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1991 Refuge Assurance League

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1991 Refuge Assurance League
Administrator(s)Test and County Cricket Board
Cricket formatLimited overs cricket
(40 overs per innings)
Tournament format(s)League
ChampionsNottinghamshire (1st title)
Participants17
Matches136
Most runs917 Tom Moody (Worcestershire)
Most wickets30 Franklyn Stephenson (Sussex)
1990
1992

The 1991 Refuge Assurance League was the twenty-third competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the first time by Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.

The season

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Somerset played Lancashire at Taunton on Friday 5 July 1991 to be the first Sunday League game not to be played on a Sunday.[1]

Nottinghamshire beat Derbyshire, the previous seasons champions, in the final round of matches at Trent Bridge to claim the title. Tom Moody of Worcestershire had an excellent season scoring a record 917 runs (including 5 centuries).

Standings

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Team Pld W T L N/R A Pts Rp100
Nottinghamshire (C) 16 13 0 3 0 0 52 83.471
Lancashire 16 12 0 3 1 0 50 89.781
Northamptonshire 16 10 0 4 1 1 44 86.264
Worcestershire 16 9 1 4 2 0 42 95.162
Warwickshire 16 8 1 4 1 2 40 82.534
Essex 16 7 1 4 2 2 38 84.419
Yorkshire 16 9 0 7 0 0 36 86.388
Somerset 16 7 0 7 1 1 32 80.858
Surrey 16 7 0 7 1 1 32 81.945
Kent 16 6 1 8 0 1 28 87.460
Middlesex 16 6 0 9 0 1 26 79.150
Gloucestershire 16 5 0 9 1 1 24 76.146
Sussex 16 5 0 9 1 1 24 81.421
Leicestershire 16 5 0 10 0 1 22 78.291
Derbyshire 16 5 0 11 0 0 20 84.389
Glamorgan 16 4 0 10 2 0 20 82.610
Hampshire 16 3 0 12 1 0 14 79.242
Team marked  (C)  finished as champions.
Source: CricketArchive[2]

Batting averages

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Bowling averages

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Refuge Assurance Cup

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Following the end of the Sunday League season, the top four teams in the Sunday League competed for the Refuge Assurance Cup. Worcestershire emerged as victors, defeating Lancashire in the final.

See also

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Sunday League

References

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  1. ^ Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Sept. 1990 to Sept. 1991 - page 325.
  2. ^ "Refuge Assurance League 1991 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2011.