1985 John Player Special League
Appearance
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 | Essex (3rd title) |
Participants | 17 |
Matches | 136 |
Most runs | 663 Bill Athey (Gloucestershire) |
Most wickets | 26 Kevin Curran (Gloucs)/Norman Gifford (Warwicks) |
The 1985 John Player Special League was the seventeenth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the third time by Essex County Cricket Club.
Rain affected most rounds of the Sunday League that season with many abandoned, (27 no results, 20% of fixtures) and shortened matches. On 7 July at
Hampshire finished third.[1]
Essex had a great record in that season's three
Benson and Hedges Cup
.
Standings
Team | Pld | W | T | L | N/R | A | Pts | R/R |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Essex (C) | 16 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 44 | 5.026 |
Sussex | 16 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 5.065 |
Hampshire | 16 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 40 | 5.225 |
Derbyshire | 16 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 38 | 4.980 |
Northamptonshire | 16 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 38 | 5.118 |
Gloucestershire | 16 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 5.263 |
Leicestershire | 16 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 4.408 |
Warwickshire | 16 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 5.460 |
Yorkshire | 16 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 32 | 5.263 |
Kent | 16 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 4.790 |
Somerset | 16 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 30 | 4.875 |
Middlesex | 16 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 28 | 4.657 |
Nottinghamshire | 16 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 5.178 |
Glamorgan | 16 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 4.544 |
Lancashire | 16 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 4.873 |
Worcestershire | 16 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 5.346 |
Surrey | 16 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 5.349 |
Team marked (C) finished as champions. Source: CricketArchive[2] |
Batting averages
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Bowling averages
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See also
References
- ^ Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fourth Edition: September 1984 to September 1985 Editor David Lemmon Guild Publishing London
- ^ "John Player Special League 1985 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 January 2011.