2008 Friends Provident Trophy
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Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (50 overs) |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage and Knockout |
Champions | Essex (3rd title) |
Participants | 20 |
Matches played | 87 |
Most runs | Martin van Jaarsveld (660 for Kent) |
Most wickets | Yasir Arafat (24 for Kent) |
Official website | Friends Provident cricket |
The 2008 Friends Provident Trophy was an English county cricket tournament, held between 20 April and 16 August 2008. The tournament was won by Essex.
Contents
Format
Unlike in 2007, the 18 English counties, Ireland and Scotland were divided into four groups of five, based on geographical location. Each side played the other four teams home and away, with the top two sides from each group progressing to the quarter-final stage.[1] A spokesman for the England and Wales Cricket Board, which instigated the changes, explained that the changes "provides [sic] more local derbies and less travel for players".[1] The recommendations of the Schofield Report; an investigation into England's 5–0 Ashes defeat, were also cited as a cause for the changes.
Group stage
Midlands Division
Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Leicestershire Foxes | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | +0.692 |
Nottinghamshire Outlaws | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | +0.017 |
Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | +0.569 |
Warwickshire Bears | 8 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -0.145 |
Ireland | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | -0.862 |
North Division
Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Durham Dynamos | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | +0.432 |
Yorkshire Carnegie | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | +0.544 |
Derbyshire Phantoms | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | -0.141 |
Lancashire Lightning | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | +0.243 |
Scottish Saltires | 8 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | -1.090 |
South East Division
Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Kent Spitfires | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | +0.647 |
Essex Eagles | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | +0.310 |
Middlesex Crusaders | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | +0.064 |
Surrey Brown Caps | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -0.627 |
Sussex Sharks | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | -0.534 |
South/West Division
Team | Pld | W | T | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Gloucestershire Gladiators | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | +0.705 |
Somerset Sabres | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | +0.307 |
Worcestershire Royals | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -0.121 |
Hampshire Hawks | 8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 7 | -0.431 |
Glamorgan Dragons | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | -0.219 |
Knockout stage
Quarter finals
4 June 2008
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Nottinghamshire Outlaws
188 all out (47.2 overs) |
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Durham Dynamos
189 for 9 (49 overs) |
4 June 2008
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Gloucestershire Gladiators
201 all out (45.2 overs) |
v
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Yorkshire Carnegie
205 for 4 (44.1 overs) |
4 June 2008
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Essex Eagles
350 for 5 (50 overs) |
v
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Leicestershire Foxes
232 all out (41 overs) |
4–5 June 2008
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Kent Spitfires
259 for 5 (50 overs) |
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Somerset Sabres
222 all out (45.5 overs) |
- Reserve day used
Semi finals
4 July 2008
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Kent Spitfires
301 for 4 (50 overs) |
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Durham Dynamos
217 all out (43.1 overs) |
5 July 2008
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Essex Eagles
285 for 8 (50 overs) |
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Yorkshire Carnegie
198 all out (42.5 overs) |
Final
17 August 2008
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Kent Spitfires
214 all out (50 overs) |
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Essex Eagles
215 for 5 (48.5 overs) |
References
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