2012_Friends_Life_t20

2012 Friends Life t20
Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Group stage and knockout
Champions	Hampshire Royals (2nd title)
Participants	18
Matches	97
Most runs	Phillip Hughes, Worcestershire (402)
Most wickets	Mitchell Starc, Yorkshire (21)
Official website	friendslife.co.uk/t20
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2012 Twenty20 Cup

English Twenty20 cricket competition

The 2012 Friends Life t20 was the third season of the Friends Life t20, England's premier domestic Twenty20 competition. The competition ran from 12 June to 25 August 2012. The teams in the tournament remained the same as the previous season.

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The schedule of the tournament had been widely criticised the previous season and the ECB had decided to reduce the minimum number of days in which a county would play from 92 to 86 for 2012. This meant a change in format from 2 groups of 9, from which the top 4 would qualify to the quarter-finals, to an arrangement with 3 groups of 6. The format of the knock-out rounds (quarter-finals) remain unchanged.^[1] This reduces the number of matches in the competition from 151 to 97 in a return to the format of the 2008 and 2009 editions of the Twenty20 Cup.

Finals Day was at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff for the first time. Hampshire Royals and Yorkshire Carnegie, as the winners and runners-up of the tournament respectively, qualified for the 2012 Champions League Twenty20.^[2]

In the quarter-final match between Sussex and Gloucestershire, Scott Styris scored the equal third-fastest century in T20 history, after making 100 not out from 37 balls. In the same match, Gloucestershire's James Fuller conceded 38 runs from one over.^[3]

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Team	Location	County	Division	Home ground	Coach	Captain	Overseas player(s)
Derbyshire Falcons	Derby	Derbyshire	North	County Ground	Karl Krikken	Wayne Madsen	Usman Khawaja^[5] and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
Durham Dynamos	Chester-le-Street	County Durham	North	Riverside Ground	Geoff Cook	Phil Mustard	Herschelle Gibbs^[6] and Johann Myburgh
Essex Eagles	Chelmsford	Essex	South	County Ground	Paul Grayson	James Foster	James Franklin^[7]
Gloucestershire Gladiators	Bristol	Gloucestershire	Midlands/Wales/West	Nevil Road	John Bracewell	Hamish Marshall	Muttiah Muralitharan^[8]
Hampshire Royals	Southampton	Hampshire	South	Rose Bowl	Giles White	James Adams	Shahid Afridi and Glenn Maxwell
Kent Spitfires	Canterbury	Kent	South	St Lawrence Ground	Jimmy Adams	Robert Key	Brendan Nash
Lancashire Lightning	Manchester	Lancashire	North	Old Trafford	Peter Moores	Glen Chapple	Yasir Arafat and Ashwell Prince
Leicestershire Foxes	Leicester	Leicestershire	North	Grace Road	Phil Whitticase	Matthew Hoggard	Abdul Razzaq and Ramnaresh Sarwan
Middlesex Panthers	London	Middlesex	South	Lord's	Richard Scott	Neil Dexter	Chris Rogers
Northamptonshire Steelbacks	Northampton	Northamptonshire	Midlands/Wales/West	County Ground	David Capel	Andrew Hall	Chaminda Vaas and Cameron White
Nottinghamshire Outlaws	Nottingham	Nottinghamshire	North	Trent Bridge	Mick Newell	Chris Read	Adam Voges
Somerset	Taunton	Somerset	Midlands/Wales/West	County Ground	Andy Hurry	Marcus Trescothick	Richard Levi and Albie Morkel
Surrey Lions	London	Surrey	South	The Oval	Chris Adams	Rory Hamilton-Brown	Murali Kartik and Dirk Nannes
Sussex Sharks	Hove	Sussex	South	County Cricket Ground	Mark Robinson	Michael Yardy	Scott Styris
Warwickshire Bears	Birmingham	Warwickshire	Midlands/Wales/West	Edgbaston	Ashley Giles	Jim Troughton	Jeetan Patel
Welsh Dragons	Cardiff	Glamorgan	Midlands/Wales/West	Sophia Gardens	Matthew Mott	Jim Allenby	Shaun Marsh and Marcus North
Worcestershire Royals	Worcester	Worcestershire	Midlands/Wales/West	New Road	Steve Rhodes	Daryl Mitchell	Phillip Hughes and Sohail Tanvir
Yorkshire Carnegie	Leeds	Yorkshire	North	Headingley Carnegie	Jason Gillespie	Andrew Gale	David Miller and Mitchell Starc

