The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2019 Vitality Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 11th
cricket
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Women's Twenty20 Cup
The Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality Women's County T20, is a women's Twenty20 cricket competition organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Until the end of the 2019 season, teams were organised in tie ...
tournament. It took place in June, with 35 teams taking part: 33 county teams plus
Scotland
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and
Wales
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.
Warwickshire Women won the Twenty20 Cup, as winners of Division 1, therefore achieving their first title.
The tournament followed the
50-over 2019 Women's County Championship, and was subsequently followed by the
Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...
2019 Women's Cricket Super League
The 2019 Women's Cricket Super League, or 2019 Kia Super League for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth and final season of the Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), the semi-professional women's cricket competition in England and Wales. The comp ...
, competed for by regional teams.
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
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single innin ...
format.
The championship works on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
Win: 4 points.
Tie: 2 points.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.
Teams
The 2019 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into three divisions: Division One and Division Two with nine teams each, and Division Three with 17 teams, divided into regional groups. Teams in Divisions One and Two played each other once, and teams in Division Three played each other either once or twice.
Division One
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 1 - 2019]
Play-Cricket.
Division Two
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 2 - 2019]
Play-Cricket.
Division Three
Group A
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 3A - 2019]
Play-Cricket.
Group B
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 3B - 2019]
Play-Cricket.
Group C
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 3C - 2019]
Play-Cricket.
Statistics
Most runs
Source: CricketArchive
Most wickets
Source: CricketArchive
References
{{2019 English cricket season
2019 in Scottish cricket
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...