The West Midlands Regional Cup is a domestic

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competition in

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. Organised by the

Central Sparks Central Sparks are a women's cricket team that represent the West Midlands region, one of eight regional hubs in English domestic women's cricket. They play their home matches at Edgbaston and New Road. They are captained by Evelyn Jones and c ...

regional team, the tournament involves four teams based in or near the

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, with its first edition taking place in 2022.

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

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and

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are the four teams competing, with Warwickshire also playing "in a consortium" with

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. Following the end of the

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, the

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and the

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, the West Midlands Regional Cup aims to continue the provision of longer-format county cricket, and support the development of players not playing in The Hundred, which takes place concurrently with the competition. The inaugural 2022 edition of the competition took place from 17 July to 4 September, with each team playing each other once and the top two sides advancing to a final. Worcestershire and Wales topped the group stage, with Wales winning in the final by 10 runs. The 2023 edition of the tournament was won by Worcestershire, who beat Staffordshire in the final.

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