2008 Women's County Championship

2008 Women's County Championship

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Sussex (4th title)
Participants	33
Most runs	Heather Knight (402)
Most wickets	Isabelle Westbury (12) Hannah Courtnell (12) Charlotte Anneveld (12)

The 2008 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 12th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to August and saw 31 county teams and teams representing Scotland and Wales compete in a series of divisions. Sussex Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, achieving their fourth title.

Competition format

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 works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:[1]

Win: 20 points.
Tie: 16 points.
Loss: Bonus points.
Abandoned or No Result: 6 points.
Cancelled No Play: 10 points.

Up to four batting and four bowling points were available to the losing side only, or both sides in an incomplete match.

Teams

The 2008 Championship was divided into five divisions: Divisions One to Four with four teams apiece and Division Five with 17 teams split across four regional groups.

Teams in the top four Divisions played each other twice, and teams in Division Five played each other once.

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

Division One

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Sussex (C)	6	5	0	0	1	1	0	0	107
Kent	6	4	1	0	1	0	5	0	91
Nottinghamshire	6	2	4	0	0	5	8	0	53
Berkshire	6	0	6	0	0	7	9	0	16

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[2]

Division Two

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Surrey (P)	6	5	1	0	0	4	2	0	106
Somerset (P)	6	4	2	0	0	2	4	0	86
Lancashire	6	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	63
Warwickshire	6	0	6	0	0	5	12	0	17

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[3]

Division Three

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Yorkshire (P)	6	5	0	0	1	0	4	0	110
Middlesex (P)	6	3	3	0	0	1	9	0	70
Cheshire (P)	6	2	4	0	0	1	12	0	53
Derbyshire	6	1	4	0	1	6	6	0	38

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[4]

Division Four

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Essex[a] (P)	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	120
Staffordshire	6	4	2	0	0	2	0	0	82
Worcestershire	6	1	5	0	0	4	13	0	37
Hampshire	6	1	5	0	0	4	7	0	31

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[5]

Division Five

Due to restructuring of the Championship to expand the number of teams per division in 2009, the winners of the Division Five groups went into a play-off to determine promotion: the top two were promoted to Division Three, whilst the bottom two would form Division Four along with the four second-placed Division Five teams.

London & East

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Norfolk (PO)	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	50
Hertfordshire (P)	3	2	1	0	0	0	4	0	44
Wiltshire	3	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	22
Suffolk	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	10

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[6]

Midlands

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Northamptonshire (PO)	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	60
Wales (P)	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	40
Leicestershire	3	0	2	1	0	1	5	0	22
Shropshire	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	16

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[7]

North

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Scotland (PO)	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	60
Durham (P)	3	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	42
Cumbria	3	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	21
Northumberland	3	0	3	0	0	4	4	0	8

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[8]

South & West

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Devon (PO)	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	80
Cornwall (P)	4	3	1	0	0	2	3	0	65
Gloucestershire	4	2	2	0	0	3	3	0	46
Dorset	4	1	3	0	0	3	9	0	32
Oxfordshire	4	0	4	0	0	0	5	0	5

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[9]

Play-off

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts
Scotland (P)	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	60
Devon (P)	3	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	21
Norfolk (P)	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	20
Northamptonshire (P)	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	20

Source: ECB Women's County Championship[10]

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Heather Knight	Devon	5	5	402	80.40	190	1	3
Elwyn Campbell	Somerset	6	6	336	84.00	94*	0	3
Laura Joyce	Surrey	6	6	260	43.33	95	0	3
Danni Wyatt	Staffordshire	6	6	252	63.00	117*	1	1
Claire Taylor	Berkshire	6	6	244	40.66	146	1	0

Source: CricketArchive[11]

Most wickets

Player	Team	Balls	Wickets	Average	BBI	5w
Isabelle Westbury	Somerset	192	12	6.41	5/20	1
Hannah Courtnell	Essex	300	12	9.75	4/13	0
Charlotte Anneveld	Kent	300	12	11.50	4/18	0
Danielle Hazell	Yorkshire	259	11	8.63	4/1	0
Alexia Walker	Sussex	259	11	9.36	5/17	1

Source: CricketArchive[12]

Notes

1. Essex were promoted two divisions to Division Two for the 2009 season, whilst the other three teams moved to Division Three, due to restructuring of the Championship.

References

1. "ECB Women's County Championship Division 1 - 2008". Play Cricket. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
2. Division 1 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
3. Division 2 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
4. Division 3 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
5. Division 4 – 2008, Play-Cricket.
6. Division 5L&E – 2008, Play-Cricket.
7. Division 5M – 2008, Play-Cricket.
8. Division 5N – 2008, Play-Cricket.
9. Division 5S&W – 2008, Play-Cricket.
10. Division 5PO – 2008, Play-Cricket.
11. "Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2008 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
12. "Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2008 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.