2024 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy

The 2024 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy is the ongoing fifth edition of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, an English women's cricket 50-over domestic competition, which is taking place between 20 April and 21 September 2024. It features eight teams playing in a double round-robin group stage, followed by a knock-out round. It will run alongside the Charlotte Edwards Cup. Southern Vipers are the defending champions.

Format
Teams play each other twice in a group of eight, with the top four qualifying for the knock-out stage. This represents the addition of a semi-finals stage compared to the previous edition, which had one play-off between second and third place. The final will be held at Grace Road, Leicester.

Teams
The teams that compete in the tournament are listed below.
 * Central Sparks (representing Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire)
 * Northern Diamonds (representing Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland)
 * North West Thunder (representing Lancashire, Cheshire and Cumbria)
 * South East Stars (representing Surrey and Kent)
 * Southern Vipers (representing Hampshire, Sussex, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Isle of Wight and Oxfordshire)
 * Sunrisers  (representing Middlesex, Essex, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk and Suffolk)
 * The Blaze (representing Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire)
 * Western Storm (representing Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Cornwall, Devon, Wiltshire and Cricket Wales)

Standings
Teams receive 4 points for a win. A bonus point will be given where the winning team's run rate was 1.25 or greater times that of the opposition. In case of a tie in the standings, the following tiebreakers are applied in order: highest net run rate, team that scored the most points in matches involving the tied parties, better bowling strike rate, drawing of lots.

advances to the Semi-finals

Group stage
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