Inter-Counties results
by year:
Association CroquetThe Inter-Counties Championship is a national team competition
sponsored by the Croquet Association.
See the CA website for further details and a
tournament report.
Counties from the EACF region that participate in it are shown in bold red.
Nottinghamshire snatched the title from last year's winners Somerset in spite of losing to Somerset in their
individual match.
Hertfordshire improved on their strong 2011 performance with 6 match wins,
equaling the 6 wins of newly-promoted Essex. Suffolk
struggled this year in the absence of some of their strongest players, and are relegated to Division 2 for 2013,
where they will join Bedfordshire who finished a couple of match wins short of
the promotion zone.
| Results vs.: | Notts | Som- erset |
Glam- organ |
Essex | Herts | Surrey | Lancs | Che- shire |
CI | Gloucs | Suffolk | MATCH WINS |
GAME WINS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottinghamshire | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 9 | 21 | |
| Somerset | 2-1 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 8 | 21 | |
| Glamorgan | 1-2 | 0-3 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 6 | 18 | |
| Essex | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 6 | 16 | |
| Hertfordshire | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 6 | 15 | |
| Surrey | 0-3 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 3-0 | 0-3 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 5 | 15 | |
| Lancashire | 0-3 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 5 | 15 | |
| Cheshire | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 4 | 16 | |
| Channel Islands | 1-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3 | 11 | |
| Gloucestershire | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2 | 10 | |
| Suffolk | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1 | 7 |
| Relegated to Division 2 for next year |
|---|
| Key to venues: | Southwick | Compton |
| Results vs.: | Berks /Oxon |
Yorks | Middx | Dorset | Beds | CA Select |
Hants | Shrop- shire+ |
Kent | Sussex | War- wicks |
MATCH WINS |
GAME WINS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berks/Oxfordshire | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 10 | 24 | |
| Yorkshire | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 7 | 20 | |
| Middlesex | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 7 | 20 | |
| Dorset | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 7 | 17 | |
| Bedfordshire | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 5 | 12 | |
| CA Select | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 4 | 16 | |
| Hampshire | 1-2 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 4 | 13 | |
| Shropshire Plus | 1-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 4 | 12 | |
| Kent | 0-3 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 3-0 | 3-0 | 1-2 | 3 | 13 | |
| Sussex | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 2 | 11 | |
| Warwickshire | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 1-2 | 2 | 7 |
| Promoted to Division 1 for next year |
|---|
| Key to venues: | Southwick | Compton |
The question of whether a joint county can be promoted to the first division was debated at a later date by the CA Tournament Committee, and subsequently confirmed.
| Bedfordshire: | Howard Bottomley (C), Ben Ashwell, John Bevington, George Collin, Bryan Harral, Terry Mahoney, David Marsh, Jon Watson |
| Essex: | Michael Heap (C), Debbie Cornelius, Robert Fulford, Susan Fulford, Jonathan Hills, Nick Steiner, Jack Wicks |
| Hertfordshire: | Richard M Smith (C), Simon Hathrell, Duncan Hector, Nick Mounfield, Jon Palin, Ian Parkinson, David Tutt |
| Suffolk: | Steve Comish (C), Mick Belcham, Phil Eardley, Chris Farthing, Martin Leach, Simon Riley, Celia Steward, John Walters |
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