2013 Minor Counties Championship

The 2013 Minor Counties Championship was the 109th Minor Counties Cricket Championship season. It was contested through two divisions: Eastern and Western. Cheshire were Minor County Champions for the fifth time outright and seventh in total.

2013 Minor Counties Championship

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	(3 days, 4 day final)
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Cheshire (7th title)
Participants	20
Matches played	61
Most runs	Tom Huggins (751 for Suffolk)
Most wickets	Daniel Woods (59 for Cheshire)

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
Cambridgeshire	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	21	0	116	10.148
Suffolk	6	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	14	23	0	105	11.474
Hertfordshire	6	3	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	20	23	0	99	5.989
Norfolk	6	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	20	20	0	92	3.059
Staffordshire	6	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	13	22	0	63	-1.248
Buckinghamshire	6	1	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	16	15	0	63	-10.550
Cumberland	6	1	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	10	23	0	61	2.164
Lincolnshire	6	1	0	3	0	0	2	0	0	14	21	0	59	-11.314
Bedfordshire	6	0	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	14	18	0	48	-17.287
Northumberland	6	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	0	16	19	0	43	-5.804
Source:[2]

Western Division

Team	Pld	W	W1	L	L1	T	D	D1	A	Bat	Bowl	Ded	Pts	Net RPW
Cheshire (C)	6	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	21	18	0	123	8.301
Wales Minor Counties	6	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	14	22	0	120	7.112
Shropshire	6	4	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	15	23	0	106	7.035
Devon	6	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	12	23	-2	85	0.932
Berkshire	6	3	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	12	19	0	83	3.186
Herefordshire	6	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	18	23	0	81	1.625
Cornwall	6	1	1	3	0	0	1	0	0	5	20	0	57	-3.379
Oxfordshire	6	1	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	9	24	0	53	-5.003
Wiltshire	6	0	0	5	0	0	1	0	0	18	24	-2	44	-6.399
Dorset	6	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	8	17	0	29	-13.688
Source:[2]

Final

8–11 September Scorecard

Cambridgeshire (H)	v	Cheshire
296 (85.5 overs) Ben Howgego 56 (90) Daniel Woods 5/75 (27.5 overs)		372/9 (90 overs) Richard Moore 175 (253) Lewis Bruce 4/101 (20 overs)
250 (99 overs) Alan Burton 52 (112) Adam Syddall 3/53 (22 overs)		303/5d (51.5 overs) Jonathon Kettle 143 (167) Paul McMahon 3/99 (19.5 overs)

Cheshire won by 129 runs Wisbech Cricket Club Ground Umpires: Martyn Dobbs and Chris Watts

• Cheshire won the toss and elected to bat.

Averages

Most runs Aggregate Average Player County 751 83.44 Tom Huggins Suffolk 619 77.37 Josh Bess Devon 612 47.07 Khalid Sawas Cheshire 600 60.00 George Thurstance Bedfordshire 579 52.63 Kadeer Ali Staffordshire Source:[3]

Most wickets Aggregate Average Player County 59 13.57 Daniel Woods Cheshire 50 16.02 Paul McMahon Cambridgeshire 39 17.07 Richard Logan Berkshire 38 24.05 Shakeel Ahmed Cornwall 36 17.77 Tom Huggins Suffolk Source:[4]

References

1. "Regulations for the Minor Counties Championship" (PDF). England and Wales Cricket Board. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
2. "Minor Counties Championship 2013 Points Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
3. "Minor Counties Championship 2013 Batting (Ordered by runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
4. "Minor Counties Championship 2013 Bowling (Ordered by wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 June 2015.