Administrator: | Test and County Cricket Board |
Cricket Format: | Limited overs cricket(60 overs per innings) |
Tournament Format: | Knockout |
Champions: | Northamptonshire |
Count: | 1 |
Participants: | 22 |
Matches: | 21 |
Most Runs: | 240 Zaheer Abbas (Gloucestershire) |
Most Wickets: | 10 Eddie Barlow (Derbyshire) |
Website: | CricketArchive tournament page |
Previous Year: | 1975 |
Previous Tournament: | 1975 Gillette Cup |
Next Year: | 1977 |
Next Tournament: | 1977 Gillette Cup |
The 1976 Gillette Cup was the fourteenth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 26 June and 4 September 1976.[1] The tournament was won by Northamptonshire County Cricket Club who defeated Lancashire County Cricket Club by 4 wickets in the final at Lord's.
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 4 September 1976.
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