1991 Refuge Assurance League

1991 Refuge Assurance League
Administrator(s)	Test and County Cricket Board
Cricket format	Limited overs cricket (40 overs per innings)
Tournament format(s)	League
Champions	Nottinghamshire (1st title)
Participants	17
Matches	136
Most runs	917 Tom Moody (Worcestershire)
Most wickets	30 Franklyn Stephenson (Sussex)
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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

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

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

Bowling averages

Refuge Assurance Cup

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.

References

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

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[1] Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Sept. 1990 to Sept. 1991 - page 325.

[table-2] "Refuge Assurance League 1991 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 January 2011.

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