2014 One-Day Cup

2014 Royal London One-Day Cup
Dates26 July – 20 September 2014
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket formatLimited overs cricket (50 overs)
Tournament format(s)Group stage and knockout
ChampionsDurham
Participants18
Matches79
Most runs575 Jacques Rudolph (Glamorgan)
Most wickets23 Jeetan Patel (Warwickshire)
Official websiteecb.co.uk
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The 2014 One-Day Cup (also known as for sponsorship reasons as the 2014 Royal London One Day Cup)[1] was the 2014 season ECB limited overs cricket competition for the England and Wales first-class counties. It replaced the ECB 40 tournament that ran from 2010 to 2013. The number of overs per innings was increased to 50 to bring the competition in line with One Day Internationals. Unlike in the previous competition, the national teams of Scotland, the Netherlands and the Unicorns cricket team (a team formed of players who do not have first-class contracts) did not participate in the competition.[2]

The competition consisted of two groups of nine teams, from which the top four teams from each group progressed to the quarter-finals.[2] The groups were allocated randomly.

Durham County Cricket Club won the tournament, defeating Warwickshire County Cricket Club by three wickets in the final at Lord's on 20 September 2014.[3] This was Durham's second limited overs title in first-class cricket after the 2007 Friends Provident Trophy.

  1. ^ "ECB signs deal with Royal London to back domestic one-day cricket". Sky Sports. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 7 November 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ a b "County schedule for 2014 announced". England and Wales Cricket Board. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
  3. ^ "One-Day Cup final: Durham beat Warwickshire at Lord's". BBC Sport. 20 September 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2014.