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.
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.
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: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
- Bowling
Teams
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
— Source: ECB Women's County ChampionshipDivision Two
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| Team | ||||||||||
| Derbyshire | 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 |
— Source: ECB Women's County Championship