2019 Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) season explained

Club:	Loughborough Lightning
Season:	2019
Coach:	Rob Taylor
Captain:	Georgia Elwiss
Overseas:	Chamari Atapattu Mignon du Preez Hayley Matthews
Comp1:	WCSL
Comp1 Result:	3rd
Most Runs:	Amy Jones (309)
Most Wickets:	Sarah Glenn (11) Kirstie Gordon (11)
Most Dismissals:	Amy Jones (8)
Prevseason:	2018

The 2019 season was Loughborough Lightning's fourth and final season, in which they competed in the final edition of the Women's Cricket Super League, a Twenty20 competition. The side finished second in the group stage, winning seven of their ten matches, therefore progressing to the semi-final. However, they lost to Southern Vipers in the semi-final by 5 wickets.^[1]

The side was captained by Georgia Elwiss and coached by Rob Taylor. They played four of their home matches at the Haslegrave Ground and one at Trent Bridge.^[2] Following the season, women's domestic cricket in England was reformed, with the creation of new "regional hubs", with Loughborough Lightning replaced by Lightning, which retained some elements of the original team but represent a larger area.^[3]

Squad

Loughborough Lightning's 15-player squad is listed below.^[4] Age given is at the start of Loughborough Lightning's first match of the season (6 August 2019).

Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batters
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed		Overseas player
All-rounders
		August 6, 2019	Left-handed		Overseas player
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed		Captain
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed		Overseas player
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
Wicket-keepers
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed	—
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Right-handed
		August 6, 2019	Left-handed

Women's Cricket Super League

Season standings

Advanced to the Final.
Advanced to the Semi-final.

League stage

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Semi-final

Statistics

Batting

Player	Matches	Innings	NO	Runs	HS	Average	Strike rate	100s	50s	4s	6s
	11	9	3	169	50	28.16	113.42	0	1	11	5
	11	11	1	196	45	19.60	93.33	0	0	23	3
	9	4	3	42	32	42.00	140.00	0	0	8	0
	11	9	3	267		44.50	147.51	0	1	23	12
	10	8	0	171	38	21.37	108.91	0	0	14	2
	3	2	1	29	15	29.00	103.57	0	0	5	0
	3	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0
	11	3	1	9	5	4.50	81.81	0	0	1	0
	10	2	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0
	11	6	4	57		28.50	150.00	0	0	5	2
	8	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0
	11	11	2	309		34.33	114.86	0	3	31	8
	9	8	1	133		19.00	105.55	0	1	22	1
	3	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0	0	0	0
Source: ESPN Cricinfo^[5]

Bowling

Player	Matches	Innings	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	BBI	Average	Economy	Strike rate
	11	9	19.0	0	121	5	3/18	24.20	6.36	22.8
	9	9	29.0	1	191	8	2/16	23.87	6.58	21.7
	10	9	22.0	0	159	7	1/7	22.71	7.22	18.8
	3	3	7.0	0	65	2	1/16	32.50	9.28	21.0
	11	11	34.0	0	206	11	3/25	18.72	6.05	18.5
	10	10	36.4	0	222	11	3/18	20.18	6.05	20.0
	11	11	27.5	0	187	10	3/14	18.70	6.71	16.7
	8	1	2.0	0	16	1	1/16	16.00	8.00	12.0
	9	8	27.3	1	169	9	2/1	18.77	6.14	18.3
	3	3	3.0	0	32	0	–	–	10.66	–
Source: ESPN Cricinfo

Fielding

Player	Matches	Innings	Catches
	11	11	6
	11	11	5
	9	9	0
	11	11	2
	10	10	1
	3	3	0
	3	3	0
	11	11	2
	10	10	2
	11	11	2
	8	8	2
	9	9	7
	3	3	2
Source: ESPN Cricinfo^[6]

Wicket-keeping

Notes and References

1. Web site: Semi-Final, Hove, Sep 1 2019, Women's Cricket Super League: Loughborough Lightning v Southern Vipers . ESPN Cricinfo . 2 September 2021.
2. Web site: Women's Cricket Super League 2019/Fixtures and Results . ESPN Cricinfo . 2 September 2021.
3. Web site: Women's Regional Hubs to play for Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy. the Cricketer . 2 September 2021.
4. Web site: Kia Super League 2019: Fixtures, Squads and Live Streaming Details . CricketTimes . 2 September 2021.
5. Web site: Records/Women's Cricket Super League, 2019 - Loughborough Lightning/Batting and Bowling Averages . ESPN Cricinfo . 2 September 2021.
6. Web site: Records/Women's Cricket Super League, 2019 - Loughborough Lightning/Most Catches . ESPN Cricinfo . 2 September 2021.
7. Web site: Records/Women's Cricket Super League, 2019 - Loughborough Lightning/Most Dismissals . ESPN Cricinfo . 2 September 2021.