The 2016 Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the 2016 NatWest Women's Twenty20 Cup was the 8th
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Women's Twenty20 Cup
The Women's Twenty20 Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Vitality Women's County T20, is a women's Twenty20 cricket competition organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board. Until the end of the 2019 season, teams were organised in tie ...
tournament. It took place in June and July, with 36 teams taking part: 34 county teams plus
Scotland and
Wales.
Kent Women won the Twenty20 Cup, their third title, and completed the double later in 2016 with their victory in the
County Championship.
The tournament ran alongside the
50-over 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- ...
, and was followed by the inaugural
Twenty20 Women's Cricket Super League, competed for by regional teams.
Competition Format
Teams played matches within a series of divisions with the winners of the top division being crowned the Champions. Matches were played using a
Twenty20 format.
The championship worked on a points system with positions within the divisions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
Win: 4 points.
Tie
Tie has two principal meanings:
* Tie (draw), a finish to a competition with identical results, particularly sports
* Necktie, a long piece of cloth worn around the neck or shoulders
Tie or TIE may also refer to:
Engineering and technology
* Ti ...
: 1 point.
Loss: 0 points.
Abandoned/Cancelled: 1 point.
Teams
The 2016 Women's Twenty20 Cup was divided into four divisions: Division One and Division Two with eight teams each, Division Three with nine teams and Division Four with 11 teams, divided into three regional groups; teams played between six and eight games, depending on the division.
Division One
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 1 - 2016]
Play-Cricket.
Division Two
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 2 - 2016]
Play-Cricket.
Division Three
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 3 - 2016]
Play-Cricket.
Division Four
Group A
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4A - 2016]
Play-Cricket.
Group B
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4B - 2016]
Play-Cricket.
Group C
:
Source: ECB Women's Twenty20 Cup[Division 4C - 2016]
Play-Cricket.
Statistics
Most runs
Source: CricketArchive
Most wickets
Source: CricketArchive
References
{{2016 English cricket season
2016 in Scottish cricket
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...