"2014, renewing a longstanding relationship the bank had with the county game. The first year of the tournament saw 700,000 spectators attend the games, the most in the competition's history.The tournament was won in 2014 by the Birmingham Bears, Warwickshire County Cricket Club's name for the purposes of Twenty20 cricket, making it the first time a county trophy had been won by a team using a city name. The final victors of this branding of the tournament in 2017 were Notts Outlaws. Vitality became the tournament sponsors in 2018 after signing a deal to become the title partner for four"
"captained the club at some point. No fewer than seven Foster brethren represented Worcestershire during the period 1899–1934, with six appearing during the seasons 1908–11. Worcestershire County Cricket Club Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team - who are the defending champions after claiming their first title in 2018 - has been rebranded the Worcestershire Rapids, but the county is known by most fans as ""the Pears"". The club is based at New Road, Worcester."
"Worcestershire County Cricket Club Worcestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Worcestershire. Its Vitality Blast T20 team - who are the defending champions after claiming their first title in 2018 - has been rebranded the Worcestershire Rapids, but the county is known by most fans as ""the Pears"". The club is based at New Road, Worcester. Founded in 1865, Worcestershire held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship in the 1890s, winning the"
"the Twenty20 Cup for the first time in 2015. Cricket may not have reached Lancashire until the 18th century. As advised by the Association of Cricket Statisticians (ACS), the earliest known reference to the sport being played in the county has been found in the ""Manchester Journal"" dated Saturday, 1 September 1781. It concerned an eleven-a-side match played the previous Monday, 27 August, at Brinnington Moor between a team of printers and one representing the villages of Haughton and Bredbury, who were the winners. As Bredbury was then in Cheshire, the match is the earliest reference for that county too."
"Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 2015 The 2015 season is the 134th year in the history of Warwickshire County Cricket Club and their 121st as a first-class county. In 2015, Warwickshire are competing in the first division of the County Championship, Group B of the Royal London One-Day Cup and the North Division of the NatWest t20 Blast. In the NatWest t20 Blast, the club are competing under the name ""Birmingham Bears"" for the second time. On 1 July a new county record was set for a sixth wicket partnership when Laurie Evans and Tim Ambrose added 327 against Sussex"
"Storm in the inaugural final day held at Chelmsford by 7 wickets on 21 August. Suzie Bates was named player of the tournament. Southern Vipers The Southern Vipers is an English women's Twenty20 cricket team based in Southampton, Hampshire that competes in England women's Twenty20 competition, the Women's Cricket Super League. The Vipers wear an orange uniform and play their home matches at the Ageas Bowl. This cricket team is not connected with Southern Vipers floorball hockey club which started in the 1990s and trains in Farnborough. They are currently captained by former England captain Charlotte Edwards and coached by"
"in the County Championship at Birmingham. Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 2015 The 2015 season is the 134th year in the history of Warwickshire County Cricket Club and their 121st as a first-class county. In 2015, Warwickshire are competing in the first division of the County Championship, Group B of the Royal London One-Day Cup and the North Division of the NatWest t20 Blast. In the NatWest t20 Blast, the club are competing under the name ""Birmingham Bears"" for the second time. On 1 July a new county record was set for a sixth wicket partnership when Laurie Evans and"
"Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 2014 The 2014 season was the 133rd year in the history of Warwickshire County Cricket Club and their 120th as a first-class county. In 2014, Warwickshire competed in the first division of the County Championship, Group B of the Royal London One-Day Cup and the North Division of the NatWest t20 Blast. In the NatWest t20 Blast, the club competed under the name ""Birmingham Bears"" for the first time. Twenty years after completing a treble, Warwickshire won their first ever t20 title, beating Lancashire in the final on home soil. They also reached the final"
"Bears has been synonymous with the team for many years and will continue to play under the Warwickshire banner in the other two competitions. 2014 The Birmingham Bears came 4th in the North Group (behind Lancashire Lightning, Nottinghamshire Outlaws and Worcestershire Rapids) to qualify for the knockout stages. They faced Essex in the quarter finals which they won by 19 Runs, to reach finals day at their home ground. On Finals Day, having beaten Surrey in the semi final, they went on to beat Lancashire by 4 runs to win their first T20 title. England India Ireland Kenya New Zealand"