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Somerset	10	5	2	3	13	0.275
2	Gloucestershire Gladiators	10	4	2	4	12	0.248
3	Worcestershire Royals	10	4	3	3	11	0.578
4	Warwickshire Bears	10	4	3	3	11	−0.033
5	Welsh Dragons	10	2	3	5	9	−0.708
6	Northamptonshire Steelbacks	10	1	7	2	4	−0.611

	Gloucestershire Gladiators	Northamptonshire Steelbacks	Somerset	Warwickshire Bears	Welsh Dragons	Worcestershire Royals
Gloucestershire Gladiators		Gloucestershire 8 runs	Abandoned No result	Warwickshire 7 wickets	Abandoned No result	Gloucestershire 7 wickets
Northamptonshire Steelbacks	Gloucestershire 8 wickets (D/L)		Somerset 7 wickets	Warwickshire 7 wickets	Abandoned No result	Worcestershire 14 runs
Somerset	Gloucestershire 9 wickets	Somerset 5 wickets		Somerset 63 runs	Somerset 4 wickets	Worcestershire 54 runs
Warwickshire Bears	Abandoned No result	Warwickshire 6 wickets	Abandoned No result		Glamorgan 22 runs (D/L)	Abandoned No result
Welsh Dragons	Abandoned No result	Northamptonshire 9 wickets	No result	Glamorgan 5 runs (D/L)		Abandoned No result
Worcestershire Royals	Worcestershire 47 runs	Abandoned No result	Somerset 7 wickets	Warwickshire 8 wickets	Glamorgan 19 runs

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Yorkshire Carnegie	10	7	1	0	2	16	0.863
2	Nottinghamshire Outlaws	10	5	1	0	4	14	1.877
3	Durham Dynamos	10	4	4	1	1	10	−0.251
4	Lancashire Lightning	10	3	4	1	2	9	0.106
5	Derbyshire Falcons	10	2	6	0	2	6	−0.561
6	Leicestershire Foxes	10	2	7	0	1	5	−1.352

	Derbyshire Falcons	Durham Dynamos	Lancashire Lightning	Leicestershire Foxes	Nottinghamshire Outlaws	Yorkshire Carnegie
Derbyshire Falcons		Durham 5 wickets	Debryshire 17 runs (D/L)	Leicestershire 4 wickets	Abandoned No result	Yorkshire 41 runs
Durham Dynamos	Durham 8 wickets		Match tied	Durham 9 wickets	Nottinghamshire 7 wickets	Yorkshire 12 runs
Lancashire Lightning	Derbyshire 3 wickets	Lancashire 8 wickets		Lancashire 8 wickets	Abandoned No result	Abandoned No result
Leicestershire Foxes	Leicestershire 8 runs	Abandoned No result	Lancashire 11 runs		Nottinghamshire 6 wickets	Yorkshire 4 runs
Nottinghamshire Outlaws	No Result	Nottinghamshire 41 runs	Nottinghamshire 8 wickets (D/L)	Nottinghamshire 69 runs		Yorkshire 6 wickets
Yorkshire Carnegie	Yorkshire 21 runs	Durham 2 runs	Yorkshire 19 runs	Yorkshire 22 runs	Abandoned No result

2012_Friends_Life_t20

2012 Twenty20 Cup

Format

Teams

Group stage

Midlands/Wales/West Division

Table

Results

Fixtures

North Division

Table

Results

Fixtures

South Division

Table

Results

Fixtures

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

Highest team totals

Most runs

Highest scores

Most wickets

Best bowling figures

References

External links

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Sussex Sharks	10	6	1	3	15	1.389
2	Hampshire Royals	10	5	2	3	13	0.693
3	Essex Eagles	10	5	4	1	11	−0.032
4	Kent Spitfires	10	4	5	1	9	−0.465
5	Middlesex Panthers	10	3	7	0	6	−0.210
6	Surrey Lions	10	3	7	0	6	−0.700

	Essex Eagles	Hampshire Royals	Kent Spitfires	Middlesex Panthers	Surrey Lions	Sussex Sharks
Essex Eagles		Hampshire 6 wickets	Essex 3 runs	Essex 2 wickets	Essex 3 wickets	Sussex 4 wickets
Hampshire Royals	Abandoned No result		Kent 3 runs	Middlesex 6 wickets	Hampshire 7 wickets	Abandoned No result
Kent Spitfires	Kent 23 runs	Hampshire 6 wickets		Middlesex 48 runs	Kent 8 wickets	No result
Middlesex Panthers	Essex 6 runs	Hampshire 4 wickets	Middlesex 3 wickets		Surrey 28 runs (D/L)	Sussex 11 runs
Surrey Lions	Surrey 17 runs	Hampshire 19 runs	Kent 48 runs	Middlesex 1 wicket		Sussex 6 wickets
Sussex Sharks	Sussex 19 runs	No Result	Sussex 83 runs	Sussex 21 runs	Surrey 7 wickets (D/L)

