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2008 Super Fours

cricket tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ105319999 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2008 Super Fours was the seventh cricket Super Fours season. It took place from May to July and saw 4 teams compete in a 50 over league and a Twenty20 knockout tournament. Sapphires won the 50 over tournament, achieving their third 50 over title, whilst Rubies won the Twenty20 tournament, claiming their first title in the format.

Competition format

In the one day tournament, teams played each other twice in a round-robin format, with the winners of the group winning the tournament. Matches were played using a one day format with 50 overs per team.

The group worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:

Win: 15 points.

Tie: 6 points.

Loss: 0 points.

Bonus Points: Up to 5 points available to the winning team.

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“2008 Super Fours” enters the record as cricket tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Super, Fours and cricket can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Super, Fours and cricket.
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