1969 Player's County League
Cricket tournament
Administrator(s) | Test and County Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket(40 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | League |
Champions | Lancashire (1st title) |
Participants | 17 |
Matches | 136 |
Most runs | 517 Michael Smith (Middlesex) |
Most wickets | 29 Ray East (Essex) |
1970 → |
The 1969 Player's County League was the first competing of what was colloquially known as the Sunday League. The second one-day league in England and Wales, it consisted of the seventeen first-class counties playing each other on Sunday afternoons throughout the season. The competition was won by Lancashire County Cricket Club.
Standings
Team | Pld | W | T | L | N/R | A | Pts | R/R |
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Lancashire (C) | 16 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 4.217 |
Hampshire | 16 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 4.142 |
Essex | 16 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 45 | 4.305 |
Kent | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 3.948 |
Surrey | 16 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 3.762 |
Gloucestershire | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 3.690 |
Middlesex | 16 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 4.181 |
Yorkshire | 16 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 3.958 |
Warwickshire | 16 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 28 | 3.959 |
Glamorgan | 16 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3.619 |
Leicestershire | 16 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 27 | 4.086 |
Worcestershire | 16 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 27 | 3.956 |
Nottinghamshire | 16 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 4.142 |
Northamptonshire | 16 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 3.988 |
Derbyshire | 16 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3.852 |
Somerset | 16 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3.635 |
Sussex | 16 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 4.193 |
Team marked (C) finished as champions. Source: CricketArchive[1] |
Batting averages
Player | County | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | Highest Score | 100s | 50s |
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Greg Chappell | Somerset | 15 | 15 | 456 | 38.00 | 128* | 1 | 2 |
Michael Smith | Middlesex | 14 | 14 | 517 | 36.92 | 103 | 1 | 4 |
Harry Pilling | Lancashire | 15 | 15 | 405 | 33.75 | 76* | 0 | 5 |
Barry Richards | Hampshire | 13 | 13 | 405 | 33.75 | 85* | 0 | 3 |
Brian Bolus | Nottinghamshire | 15 | 15 | 462 | 33.00 | 86 | 0 | 4 |
Brian Luckhurst | Kent | 16 | 16 | 424 | 30.28 | 76 | 0 | 3 |
Qualification: 400 runs. Source: CricketArchive[2] |
Bowling averages
Player | County | Balls | Wickets | Average | Economy | BBI | 4wi | 5wi |
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Keith Boyce | Essex | 708 | 26 | 12.00 | 2.54 | 3/15 | 0 | 0 |
Peter Sainsbury | Hampshire | 644 | 28 | 13.96 | 3.64 | 4/23 | 2 | 0 |
Stuart Turner | Essex | 639 | 27 | 14.85 | 3.76 | 4/14 | 1 | 0 |
Ken Higgs | Lancashire | 673 | 26 | 15.23 | 3.53 | 4/22 | 1 | 0 |
Ray East | Essex | 660 | 29 | 15.24 | 4.01 | 6/18 | 0 | 2 |
Butch White | Hampshire | 698 | 26 | 17.92 | 4.00 | 5/31 | 1 | 1 |
Qualification: 25 wickets. Source: CricketArchive[3] |
See also
References
- ^ "Player's County League 1969 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ^ "Batting and Fielding in Player's County League 1969 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ^ "Bowling in Player's County League 1969 (Ordered by Average)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
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