2002 Women's County Championship

Cricket tournament

2002 Women's County Championship
Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Yorkshire (5th title)
Participants	21
Most runs	Charlotte Edwards (233)
Most wickets	Vicky Boorman (14)
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The 2002 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 6th cricket Women's County Championship season. It took place in July and saw 21 county teams compete in a series of divisions. Yorkshire Women won the County Championship as winners of the top division, achieving their fifth Championship title in six seasons.

Competition format

Teams played matches within a series of divisions, with the winners of the top division being crowned County Champions. Matches were played using a one-day format with 50 overs per side.

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

Win: 12 points.
Tie: 6 points.
Loss: Bonus points.
No Result: 11 points.
Abandoned: 11 points.

Up to five batting and five bowling points per side were also available.

Teams

The 2002 Championship consisted of three divisions of six teams apiece, with teams playing each other once. The Emerging Counties competition was also competed in 2002: a tier below the County Championship, consisting of three teams, playing each other once.

Division One	Berkshire	Nottinghamshire	Staffordshire	Surrey	Sussex	Yorkshire
Division Two	Derbyshire	Hertfordshire	Kent	Lancashire	Middlesex	Somerset
Division Three	Cheshire	Durham	Essex	Hampshire	Warwickshire	Wiltshire
Emerging Counties	Cumbria	Norfolk	Northamptonshire

County Championship

Division One

Team	Pld	W	L	A	Bat	Bowl	Pts
Yorkshire (C)	5	3	0	2	10	13.5	81.5
Berkshire	5	2	1	2	9.5	15	70.5
Sussex	5	2	1	2	8	13	67
Nottinghamshire	5	1	2	2	9	11	54
Surrey	5	1	2	2	8.5	6.5	49
Staffordshire (R)	5	0	3	2	8.5	9.5	40

Source: ECB Women's County Championship

Division Two

Team	Pld	W	L	A	Bat	Bowl	Pts
Kent (P)	5	3	0	2	14	14.5	86.5
Lancashire	5	3	0	2	9.5	13	80.5
Hertfordshire	5	2	1	2	7.5	14.5	68
Somerset	5	1	2	2	9.5	8.5	52
Middlesex	5	0	3	2	8.5	11.5	42
Derbyshire (R)	5	0	3	2	7.5	10.5	40

Source: ECB Women's County Championship

Division Three

Team	Pld	W	L	A	Bat	Bowl	Pts
Hampshire (P)	5	3	0	2	11	13.5	82.5
Warwickshire	5	2	1	2	10.5	12	68.5
Cheshire	5	2	1	2	9	12	67
Essex	5	1	2	2	9.5	12	55.5
Durham	5	1	2	2	8.5	11.5	54
Wiltshire (R)	5	0	3	2	6.5	7.5	36

Source: ECB Women's County Championship

Emerging Counties

Team	Pld	W	L	Bat	Bowl	Pts
Northamptonshire (P)	2	2	0	8.5	9	41.5
Norfolk	2	1	1	8.5	9	29.5
Cumbria	2	0	2	8	4.5	12.5

Source: ECB Women's County Championship

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Charlotte Edwards	Kent	3	3	233	116.50	151*	1	1
Paula Flannery	Kent	3	3	230	76.66	118	2	0
Claire Taylor	Berkshire	4	3	173	86.50	78	1	0
Olivia Magno	Surrey	4	3	172	57.33	108	1	0
Alexis Mannion	Essex	4	3	150	150.00	57*	0	2

Source: CricketArchive

Most wickets

Player	Team	Balls	Wickets	Average	BBI	5w
Vicky Boorman	Hertfordshire	176	14	5.07	6/16	2
Judith Turner	Berkshire	169	13	9.76	6/39	1
Clare Connor	Sussex	174	9	6.44	5/15	1
Marsha Davies	Kent	192	9	8.66	6/22	1
Yvonne Craven	Berkshire	180	8	3.37	3/6	0

Source: CricketArchive

References

"Women's County Championship 2002 Tables". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
Women's County Championship Division 1 - 2002, Play Cricket.
Women's County Championship Division 2 - 2002, Play Cricket.
Women's County Championship Division 3 - 2002, Play Cricket.
Women's County Championship Emerging Counties - 2002, Play Cricket.
"Batting and Fielding in Frizzell Women's County Championship 2002 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
"Bowling in Frizzell Women's County Championship 2002 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.

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Current teams	Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cornwall Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Dorset Essex Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdonshire Kent Lancashire Leicestershire and Rutland Lincolnshire Middlesex Norfolk Northamptonshire North East Warriors Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Scotland Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sussex Wales Warwickshire Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire
Former teams	Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Cheshire Durham East Anglia East Midlands Ireland Lancashire and Cheshire Netherlands North Representative XI Northumberland Thames Valley West West Midlands
Women's County Championship Seasons	1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Women's Twenty20 Cup Seasons	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
ECB Women's County One-Day Seasons	2024
Other Competitions (current)	East of England Women's County Championship South Central Counties Cup West Midlands Regional Cup Women's London Championship Women's London Cup
Other Competitions (defunct)	Women's Area Championship Women's Territorial Tournament

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