2017 One-Day Cup

2017 Royal London One-Day Cup
Dates27 April – 1 July 2017
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket formatLimited overs cricket (50 overs)
Tournament format(s)Group stage and knockout
ChampionsNottinghamshire
Participants18
Matches77
Most runsAlastair Cook (636)
Most wicketsSam Curran (20)
Official websiteecb.co.uk
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The 2017 Royal London One-Day Cup tournament was a limited overs cricket competition that forms part of the 2017 domestic cricket season in England and Wales. Matches were contested over 50 overs per side and had List A cricket status. All eighteen First-class counties competed in the tournament which ran from the end of April with the final taking place at Lord's on 1 July.[1] Nottinghamshire won the tournament, defeating Surrey in the final.[2] The defending champions were Warwickshire.[3]

The 2017 competition was moved earlier in the season with a reduced knockout stage in order to allow the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast to take place during the school summer holidays and England players to prepare for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy taking place in England and Wales during June.[4][5] It followed a similar schedule to the Benson & Hedges Cup competition which was played early in the season and ran from the 1970s until 2002.[1]

The scheduling of the competition earlier during the domestic season was also designed to allow limited overs cricket to be played in two blocks - one for the One Day Cup and one for the T20 Blast. The aim of the England and Wales Cricket Board was to enable county players to develop white-ball skills more effectively, to allow preparation for England matches and to make the cricket schedule easier to understand.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b County Championship, One-Day Cup and T20 Blast fixtures announced for 2017, BBC Sport, 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  2. ^ Williams A (2017) One-Day Cup final: Alex Hales breaks Lord's record as Nottinghamshire beat Surrey, BBC Sport, 2017-07-01. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  3. ^ Scott G (2017) One-Day Cup: Warwickshire thrash Surrey in Lord's final, BBC Sport, 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  4. ^ Ostick C (2016) Cricket's County Championship gets huge shake-up from 2017 season as Division One is reduced to eight teams, Manchester Evening News, 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  5. ^ ECB changes all formats of county cricket in bid to secure game’s future Archived 14 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Kent News, 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  6. ^ Martin A (2016) County Championship Division One to be cut to eight teams in 2017, The Guardian, 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  7. ^ Peck J (2016) England announce schedule for 2017, The Cricket Paper, 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2017-04-13.