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
Most runsKirstie White (337)
Most wicketsSamantha Betts (18)
2015
2017

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

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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

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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

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Kent (C) 8 7 1 0 0 31 32 0 133 16.63
Sussex 8 4 2 0 2 22 19 0 81 13.50
Warwickshire 8 4 2 0 2 18 22 0 80 13.33
Yorkshire 8 4 2 0 2 16 18 0 74 12.33
Berkshire 8 3 4 0 1 21 26 0 77 11.00
Middlesex 8 4 3 0 1 19 17 0 76 10.86
Somerset (R) 8 2 5 0 1 11 18 0 49 7.00
Surrey (R) 8 1 7 0 0 21 22 0 53 6.63
Staffordshire (R) 8 1 4 0 3 11 9 0 30 6.00
As of 17 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[3]

Division Two

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Lancashire (P) 7 4 1 0 2 15 20 0 75 15.00
Nottinghamshire (P) 7 5 1 0 1 20 18 0 88 14.67
Hampshire 7 5 2 0 0 19 26 0 95 13.57
Devon 7 4 3 0 0 22 22 0 84 12.00
Wales 7 3 2 0 2 13 17 0 60 12.00
Worcestershire 7 2 4 0 1 16 16 0 52 8.67
Leicestershire and Rutland (R) 7 1 4 0 2 11 13 0 34 6.80
Essex (R) 7 0 7 0 0 15 17 0 32 4.57
As of 4 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[4]

Division Three

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Derbyshire (P) 8 6 0 0 2 23 22 0 105 17.50
Durham 8 6 1 0 1 19 23 0 102 14.57
Gloucestershire 8 5 1 0 2 17 20 0 87 14.50
Northamptonshire 8 3 2 0 3 13 14 0 57 11.40
Oxfordshire 8 3 4 0 1 20 23 0 73 10.43
Netherlands 8 3 4 0 1 22 20 0 72 10.29
Scotland 8 3 4 0 1 19 20 0 69 9.86
Cheshire 8 1 6 0 1 14 10 0 34 4.86
Norfolk 8 0 8 0 0 14 3 0 27 3.38
As of 4 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[5]

Division Four

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North & East

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Hertfordshire 5 4 0 0 1 13 16 0 69 17.25
Suffolk 5 3 1 0 1 10 15 0 55 13.75
Northumberland 5 2 2 0 1 14 14 0 48 12.00
Lincolnshire 5 2 2 0 1 11 10 0 41 10.25
Cumbria 5 1 2 0 2 8 10 0 28 9.33
Cambridgeshire 5 0 5 0 0 11 12 0 23 4.60
As of 28 August 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[6]

South & West

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Team Pld W L T A Bat Bowl Ded Pts Avg.
Shropshire 4 3 0 0 1 10 12 0 52 17.33
Cornwall 4 1 1 0 2 2 7 0 19 9.50
Dorset 4 1 2 0 1 7 9 0 26 8.67
Wiltshire 4 1 2 0 1 8 5 0 23 7.67
Buckinghamshire 4 1 2 0 1 6 6 0 22 7.33
As of 4 September 2016 — Source: ECB Women's County Championship[7]

Statistics

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Most runs

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Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average HS 100s 50s
Kirstie White Surrey 8 8 337 48.14 98* 0 3
Aylish Cranstone Devon 7 7 327 54.50 134* 1 1
Heather Knight Berkshire 7 7 308 44.00 92 0 4
Tammy Beaumont Kent 8 8 292 41.71 72 0 2
Miranda Veringmeier Netherlands 8 7 275 39.28 104 1 2

Source: CricketArchive[8]

Most wickets

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Player Team Balls Wickets Average BBI 5w
Samantha Betts Hampshire 343 18 8.00 5/20 2
Megan Belt Kent 290 16 7.93 5/8 1
Georgia Elwiss Sussex 285 15 10.33 6/17 2
Tash Farrant Kent 300 15 10.80 6/16 1
Charlotte Pape Kent 223 14 7.07 3/9 0

Source: CricketArchive[9]

References

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  1. ^ EXCLUSIVE: Ireland Cut Costly County Cricket, Crickether, 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  2. ^ a b 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.
  8. ^ "Batting and Fielding in Royal London Women's One-Day Cup 2016 (Ordered by Runs)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  9. ^ "Bowling in Royal London Women's One-Day Cup 2016 (Ordered by Wickets)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 20 March 2021.