"Southern Vipers The Southern Vipers is an English women's Twenty20 cricket team based in Southampton, Hampshire that competes in England women's Twenty20 competition, the Women's Cricket Super League. The Vipers wear an orange uniform and play their home matches at the Ageas Bowl. This cricket team is not connected with Southern Vipers floorball hockey club which started in the 1990s and trains in Farnborough. They are currently captained by former England captain Charlotte Edwards and coached by Nick Denning. The Vipers won the inaugural Women's Cricket Super League, winning all but one of their group games, and then defeating Western"
"2003 Twenty20 Cup The 2003 Twenty20 Cup was the inaugural Twenty20 Cup competition for English and Welsh county clubs. The finals day took place on 19 July at Trent Bridge, and was won by the Surrey Lions. Following drops in attendances at county cricket matches, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) first suggested playing a new reduced form of cricket in 1998. The first-class cricket counties and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) did not approve the idea, which was then shelved. However, attendances continued to drop, and in 2001 the ECB brought the idea up once more, and invested"
"Bears against Nottinghamshire in the 2016 NatWest t20 Blast. Hain scored a double century in a County Championship match while still a teenager, and was considered something of a prodigy. However, his form fell away and he had trouble justifying his place in the Warwickshire first-class team. He made his English Lions debut in the West Indies in March 2018, scoring a century that almost won the 50-over game for his team. Sam Hain Samuel Robert Hain (born 16 July 1995 in Hong Kong) is an English cricketer who plays for Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman"
"with four balls remaining to secure the win. 2003 Twenty20 Cup The 2003 Twenty20 Cup was the inaugural Twenty20 Cup competition for English and Welsh county clubs. The finals day took place on 19 July at Trent Bridge, and was won by the Surrey Lions. Following drops in attendances at county cricket matches, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) first suggested playing a new reduced form of cricket in 1998. The first-class cricket counties and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) did not approve the idea, which was then shelved. However, attendances continued to drop, and in 2001 the ECB"
"dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship. It was intended to deliver fast-paced, exciting cricket accessible to thousands of fans who were put off by the longer versions of the game. Stuart Robertson, the marketing manager of the ECB, proposed a 20 over per innings game to county chairmen in 2001 and they voted 11–7 in favour of adopting the new format. The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup. The first season of Twenty20 in England was a relative success, with the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by 9"
"Twenty20 Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket. At the professional level, it was originally introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition in England and Wales. In a Twenty20 game the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs. Together with first-class and List A cricket, Twenty20 is one of the three current forms of cricket recognised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as being at the highest international or domestic level. A typical Twenty20"
"Twenty20 Cup The Twenty20 Cup, known since 2014 as the t20 Blast, is a professional Twenty20 cricket competition for English and Welsh first-class counties. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 as the first professional Twenty20 league in the world. It is the top-level Twenty20 competition in England and Wales. The competition has been known by a variety of names due to commercial sponsorship. From 2010 to 2013 it was known as the Friend Provident t20 and Friends Life t20 and from 2014 to 2017 as the Natwest t20 Blast. In 2018 the"
"which can only play in T20 matches. Players can also choose to take control of one of the six State sides and participates in Sheffield Shield, Ford Ranger One Day Cup and KFC Twenty20 Big Bash after each season players can choose new players in the transfer market and they get two randomly selected overseas player. As with previous versions, the entire County cricket sphere is open to the player, with each of the counties as a playable team. New to the 2010 edition is the inclusion of the Australian state cricket teams, the New South Wales Blues, Victorian Bushrangers,"
