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Women's County Championship

FieldValue
nameCounty Championship
administratorEngland and Wales Cricket Board
cricket formatLimited overs cricket
imageCounty Championship logo.png
tournament formatLeague system in three divisions
first1997
last2019
participants35
championsKent (2019)
most successfulKent (8 titles)

The Women's County Championship, known since 2014 as the Royal London Women's One-Day Cup, was a women's cricket competition organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board. It was the women's equivalent of the County Championship, although it operated as a 50-over limited overs cricket competition with teams organised into a number of divisions. It was introduced in 1997 to replace the Women's Area Championship.

The teams competing in the Championship were drawn mostly from the historic counties of England, with 32 teams representing these. The Scottish national side competed in the competition since 2007, the Wales women's national cricket team since 2008 and the Netherlands joined in 2009. The Ireland national team played in the competition between 2009 and 2015 before withdrawing in early 2016.

The competition was the longest established women's cricket competition in England and Wales. It operated alongside the Women's Twenty20 Cup, established in 2009, and the Women's Cricket Super League between 2016 and 2019, a franchise league with six teams playing Twenty20 cricket.

2019, won by Kent, was the final season of the Championship due to a restructuring of women's cricket in England. From 2020, the only 50-over tournament was competed by regional teams, initially in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. Kent were the most successful county in the history of the Championship with eight titles, whilst Sussex and Yorkshire both won six titles.

History

The inaugural Women's County Championship took place in 1997, with 16 teams competing in three divisions. This first tournament was organised and run by the Women's Cricket Association, which voted to merge with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on 29 March 1998. As such, the ECB has administered the competition since 1998.

Yorkshire were the winners of five of the first six Championships, with East Midlands breaking their run in 1999. After this began a period that was dominated by Sussex and Kent. Sussex won six titles between 2003 and 2013, including three in a row between 2003 and 2005, whilst Kent won eight titles between 2006 and 2019. Yorkshire managed one more title, in 2015, whilst Lancashire and Hampshire have won one title apiece, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Hampshire's title came after a remarkable rise through the divisions, winning Division 3 in 2015 and Division 2 in 2017 before being crowned County Champions one year later.

2019 marked the final year of the County Championship as women's cricket in England was restructured by the ECB, paving the way for a regionalised 50-over tournament, as well as the Women's Hundred. A similar tournament, but with no national winner, was introduced ahead of the 2024 season, in the form of the ECB Women's County One-Day.

Structure

The Championship operated on a league structure, with varying amounts of divisions and teams over its history. The first Championship involved 16 teams split across three divisions. Gradually more teams were added over the years (and county sides replaced the regional and Second XI sides that initially competed), and in 2004, which had 24 participants, a second tier was added, the County Challenge Cup. In 2008 (which had 33 teams participating) the Challenge Cup was ended and teams were placed in Divisions 1 to 5. This became four divisions in 2012 and finally three divisions in 2017, a structure that continued until the Championship ended in 2019.

Varying amounts of teams have participated in the Championship over the years, reaching a peak of 38 teams in 2015. 35 teams competed in the final season of the Championship in 2019. The teams that have participated in the tournament are:

TeamFirstLastBerkshireBuckinghamshireCambridgeshire and HuntingdonshireCheshireCornwallCumbriaDerbyshireDevonDorsetDurhamEast AngliaEast MidlandsEssexGloucestershireHampshireHertfordshireIrelandKentLancashireLancashire and CheshireLeicestershire and RutlandLincolnshireMiddlesexNetherlandsNorfolkNorthamptonshireNorthumberlandNottinghamshireOxfordshireScotlandShropshireSomersetStaffordshireSuffolkSurreySurrey Second XISussexSussex Second XIThames ValleyWalesWarwickshireWiltshireWestWest MidlandsWorcestershireYorkshireYorkshire Second XI
20002019
20102019
20102019
19982016
20052019
20012019
19972019
20052019
20052019
20012019
19972000
19971999
20012019
20072019
19972019
20012019
20092015
19972019
19982019
19971997
20042019
20152019
19972019
20092019
20022019
20012019
19982019
20002019
20072019
20072019
20082018
20002019
20002019
20072019
19972019
19972000
19972019
19972000
19971999
20042019
20012019
20012019
19971999
19971999
20042019
19972019
19972000

Roll of honour

YearChampionsRunners-upLeading run-scorerLeading wicket-takerRefs
1997YorkshireWest MidlandsJane Smit (East Midlands) 429Helen Pack (West Midlands) 11url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/ENG/Womens_County_Championship_1997/Batting_by_Runs.htmltitle=Batting and Fielding in Women's County Championship 1997 (Ordered by Runs)publisher=CricketArchiveaccess-date=15 July 2009}}
1998YorkshireSurreyCharlotte Edwards (East Anglia) 394Sarah Clarke (Surrey Second XI) 12
1999East MidlandsYorkshireJane Smit (East Midlands) 335Janet Tedstone (Yorkshire Second XI); Dawn Holden (East Midlands); Beth Morgan (Middlesex) 13
2000YorkshireNottinghamshireCharlotte Edwards (Kent) 374Nicky Myers (Nottinghamshire) 13
2001YorkshireBerkshireArran Brindle (Lancashire) 274Yvonne Craven (Berkshire); Susanne White (Lancashire) 13
2002YorkshireBerkshireCharlotte Edwards (Kent) 233Vicky Borman (Hertfordshire) 14
2003SussexNottinghamshireTaryn Keir (Warwickshire) 303Lynne Spooner (Derbyshire) 12
2004SussexKentCharlotte Edwards (Kent) 308Heather Booth (Berkshire) 12
2005SussexKentCharlotte Edwards (Kent) 302Judith Turner (Berkshire); Dawn Prestidge (Cheshire) 10
2006KentSussexJenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire) 356Charlotte Edwards (Kent) 12
2007KentSussexEmily Drumm (Kent) 222Lynsey Askew (Kent) 13
2008SussexKentHeather Knight (Devon) 390Isabelle Westbury (Somerset); Hannah Courtnell (Essex); Charlotte Anneveld (Kent) 12
2009KentSussexHeather Knight (Devon) 622Charlotte Anneveld (Kent) 24
2010SussexKentLydia Greenway (Kent) 628Danielle Wyatt (Staffordshire) 24
2011KentSussexCharlotte Edwards (Kent) 541Jane Riddell (Durham) 28
2012KentEssexSarah Taylor (Sussex) 345Isobelle Watson (Warwickshire) 18
2013SussexYorkshireHeather Knight (Berkshire) 604Jenny Withers (Somerset) 20
2014KentSurreyCharlotte Edwards (Kent) 491Jo Gardner (Northamptonshire) 19
2015YorkshireKentCharlotte Taylor (Hampshire) 422Sarah Clarke (Surrey) 23
2016KentSussexKirstie White (Surrey) 337Samantha Betts (Hampshire) 18
2017LancashireYorkshireSuzie Bates (Hampshire) 494Sophie Ecclestone (Lancashire) 27
2018HampshireYorkshireSuzie Bates (Hampshire) 358Kirstie Gordon (Nottinghamshire) 23
2019KentYorkshireSophia Dunkley (Middlesex) 451Katie Thompson (Yor); Natalie Rowbottom (Lin); Rebecca Silk (Dev); Beth Langston (Yor) 15

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