C&G Trophy
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The C&G Trophy is a knock-out one day cricket competition in the United Kingdom. It is one of the four tournaments in which the English first class counties (and Glamorgan) compete each season. The minor counties and two or three other teams such as Ireland also take part. It is a straight knock out starting with a round of 32 and ending with a final at Lord's in September.
The competition has previously been known as the Gillette Cup (1963-1980) and the NatWest Trophy (1981-2000). It was the first top level one-day competition to be introduced in English cricket, amid concern about falling attendances at County Championship matches in the early 1960s. In the inugural season the matches were 65 overs per side, but this was reduced to 60 in 1964. In 1999 the number of overs was cut to 50 per side to give English cricketers more experience of playing matches the same length as one day internationals. In line with one day international cricket, from 2005 teams play in coloured clothing.
The C&G Trophy was always the more prestigious of the two "full length" one day cup competitions in English cricket, the other being the Benson & Hedges Cup, which was abolished in 2002 and replaced with the Twenty20 Cup.
In 2006 the C&G Trophy will switch to a new format involving two groups. After the 2006 competiton, Cheltenham and Gloucester who sponsor the trophy said that they would not be renewing the sponsorship. This has seen the ECB now looking for new sponsors for the trophy.
Winners
C&G Trophy- 2005 Hampshire beat Warwickshire by 18 runs
- 2004 Gloucestershire beat Worcestershire by 8 wickets
- 2003 Gloucestershire beat Worcestershire by 7 wickets
- 2002 Yorkshire beat Somerset by 6 wickets
- 2001 Somerset beat Leicestershire by 41 runs
- 2000 Gloucestershire beat Warwickshire by 22 runs (Duckworth-Lewis method)
- 1999 Gloucestershire beat Somerset by 50 runs
- 1998 Lancashire beat Derbyshire by 9 wickets
- 1997 Essex beat Warwickshire by 9 wickets
- 1996 Lancashire beat Essex by 129 runs
- 1995 Warwickshire beat Northamptonshire by 4 wickets
- 1994 Worcestershire beat Warwickshire by 8 wickets
- 1993 Warwickshire beat Sussex by 5 wickets
- 1992 Northamptonshire beat Lancashire by 8 wickets
- 1991 Hampshire beat Surrey by 4 wickets
- 1990 Lancashire beat Northamptonshire by 7 wickets
- 1989 Warwickshire beat Middlesex by 4 wickets
- 1988 Middlesex beat Worcestershire by 3 wickets
- 1987 Nottinghamshire beat Northamptonshire by 3 wickets
- 1986 Sussex beat Lancashire by 7 wickets
- 1985 Essex beat Nottinghamshire by 1 run
- 1984 Middlesex beat Kent by 4 wickets
- 1983 Somerset beat Kent by 24 runs
- 1982 Surrey beat Warwickshire by 9 wickets
- 1981 Derbyshire beat Northamptonshire by losing fewer wickets
- 1980 Middlesex beat Surrey by 7 wickets
- 1979 Somerset beat Northamptonshire by 45 runs
- 1978 Sussex beat Somerset by 5 wickets
- 1977 Middlesex beat Glamorgan by 5 wickets
- 1976 Northamptonshire beat Lancashire by 4 wickets
- 1975 Lancashire beat Middlesex by 7 wickets
- 1974 Kent beat Lancashire by 4 wickets
- 1973 Gloucestershire beat Sussex by 40 runs
- 1972 Lancashire beat Warwickshire by 4 wickets
- 1971 Lancashire beat Kent by 24 runs
- 1970 Lancashire beat Sussex by 6 wickets
- 1969 Yorkshire beat Derbyshire by 69 runs
- 1968 Warwickshire beat Sussex by 4 wickets
- 1967 Kent beat Somerset by 32 runs
- 1966 Warwickshire beat Worcestershire by 5 wickets
- 1965 Yorkshire beat Surrey by 175 runs
- 1964 Sussex beat Warwickshire by 8 wickets
- 1963 Sussex beat Worcestershire by 14 runs
Wins by county 1963-2005
- 6 wins: Lancashire
- 5 wins: Gloucestershire
- 4 wins: Middlesex; Sussex; Warwickshire
- 3 wins: Somerset; Yorkshire
- 2 wins: Derbyshire; Essex; Hampshire; Kent; Northamptonshire; Worcestershire
- 1 win: Leicestershire; Nottinghamshire; Surrey
See also
- County Championship - the first class cricket competition in England and Wales
- National League - the one day league competition
- Twenty20 Cup - the short form competition
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