1992 Sunday League Explained

Administrator:Test and County Cricket Board
Cricket Format:Limited overs cricket
(40 overs per innings)
Tournament Format:League
Champions:Middlesex
Count:1
Participants:18
Matches:153
Most Runs:839 Desmond Haynes (Middlesex)
Most Wickets:31 Shaun Udal (Hampshire)
Previous Year:1991
Previous Tournament:1991 Refuge Assurance League
Next Year:1993
Next Tournament:1993 AXA Equity & Law League

The 1992 Sunday League was the twenty-fourth competing of English cricket's Sunday League. There was no sponsor for this season. The competition was won for the first time by Middlesex County Cricket Club.

The season

Durham was accorded first-class status at the start of the 1992 season, and joined the competition for the first time. They also won their first match on 19 April versus Lancashire. Australian overseas player Dean Jones scored 114, the Durham's first century in county cricket.

Middlesex equalled Sussex's 1982 record of 14 wins in a season. Their opening batsman Desmond Haynes was the competition's leading run scorer. Hampshire's off-spinner Shaun Udal was the leading wicket taker.

This season was to the final one with teams wearing traditional white clothing. The following season had new sponsors and each team would wear its own coloured uniform.[1]

Standings

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Middlesex (C) 17 14 0 2 1 0 58 93.917
17 11 0 5 1 0 46 83.338
17 10 0 6 0 1 42 76.717
17 10 0 7 0 0 40 90.463
17 8 0 5 2 2 40 89.843
17 9 0 6 1 1 40 81.232
17 7 1 6 1 2 36 74.489
17 7 0 7 2 1 34 89.112
17 8 0 8 1 0 34 76.040
17 7 1 7 2 0 34 82.557
17 6 0 7 2 2 32 84.078
17 7 0 8 1 1 32 82.547
17 7 0 9 1 0 30 81.066
17 7 0 9 1 0 30 83.214
17 6 0 9 0 2 28 79.532
17 4 0 10 2 1 22 86.212
17 3 0 11 1 2 18 81.176
17 3 0 12 1 1 16 81.085
Team marked

Notes and References

  1. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year – Eleventh Edition