The 2016 Women's Cricket Super League, or 2016 Kia Super League for sponsorship reasons, was the first season of the Women's Cricket Super League (WCSL), a semi-professional women's cricket competition in England and Wales. The competition, run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), consisted of six franchise teams playing in a Twenty20 format. Each team featured three or four players contracted to the England women's cricket team and three overseas international players. Three teams qualified from the league stage of the competition; the Southern Vipers went directly into the final, while the Loughborough Lightning and Western Storm met in a semi-final.
During the group stage, Nat Sciver scored 90* during one match for the Surrey Stars.
Stafanie Taylor scored 78* for Western Storm in the penultimate round to help them reach the semi-final.
Suzie Bates scored 52 runs to help the Southern Vipers to victory in the final.
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Charlotte Marie Edwards is an English former cricketer and current cricket coach and commentator. She played primarily as a right-handed batter. She appeared in 23 Test matches, 191 One Day Internationals and 95 Twenty20 Internationals for England between 1996 and 2016. She played domestic cricket in England for East Anglia, Kent, Hampshire and Southern Vipers, as well as overseas for Northern Districts, Western Australia, Perth Scorchers, South Australia and Adelaide Strikers.
Edwards batting for Perth Scorchers, 2015.
Edwards during the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup.
Edwards (left) alongside former England cricketers Lynne Thomas and Enid Bakewell during the 2017–18 Women's Ashes.