The 2015 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2015 NatWest Women's Twenty20 Cup, was the 7th
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 ...
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 between June and August, with 38 teams taking part: 34 county teams, alongside
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Wales
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Sussex Women won the Twenty20 Cup, achieving their second title. The tournament ran alongside the
50-over 2015 Women's County Championship
The 2015 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 19th cricket Women's County Championship season. It ran from May to September and saw 34 county teams and teams representing Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Netherlands compete in a series of ...
.
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 worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
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
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 1 - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Division Two
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 2 - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Division Three
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 3 - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Division Four
Group A
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4A - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Group B
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4B - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Group C
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4C - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Play-Off
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4PO - 2015]
Play-Cricket.
Statistics
Most runs
Source: CricketArchive
Most wickets
Source: CricketArchive
References
{{2015 English cricket season
2015 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 ...