Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy
CountriesIndia}
AdministratorBCCI
FormatTwenty20
First edition2009–10
Latest edition2022–23
Tournament formatRound-robin and final
Number of teams4
Current championIndia D (1st title)
Most successfulIndia Green (1 title)
India Blue (1 title)
India C (1 title)
India D (1 title)

The Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy is a women's T20 tournament held in India. The tournament first took place in the 2009–10 season, as the T20 equivalent to the List A Senior Women's Challenger Trophy. The participating teams were the same as in the List A tournament: India Blue, India Green and India Red, with India Green emerging victorious in the final.[1] The tournament later returned in the 2018–19 season, with India Blue winning their first title, defeating India Red by 4 runs in the final.[2][3][4] In the third edition of the tournament in 2019–20, the teams competing were named India A, India B and India C, with India C winning the final by 8 wickets over India B.[5] The tournament returned in 2022–23, now with four teams competing, and was won by the new team, India D.[6]

Competition format

Matches in the tournament are played using a Twenty20 format. In the first season, the three teams played each other once in a round-robin format, with the top two in the group advancing to the final to play-off for the title. In the next two seasons, the tournament expanded to a double round-robin format, with teams playing each twice in the initial group stage before the top two advanced to the final.[7][8] In 2022–23, the tournament changed back to a round-robin format, but with one extra team, meaning the number of overall matches stayed the same.[9]

Teams are awarded 4 points for a win, with most wins being the first tiebreaker if teams are joint on points.[10][11]

Tournament results

Season Final Final venue
Winner Result Runner-up
2009–10
 India Green
125/9 (20 overs)		 India Green won by 24 runs

Scorecard

 India Blue
101/7 (20 overs)		 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad
2018–19
 India Blue
131/7 (20 overs)		 India Blue won by 4 Runs

Scorecard

 India Red
127/7 (20 overs)		 KSCA Cricket Ground (3), Alur, Bangalore
2019–20
 India C
135/2 (15.2 overs)		 India C won by 8 wickets

Scorecard

 India B
131/6 (20 overs)		 Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
2022–23
 India D
148/3 (19 overs)		 India D won by 7 wickets

Scorecard

 India A
144/5 (20 overs)		 Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Naya Raipur

References

  1. ↑ "Women's Twenty20 Challenger Trophy 2009/10". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  2. ↑ Cricbuzz Staff (18 July 2018). "BCCI announces 37-team Ranji Trophy for 2018-19 season". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy 2018". BCCI(Board of Control for Cricket in India). Retrieved 28 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Cricbuzz Staff (21 August 2018). "Radha, Poonam star in India Blue's title win". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Shafali Verma's 89* hands India 'C' Challenger Trophy title". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  6. ↑ "Poonam, Deepti, Vastrakar, Rana to lead in T20 Challenger Trophy; Kaur, Mandhana rested". Women's CricZone. 15 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Women's Twenty20 Challenger Trophy 2009/10 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "Women's Twenty20 Challenger Trophy 2018/19 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  9. ↑ "Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy 2022: Teams, squads, fixtures and match timings". First Post. 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy 2022/23". BCCI. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Women's Twenty20 Challenger Trophy 2019/20 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
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