2006 Super Fours

The 2006 Super Fours was the fifth cricket Super Fours season. It took place from May to July and saw 4 teams compete in a 50 over league and a Twenty20 knockout tournament. The competing teams were renamed from the 2005 season, with Braves, Knight Riders, Super Strikers and V Team becoming Rubies, Diamonds, Emeralds and Sapphires, respectively. Sapphires won the 50 over league, whilst Diamonds beat Sapphires in the final of the Twenty20 tournament.

2006 Super Fours

Administrator(s)	England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	League system
Champions	Sapphires (2nd title)
Participants	4
Matches	12
Most runs	Claire Taylor, Sapphires (426)
Most wickets	Laura Newton, Sapphires (9)

Competition format

In the one day tournament, teams played each other twice in a round-robin format, with the winners of the group winning the tournament. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per side.

The group worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:

Win: 15 points.
Tie: 6 points.
Loss: 0 points.
Bonus Points: Up to 5 points available to the winning team.

The Twenty20 competition reverted to the 2004 format, involving two semi-finals, with the winners progressing to a Final and the losers playing in a third-place play-off.

Teams

Diamonds	Emeralds	Rubies	Sapphires
Charlotte Edwards (c) Lynsey Askew Laura Boorman Isa Guha Laura Joyce (wk) Hannah Lloyd Beth Morgan Ebony Rainford-Brent Nicky Shaw Laura Thompson (wk) Jasmine Titmuss Jo Watts Kirstie White (wk)	Arran Brindle (c) Steph Davies Kelly Evenson Jenny Gunn Laura Harper Abbey Hawkins Charlotte Horton Sophie Le Marchand (wk) Kate Lowe Nicky Myers Holly Penwarden Anya Shrubsole Jane Smit (wk) Judith Turner Kirstie White (wk) Beth Wild Rebecca Williams Danni Wyatt	Gill Richards (c) Colleen Ashbee Caroline Atkins Holly Colvin Lydia Greenway Jackie Hawker Natalie Lane Laura Marsh Kate Oakenfold Lizzie Roberts Susie Rowe Anya Shrubsole Sarah Taylor (wk) Laura Thompson (wk) Alexia Walker	Laura Newton (c) Rosalie Birch Laura Boorman Katherine Brunt Kathryn Doherty Jenny Dunn Georgia Elwiss Lauren Griffiths (wk) Danielle Hazell Dawn Prestidge Anna Spragg (wk) Laura Spragg Robyn Still Claire Taylor (wk) Rachael Walsh

50 over

Results

Team	Pld	W	L	T	A	BP	Pts
Sapphires (C)	6	4	2	0	0	14	74
Rubies	6	3	1	2	0	9	66
Diamonds	6	2	3	1	0	8	44
Emeralds	6	1	4	1	0	1	22

Source: Cricket Archive

3 June	Diamonds 337/3 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 305/5 (50 overs)	Diamonds won by 32 runs
Scorecard				Uppingham School, Uppingham Umpires: John Hayes and Martin Bodenham
	Charlotte Edwards 199* (151) Robyn Still 1/20 (2 overs)		Claire Taylor 118* (98) Charlotte Edwards 1/33 (5 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Diamonds 20, Sapphires 0

3 June	Emeralds 161 (50 overs)	v	Rubies 161/5 (50 overs)	Match Tied
Scorecard				Uppingham School, Uppingham Umpires: Ann Roberts and Tim Robinson
	Laura Harper 52 (152) Gill Richards 3/24 (10 overs)		Sarah Taylor 60 (81) Laura Harper 3/32 (10 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Rubies 6, Emeralds 6

4 June	Diamonds 139 (47.2 overs)	v	Emeralds 156 (49.4 overs)	Emeralds won by 17 runs
Scorecard				Uppingham School, Uppingham Umpires: John Hayes and Tim Robinson
	Hannah Lloyd 53 (131) Jenny Gunn 4/32 (9 overs)		Steph Davies 29 (68) Jo Watts 3/28 (10 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Emeralds 16, Diamonds 0

4 June	Rubies 206/8 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 207/7 (48.2 overs)	Sapphires won by 3 wickets
Scorecard				Uppingham School, Uppingham Umpires: Ann Roberts and Martin Bodenham
	Sarah Taylor 82 (81) Katherine Brunt 2/21 (10 overs)		Claire Taylor 60 (75) Jackie Hawker 3/41 (10 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Sapphires 17, Rubies 0

10 June	Diamonds 246/9 (50 overs)	v	Rubies 246/7 (50 overs)	Match Tied
Scorecard				Leighton Park School, Reading Umpires: Graham Cooper and Terry Urben
	Laura Joyce 65 (64) Holly Colvin 2/32 (10 overs)		Caroline Atkins 82 (105) Charlotte Edwards 1/24 (4 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Diamonds 6, Rubies 6

