2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup Explained

2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup
Administrator:	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket Format:	Twenty20
Tournament Format:	League system
Champions:	No overall winner
Participants:	35
Matches:	131
Most Runs:	Georgie Boyce (306)
Most Wickets:	Anisha Patel (15)
Previous Year:	2021
Previous Tournament:	2021 Women's Twenty20 Cup
Next Year:	2023
Next Tournament:	2023 Women's Twenty20 Cup

The 2022 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2022 Vitality Women's County T20, was the 13th edition of the Women's Twenty20 Cup, an English women's cricket Twenty20 domestic competition. It took place in April and May 2022, with 35 teams taking part, organised into eight regional groups. There was no overall winner, with Lancashire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Suffolk, Leicestershire and Rutland, Sussex, Middlesex and Devon winning their individual groups.^[1]

Format

Teams played matches within a series of regional divisions, playing three matchdays, with most matchdays consisting of two matches between the same teams. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format. The group stages were followed by a group Finals Day, played on 8 May. In Group 1, the top four teams qualified for Finals Day (with the other three teams playing off at a different venue), whilst in Groups 2 to 7 all four teams qualified, with first playing fourth and second playing third in the semi-finals.^[2]

The groups worked on a points system with positions being based on total points. Points were awarded as follows:

Win: 4 points.
Tie

2 points.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.

Teams

The teams were divided into eight regional groups. Group 1 consisted of 7 teams, whilst Groups 2 to 7 consisted of 4 teams apiece.^[1]

Group 1	Cumbria	Derbyshire	Lancashire	North East Warriors	North Representative XI	Nottinghamshire	Yorkshire
Group 2	Berkshire	Shropshire	Staffordshire	Worcestershire
Group 3	Gloucestershire	Somerset	Wales	Warwickshire
Group 4	Cambridgeshire	Essex	Norfolk	Suffolk
Group 5	Leicestershire and Rutland	Lincolnshire	Northamptonshire	Oxfordshire
Group 6	Hampshire	Kent	Surrey	Sussex
Group 7	Buckinghamshire	Hertfordshire	Huntingdonshire	Middlesex
Group 8	Cornwall	Devon	Dorset	Wiltshire

Standings

Note: Teams highlighted in gold were champions of their group, by virtue of winning on Finals Day.

Group 1

advances to 1A Finals Day

Group 8

Fixtures

Source:^[3]

Group 1

Group stage

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Finals Day

Finals Day

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Statistics

Most runs

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Georgie Boyce	Lancashire	8	8	306	76.50	79	0	3
Georgina Macey	Worcestershire	8	8	295	36.88	70	0	3
Grace Scrivens	Kent	6	6	265	53.00	88	0	3
Davina Perrin	Staffordshire	8	7	242	34.57	87	0	2
Sophie Luff	Somerset	8	7	239	39.83	56	0	2

Source: Play-Cricket^[6]

Most wickets

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Anisha Patel	Warwickshire	26.5	15	8.27	4/7	0
Chloe Westbury	Oxfordshire	23.0	13	6.08	3/9	0
Alex Hartley	Lancashire	31.1	13	8.15	4/5	0
Phoebe Graham	Lancashire	30.4	13	10.00	3/8	0
Georgia Davis	Warwickshire	32.0	13	11.31	5/14	1

Source: Play-Cricket^[6]

Notes and References

Web site: ECB Women's County Championship/Season 2022 . Play-Cricket . 21 January 2022.
Web site: Vitality Women's County T20/Competition Rules . England and Wales Cricket Board . 6 April 2022.
Web site: ECB Women's County Championship/Fixtures & Results . Play-Cricket . 21 January 2022.
Web site: ECB Women's County Championship/Women's County T20 Finals Day Group 1B . Play-Cricket . 8 May 2022.
Web site: ECB Women's County Championship/Women's County T20 Group 7 . Play-Cricket . 7 May 2022.
Web site: ECB Women's County Championship/Statistics/Season 2022 . Play-Cricket . 9 May 2022.