| Administrator: | England and Wales Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Limited overs cricket (45 overs per innings) |
| Tournament Format: | League system |
| Champions: | Lancashire Lightning |
| Count: | 5 |
| Participants: | 18 |
| Matches: | 144 |
| Most Runs: | 798 Chris Adams (Sussex)[1] |
| Most Wickets: | 30 Ian Harvey (Gloucestershire)[2] |
| Previous Year: | 1998 |
| Previous Tournament: | 1998 AXA League |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
| Next Tournament: | 2000 Norwich Union National League |
The 1999 CGU National League season was a 45 over English county cricket competition; colloquially known as the Sunday League, it featured many mid-week floodlit matches. For the first time, it was contested through two divisions: Division One and Division Two. Each team played all the others in their division both home and away. The top three teams from Division Two were promoted to the first division for the 2000 season, while the bottom three sides from Division One were relegated. From this season, the counties had nicknames.[3] [4]
Lancashire Lightning won the League for a record fifth time, retaining the title they had won the previous season. Warwickshire Bears, Hampshire Hawks and Essex Eagles were relegated from Division One, while Sussex Sharks, Somerset Sabres and Northamptonshire Steelbacks were promoted from Division Two.
| width=250 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Tied" | T | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="No result" | NR | width=20 abbr="Abandoned" | A | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Net Run Rate" | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lancashire Lightning C | 16 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 50 | 7.489 | |||||||||
| Worcestershire Royals | 16 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 8.948 | |||||||||
| Kent Spitfires | 16 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 36 | 4.300 | |||||||||
| Gloucestershire Gladiators | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 3.725 | |||||||||
| Yorkshire Phoenix | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 32 | -0.604 | |||||||||
| Leicestershire Foxes | 16 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 28 | -1.518 | |||||||||
| Warwickshire Bears R | 16 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 28 | -6.083 | |||||||||
| Hampshire Hawks R | 16 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 24 | -9.441 | |||||||||
| Essex Eagles R | 16 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 14 | -6.657 | |||||||||
| Source:.[5] |
| width=250 | Team | width=20 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=20 abbr="Won" | W | width=20 abbr="Tied" | T | width=20 abbr="Lost" | L | width=20 abbr="No result" | NR | width=20 abbr="Abandoned" | A | width=20 abbr="Points" | Pts | width=20 abbr="Net Run Rate" | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sussex Sharks C | 16 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 54 | 11.950 | |||||||||
| Somerset Sabres P | 16 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 8.040 | |||||||||
| Northamptonshire Steelbacks P | 16 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 40 | -0.213 | |||||||||
| Glamorgan Dragons | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 34 | -1.336 | |||||||||
| Nottinghamshire Outlaws | 16 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 0.408 | |||||||||
| Surrey Lions | 16 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 0.826 | |||||||||
| Middlesex Crusaders | 16 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 22 | -1.696 | |||||||||
| Derbyshire Scorpions | 16 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 20 | -7.994 | |||||||||
| Durham Dynamos | 16 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 14 | -10.300 | |||||||||
| Source:. |
| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | HS | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Crawley | 14 | 14 | 483 | 43.90 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Graeme Hick | 11 | 10 | 480 | 60.00 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Anthony McGrath | 15 | 14 | 450 | 37.50 | 75 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Michael Vaughan | 16 | 16 | 425 | 28.33 | 72 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| David Byas | 16 | 16 | 417 | 29.78 | 87 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Source: | |||||||||||||||||
| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Overs | width=60 | Wickets | width=60 | Average | width=60 | BBI | width=60 | 4W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ian Harvey | 14 | 107.5 | 30 | 15.80 | 5/41 | 2 | |||||||||
| Craig White | 15 | 114.1 | 26 | 16.80 | 4/25 | 2 | |||||||||
| Alamgir Sheriyar | 15 | 104.5 | 26 | 20.76 | 4/42 | 1 | |||||||||
| Chris Silverwood | 12 | 101.5 | 24 | 15.04 | 4/44 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ronnie Irani | 14 | 102.2 | 24 | 19.58 | 5/33 | 3 | |||||||||
| Source: | |||||||||||||||
| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | HS | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Adams | 15 | 15 | 798 | 79.80 | 163 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Piran Holloway | 15 | 15 | 645 | 58.63 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Michael Di Venuto | 14 | 14 | 596 | 59.60 | 0 | 6 | |||||||||||
| Jamie Cox | 14 | 14 | 593 | 42.35 | 101 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Jason Gallian | 15 | 15 | 490 | 35.00 | 130 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Source: | |||||||||||||||||
| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Overs | width=60 | Wickets | width=60 | Average | width=60 | BBI | width=60 | 4W |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Owen Parkin | 15 | 115 | 28 | 18.57 | 3/31 | 0 | |||||||||
| Umer Rashid | 15 | 115.4 | 27 | 16.92 | 5/24 | 2 | |||||||||
| Tony Penberthy | 14 | 108 | 27 | 18.66 | 5/41 | 3 | |||||||||
| James Kirtley | 13 | 91.2 | 26 | 14.57 | 4/31 | 2 | |||||||||
| Steffan Jones | 15 | 113.5 | 26 | 25.11 | 4/49 | 1 | |||||||||
| Source: | |||||||||||||||