2014 Minor Counties Championship

2014 Minor Counties Championship

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	(3 days, 4 day final)
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Staffordshire (11th title)
Participants	20
Matches played	61
Most runs	Rick Moore (633 for Cheshire)
Most wickets	Gurman Randhawa (37 for Shropshire)

The 2014 Minor Counties Championship was the 110th Minor Counties Cricket Championship season, and the first under the name 'Unicorn Counties Championship'. It was contested through two divisions: Eastern and Western. Staffordshire were the champions for the eleventh time, remaining the most successful club in the history of the competition.

Standings

• Pld = Played, W = Wins, W1 = Win in match reduced to single innings, L = Losses, L1 = Loss in match reduced to single innings, T = Ties, D = Draws, D1 = Draw in match reduced to single innings, A = Abandonments, Bat = Batting points, Bowl = Bowling points, Ded = Deducted points, Pts = Points, Net RPW = Net runs per wicket (runs per wicket for less runs per wicket against).

Teams receive 16 points for a win, 8 for a tie and 4 for a draw. Teams also received 12 points for a win, 6 for a draw and 4 points for losing a match reduced to a single innings. Bonus points (a maximum of 4 batting points and 4 bowling points) may be scored during the first 90 overs of each team's first innings.^[1]

Eastern Division

Team	Pld	W	W1	L	L1	T	D	D1	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Net RPW
Staffordshire (C)	6	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	22	24	0	118	+13.514
Cumberland	6	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	16	20	0	108	+11.707
Cambridgeshire	6	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	15	22	-2	91	+9.375
Lincolnshire	6	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	17	22	0	91	+4.171
Suffolk	6	2	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	14	20	0	78	+7.156
Buckinghamshire	6	2	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	12	20	0	68	-7.764
Norfolk	6	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	11	23	0	62	-5.530
Hertfordshire	6	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	12	22	0	58	-8.133
Bedfordshire	6	0	0	3	0	0	3	0	0	12	19	-2	41	-9.856
Northumberland	6	0	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	11	21	0	36	-13.570
Source: [2]

Western Division

Team	Pld	W	W1	L	L1	T	D	D1	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Net RPW
Wiltshire	6	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	12	24	0	104	+5.977
Herefordshire	6	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	10	24	0	102	+13.292
Devon	6	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	13	24	0	93	+5.650
Cheshire	6	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	11	24	0	91	+1.339
Dorset	6	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	7	23	0	82	-0.934
Shropshire	6	3	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	12	18	0	78	-2.103
Oxfordshire	6	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	12	22	0	58	-3.118
Wales Minor Counties	6	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	8	24	0	56	-1.897
Cornwall	6	1	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	2	24	0	46	-5.699
Berkshire	6	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	11	24	0	43	-9.805
Source: [2]

Final

7–9 September Scorecard

Staffordshire	v	(H) Wiltshire
227 (63.1 overs) Peter Wilshaw 52 (79) Ed Young 6/72 (17.1 overs)		231 (75.4 overs) Uzair Qureshi 90 (216) Matthew Parkinson 3/62 (17.4 overs)
254 (80.4 overs) Peter Wilshaw 107 (183) Tahir Afridi 5/44 (24.4 overs)		222 (81.5 overs) Michael Coles 87 (198) Greg Willott 4/28 (12 overs)

Staffordshire won by 28 runs Salisbury and South Wiltshire Sports Club Umpires: Anthony Harris and Steve Malone

• Staffordshire won the toss and elected to bat

Averages

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 633 52.75 Rick Moore Cheshire 627 104.50 Ben Howgego Cambridgeshire 602 46.30 Jayden Levitt Wiltshire 591 84.42 Michael Hill Staffordshire 565 47.08 Karanjit Bansal Lincolnshire Source: [3]

Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 37 17.97 Gurman Randhawa Shropshire 36 16.63 Paul Byrne Shropshire 35 20.25 Tahir Afridi Wiltshire 35 23.82 Tom Huggins Suffolk 33 10.69 Bradley Wadlan Herefordshire Source: [4]

References

1. "Unicorn Counties Championship Competition Rules" (PDF). England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
2. "Unicorn Championship 2014 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
3. "Minor Counties Championship 2014 Batting (Ordered by runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
4. "Minor Counties Championship 2014 Bowling (Ordered by wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 26 June 2015.