2011 Super Fours

The 2011 Super Fours was the 8th cricket Super Fours season. This was the first time the competition had been played since 2008, having been cancelled in 2009 and 2010 due to a busy international schedule. It took place in May and saw 4 teams compete in 50 over and Twenty20 matches. There was no overall winner in the 50 over tournament, whilst Sapphires won the Twenty20 tournament, their third title in the format.

2011 Super Fours

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	No overall winner
Participants	4
Matches played	4
Most runs	Charlotte Edwards, Diamonds (195)
Most wickets	Holly Colvin, Rubies (7)

Competition format

In the one day tournament, each team played two games, with no overall winner declared.[1]

The Twenty20 competition consisted of two semi-finals, with the winners progressing to a Final and the losers playing in a third place play-off.[2]

Teams

Diamonds	Emeralds	Rubies	Sapphires
Charlotte Edwards (c) Thea Brookes Katherine Brunt Deanna Cooper Hannah Courtnell Daisy Gardner Danielle Hazell Amy Jones (wk) Beth Langston Alice Macleod Charlie Russell Dee Tress Fran Wilson Lauren Winfield (wk)	Jo Cook (c) Tammy Beaumont (wk) Deanna Cooper Aylish Cranstone Kathryn Doherty Georgia Elwiss Jenny Halstead Alex Hartley Sophie Luff Beth MacGregor Natasha Miles Lily Reynolds Susie Rowe Helen Shipman Izzy Westbury	Holly Colvin (c) Caroline Atkins Natalie Brown Raveena Lakhtaria Katie Levick Sonia Odedra Hannah Phelps Nat Sciver Anya Shrubsole Linsey Smith Sarah Taylor (wk) Laura Tonks (wk) Lucy Uncles	Heather Knight (c) Cath Dalton Alice Davidson-Richards Phoebe Graham Lauren Griffiths (wk) Laura Marsh Izi Noakes Lauren Onojaife Amanda Potgieter Ebony Rainford-Brent Jasmine Titmuss Danni Wyatt

50 over

Results

7 May	Diamonds 194/8 (40 overs)	v	Sapphires 162 (39.3 overs)	Diamonds won by 32 runs
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Katherine Coultate and Paul Stratford
	Charlotte Edwards 41 (44) Laura Marsh 2/33 (8 overs)		Ebony Rainford-Brent 66 (86) Hannah Courtnell 3/18 (5 overs)
Match reduced to 40 overs per side.

7 May	Emeralds 94 (40 overs)	v	Rubies 97/1 (22.3 overs)	Rubies won by 9 wickets
Scorecard				Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Brian Jones and Richard Ludlum
	Kathryn Doherty 24 (53) Katie Levick 3/19 (7.2 overs)		Nat Sciver 47* (72) Izzy Westbury 1/29 (5 overs)
Match reduced to 40 overs per side.

14 May	Diamonds 307/3 (50 overs)	v	Emeralds 253/5 (50 overs)	Diamonds won by 54 runs
Scorecard				Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Brian Hicklin and Irving Lewis
	Charlotte Edwards 154 (149) Jenny Halstead 2/47 (8 overs)		Tammy Beaumont 128 (139) Deanna Cooper 1/22 (6 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to bat.

14 May	Rubies 173/8 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 75 (35.2 overs)	Rubies won by 98 runs
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough
	Nat Sciver 57 (92) Izi Noakes 3/30 (9 overs)		Ebony Rainford-Brent 16 (44) Holly Colvin 5/14 (10 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to bat.

Twenty20

Semi-finals

2 May	Diamonds 144/7 (20 overs)	v	Rubies 147/6 (20 overs)	Rubies won by 3 runs
Scorecard				Kibworth Cricket Club New Ground, Kibworth Umpires: Paul Pollard and Paul Joy
	Charlotte Edwards 62 (44) Holly Colvin 4/19 (4 overs)		Caroline Atkins 40 (26) Beth Langston 1/16 (2 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to field. Rubies progress to the final.

2 May	Emeralds 98 (19.5 overs)	v	Sapphires 99/2 (17.4 overs)	Sapphires won by 8 wickets
Scorecard				Kibworth Cricket Club New Ground, Kibworth Umpires: Keith Parsons and John Hayes
	Helen Shipman 21 (19) Amanda Potgieter 2/14 (4 overs)		Heather Knight 47* (49) Georgia Elwiss 1/19 (4 overs)
Sapphires won the toss and elected to field. Sapphires progress to the final.

Third Place Play-off

2 May	Diamonds 121/7 (20 overs)	v	Emeralds 117/3 (20 overs)	Diamonds won by 3 wickets
Scorecard				Kibworth Cricket Club New Ground, Kibworth Umpires: Keith Parsons and John Hayes
	Charlotte Edwards 58 (36) Deanna Cooper 3/25 (4 overs)		Helen Shipman 43* (44) Alice Macleod 1/17 (3 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to field.

Final

2 May	Rubies 125/7 (20 overs)	v	Sapphires 126/2 (18.2 overs)	Sapphires won by 8 wickets
Scorecard				Kibworth Cricket Club New Ground, Kibworth Umpires: Paul Joy and Paul Pollard
	Holly Colvin 39 (23) Amanda Potgieter 2/13 (4 overs)		Danni Wyatt 47 (40) Raveena Lakhtaria 1/15 (3 overs)
Sapphires won the Super Fours Twenty20 2011.

References

1. "Super Fours 2011". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
2. "Super Fours Twenty20 2011". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 24 January 2021.