1986 John Player Special League

1986 John Player Special League
Administrator(s) Test and County Cricket Board
Cricket format Limited overs cricket
(40 overs per innings)
Tournament format(s) League
Champions Hampshire (3rd title)
Participants 17
Matches played 136
Most runs 701 Chris Broad (Hampshire)
Most wickets 34 Clive Rice (Nottinghamshire)

The 1986 John Player Special League was the eighteenth competing of what was generally known as the Sunday League. The competition was won for the third time by Hampshire County Cricket Club.

Hampshire won the Sunday League away against Surrey at The Oval on September 7 after they beat them by 3 runs and Nottinghamshire lost versus Kent. [1]

Adrian Jones of Sussex established a Sunday League record on May 18 when took 7 for 41 against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.[2] On 10 August, Ian Botham scored a 175 not out off 122 balls for Somerset vs Northamptonshire at Wellingborough. In this innings he hit 12 fours and 13 sixes. [3]

The Nottinghamshire captain Clive Rice's 34 wickets for the season equalled Bob Clapp's Sunday League record. [4]

Stuart Turner the Essex all rounder reached 300 wickets in the Sunday League competition. He announced his retirement that season. [5]

Standings

Team Pld W T L N/R A Pts R/R
Hampshire (C) 16 12 0 3 0 1 50 5.171
Essex 16 11 0 4 1 0 46 5.513
Nottinghamshire 16 10 0 5 0 1 42 5.062
Sussex 16 10 0 6 0 0 40 4.808
Northamptonshire 16 9 0 5 1 1 40 4.967
Kent 16 7 1 5 1 2 36 4.885
Somerset 16 8 0 6 2 0 36 5.311
Yorkshire 16 7 1 6 1 1 34 4.778
Derbyshire 16 7 0 9 0 0 28 4.692
Middlesex 16 5 1 7 1 2 28 4.542
Warwickshire 16 5 2 7 1 1 28 4.845
Glamorgan 16 6 0 9 0 1 26 4.533
Lancashire 16 6 0 9 1 0 26 4.889
Surrey 16 5 1 8 1 1 26 4.633
Leicestershire 16 5 0 10 0 1 22 4.569
Worcestershire 16 5 0 11 0 0 20 4.927
Gloucestershire 16 3 0 11 0 2 16 4.688
Team marked   (C)  finished as champions.

Source: CricketArchive[6]

See also

Sunday League

References

  1. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fifth Edition: September 1985 to September 1986 Editor David Lemmon - page 431
  2. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fifth Edition: September 1985 to September 1986 Editor David Lemmon - page 291
  3. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fifth Edition: September 1985 to September 1986 Editor David Lemmon - page 388
  4. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fifth Edition: September 1985 to September 1986 Editor David Lemmon - page 441
  5. Benson and Hedges Cricket Year Fifth Edition: September 1985 to September 1986 Editor David Lemmon - page 369
  6. "John Player Special League 1986 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2011-01-18.