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2015–16 Ford Trophy

cricket tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ23057967 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2015–16 Ford Trophy was the 45th season of the official List A cricket tournament in New Zealand, and the fifth in a sponsorship deal between New Zealand Cricket and Ford Motor Company. The competition ran from 27 December 2015 to 30 January 2016, and was won by the Central Districts who thrashed Canterbury to defend their title.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2015–16 Ford Trophy” is cricket tournament. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Ford, Trophy and cricket, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Ford, Trophy and cricket is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q23057967. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “2015–16 Ford Trophy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.