2010 Women's County Championship

The 2010 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 14th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May 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, their fifth title.

2010 Women's County Championship

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Sussex (5th title)
Participants	37
Most runs	Lydia Greenway (628)
Most wickets	Danni Wyatt (24)
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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 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 2010 Championship was divided into five divisions: Divisions One to Four with six teams apiece and Division Five with 13 teams split across three regional groups.

Teams in each group played each other twice.

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

Division One

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Sussex (C)	10	8	2	0	0	21	39	0	140	14.00
Kent	10	7	3	0	0	29	33	0	132	13.20
Berkshire	10	6	4	0	0	22	27	0	109	10.90
Yorkshire	10	5	5	0	0	24	29	0	103	10.30
Nottinghamshire	10	2	8	0	0	17	25	0	62	6.20
Somerset (R)	10	2	8	0	0	20	20	0	60	6.00

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

Division Two

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Middlesex (P)	10	8	2	0	0	29	35	0	144	14.40
Essex	10	8	2	0	0	29	34	0	143	14.30
Warwickshire	10	6	4	0	0	23	33	0	116	11.60
Surrey	10	5	4	0	1	18	28	0	96	10.67
Cheshire	10	2	7	0	1	18	26	0	64	7.11
Worcestershire (R)	10	0	10	0	0	8	27	0	35	3.50

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

Division Three

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Wales (P)	10	8	2	0	0	21	32	0	133	13.30
Staffordshire	10	6	3	0	1	23	35	0	118	13.11
Lancashire	10	6	3	0	1	18	35	0	113	12.56
Devon	10	7	3	0	0	23	32	0	125	12.50
Scotland	10	2	8	0	0	11	23	0	54	5.40
Hampshire (R)	10	0	10	0	0	16	22	0	38	3.80

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

Division Four

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Netherlands (P)	5	4	1	0	0	14	19	0	73	14.60
Derbyshire	9	6	3	0	0	21	33	0	114	12.67
Northamptonshire	9	5	4	0	0	17	30	0	97	10.78
Hertfordshire	9	4	3	0	2	13	22	0	75	10.71
Durham	9	4	4	0	1	16	23	0	79	9.88
Cornwall (R)	9	0	8	0	1	7	13	0	20	2.50

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

Division Five

East

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire^[a] (P)	6	5	0	0	1	13	20	0	83	16.60
Norfolk	6	3	2	0	1	6	18	0	54	10.80
Oxfordshire	6	2	4	0	0	8	19	0	47	7.83
Suffolk	6	1	5	0	0	4	16	0	30	5.00

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

North

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Leicestershire and Rutland	7	6	1	0	0	23	27	0	110	15.71
Ireland	4	3	1	0	0	14	15	0	59	14.75
Cumbria	7	3	4	0	0	9	22	0	61	8.71
Shropshire	7	3	4	0	0	11	19	0	60	8.57
Northumberland	7	1	6	0	0	7	6	0	23	3.29

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[7]

South & West

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Avg.
Gloucestershire	6	5	1	0	0	17	20	0	87	14.50
Wiltshire	6	4	2	0	0	15	22	0	77	12.83
Dorset	6	3	3	0	0	13	19	0	62	10.33
Buckinghamshire	6	0	6	0	0	4	6	0	10	1.67

Source: ECB Women's County Championship^[8]

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Lydia Greenway	Kent	10	10	628	78.50	112*	1	6
Charlotte Edwards	Kent	10	10	562	70.25	126*	1	5
Jenny Dunn	Middlesex	9	9	483	60.37	158*	1	2
Rachel Priest	Staffordshire	8	8	475	67.85	178*	2	2
Aimee Watkins	Devon	8	8	472	67.42	188	1	2

Source: CricketArchive^[9]

Most wickets

Player	Team	Balls	Wickets	Average	BBI	5w
Danni Wyatt	Staffordshire	510	24	9.33	7/41	1
Katherine Brunt	Yorkshire	497	22	12.36	6/29	2
Holly Colvin	Sussex	499	21	7.76	7/3	1
Jennifer Laycock	Lancashire	509	21	9.66	5/9	1
Isa Guha	Berkshire	550	21	13.85	4/14	0

Source: CricketArchive^[10]

Notes

1. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire were promoted by virtue of being the best Division Five group winner, on average points.

References

1. "ECB Women's County Championship Division 1 - 2010". Play Cricket. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
2. Division 1 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
3. Division 2 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
4. Division 3 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
5. Division 4 – 2010, Play-Cricket.
6. Division 5E – 2010, Play-Cricket.
7. Division 5N – 2010, Play-Cricket.
8. Division 5S&W – 2010, Play-Cricket.
9. "Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2010 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
10. "Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2010 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.