# 2016–17 Senior Women's T20 League

The 2016–17 Senior Women's T20 League was the 9th edition of the women's Twenty20 cricket competition in India. It was held from 2 to 15 January 2017. Railways were the defending champions and won the 2016–17 tournament, their eighth in a row, by topping the Elite Group Super League.

## Competition format

The 27 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 17 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 being 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 are equal, teams are separated by most wins, then head-to-head record, then Net Run Rate.

## Participants

27 teams participated in the tournament. The teams were divided in 2 tiers, Elite and Plate, with the Elite level divided into Groups A and B and the Plate level divided into Groups A, B and C.
| Elite Group | Elite Group | Plate Group | Plate Group | Plate Group |
| Group A | Group B | Group A | Group B | Group C |
| Bengal Kerala Maharashtra Mumbai Railways | Goa Hyderabad Madhya Pradesh Odisha Uttar Pradesh | Andhra Delhi Haryana Jharkhand Tamil Nadu Tripura | Baroda Gujarat Karnataka Punjab Rajasthan | Assam Chhattisgarh Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Saurashtra Vidarbha |

## Venue

| The following venues hosted the tournament. MBB Stadium, Agartala SMS Stadium, Jaipur Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, New Delhi Alur Cricket Stadium-II, Bangalore TIT Ground, Agartala RCA Academy Ground, Jaipur Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot VCA Ground, Nagpur | AgartalaJaipurJamshedpurNew DelhiBangaloreRajkotNagpurclass=notpageimage| Venues for the 2016–17 Senior Women's T20 League |

## Elite Group
### Elite Group A

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Railways (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +3.376 |
| Bengal (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | –0.127 |
| Maharashtra | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.325 |
| Mumbai | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.863 |
| Kerala (R) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.464 |

### Elite Group B

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Madhya Pradesh (Q) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | +0.192 |
| Hyderabad (Q) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.532 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.031 |
| Goa | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.113 |
| Odisha (R) | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –0.844 |

### Elite Group Super League

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Railways (C) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +2.183 |
| Hyderabad | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.282 |
| Bengal | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.625 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –1.083 |
    Source: CricketArchive

#### Fixtures

* 10 January 2017 Scorecard
| Railways 167/0 | v | Hyderabad 158/4 |
* Railways won by 9 runs Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot
* 10 January 2017 Scorecard
| Bengal 124/5 | v | Madhya Pradesh 121/6 |
* Bengal won by 3 runs Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot
* 11 January 2017 Scorecard
| Bengal 82/6 | v | Railways 84/1 |
* Railways won by 9 wickets Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot
* 11 January 2017 Scorecard
| Madhya Pradesh 122/6 | v | Hyderabad 112/8 |
* Madhya Pradesh won by 10 runs Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot
* 13 January 2017 Scorecard
| Railways 168/4 | v | Madhya Pradesh 96 |
* Railways won by 72 runs Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot
* 13 January 2017 Scorecard
| Bengal 112/5 | v | Hyderabad 113/5 |
* Hyderabad won by 5 wickets Railway Cricket Ground, Rajkot

## Plate Playoffs
### Quarter-finals

* 11 January 2017 Scorecard
| Haryana 95/5 | v | Baroda 96/4 |
* Baroda won by 6 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 11 January 2017 Scorecard
| Karnataka 135/4 | v | Saurashtra 100/8 |
* Karnataka won by 35 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

### Semi-finals

* 13 January 2017 Scorecard
| Vidarbha 92/7 | v | Baroda 93/3 |
* Baroda won by 7 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
* 13 January 2017 Scorecard
| Karnataka 104/9 | v | Delhi 105/2 |
* Delhi won by 8 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

### Final

* 15 January 2017 Scorecard
| Delhi 115/3 | v | Baroda 110/8 |
* Delhi won by 5 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur

## Statistics
### Most Runs

| Pos | Player | Team | Runs | Mat | Inns | NO | HS | Avg | BF | SR | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
| 1 | Mithali Raj | Railways | 311 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 100* | 155.50 | 274 | 113.50 | 1 | 2 | 40 | 3 |
| 2 | Punam Raut | Railways | 274 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 75* | 68.50 | 226 | 121.23 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 9 |
| 3 | Mona Meshram | Vidarbha | 265 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 75* | 66.25 | 241 | 109.95 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 2 |
| 4 | Mridula Jadeja | Saurashtra | 246 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 45* | 123.00 | 285 | 86.31 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 |
| 5 | Latika Kumari | Delhi | 231 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 59* | 57.75 | 197 | 117.25 | 0 | 2 | 37 | 0 |

### Most wickets

| Pos | Player | Team | Wkts | Mat | Inns | Overs | Runs | BBI | Avg | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w |
| 1 | Nidhi Buley | Madhya Pradesh | 18 | 7 | 7 | 27.5 | 144 | 5/17 | 8.00 | 5.17 | 9.27 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Reena Dabhi | Saurashtra | 13 | 6 | 6 | 23.4 | 89 | 4/9 | 6.84 | 3.76 | 10.92 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Reema Malhotra | Delhi | 13 | 7 | 7 | 18.3 | 103 | 3/11 | 7.92 | 5.56 | 8.53 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Ashwani Kumari | Jharkhand | 12 | 5 | 5 | 18.0 | 88 | 4/20 | 7.33 | 4.88 | 9.00 | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Babita Negi | Delhi | 12 | 7 | 8 | 23.5 | 105 | 3/17 | 8.75 | 4.40 | 11.91 | 0 | 0 |