2013 Minor Counties Championship

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2013 Minor Counties Championship
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format(3 days, 4 day final)
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsCheshire (7th title)
Participants20
Matches61
Most runsTom Huggins
(751 for Suffolk)
Most wicketsDaniel Woods
(59 for Cheshire)
2012
2014

The 2013 Minor Counties Championship was the 109th Minor Counties Cricket Championship season. It was contested through two divisions: Eastern and Western. Cheshire were Minor County Champions for the fifth time outright and seventh in total.

Standings[edit]

  • Pld = Played, W = Wins, W1 = Win in match reduced to single innings, L = Losses, L1 = Loss in match reduced to single innings, T = Ties, D = Draws, D1 = Draw in match reduced to single innings, A = Abandonments, Bat = Batting points, Bowl = Bowling points, Ded = Deducted points, Pts = Points, Net RPW = Net runs per wicket (runs per wicket for less runs per wicket against).

Teams receive 16 points for a win, 8 for a tie and 4 for a draw. Teams also received 12 points for a win, 6 for a draw and 4 points for losing a match reduced to a single innings. Bonus points (a maximum of 4 batting points and 4 bowling points) may be scored during the first 90 overs of each team's first innings.[1]

Eastern Division[edit]

Team Pld W W1 L L1 T D D1 A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Net RPW
Cambridgeshire 6 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 15 21 0 116 10.148
Suffolk 6 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 14 23 0 105 11.474
Hertfordshire 6 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 20 23 0 99 5.989
Norfolk 6 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 20 20 0 92 3.059
Staffordshire 6 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 13 22 0 63 -1.248
Buckinghamshire 6 1 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 16 15 0 63 -10.550
Cumberland 6 1 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 10 23 0 61 2.164
Lincolnshire 6 1 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 14 21 0 59 -11.314
Bedfordshire 6 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 14 18 0 48 -17.287
Northumberland 6 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 0 16 19 0 43 -5.804
Source:[2]

Western Division[edit]

Team Pld W W1 L L1 T D D1 A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Net RPW
Cheshire (C) 6 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 21 18 0 123 8.301
Wales Minor Counties 6 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14 22 0 120 7.112
Shropshire 6 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 15 23 0 106 7.035
Devon 6 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 23 -2 85 0.932
Berkshire 6 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 19 0 83 3.186
Herefordshire 6 2 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 18 23 0 81 1.625
Cornwall 6 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 5 20 0 57 -3.379
Oxfordshire 6 1 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 9 24 0 53 -5.003
Wiltshire 6 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 18 24 -2 44 -6.399
Dorset 6 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 8 17 0 29 -13.688
Source:[2]

Final[edit]

8–11 September
Scorecard
v
296 (85.5 overs)
Ben Howgego 56 (90)
Daniel Woods 5/75 (27.5 overs)
372/9 (90 overs)
Richard Moore 175 (253)
Lewis Bruce 4/101 (20 overs)
250 (99 overs)
Alan Burton 52 (112)
Adam Syddall 3/53 (22 overs)
303/5d (51.5 overs)
Jonathon Kettle 143 (167)
Paul McMahon 3/99 (19.5 overs)
Cheshire won by 129 runs
Wisbech Cricket Club Ground
Umpires: Martyn Dobbs and Chris Watts
  • Cheshire won the toss and elected to bat.

Averages[edit]

Most runs
Aggregate Average Player County
751 83.44 Tom Huggins Suffolk
619 77.37 Josh Bess Devon
612 47.07 Khalid Sawas Cheshire
600 60.00 George Thurstance Bedfordshire
579 52.63 Kadeer Ali Staffordshire
Source:[3]
Most wickets
Aggregate Average Player County
59 13.57 Daniel Woods Cheshire
50 16.02 Paul McMahon Cambridgeshire
39 17.07 Richard Logan Berkshire
38 24.05 Shakeel Ahmed Cornwall
36 17.77 Tom Huggins Suffolk
Source:[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Regulations for the Minor Counties Championship" (PDF). England and Wales Cricket Board. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Minor Counties Championship 2013 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Minor Counties Championship 2013 Batting (Ordered by runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Minor Counties Championship 2013 Bowling (Ordered by wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2015.