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David Goacher receiving
the trophy for Somerset

The 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.

Inter-Counties results
by year:


Somerset retained the Inter-Counties Trophy with a clean sweep. Suffolk and Herts came 4th and 6th respectively in Division 1 where they remain for 2012. In Division 2, Essex won with a clean sweep and are promoted to Division 1 for 2012, while Beds came 8th.

Division 1

result vs.:

 Som-
erset		 Notts Che-
shire		 Suffolk Glam-
organ		 Herts Lancs Surrey Midd-
lesex		 Dorset Sussex Match
wins		 Game
wins
Somerset   2-1 2-1 2-1 3-0 2-1 2-1 3-0 3-0 3-0 2-1 10 24
Nottinghamshire 1-2   3-0 2-1 3-0 2-1 3-0 2-1 2-1 3-0 2-1 9 23
Cheshire 1-2 0-3   1-2 2-1 1-2 3-0 3-0 2-1 3-0 3-0 6 19
Suffolk 1-2 1-2 2-1   3-0 0-3 1-2 2-1 2-1 2-1 3-0 6 17
Glamorgan 0-3 0-3 1-2 0-3   2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 3-0 3-0 6 15
Hertfordshire 1-2 1-2 2-1 3-0 1-2   1-2 1-2 2-1 2-1 2-1 5 16
Lancashire 1-2 0-3 0-3 2-1 1-2 2-1   1-2 2-1 2-1 3-0 5 14
Surrey 0-3 1-2 0-3 1-2 1-2 2-1 2-1   1-2 3-0 3-0 4 14
Middlesex 0-3 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 2-1   3-0 2-1 3 13
Dorset 0-3 0-3 0-3 1-2 0-3 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3   2-1 1 5
Sussex 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3 0-3 1-2 0-3 0-3 1-2 1-2   0 5
Relegated to Division 2 for next year
Division 2

result vs.:

 Essex CI Gloucs Yorks Berks/
Oxon		 Kent Hants Beds CA
Select		 Wilts War-
wicks		 Match
wins		 Game
wins
Yorkshire 0-3 1-2 0-3   2-1 2-1 2-1 0-3 3-0 2-1 2-1 6 14
Berks/Oxfordshire 0-3 1-2 0-3 1-2   1-2 2-1 3-0 2-1 3-0 3-0 5 16
Kent 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 2-1   1-2 2-1 2-1 2-1 2-1 5 15
Hampshire 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 2-1   2-1 1-2 3-0 2-1 4 15
Bedfordshire 1-2 2-1 0-3 3-0 0-3 1-2 1-2   1-2 3-0 2-1 4 14
CA Select 0-3 1-2 0-3 0-3 1-2 1-2 2-1 2-1   1-2 2-1 3 10
Wiltshire 0-3 0-3 0-3 1-2 0-3 1-2 0-3 0-3 2-1   2-1 2 6
Warwickshire 1-2 0-3 2-1 1-2 0-3 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 1-2   1 9

L-R: back*: Simon Hathrell, Duncan Hector,
Richard M Smith (C), John Gibbons
Front: Nick Mounfield, George Woolhouse, David Tutt
Teams
Bedfordshire:

Essex:

Hertfordshire:
Suffolk:
 		 Ben Ashwell, Jon Watson, Howard Bottomley, Bryan Harral, George Collin, John Bevington, Tom Anderson, John Wheeler
Michael Heap (C), Robert Fulford, Susan Fulford, Jonathan Hills, Guy Willard, Jack Wicks, Nick Steiner
see photo to the right
Steve Comish (C), Martin French, Chris Farthing, Phil Eardley, Martin Leach, Mark Avery

 

See also:

2011 Anderson Shield


*In the background right looking on is the current world-ranked no.7 from the victorious Somerset team, Ed Duckworth, no doubt wishing that he hadn't lost his own game in their match against Herts!