The 1980 Gillette Cup was an English
limited overs
Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket or white ball cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day. There are a number of formats, including List A cricket (8-hour games), Twenty ...
county cricket tournament held between 2 July and 6 September 1980.
It was the eighteenth and final
Gillette Cup before it was renamed as the
NatWest Trophy
The Friends Provident Trophy was a one-day cricket competition in the United Kingdom.
It was one of the four tournaments in which the eighteen first-class counties competed each season. They were joined by teams from Scotland and Ireland. La ...
in 1981.
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...
won the tournament, defeating
Surrey by 7 wickets in the final at
Lord's.
Format
The seventeen
first-class counties were joined by five
Minor Counties
The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes unde ...
:
Cornwall
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,
Devon
Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ...
,
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,
Oxfordshire and
Suffolk. The tournament also marked the first time that
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
were included. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at
Lord's which was held on 2 September 1980.
First round
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Second round
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Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Final
References
External links
CricketArchive tournament page
{{Friends Provident Trophy seasons
Friends Provident Trophy seasons
Gillette Cup, 1980