Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (40 overs) |
Tournament format(s) | Group stage and knockout |
Champions | Hampshire |
Participants | 21 |
Most runs | 598 Michael Carberry (Hampshire Royals) |
Most wickets | 21 Ajmal Shahzad (Lancashire Lightning) |
The 2012 Clydesdale Bank 40 tournament was the third season of the ECB 40 limited overs cricket competition for the English and Welsh first-class counties. In addition to the 18 counties, Scotland and the Netherlands took part, as well as the Unicorns, a team of players who did not have first-class contracts.
The competition consisted of three groups of seven teams, from which the top team from each group, plus the best second-placed team, progressed to the semi-finals. The groups were allocated randomly.