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.
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.EXCLUSIVE: Ireland Cut Costly County Cricket, Crickether, 12 January 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
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:Royal London Women's County One-Day Championship, archived on 22 April 2016.
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. The bonus points for each match are retained if the match is completed.
Batting
1.50 runs per over (RPO) or more: 1 point 2 RPO or more: 2 points 3 RPO or more: 3 points 4 RPO or more: 4 points
Bowling
3-4 wickets taken: 1 point 5-6 wickets taken: 2 points 7-8 wickets taken: 3 points 9-10 wickets taken: 4 points
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 OneBerkshireKentMiddlesexSomersetStaffordshireSurreySussexWarwickshireYorkshire Division TwoDevonEssexHampshireLancashireLeicestershire and RutlandNottinghamshireWalesWorcestershire Division ThreeCheshireDerbyshireDurhamGloucestershireNetherlandsNorfolkNorthamptonshireOxfordshireScotland Division Four North & EastCambridgeshireCumbriaHertfordshireLincolnshireNorthumberlandSuffolk Division Four South & WestBuckinghamshireCornwallDorsetShropshireWiltshire
Division One TeamKent (C) 8 7 1 0 0 31 32 0 133 16.63Sussex8 4 2 0 2 22 19 0 81 13.50Warwickshire8 4 2 0 2 18 22 0 80 13.33Yorkshire8 4 2 0 2 16 18 0 74 12.33Berkshire8 3 4 0 1 21 26 0 77 11.00Middlesex 8 4 3 0 1 19 17 0 76 10.86Somerset (R) 8 2 5 0 1 11 18 0 49 7.00Surrey (R) 8 1 7 0 0 21 22 0 53 6.63Staffordshire (R) 8 1 4 0 3 11 9 0 30 6.00 — Source: ECB Women's County ChampionshipDivision 1 – 2016, Play-Cricket.
Division Two TeamLancashire (P)7 4 1 0 2 15 20 0 75 15.00Nottinghamshire (P)7 5 1 0 1 20 18 0 88 14.67Hampshire 7 5 2 0 0 19 26 0 95 13.57Devon7 4 3 0 0 22 22 0 84 12.00Wales7 3 2 0 2 13 17 0 60 12.00Worcestershire 7 2 4 0 1 16 16 0 52 8.67Leicestershire and Rutland (R)7 1 4 0 2 11 13 0 34 6.80Essex (R) 7 0 7 0 0 15 17 0 32 4.57 — Source: ECB Women's County ChampionshipDivision 2 – 2016, Play-Cricket.
Division Three
TeamDerbyshire (P)8 6 0 0 2 23 22 0 105 17.50Durham8 6 1 0 1 19 23 0 102 14.57Gloucestershire 8 5 1 0 2 17 20 0 87 14.50Northamptonshire 8 3 2 0 3 13 14 0 57 11.40Oxfordshire 8 3 4 0 1 20 23 0 73 10.43Netherlands8 3 4 0 1 22 20 0 72 10.29Scotland8 3 4 0 1 19 20 0 69 9.86Cheshire8 1 6 0 1 14 10 0 34 4.86Norfolk8 0 8 0 0 14 3 0 27 3.38 — Source: ECB Women's County ChampionshipDivision 3 – 2016, Play-Cricket.
Division Four North & East TeamHertfordshire5 4 0 0 1 13 16 0 69 17.25Suffolk5 3 1 0 1 10 15 0 55 13.75Northumberland5 2 2 0 1 14 14 0 48 12.00Lincolnshire5 2 2 0 1 11 10 0 41 10.25Cumbria5 1 2 0 2 8 10 0 28 9.33Cambridgeshire5 0 5 0 0 11 12 0 23 4.60 — Source: ECB Women's County ChampionshipDivision 4 – North & East – 2016, Play-Cricket.
South & West TeamShropshire4 3 0 0 1 10 12 0 52 17.33Cornwall4 1 1 0 2 2 7 0 19 9.50Dorset4 1 2 0 1 7 9 0 26 8.67Wiltshire4 1 2 0 1 8 5 0 23 7.67Buckinghamshire4 1 2 0 1 6 6 0 22 7.33 — Source: ECB Women's County ChampionshipDivision 4 – South & West – 2016, Play-Cricket.
Statistics Most runs Player Team Matches Innings Runs Average 100s 50sKirstie WhiteSurrey8833748.1498*03Aylish CranstoneDevon7732754.50134*11Heather KnightBerkshire7730844.009204Tammy BeaumontKent8829241.717202Netherlands8727539.2810412 Source: CricketArchive
Most wickets Player Team Balls Wickets Average BBI 5wSamantha BettsHampshire343188.005/202Megan BeltKent290167.935/81Georgia ElwissSussex2851510.336/172Tash FarrantKent3001510.806/161Charlotte PapeKent223147.073/90 Source: CricketArchive
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