The 2015–16 Senior Women's Cricket Inter Zonal Three Day Game was the second season of India's Inter Zonal women's first-class competition. The tournament took place from 26 February to 16 March 2016. Five zonal teams participated in the tournament, facing each other in a round-robin format in three-day matches. All matches took place at J Narendranath ACA Cricket Ground, Perecherla and Jagarlamudi Kuppuswamy Choudary College, Guntur. Central Zone won the tournament, their second title in two years.

Squads Central ZoneEast ZoneNorth ZoneSouth ZoneWest Zone Punam Raut (c) Neha Badwaik Pallavi Bharadwaj Shweta Bishnoi Nidhi Buley Kalyani Chawarkar Varsha Choudhary Bharti Fulmali Samantha Lobatto Babita Meena Mona Meshram Nuzhat Parween Kavita Patil Shivangi Raj Sneh Rana Aditi Sharma Shubhlakshmi Sharma Neetu Singh Shashi Singh Pooja Vastrakar Madhusmita Behera (c) Rekharani Bora Rima Chakraborty Saika Ishaque Kadambini Mahakhud Mandira Mahapatra Sujata Mallik Madhuri Mehta Aparna Mondal Sukanya Parida Sushree Pradhan Niharika Prasad Swagatika Rath Priyanka Roy Tanusree Sarkar Ritu Sharma Latika Kumari (c) Taniya Bhatia Preeti Bose Neena Chaudhary Nikita Chauhan Harleen Deol Suman Gulia Mansi Joshi Amarpal Kaur Mehak Kesar Sonia Khatri Reema Malhotra Babita Negi Bhawna Ohlan Shiva Prajapati Priya Punia Latika Sangwan Rubia Sheikh Renuka Singh Kashish Verma Soni Yadav Karu Jain (c) Rupali Chavan Swetha Chelakara Hemalatha Dayalan Rameshwari Gayakwad Rakshitha Kalegowda Akanksha Kohli Jincy Kutty Sabbhineni Meghana Anusha Neeruggati Namita Ojha Shikha Pandey Kalpana Raavi Santoshi Rane Arundhati Reddy Shani Sasidharan Asha Sobhana Gouher Sultana Vanitha Vellaswamy Kavya Vellore Sunanda Yetrekar Sulakshana Naik (c) Reena Dabhi Manali Dakshini Priyanka Garkhede Tejal Hasabnis Jayshree Jadeja Snehal Jadhav Mugdha Joshi Humarira Kazi Shweta Mane Heena Patel Khushboo Patel Nancy Patel Palak Patel Sheral Rozario Devika Vaidya Radha Yadav Source: BCCI

Competition format The five teams played in a round-robin league, therefore playing four matches each. Matches were played using a three-day format.

The league worked on a points system with positions within the divisions based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:

Win: 6 points. Tie: 3 points. Loss: 0 points. Drawn (lead after first innings): 3 points Drawn (trail after first innings): 1 point Drawn (no decision on first innings): 1 point Abandoned without a ball bowled: 1 point

If points in the final table are equal, teams are separated by most wins and then by their quotient (runs per wicket for divided by runs per wicket against).

Standings TeamCentral Zone (C)4 1 0 2 1 0 1 14 1.828East Zone4 0 0 3 1 0 0 10 1.191South Zone4 0 0 2 2 0 0 8 1.054West Zone4 0 0 2 2 0 0 8 0.746North Zone4 0 1 0 3 0 0 3 0.645 Source: CricketArchive

Fixtures Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Statistics Top runs scorers PosPlayerTeamRunsMatInnsNOHSAvgBFSR100504s6s1Mona MeshramCZ490440201122.5088855.18216652Sabbhineni MeghanaSZ27435013354.8047857.32103613Sulakshana NaikWZ2264509945.2053542.24023804Tanusree SarkarEZ2184517554.5071430.53023005Mugdha JoshiWZ2094517052.2553239.2802290

Highest individual score PosPlayerTeamHSBF4s6sSRAgainstVenueMatch Date1Mona MeshramCZ20132525361.84West ZoneGuntur14 March 20162Mona MeshramCZ19335026155.14North ZonePerecherla10 March 20163Sabbhineni MeghanaSZ13319315168.91North ZoneGuntur2 March 20164Sulakshana NaikWZ9921515046.04South ZoneGuntur26 February 20165Mona MeshramCZ9619615148.97East ZonePerecherla2 March 2016

Most wickets PosPlayerTeamWktsMatInnsOversRunsBBIAvgEconSR4w5w1Gouher Sultana SZ1844145.11846/4610.221.2648.38122Nidhi BuleyCZ1647151.32465/7215.371.6256.8111Sneh RanaCZ1647174.03105/5819.371.7865.25114Devika VaidyaWZ1446149.14183/6129.852.8063.92005Preeti BoseNZ1246143.22214/5918.411.5471.6610

Best bowling figures PosPlayerTeamBBIOversEconWktsSRAgainstVenueMatch Date1Gouher Sultana SZ6/4643.21.06643.33Central ZonePerecherla6 March 20162Gouher Sultana SZ5/4130.01.36536.00West ZoneGuntur26 February 20163Sneh RanaCZ5/5824.02.41528.80South ZonePerecherla6 March 20164Nidhi BuleyCZ5/7237.01.94544.40South ZonePerecherla6 March 20165Nidhi BuleyCZ4/2839.50.70459.75East ZonePerecherla2 March 2016

Source: BCCI

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