10 June	Emeralds 189/4 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 190/3 (36.5 overs)	Sapphires won by 7 wickets
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Annette Owen and Darrell Hair
	Jane Smit 66 (91) Dawn Prestidge 2/40 (9 overs)		Claire Taylor 94 (81) Holly Penwarden 1/12 (1 over)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Sapphires 20, Emeralds 0

24 June	Diamonds 126/9 (50 overs)	v	Rubies 127/9 (47.2 overs)	Rubies won by 1 wicket
Scorecard				Army Cricket Ground, Aldershot Umpires: John Hayes and Martin Bodenham
	Laura Boorman 29* (76) Caroline Atkins 2/25 (10 overs)		Lydia Greenway 24 (56) Isa Guha 4/26 (5 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Rubies 16, Diamonds 0

24 June	Emeralds 153 (47 overs)	v	Sapphires 154/3 (46.1 overs)	Sapphires won by 7 wickets
Scorecard				Worksop College Ground, Worksop Umpires: Annette Owen and Steve Garratt
	Jenny Gunn 32 (70) Katherine Brunt 4/11 (9 overs)		Claire Taylor 33* (35) Charlotte Horton 2/45 (10 overs)
Sapphires won the toss and elected to field. Points: Sapphires 20, Emeralds 0

8 July	Diamonds 172 (47.4 overs)	v	Sapphires 197/8 (46.1 overs)	Sapphires won by 25 runs
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Lorraine Elgar and Tim Robinson
	Charlotte Edwards 69 (108) Laura Newton 5/22 (9 overs)		Claire Taylor 108 (105) Charlotte Edwards 3/47 (9 overs)
Sapphires won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Sapphires 17, Diamonds 0

8 July	Emeralds 144/8 (50 overs)	v	Rubies 221/6 (50 overs)	Rubies won by 77 runs
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Graham Cooper and Terry Urben
	Laura Harper 50 (116) Alexia Walker 4/17 (10 overs)		Caroline Atkins 83 (127) Laura Harper 2/45 (10 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to field. Points: Rubies 18, Emeralds 0

9 July	Diamonds 156/5 (50 overs)	v	Emeralds 153/8 (50 overs)	Diamonds won by 5 wickets
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Graham Cooper and Tim Robinson
	Ebony Rainford-Brent 55 (97) Judith Turner 3/22 (10 overs)		Laura Harper 61 (130) Beth Morgan 4/20 (8 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Diamonds 18, Emeralds 0

9 July	Rubies 253/7 (50 overs)	v	Sapphires 235 (49.4 overs)	Rubies won by 18 runs
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Lorraine Elgar and Terry Urben
	Alexia Walker 113* (75) Laura Spragg 3/68 (10 overs)		Laura Newton 143 (146) Jackie Hawker 4/28 (8 overs)
Rubies won the toss and elected to bat. Points: Rubies 20, Sapphires 0

Twenty20

Semi-finals

29 May	Diamonds 126/2 (18.2 overs)	v	Rubies 124/3 (20 overs)	Diamonds won by 8 wickets
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Nick Cook and John Hayes
	Charlotte Edwards 67* (60) Holly Colvin 1/24 (4 overs)		Alexia Walker 61 (43) Jasmine Titmuss 2/14 (3 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to field. Diamonds progress to the final.

29 May	Emeralds 89/9 (20 overs)	v	Sapphires 111/5 (20 overs)	Sapphires won by 22 runs
Scorecard				Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Annette Owen and Terry Urben
	Kate Lowe 15 (21) Katherine Brunt 2/12 (4 overs)		Rosalie Birch 59 (58) Jenny Gunn 1/16 (3 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to field. Sapphires progress to the final.

Third-place play-off

29 May	Emeralds 88/1 (17.4 overs)	v	Rubies 84 (19.5 overs)	Emeralds won by 9 wickets
Scorecard				Brockington Ground, Loughborough Umpires: Nick Cook and Annette Owen
	Laura Harper 40 (61) Jackie Hawker 1/16 (2.4 overs)		Sarah Taylor 32 (25) Kelly Evenson 3/9 (4 overs)
Emeralds won the toss and elected to field.

Final

29 May	Diamonds 158/3 (20 overs)	v	Sapphires 137/8 (20 overs)	Diamonds won by 21 runs
Scorecard				Haslegrave Ground, Loughborough Umpires: John Hayes and Terry Urben
	Nicky Shaw 62* (37) Laura Newton 2/17 (4 overs)		Sarah Taylor 34 (28) Isa Guha 3/23 (4 overs)
Diamonds won the toss and elected to bat. Diamonds won the Super Fours Twenty20 2006.