2016 Women's County Championship

The 2016 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 20th cricket Women's County Championship season. The Championship was won by Kent who recorded their seventh championship, setting a new record for the number of championships won. The runners-up were Sussex.

2016 Women's County Championship
Administrator(s)England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format50 over
Tournament format(s)League system
ChampionsKent
Participants37

This was the last season in which Division 4 was contested. Following a reorganisation of the structure of the tournament, all the teams in Division 4 were promoted to an expanded Division 3 in 2017. In early 2016, Ireland team withdrew from the competition, causing fixtures to be rescheduled and Division 2 with one fewer team.[1]

Competition format

The championship worked on a points system, the winner being the team with most average points of completed games in the first division. The points are awarded as follows:[2]

Win: 10 points + bonus points.
Tie: 5 points + bonus points.
Loss: Bonus points.
Abandoned or cancelled: Match not counted to average.

Bonus points are collected for batting and bowling. [2] The bonus points for each match are retained if the match is completed.

Teams

The 2016 Championship was divided into four divisions: Division One with nine teams, Division Two with eight teams due to Ireland withdrawing, Division Three with nine teams, and Division Four with eleven teams across two groups.

Teams in each group played each other once.

Division One Berkshire Kent Middlesex Somerset Staffordshire Surrey Sussex Warwickshire Yorkshire
Division Two Devon Essex Hampshire Lancashire Leicestershire and Rutland Nottinghamshire Wales Worcestershire
Division Three Cheshire Derbyshire Durham Gloucestershire Netherlands Norfolk Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Scotland
Division Four North & East Cambridgeshire Cumbria Hertfordshire Lincolnshire Northumberland Suffolk
Division Four South & West Buckinghamshire Cornwall Dorset Shropshire Wiltshire

Division One

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Kent (C) 871003132013316.63
Sussex 84202221908113.50
Warwickshire 84202182208013.33
Yorkshire 84202161807412.33
Berkshire 83401212607711.00
Middlesex 84301191707610.86
Somerset (R) 8250111180497.00
Surrey (R) 8170021220536.63
Staffordshire (R) 814031190306.00
As of 17 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[3]

Division Two

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Lancashire (P) 74102152007515.00
Nottinghamshire (P) 75101201808814.67
Hampshire 75200192609513.57
Devon 74300222208412.00
Wales 73202131706012.00
Worcestershire 7240116160528.67
Leicestershire and Rutland (R) 7140211130346.80
Essex (R) 7070015170324.57
As of 4 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[4]

Division Three

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Derbyshire (P) 860022322010517.50
Durham 861011923010214.57
Gloucestershire 85102172008714.50
Northamptonshire 83203131405711.40
Oxfordshire 83401202307310.43
Netherlands 83401222007210.29
Scotland 8340119200699.86
Cheshire 8160114100344.86
Norfolk 808001430273.38
As of 4 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[5]

Division Four

North & East

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Hertfordshire 54001131606917.25
Suffolk 53101101505513.75
Northumberland 52201141404812.00
Lincolnshire 52201111004110.25
Cumbria 512028100289.33
Cambridgeshire 5050011120234.60
As of 28 August 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[6]

South & West

Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Shropshire 43001101205217.33
Cornwall 41102270199.50
Dorset 41201790268.67
Wiltshire 41201850237.67
Buckinghamshire 41201660227.33
As of 4 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[7]

References

  1. EXCLUSIVE: Ireland Cut Costly County Cricket, Crickether, 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  2. Royal London Women's County One-Day Championship, archived on 22 April 2016.
  3. Division 1 - 2016, Play-Cricket.
  4. Division 2 - 2016, Play-Cricket.
  5. Division 3 - 2016, Play-Cricket.
  6. Division 4 - North & East - 2016, Play-Cricket.
  7. Division 4 - South & West - 2016, Play-Cricket.
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