2012 Super Fours

2012 Super Fours
Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	No overall winner
Participants	4
Matches	4
Most runs	Charlotte Edwards, Diamonds (213)
Most wickets	Beth Langston, Diamonds (9)
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The 2012 Super Fours was the ninth cricket Super Fours season. It took place in May and saw 4 teams compete in 50 over and Twenty20 matches. There was no overall winner in the 50 over tournament, whilst Rubies won the Twenty20 tournament, their second title in the format.

Competition format

In the one day tournament, each team played two games, with no overall winner declared.^[1]

The Twenty20 competition consisted of two semi-finals, with the winners progressing to a Final and the losers playing in a third-place play-off.^[2]

Teams

Diamonds	Emeralds	Rubies	Sapphires
Charlotte Edwards (c) Tammy Beaumont (wk) Thea Brookes Katherine Brunt Daisy Gardner Chiara Green Danielle Hazell Beth Langston Sophie Luff Bethan Moorcraft Sophie Parnell Ellyse Perry Cecily Scutt Asha Smith Susie Rowe	Caroline Atkins (c) Deanna Cooper Kate Cross Catherine Dalton Jodie Dibble Amy Jones (wk) Alice Macleod Natasha Miles Fi Morris Nat Sciver Hannah Shipman Fran Wilson	Jenny Gunn (c) Natalie Brown Holly Colvin Hannah Courtnell Phoebe Graham Madeline Green Lydia Greenway Alex Hartley Katie Levick Beth MacGregor Beth Morgan Hannah Phelps Anya Shrubsole Linsey Smith Sarah Taylor (wk)	Heather Knight (c) Arran Brindle Amara Carr (wk) Alice Davidson-Richards Rhiannon Dick Georgia Elwiss Georgia Hennessy Sophie Luff Hayley Martinus Izi Noakes Sonia Odedra Lauren Winfield (wk) Danni Wyatt

50 over

Results

19 May	Diamonds 289/3 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 78 (28 overs)	Diamonds won by 211 runs
Scorecard	Diamonds 289/3 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 78 (28 overs)	Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Irving Lewis and Russell Warren
Scorecard	Charlotte Edwards 147 (152) Rhiannon Dick 2/59 (10 overs)		Lauren Winfield 15 (35) Beth Langston 7/23 (7 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to bat.

19 May	Emeralds 260/3 (50 overs)	v	Rubies 233 (46.2 overs)	Emeralds won by 27 runs
Scorecard	Emeralds 260/3 (50 overs)	v	Rubies 233 (46.2 overs)	Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Roger Newman and Ian Rich
Scorecard	Amy Jones 100* (119) Hannah Courtnell 2/54 (10 overs)		Jenny Gunn 81 (56) Kate Cross 3/43 (10 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to bat.

20 May	Diamonds 254/8 (50 overs)	v	Emeralds 228/8 (50 overs)	Diamonds won by 26 runs
Scorecard	Diamonds 254/8 (50 overs)	v	Emeralds 228/8 (50 overs)	Oakham School, Oakham Umpires: Paul Joy and Ray Medland
Scorecard	Tammy Beaumont 69 (89) Natasha Miles 4/51 (8.2 overs)		Nat Sciver 67* (57) Katherine Brunt 2/10 (7 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to bat.

20 May	Rubies 187 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 192/6 (50 overs)	Sapphires won by 5 runs
Scorecard	Rubies 187 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 192/6 (50 overs)	Leicester Road, Hinckley Umpires: Terry Dorr and Chris Johnson
Scorecard	Sarah Taylor 55 (78) Arran Brindle 6/30 (10 overs)		Lauren Winfield 55 (88) Alex Hartley 2/28 (10 overs)
Sapphires won the toss and elected to bat.

Twenty20

Semi-finals

12 May	Diamonds 93/9 (20 overs)	v	Rubies 97/2 (20 overs)	Rubies won by 8 wickets
Scorecard	Diamonds 93/9 (20 overs)	v	Rubies 97/2 (20 overs)	Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Richard Ludlum and Steve Massingham
Scorecard	Katherine Brunt 55 (49) Anya Shrubsole 2/4 (4 overs)		Beth Morgan 37 (45) Thea Brookes 1/13 (3 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to field. Rubies progress to the final.

12 May	Emeralds 111/7 (20 overs)	v	Sapphires 112/3 (18.4 overs)	Sapphires won by 7 wickets
Scorecard	Emeralds 111/7 (20 overs)	v	Sapphires 112/3 (18.4 overs)	Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Dan Pedley and Russell Warren
Scorecard	Nat Sciver 26 (30) Rhiannon Dick 3/11 (4 overs)		Danni Wyatt 49 (46) Deanna Cooper 1/18 (2 overs)
Sapphires won the toss and elected to field. Sapphires progress to the final.

Third-place play-off

12 May	Diamonds 167/2 (20 overs)	v	Emeralds 119/6 (20 overs)	Diamonds won by 48 runs
Scorecard	Diamonds 167/2 (20 overs)	v	Emeralds 119/6 (20 overs)	Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Richard Ludlum and Steve Massingham
Scorecard	Tammy Beaumont 81 (57) Fi Morris 2/35 (4 overs)		Amy Jones 39* (34) Daisy Gardner 1/8 (2 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to field.

Final

12 May	Rubies 113/4 (19.2 overs)	v	Sapphires 110/6 (20 overs)	Rubies won by 6 wickets
Scorecard	Rubies 113/4 (19.2 overs)	v	Sapphires 110/6 (20 overs)	Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Dan Pedley and Russell Warren
Scorecard	Lydia Greenway 50 (41) Arran Brindle 2/23 (4 overs)		Heather Knight 37 (35) Jenny Gunn 2/16 (4 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to field. Rubies won the Super Fours Twenty20 2012.

References

^ "Super Fours 2012". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
^ "Super Fours Twenty20 2012". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

[1] "Super Fours 2012". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

[2] "Super Fours Twenty20 2012". Cricket Archive. Retrieved 25 January 2021.

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