2015 Women's Twenty20 Cup

The 2015 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2015 NatWest Women's Twenty20 Cup, was the 7th cricket Women's Twenty20 Cup tournament. It took place between June and August, with 38 teams taking part: 34 county teams, alongside Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Netherlands. Sussex Women won the Twenty20 Cup, achieving their second title. The tournament ran alongside the 50-over 2015 Women's County Championship.[1]

2015 Women's Twenty20 Cup

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Sussex (2nd title)
Participants	38

Competition Format

Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.

The championship worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:[2]

Win: 4 points.
Tie: 1 point.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.

Teams

The 2015 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into four divisions: Divisions One, Two and Three with nine teams each and Division Four with 11 teams, divided into three regional groups; teams in the top three divisions played each other once, and teams in Division Four played between four and six matches. The top team in each Division Four group progressed to a final group of three, with the top two being promoted.

Division One	Berkshire	Ireland	Kent	Middlesex	Nottinghamshire	Somerset	Surrey	Sussex	Yorkshire
Division Two	Cheshire	Derbyshire	Durham	Essex	Lancashire	Netherlands	Staffordshire	Wales	Warwickshire
Division Three	Buckinghamshire	Cornwall	Devon	Gloucestershire	Hampshire	Northamptonshire	Oxfordshire	Scotland	Worcestershire
Division Four - Group A	Cambridgeshire	Leicestershire and Rutland	Norfolk	Suffolk
Division Four - Group B	Dorset	Hertfordshire	Wiltshire
Division Four - Group C	Cumbria	Lincolnshire	Northumberland	Shropshire

Division One

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Sussex (C)	8	6	2	0	0	0	+0.56	0	24
Yorkshire	8	6	2	0	0	0	+0.51	0	24
Kent	8	6	2	0	0	0	–0.10	0	24
Middlesex	8	5	3	0	0	0	+1.34	0	20
Ireland	8	3	4	0	1	0	−0.36	0	13
Nottinghamshire	8	3	5	0	0	0	+0.45	0	12
Berkshire	8	3	5	0	0	0	–0.34	0	12
Somerset (R)	8	2	5	0	1	0	−0.59	0	9
Surrey (R)	8	0	6	0	2	0	−2.12	0	2

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[3]

Division Two

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Lancashire (P)	8	8	0	0	0	0	+2.28	0	32
Warwickshire (P)	8	6	2	0	0	0	+1.82	0	24
Essex	8	5	3	0	0	0	+0.31	0	20
Netherlands	8	4	4	0	0	0	–0.84	0	16
Staffordshire	8	4	4	0	0	0	–0.22	0	16
Wales	8	3	5	0	0	0	−0.24	0	12
Durham	8	2	5	0	0	1	−0.55	0	9
Cheshire (R)	8	2	6	0	0	0	−1.39	0	8
Derbyshire (R)	8	1	6	0	0	1	−1.38	0	5

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[4]

Division Three

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Worcestershire (P)	8	8	0	0	0	0	+2.77	0	32
Hampshire (P)	8	7	1	0	0	0	+1.54	0	28
Devon	8	6	2	0	0	0	+2.55	0	24
Scotland	8	5	3	0	0	0	+0.22	0	20
Northamptonshire	8	3	5	0	0	0	–1.02	0	12
Cornwall	8	3	5	0	0	0	−1.21	0	12
Oxfordshire	8	2	6	0	0	0	−1.51	0	8
Gloucestershire (R)	8	2	6	0	0	0	−0.78	0	8
Buckinghamshire (R)	8	0	8	0	0	0	−2.32	0	0

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[5]

Division Four

Group A

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Leicestershire and Rutland	4	4	0	0	0	0	+3.16	0	16
Suffolk	4	3	1	0	0	0	+0.14	0	12
Norfolk	4	1	3	0	0	0	–2.20	0	4
Cambridgeshire	4	0	4	0	0	0	−0.72	0	0

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[6]

Group B

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Hertfordshire	6	6	0	0	0	0	+1.64	0	24
Dorset	6	2	4	0	0	0	−0.72	0	8
Wiltshire	6	1	5	0	0	0	−0.87	0	4

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[7]

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Shropshire	6	3	0	0	1	2	+2.15	0	15
Cumbria	6	2	1	0	1	2	+0.19	0	11
Lincolnshire	6	1	2	0	1	2	−0.70	0	7
Northumberland	6	0	3	0	1	2	−1.44	0	3

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[8]

Play-Off

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	C	NRR	Ded	Pts
Hertfordshire (P)	2	2	0	0	0	0	+0.65	0	8
Shropshire (P)	2	1	1	0	0	0	−0.25	0	4
Leicestershire and Rutland	2	0	2	0	0	0	−0.40	0	0

Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[9]

References

1. "NatWest Women's Twenty20 Cup 2015". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
2. "ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup 2015". Play-Cricket. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
3. Division 1 - 2015, Play-Cricket.
4. Division 2 - 2015, Play-Cricket.
5. Division 3 - 2015, Play-Cricket.
6. Division 4A - 2015, Play-Cricket.
7. Division 4B - 2015, Play-Cricket.
8. Division 4C - 2015, Play-Cricket.
9. Division 4PO - 2015, Play-Cricket.