2014–16 ICC Women's Championship

The 2014–16 ICC Women's Championship was the first edition of the ICC Women's Championship, a women's One Day International cricket (WODI) competition contested by eight teams. The top four teams at the conclusion of the tournament (Australia, England, New Zealand and West Indies) gained automatically qualification for the 2017 World Cup. The bottom four teams (India, South Africa, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) faced six qualifying teams in the 2017 World Cup Qualifier for the remaining four places at the World Cup.[1][2] When four or more WODIs were played in a series, only three pre-selected matches were included in the championship.[3] The second edition of the competition started in October 2017.[4]

2014–16 ICC Women's Championship
Administrator(s)International Cricket Council
Cricket formatOne Day International
Tournament format(s)Round robin
Host(s)Various
Champions Australia
Runners-up England
Most runs Meg Lanning (1232)
Most wickets Jess Jonassen (31)

Teams

The following teams played in the tournament:

Results

The breakdown of results was as follows. During each round, each team played against their opponent three times.[5]

Round Window Home team Away team Date Result
1

June – October 2014

  Australia  Pakistan 21 August 2014 3–0
 England  India 21 August 2014 2–0
 West Indies  New Zealand 12 September 2014 3–0
 Sri Lanka  South Africa 15 October 2014 1–1
2 November – February 2014  Australia  West Indies 11 November 2014 3–0
 India  South Africa 24 November 2014 1–2
 Pakistan  Sri Lanka 9 January 2015 3–0
 New Zealand  England 11 February 2015 2–1
3 March – August 2015  Pakistan  South Africa 13 March 2015 1–2
 Sri Lanka  West Indies 15 May 2015 1–2
 India  New Zealand 28 June 2015 1–2
 England  Australia 21 July 2015 1–2
4 October 2015 – February 2016  West Indies  Pakistan 18 October 2015 3–0
 New Zealand  Sri Lanka 3 November 2015 3–0
 Australia  India 2 February 2016 2–1
 South Africa  England 7 February 2016 1–2
5 February – July 2016  India  Sri Lanka 15 February 2016 3–0
 New Zealand  Australia 20 February 2016 1–2
 South Africa  West Indies 24 February 2016 1–2
 England  Pakistan 20 June 2016 3–0
6 August – October 2016  Sri Lanka  Australia 18 September 2016 0–3
 South Africa  New Zealand 8 October 2016 1–2
 West Indies  England 14 October 2016 1–2
 Pakistan  India (see Note) (3–0)
7 October – November 2016  India  West Indies 10 November 2016 3–0
 Sri Lanka  England 12 November 2016 0–3
 New Zealand  Pakistan 13 November 2016 3–0
 Australia  South Africa 18 November 2016 3–0

Note: The round six fixtures between Pakistan and India should have taken place by the end of October 2016.[6] As of 9 November 2016, no decision was reached regarding the fixtures going ahead or not.[7] On 23 November 2016 the ICC Technical Committee ruled that India's Women's team had forfeited all of the matches, with the points being awarded to Pakistan.[8] Pakistan were awarded two points for each game, with India considered to have scored 0 runs in the 50 overs of each game, with their net run rate adjusted to reflect this.[9]

Points table
Pos Team Pld W L T NR Pts NRR
1  Australia 21 18 3 0 0 36 0.981 Advance to the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup.
2  England 21 14 6 0 1 29 1.047
3  New Zealand 21 13 8 0 0 26 0.441
4  West Indies 21 11 10 0 0 22 0.128
5  India* 21 9 11 0 1 19 −0.488 Advance to the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
6  South Africa 21 8 12 0 1 17 −0.235
7  Pakistan* 21 7 14 0 0 14 −1.126
8  Sri Lanka 21 2 18 0 1 5 −1.538
Source: [10]

* Round 6 matches were awarded to Pakistan[11][12] (see Note on Results).

Statistics

Most runs
Player Team Mat Inns Runs Ave SR HS 100 50 4s 6s
Meg Lanning  Australia 2121123272.4795.28135*551469
Ellyse Perry  Australia 171698589.5477.8695*012887
Suzie Bates  New Zealand 202097854.3382.25110281193
Stafanie Taylor  West Indies 191985757.1369.8498*08886
Nicole Bolton  Australia 202081745.3871.3511316752
Last updated: 23 November 2016[13]

Most wickets
Player Team Mat Inns Wkts Ave Econ BBI SR 4WI 5WI
Jess Jonassen  Australia 21213119.093.865/5029.611
Heather Knight  England 19182919.344.195/2627.611
Anisa Mohammed  West Indies 21212722.513.674/3236.710
Rajeshwari Gayakwad  India 16162519.323.434/2133.730
Kristen Beams  Australia 18182421.623.554/1536.520
Anya Shrubsole  England 14142421.794.124/1931.630
Inoka Ranaweera  Sri Lanka 18172424.584.574/5332.210
Last updated: 23 November 2016[14]

References
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