"2018 at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in September. Finals day has been held annually towards the end of the English cricket season. Twenty20 Cup The Twenty20 Cup, known since 2014 as the t20 Blast, is a professional Twenty20 cricket competition for English and Welsh first-class counties. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 as the first professional Twenty20 league in the world. It is the top-level Twenty20 competition in England and Wales. The competition has been known by a variety of names due to commercial sponsorship. From 2010 to 2013 it was known as"
"season when they again played Gloucestershire in a 2003 ECB National League match and Hampshire in a 2003 Twenty20 Cup match. As of July 2017 it has hosted six County Championship matches and five List A matches, but has mainly been used for Twenty20 cricket, most commonly matches against near neighbours Surrey. Notable matches include a one-day game against the touring West Indians in 2004 and the 2008 Friends Provident Trophy quarter final, a game which had to be moved from the county's usual base at the St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury due to heavy rainfall. In 2017 a new"
"but while this is an objective of Cricket Ireland, it was confirmed this would not happen in 2019. Munster Reds Munster Reds is an Irish inter-provincial cricket team based in Munster. In April 2017, Cricket Ireland approved the participation of the team in the Interprovincial Twenty20 Cup, the highest level of T20 domestic cricket in Ireland. They joined Leinster Lightning, North West Warriors and Northern Knights in the 2017 tournament. They played their first match in the Inter-Provincial Trophy on 26 May 2017, and won their first match, against North West Warriors, on 6 July 2018. Following the successful end"
"Twenty20 cricket played all around the world, having amassed 75 appearances with Sialkot Stallions, Sussex Sharks, Yorkshire Carnegie, Tasmania Tigers and Hobart Hurricanes. County Championship winner with Sussex in 2006 and 2007, Naved is no stranger to the county game, having also represented Yorkshire in 2008 and 2009. Naved has been in KFC Twenty20 Big Bash action in Australia for Hobart Hurricanes, recently topping the tournament wicket-takers list with 15 dismissals in eight matches and gaining cult status with the nickname ""The People's Mullet"". Naved, renowned as a specialist ‘death’ bowler, has a century of Twenty20 dismissals to his name"
"wickets in the final to claim the title. The first Twenty20 match held at Lord's, on 15 July 2004 between Middlesex and Surrey, attracted a crowd of 27,509, the largest attendance for any county cricket game at the ground other than a one-day final since 1953. Soon after with the adoption of Twenty20 matches by other cricket boards, the popularity of the format grew with unexpected crowd attendance, new regional tournaments such as Pakistan's Faysal Bank T20 Cup and Stanford 20/20 tournament and the financial incentive in the format. The West Indies regional teams competed in what was named the"
"its fourth instalment during 2006, and was won by Leicestershire Foxes, the first team to win the Twenty20 Cup twice. The season's opening first class game, the Champion County match at Lord's, began on 14 April with a Marylebone Cricket Club team taking on Nottinghamshire. Nottinghamshire earned a lead of 23 on first innings after bowling MCC out for 168, and after centuries from Jason Gallian, Chris Read and Mark Ealham, they declared with a day to spare. Despite 94 from No. 8 Tim Bresnan, MCC lost by 142 runs. A day later, the six three-day university matches between county"
"2010 Twenty20 Cup The 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament was the inaugural Friends Provident t20 Twenty20 cricket competition for the England and Wales first-class counties. The competition ran from 1 June 2010 until the finals day at The Rose Bowl on 14 August 2010. The eighteen counties were split into two regions, North and South, with the top four teams from each group progressing to the quarter-final knockout stage. The competition was won by Hampshire Royals, who beat Essex Eagles in the semi-finals, and Somerset in the final, by virtue of losing fewer wickets in a tied match. In May,"
"in the Caribbean. After the collapse of Stanford's series the proposals were scrapped. Instead a modified 40 over league, the Clydesdale Bank 40 was implemented. The Friends Provident t20 (renamed the FriendsLife t20 after just one season) was introduced in 2010. The competition initially divided the eighteen counties into North and South groups, before reverting to the previous model of three divisions of six teams. This period of twenty20 cricket in England and Wales saw Leicestershire and Hampshire becoming the most successful sides, and in 2013 Northamptonshire won their first trophy for two decades. NatWest became the tournament sponsors in"
