2017 County Championship Plate Stadium. Due to changes to the County Championship format (more detail of this below) four new teams were added to the competition, with Hampshire (winners) and Staffordshire (runners up) coming up due to reaching the final of the 2016 County Championship Shield, while Warwickshire and Cumbria were also promoted by virtue of their performances in the competition during the past two seasons. The changes also meant that there were no teams relegated into the division. Leicestershire and Hampshire won their respective groups to qualify for the Twickenham final, with Leicestershire being the more impressive with three easy victories. The first
2017 Women's County Championship 2017 Women's County Championship The 2017 Women's County One-Day Championship was the 21st cricket Women's County Championship season. The championship works on a points system, the winner being the team with most average points of completed games in the first division. The points are currently 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. The 2017 Championship was divided into three divisions: