2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup

{{Infobox cricket tournament

| administrator = England and Wales Cricket Board

| cricket format = Twenty20

| tournament format = League system

| champions = Warwickshire

| count = 1

| participants = 35

| matches =

| most runs = Sophie Luff (316)

| most wickets = Laura Ellison (15)

| previous_year = 2018

| previous_tournament = 2018 Women's Twenty20 Cup

| next_year = 2021

| next_tournament = 2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup

}}

The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2019 Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 11th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place in June, with 35 teams taking part: 33 county teams plus Scotland and Wales. Warwickshire Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, therefore achieving their first title.

The tournament followed the 50-over 2019 Women's County Championship, and was subsequently followed by the Twenty20 2019 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.

Competition format

Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.

The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:{{cite web |url=http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/82101 |title=ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019 |website=Play-Cricket |accessdate=26 December 2020}}

Win: 4 points.

Tie: 2 points.

Loss: 0 points.

Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.

Teams

The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 17 teams, divided into regional groups. Teams in Divisions One and Two played each other once, and teams in Division Three played each other either once or twice.

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" style="font-size: 95%; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; clear:center;"
Division One \|Hampshire \|Kent \|Lancashire \|Middlesex \|Nottinghamshire \|Surrey \|Sussex \|Wales \|Warwickshire
Division Two \|Cheshire \|Derbyshire \|Devon \|Durham \|Essex \|Scotland A \|Somerset \|Worcestershire \|Yorkshire
Division Three - Group A \|Berkshire \|Cornwall \|Dorset \|Gloucestershire \|Oxfordshire \|Wiltshire
Division Three - Group B \|Buckinghamshire \|Cambridgeshire \|Hertfordshire \|Lincolnshire \|Norfolk \|Northamptonshire \|Suffolk
Division Three - Group C \|Cumbria \|Leicestershire and Rutland \|Shropshire \|Staffordshire

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" style="font-size: 95%; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; clear:center;"

Division One

Division Two

Division Three - Group A

Division Three - Group B

Division Three - Group C

|Cumbria

|Leicestershire and Rutland

|Shropshire

|Staffordshire

Division One

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! width="150" \|Team ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|W\|Won}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|A\|Abandoned}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|C\|Cancelled}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|NRR\|Net Run Rate}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Ded\|Deducted points}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Pts\|Points}}
style="background:#fbd009" \|style="text-align:left" \|Warwickshire (C) \|8	5	3	0	0	0	–0.26	0	20
style="text-align:left" \|Lancashire \|8	4	1	0	2	1	+0.77	0	19
style="text-align:left" \|Kent \|8	4	2	0	2	0	+0.04	0	18
style="text-align:left" \|Hampshire \|8	4	3	0	0	1	–0.19	0	17
style="text-align:left" \|Surrey \|8	4	3	0	1	0	+0.95	0	17
style="text-align:left" \|Sussex \|8	3	4	0	1	0	+0.30	0	13
style="text-align:left" \|Wales \|8	2	4	0	0	2	–0.32	0	10
style="text-align:left" \|Middlesex \|8	2	4	0	1	1	–0.61	0	10
style="text-align:left" \|Nottinghamshire \|8	1	5	0	1	1	–0.78	0	6

: Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/82101 Division 1 - 2019], Play-Cricket.

Division Two

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! width="150" \|Team ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|W\|Won}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|A\|Abandoned}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|C\|Cancelled}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|NRR\|Net Run Rate}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Ded\|Deducted points}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Pts\|Points}}
style="background:#fbd009" \|style="text-align:left" \|Somerset \|8	6	2	0	0	0	–0.03	0	24
style="text-align:left" \|Durham \|8	5	3	0	0	0	+0.54	0	20
style="text-align:left" \|Scotland A \|8	4	2	0	2	0	+0.70	0	18
style="text-align:left" \|Yorkshire \|8	4	2	0	0	2	+1.34	0	18
style="text-align:left" \|Essex \|8	4	2	0	0	2	–0.07	0	18
style="text-align:left" \|Worcestershire \|8	3	3	0	0	2	+0.27	0	14
style="text-align:left" \|Devon \|8	3	3	0	0	2	–0.36	0	14
style="text-align:left" \|Cheshire \|8	1	7	0	0	0	–1.26	0	4
style="text-align:left" \|Derbyshire \|8	0	6	0	0	2	–1.42	0	2

: Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/82103 Division 2 - 2019], Play-Cricket.

Division Three

=Group A=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! width="150" \|Team ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|W\|Won}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|A\|Abandoned}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|C\|Cancelled}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|NRR\|Net Run Rate}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Ded\|Deducted points}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Pts\|Points}}
style="background:#fbd009" \|style="text-align:left" \|Berkshire \|8	7	1	0	0	0	+2.47	0	28
style="text-align:left" \|Oxfordshire \|8	6	2	0	0	0	+0.05	0	24
style="text-align:left" \|Cornwall \|8	4	4	0	0	0	+0.40	0	16
style="text-align:left" \|Gloucestershire \|8	3	3	0	0	2	+0.41	0	14
style="text-align:left" \|Dorset \|8	1	5	0	0	2	–3.08	0	6
style="text-align:left" \|Wiltshire \|8	0	6	0	0	2	–1.48	0	2

: Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/82105 Division 3A - 2019], Play-Cricket.

