 16 0 30 5.00

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[6]

North

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Leicestershire and Rutland 7 6 1 0 0 23 27 0 110 15.71
Ireland 4 3 1 0 0 14 15 0 59 14.75
Cumbria 7 3 4 0 0 9 22 0 61 8.71
Shropshire 7 3 4 0 0 11 19 0 60 8.57
Northumberland 7 1 6 0 0 7 6 0 23 3.29

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[7]

South & West

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Gloucestershire 6 5 1 0 0 17 20 0 87 14.50
Wiltshire 6 4 2 0 0 15 22 0 77 12.83
Dorset 6 3 3 0 0 13 19 0 62 10.33
Buckinghamshire 6 0 6 0 0 4 6 0 10 1.67

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[8]

Statistics

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Most runs

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Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average HS 100s 50s
Lydia Greenway Kent 10 10 628 78.50 112* 1 6
Charlotte Edwards Kent 10 10 562 70.25 126* 1 5
Jenny Dunn Middlesex 9 9 483 60.37 158* 1 2
Rachel Priest Staffordshire 8 8 475 67.85 178* 2 2
Aimee Watkins Devon 8 8 472 67.42 188 1 2

Source: CricketArchive[9]

Most wickets

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Player Team Balls Wickets Average BBI 5w
Danni Wyatt Staffordshire 510 24 9.33 7/41 1
Katherine Brunt Yorkshire 497 22 12.36 6/29 2
Holly Colvin Sussex 499 21 7.76 7/3 1
Jennifer Laycock Lancashire 509 21 9.66 5/9 1
Isa Guha Berkshire 550 21 13.85 4/14 0

Source: CricketArchive[10]

Notes

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  1. ^ Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire were promoted by virtue of being the best Division Five group winner, on average points.

References

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  1. ^ "ECB Women's County Championship Division 1 - 2010". Play Cricket. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  2. ^ Division 1 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  3. ^ Division 2 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  4. ^ Division 3 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  5. ^ Division 4 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  6. ^ Division 5E – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  7. ^ Division 5N – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  8. ^ Division 5S&W – 2010, Play-Cricket.
  9. ^ "Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2010 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2010 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.