"2008 but was used for four Twenty20 matches in 2010 and 2011, the most recent county games to take place in the city. All subsequent matches have taken place in either Bristol or Cheltenham. Source: Cricinfo Among the international players who have represented Gloucestershire are: Most first-class runs for Gloucestershire <br> Qualification – 20000 runs Most first-class wickets for Gloucestershire <br> Qualification – 1000 wickets Team totals Batting Best Partnership for each wicket Bowling One Day / T20 Cricket Gloucestershire County Cricket Club Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of"
"South Africa. Under the same captain and same coaching, with the same overseas players the Bears missed out on the quarter finals for just the second time in their history, winning just 6 of their 14 group games. Former England international Ian Bell though finished as 3rd top run scorer, finishing the season with 580 runs from his 14 games. Warwickshire County Cricket Club Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Warwickshire. Its 50 overs team is called the Warwickshire Bears"
"[[Category:Sport in Chandigarh]] [[Category:Former senior cricket clubs of India]] Chandigarh Lions Chandigarh Lions was one of the nine teams played in the defunct Indian Cricket League. They were one of the six founding teams and were the runners-up in the inaugural Twenty20 Championship, which was won by Chennai Superstars. The team represents the Punjab state capital Chandigarh, and the captain is Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand all-rounder. The coach for the Chandigarh Lions is former Indian international [[Balwinder Sandhu]]. The team competed in the first edition of the [[Indian Cricket League]]'s [[Twenty20]] championship, finishing runners-up to the [[Chennai Superstars]]."
"Chandigarh Lions Chandigarh Lions was one of the nine teams played in the defunct Indian Cricket League. They were one of the six founding teams and were the runners-up in the inaugural Twenty20 Championship, which was won by Chennai Superstars. The team represents the Punjab state capital Chandigarh, and the captain is Chris Cairns, the former New Zealand all-rounder. The coach for the Chandigarh Lions is former Indian international [[Balwinder Sandhu]]. The team competed in the first edition of the [[Indian Cricket League]]'s [[Twenty20]] championship, finishing runners-up to the [[Chennai Superstars]]. [[Category:Indian Cricket League teams]] [[Category:Cricket clubs established in 2007]]"
"4th in the County Championship, and runners up again in the Twenty20 competition to Leicestershire and also in the CB40 final to Surrey. Taunton-born keeper-batsman Jos Buttler secured a call up for England for 20/20 cricket. By virtue of finishing runners up in the domestic Twenty20 competition, Somerset qualified for the T20 Champions League competition in India featuring many of the world's best 20/20 teams. Roelof van der Merwe returned as their overseas player for this competition. Somerset performed exceptionally well, progressing from the preliminary round to the semi-final where they lost to the Mumbai Indians, in the process picking"
"Pro40 wins in 2008 and 2009 as well as beating Somerset at Edgbaston to lift the 2009 Twenty20 Cup. The south coast county ended the decade having won ten trophies in ten years. On 1 November 2015, Sussex County Cricket Club (SCCC) merged with the Sussex Cricket Board (SCB) to form a single governing body for cricket in Sussex, called Sussex Cricket Limited (SCL). Sussex, along with Kent, is believed to be the birthplace of cricket. It is believed that cricket was invented by children living on the Weald in Anglo-Saxon or Norman times. ""See :"" History of cricket to"
"Twenty20 competitions. The club also oversees and manages the annual inter-college 'Cuppers' cricket competition. The earliest reference to cricket at the University of Cambridge is in 1710. A Cambridge University team played against an Eton College team in 1754 and 1755, although those were minor matches. It is not known if the Eton teams were of present or past pupils. Cambridge University began an annual series against Cambridge Town Club, which evolved into the original Cambridgeshire County Cricket Club, on 30 May 1817. It is with this game that both teams first acquired first-class status. All Cambridge teams play annual"
"other counties or brought through the Leicestershire ranks. This team did not have many stars, but Aftab Habib, Darren Maddy, Vince Wells, Jimmy Ormond, Alan Mullally and Chris Lewis all had chances for England. West Indian all-rounder Phil Simmons was also named as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the year in 1997 while playing for the club. The advent of Twenty20 cricket saw Leicestershire find a new source of success, winning the domestic T20 competition in 2004, 2006 and 2011. However, in the era of two-division County Championship cricket they have found success more difficult to come by, having not"