=Group B=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! width="150" \|Team ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|W\|Won}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|A\|Abandoned}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|C\|Cancelled}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|NRR\|Net Run Rate}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Ded\|Deducted points}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Pts\|Points}}
style="background:#fbd009" \|style="text-align:left" \|Northamptonshire \|8	8	0	0	0	0	+2.20	0	32
style="text-align:left" \|Buckinghamshire \|8	5	3	0	0	0	+0.17	0	20
style="text-align:left" \|Hertfordshire \|8	4	4	0	0	0	+0.22	0	16
style="text-align:left" \|Norfolk \|8	3	5	0	0	0	–0.68	0	12
style="text-align:left" \|Lincolnshire \|8	3	5	0	0	0	–0.98	0	12
style="text-align:left" \|Cambridgeshire \|8	3	5	0	0	0	–0.44	0	12
style="text-align:left" \|Suffolk \|8	2	6	0	0	0	–0.46	0	8

: Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/82120 Division 3B - 2019], Play-Cricket.

=Group C=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! width="150" \|Team ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|W\|Won}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|A\|Abandoned}} ! width="25" \|{{Abbr\|C\|Cancelled}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|NRR\|Net Run Rate}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Ded\|Deducted points}} ! width="40" \|{{Abbr\|Pts\|Points}}
style="background:#fbd009" \|style="text-align:left" \|Staffordshire \|8	6	0	0	0	2	+2.45	0	26
style="text-align:left" \|Cumbria \|8	3	3	0	0	2	–0.13	0	14
style="text-align:left" \|Leicestershire and Rutland \|8	2	3	1	0	2	–0.11	0	12
style="text-align:left" \|Shropshire \|8	0	5	1	0	2	–2.07	0	4

: Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/82130 Division 3C - 2019], Play-Cricket.

Statistics

=Most runs=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
width=125\| Player !width=125\| Team !width=60 \| Matches !width=60 \| Innings !width=60 \| Runs !width=60 \| Average !width=60 \| {{Tooltip\|HS\|Highest score}} !width=60 \| 100s !width=60 \| 50s
Sophie Luff \|Somerset \|8 \|8 \|316 \|52.66 \|52 \|0 \|1
Sarah Bryce \|Scotland \|6 \|6 \|272 \|90.66 \|101* \|1 \|1
Marie Kelly \|Warwickshire \|8 \|8 \|218 \|36.33 \|76 \|0 \|2
Hayley Brown \|Northamptonshire \|8 \|8 \|213 \|35.50 \|35 \|0 \|0
Bryony Smith \|Surrey \|6 \|5 \|211 \|52.75 \|85 \|0 \|2

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

width=125| Player

!width=125| Team

!width=60 | Matches

!width=60 | Innings

!width=60 | Runs

!width=60 | Average

!width=60 | {{Tooltip|HS|Highest score}}

!width=60 | 100s

!width=60 | 50s

Sophie Luff

|Somerset

|316

|52.66

|52

Sarah Bryce

|Scotland

|272

|90.66

|101*

Marie Kelly

|Warwickshire

|218

|36.33

|76

Hayley Brown

|Northamptonshire

|213

|35.50

|35

Bryony Smith

|Surrey

|211

|52.75

|85

Source: CricketArchive{{cite web| url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/32/Vitality_Womens_Twenty20_Cup_2019/Batting_by_Runs.html | title=Batting and Fielding in Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019 (Ordered by Runs) |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=21 March 2021}}

=Most wickets=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
width=125\| Player !width=125\| Team !width=60 \| Balls !width=60 \| Wickets !width=60 \| Average !width=60 \| BBI !width=60 \| 5w
Laura Ellison \|Durham \|186 \|15 \|8.66 \|3/12 \|0
Flora Bertwistle \|Worcestershire \|130 \|14 \|5.00 \|4/18 \|0
Patricia Hankins \|Northamptonshire \|172 \|14 \|6.57 \|5/13 \|1
Isabella Fitzgibbon \|Buckinghamshire \|186 \|13 \|8.61 \|4/4 \|0
Chloe Sainsbury \|Cambridgeshire \|120 \|12 \|7.91 \|4/10 \|0

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

width=125| Player

!width=125| Team

!width=60 | Balls

!width=60 | Wickets

!width=60 | Average

!width=60 | BBI

!width=60 | 5w

Laura Ellison

|Durham

|186

|15

|8.66

|3/12

Flora Bertwistle

|Worcestershire

|130

|14

|5.00

|4/18

Patricia Hankins

|Northamptonshire

|172

|14

|6.57

|5/13

Isabella Fitzgibbon

|Buckinghamshire

|186

|13

|8.61

|4/4

Chloe Sainsbury

|Cambridgeshire

|120

|12

|7.91

|4/10

Source: CricketArchive{{cite web| url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/32/Vitality_Womens_Twenty20_Cup_2019/Bowling_by_Wickets.html | title=Bowling in Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup 2019 (Ordered by Wickets) | publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=21 March 2021}}

References

Category:Women's Twenty20 Cup

Category:2019 in Scottish cricket

cricket