Somerset 175/6 (20 overs)	v	Essex Eagles 148 (18.3 overs)
James Hildreth 58 (36) Reece Topley 3/27 (4 overs)		Ryan ten Doeschate 47 (24) Lewis Gregory 4/39 (3.3 overs)

Sussex Sharks 230/4 (20 overs)	v	Gloucestershire Gladiators 191/8 (20 overs)
Scott Styris 100* (37) Ian Saxelby 1/48 (4 overs)		Dan Housego 47 (24) Amjad Khan 2/38 (4 overs)

Yorkshire Carnegie 212/5 (20 overs)	v	Worcestershire Royals 183/6 (20 overs)
Joe Root 65 (40) Daryl Mitchell 2/23 (4 overs)		Phillip Hughes 80* (53) Mitchell Starc 3/24 (4 overs)

Nottinghamshire Outlaws 178/7 (20 overs)	v	Hampshire Royals 182/6 (20 overs)
Samit Patel 60 (33) Glenn Maxwell 3/36 (4 overs)		Neil McKenzie 79* (49) Samit Patel 3/26 (4 overs)

Yorkshire Carnegie 172/6 (20 overs)	v	Sussex Sharks 136/8 (20 overs)
Jonny Bairstow 68* (45) Scott Styris 3/22 (4 overs)		Chris Nash 80* (58) Tim Bresnan 2/22 (4 overs)

Somerset 125/6 (20 overs)	v	Hampshire Royals 126/4 (19 overs)
Craig Kieswetter 63* (57) Dimitri Mascarenhas 2/11 (4 overs)		Sean Ervine 34* (23) Lewis Gregory 1/9 (2 overs)

Hampshire Royals 150/6 (20 overs)	v	Yorkshire Carnegie 140/8 (20 overs)
James Adams 43 (37) Ryan Sidebottom 2/20 (4 overs)		David Miller 72* (46) Chris Wood 3/26 (4 overs)

Team	Total	Opponent	Ground
Sussex Sharks	230/4	Gloucestershire Gladiators	County Ground, Hove
Worcestershire Royals	213/2	Gloucestershire Gladiators	New Road, Worcester
Yorkshire Carnegie	212/5	Worcestershire Royals	Headingley Carnegie, Leeds
Sussex Sharks	212/6	Kent Spitfires	County Ground, Hove
Nottinghamshire Outlaws	210/3	Durham Dynamos	Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Player	Team	Runs	Inns	Avg	S/R	HS	50s	4s	6s
Phillip Hughes	Worcestershire Royals	402	8	100.50	126.81	87*	4	37	7
David Miller	Yorkshire Carnegie	390	11	48.75	153.54	74*	4	30	21
Chris Nash	Sussex Sharks	319	10	39.87	131.27	80*	3	32	8
Steven Croft	Lancashire Lightning	313	8	62.60	129.33	65*	2	17	11
Luke Wright	Sussex Sharks	312	10	34.66	160.00	91	2	32	11

Player	Team	Score	Balls	4s	6s	Opponent	Ground
James Hildreth	Somerset	107*	60	15	1	Welsh Dragons	County Ground, Taunton
Scott Styris	Sussex Sharks	100*	37	5	9	Gloucestershire Gladiators	County Ground, Hove
Luke Wright	Sussex Sharks	91	61	7	2	Middlesex Panthers	County Ground, Hove
Joe Denly	Middlesex Panthers	90*	66	11	1	Kent Spitfires	St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury
Alex Hales	Nottinghamshire Outlaws	88	51	6	4	Durham Dynamos	Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Player	Team	Wkts	Mts	Ave	S/R	Econ	BBI
Mitchell Starc	Yorkshire Carnegie	21	10	10.38	10.5	5.91	3/24
Chris Liddle	Sussex Sharks	17	10	11.94	9.7	7.33	5/17
Reece Topley	Essex Eagles	17	9	14.47	11.2	7.68	3/19
Dimitri Mascarenhas	Hampshire Royals	15	11	16.46	15.2	6.50	2/11
Moin Ashraf	Yorkshire Carnegie	15	12	23.93	18.8	7.63	4/18
Richard Pyrah	Yorkshire Carnegie	15	12	23.93	18.0	7.97	3/21