# 2015–16 Senior Women's T20 League

The 2015–16 Senior Women's T20 League was the 8th edition of the women's Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It took place in January 2016 with 26 teams divided into an Elite Group and a Plate Group. Railways won the tournament, their seventh in a row, by topping the Elite Group Super League.

## Competition format

The 26 teams competing in the tournament were divided into the Elite Group and the Plate Group, with the 10 teams in the Elite Group further divided into Groups A and B and the 16 teams in the Plate Group into Groups A, B and C. The tournament operated on a round-robin format, with each team playing every other team in their group once. The top two sides from each Elite Group progressed to the Elite Group Super League, which was a further round-robin group, with the winner of the group being crowned Champions. The bottom side from each Elite Group was relegated to the Plate Group for the following season. Meanwhile, the top two from each Plate Group progressed to a knockout stage, with the two teams that reached the final being promoted for the following season, as well as playing off for the Plate Group title. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format.
The groups worked on a points system with positions with the groups based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
Win: 4 points. Tie: 2 points. Loss: 0 points. No Result/Abandoned: 2 points.
If points in the final table were equal, teams were separated by most wins, then head-to-head record, then Net Run Rate.

## Elite Group
### Elite Group A

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Goa (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +0.641 |
| Odisha (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.387 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.147 |
| Kerala | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.743 |
| Punjab (R) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –0.488 |

### Elite Group B

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Railways (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.613 |
| Maharashtra (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | –0.034 |
| Hyderabad | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.025 |
| Bengal | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.404 |
| Delhi (R) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –1.203 |

### Elite Group Super League

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Railways (C) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +1.683 |
| Maharashtra | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.174 |
| Goa | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.402 |
| Odisha | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –1.516 |
    Source: BCCI

## Plate Group
### Plate Group A

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Himachal Pradesh (Q) | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | +0.757 |
| Baroda (Q) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +2.098 |
| Assam | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | –0.275 |
| Rajasthan | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.342 |
| Gujarat | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.948 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.085 |

### Plate Group B

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Mumbai (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +1.683 |
| Uttar Pradesh (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.275 |
| Saurashtra | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.675 |
| Vidarbha | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.345 |
| Tripura | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –0.990 |

### Plate Group C

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Andhra (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.754 |
| Haryana (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.104 |
| Jharkhand | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.061 |
| Tamil Nadu | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.268 |
| Karnataka | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.499 |
Advanced to Plate Group Semi-finals  Advanced to Plate Group Quarter-finals
    Source: BCCI

### Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final | Final |
| C2 | Haryana | 109/6 | | | | | | |
| B1 | Mumbai | 112/5 | B1 | Mumbai | 126/7 | | | |
| | | | A1 | Himachal Pradesh | 100/9 | | | |
| | | | | | | B2 | Uttar Pradesh | 64 |
| A2 | Baroda | 104/6 | | | | B1 | Mumbai | 65/2 |
| B2 | Uttar Pradesh | 105/7 | B2 | Uttar Pradesh | 123/6 | | | |
| | | | C1 | Andhra | 80/9 | | | |

#### Quarter-finals

* 11 January 2016 Scorecard
| Haryana 109/6 (20 overs) | v | Mumbai 112/5 (19.3 overs) |
| Mansi Joshi 51 (60) Fatima Jaffer 3/7 (4 overs) | | Sulakshana Naik 47 (52) Preeti Bose 2/10 (4 overs) |
* Mumbai won by 5 wickets Jharkhand State Cricket Association Oval Ground, Ranchi Umpires: Abhijit Bhattacharya and Mahanta Narayandev
* Haryana won the toss and elected to bat.
* 11 January 2016 Scorecard
| Baroda 104/6 (20 overs) | v | Uttar Pradesh 105/7 (18.3 overs) |
| Binaisha Surti 28 (28) Zeenat Qureshi 2/15 (4 overs) | | Deepti Sharma 41 (36) Shalini Sharma 1/8 (4 overs) |
* Uttar Pradesh won by 3 wickets Jharkhand State Cricket Association Oval Ground, Ranchi Umpires: Abhijit Bhattacharya and Indranil Chakravarti
* Baroda won the toss and elected to bat.

#### Semi-finals

* 13 January 2016 Scorecard
| Mumbai 126/7 (20 overs) | v | Himachal Pradesh 100/9 (20 overs) |
| Sulakshana Naik 55 (56) Tanuja Kanwar 3/21 (4 overs) | | Tanuja Kanwar 27 (27) Nancy Daruwalla 2/22 (4 overs) |
* Mumbai won by 26 runs Jharkhand State Cricket Association Oval Ground, Ranchi Umpires: Indranil Chakravarti and Mahanta Narayandev
* Mumbai won the toss and elected to bat.
* 13 January 2016 Scorecard
| Uttar Pradesh 123/6 (20 overs) | v | Andhra 80/6 (20 overs) |
| Deepti Sharma 44 (49) Gadwal Saranya 2/18 (3 overs) | | Neeragattu Anusha 29 (34) Samuya Singh 4/13 (4 overs) |
* Uttar Pradesh won by 43 runs Jharkhand State Cricket Association Oval Ground, Ranchi Umpires: Abhijit Bhattacharya and Mahanta Narayandev
* Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.

#### Final

* 15 January 2016 Scorecard
| Uttar Pradesh 64 (18.2 overs) | v | Mumbai 65/2 (17.2 overs) |
| Deepti Sharma 18 (37) Sheral Rozario 2/11 (4 overs) | | Jemimah Rodrigues 30* (41) Zeenat Qureshi 1/13 (2 overs) |
* Mumbai won by 8 wickets Jharkhand State Cricket Association Oval Ground, Ranchi Umpires: Abhijit Bhattacharya and Indranil Chakravarti
* Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
* Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh are promoted to the Elite Group.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
| Smriti Mandhana | Maharashtra | 7 | 7 | 224 | 37.33 | 69* | 0 | 1 |
| Deepti Sharma | Uttar Pradesh | 7 | 7 | 202 | 33.66 | 47 | 0 | 0 |
| Thirush Kamini | Railways | 7 | 7 | 196 | 28.00 | 61 | 0 | 1 |
| Madhusmita Behera | Odisha | 7 | 7 | 172 | 28.66 | 50 | 0 | 1 |
| Sunanda Yetrekar | Goa | 7 | 7 | 170 | 42.50 | 43* | 0 | 0 |
Source: CricketArchive

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 5w |
| Rupali Chavan | Goa | 26.0 | 13 | 7.92 | 3/8 | 0 |
| Tarannum Pathan | Baroda | 24.0 | 12 | 5.91 | 3/6 | 0 |
| Devika Vaidya | Maharashtra | 28.0 | 12 | 10.16 | 4/14 | 0 |
| Deepti Sharma | Uttar Pradesh | 25.0 | 11 | 9.90 | 4/9 | 0 |
| Preeti Bose | Haryana | 20.0 | 10 | 5.00 | 4/8 | 0 |
Source: CricketArchive