2013 Women's County Championship Explained

The 2013 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 17th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from April 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, beating Yorkshire in the division final. The Championship was Sussex's sixth 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 worked on a points system, with placings decided by average points of completed games. The top two in each division played in a final to determine the winner, subsequently followed by promotion play-offs. 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.

• Batting

1.50 runs per over (RPO) or more: 1 point

2 RPO or more: 2 points

3 RPO or more: 3 points

4 RPO or more: 4 points

• Bowling

3-4 wickets taken: 1 point

5-6 wickets taken: 2 points

7-8 wickets taken: 3 points

9-10 wickets taken: 4 points

Teams

The 2013 Championship was divided into four divisions: Divisions One to Three with nine teams apiece and Division Four with two groups of five.

Teams in each group played each other once.

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

Division One

Table

Team
Sussex (Q)	8	6	2	0	0	28	28	0	116	14.50
Yorkshire (Q)	8	6	2	0	0	24	27	0	111	13.88
Kent	8	6	2	0	0	27	20	0	107	13.38
Nottinghamshire	8	4	4	0	0	27	21	0	88	11.00
Berkshire	8	4	4	0	0	24	20	0	84	10.50
	8	4	4	0	0	20	22	0	82	10.25
	8	2	6	0	0	28	17	0	65	8.13
Essex (PO)	8	2	5	0	1	17	15	0	52	7.43
Surrey (PO)	8	1	6	0	1	19	18	0	47	6.71

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[2]

Play-offs

Division Two

Table

Team
Lancashire (PO)	8	8	0	0	0	27	31	0	138	17.25
Somerset (PO)	8	7	1	0	0	25	23	0	118	14.75
Worcestershire	8	4	3	0	1	18	22	0	80	11.43
Ireland	8	4	4	0	0	24	26	0	90	11.25
	8	4	4	0	0	21	17	0	78	9.75
	8	3	4	0	1	17	21	0	68	9.71
Wales	8	1	6	0	1	20	15	0	45	6.43
Devon (PO)	8	1	6	0	1	17	15	0	42	6.00
Durham (PO)	8	1	5	0	2	10	16	0	36	6.00

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[3]

Play-offs

Division Three

Table

Team
Netherlands (PO)	8	8	0	0	0	31	27	0	138	17.25
Northamptonshire (PO)	8	6	2	0	0	24	30	0	114	14.25
Scotland	8	5	3	0	0	29	25	0	104	13.00
	8	5	3	0	0	26	27	0	103	12.88
Hertfordshire	8	4	4	0	0	25	23	0	88	11.00
Derbyshire	8	3	5	0	0	21	19	0	70	8.75
Gloucestershire	8	2	5	0	1	22	19	0	61	8.71
Hampshire (PO)	8	2	6	0	0	21	21	0	62	7.75
Oxfordshire (PO)	8	0	7	0	1	13	18	0	31	4.43

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[4]

Play-offs

Division Four

North & East

Team
Suffolk (PO)	4	4	0	0	0	11	16	0	67	16.75
Cumbria	4	3	1	0	0	12	12	0	54	13.50
Northumberland	4	1	2	0	1	7	8	0	25	8.33
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire	4	1	2	0	1	5	9	0	24	8.00
Norfolk	4	0	4	0	0	7	8	0	15	3.75

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[5]

South & West

Team
Cornwall (PO)	4	4	0	0	0	10	16	0	66	16.50
Wiltshire	4	2	2	0	0	12	13	0	45	11.25
Shropshire	4	2	2	0	0	9	14	0	43	10.75
Buckinghamshire	4	2	2	0	0	7	11	0	38	9.50
Dorset	4	0	4	0	0	4	5	0	9	2.25

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[6]

Play-off

Promotion play-offs

The teams that won the Division Finals played against the team that lost the relegation play-off from the Division above for the chance of promotion.

Statistics

Most runs

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Heather Knight	Berkshire	8	8	604	100.66	153	2	3
Charlotte Edwards	Kent	7	7	485	97.00	128	2	3
Alex MacDonald	Gloucestershire	8	7	468	117.00	105	1	4
Lauren Winfield	Yorkshire	8	8	393	54.14	96	0	4
Harriet Leach	Leicestershire and Rutland	8	8	388	55.42	92	0	4

Source: CricketArchive^[7]

Most wickets

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Jenny Withers	Somerset	439	20	10.85	3/4	0
Jasmine Titmuss	Lancashire	396	18	8.00	5/22	1
Rachael Petherick	Durham	393	18	10.16	6/17	1
Anje Lague	Hertfordshire	472	18	11.77	4/18	0
Thea Brookes	Worcestershire	390	18	12.38	4/26	0

Source: CricketArchive^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: ECB Women's County Championship Division 1 - 2013 . Play Cricket . 13 January 2021.
2. http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/4302 Division 1 – 2013
3. http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/4315 Division 2 – 2013
4. http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/4328 Division 3 – 2013
5. http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/47880 Division 4 – North & East – 2013
6. http://ecbwcountychampionship.play-cricket.com/website/division/48078 Division 4 – South & West – 2013
7. Web site: Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2013 (Ordered by Runs) . CricketArchive . 20 March 2021.
8. Web site: Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2013 (Ordered by Wickets) . CricketArchive . 20 March 2021.