Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

For the Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy, see Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy.

The Senior Women's Challenger Trophy is an Indian women's one-day cricket tournament. It is the women's version of NKP Salve Challenger Trophy. Established in the 2008–09 season, it is played with the purpose of showcasing the talent that the country has, as well as providing opportunities for younger players to make an impression. India Blue have won the tournament five times. The current champions are India A, who won the 2021–22 edition.

Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

Countries	India
Administrator	BCCI
Format	50 over
First edition	2008–09
Latest edition	2021–22
Tournament format	Round-robin and Finals
Number of teams	4
Current champion	India A (1st title)
Most successful	India Blue (5 titles)
TV	Star Sports
Website	www.bcci.tv

Teams

India A, India B and India Senior were the three teams that battled it out in the inaugural edition of the Challenger Trophy, in 2008–09 season. The following year the teams were renamed to India Blue, India Green and India Red.^[1] Between the 2012–13 season and the 2016–17 season, India Green were exclusively an Under-19 team.^[2] For the 2021–22 tournament, four teams competed, named India A, India B, India C and India D.^[3]

Tournament results

Season	Final			Final venue	Ref
	Winner	Result	Runner-up
2008–09	India B 123/4 (32.5 overs)	India B won by 6 wickets Scorecard	India A 122 (48.1 overs)	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	[4]
2010–11	India Blue 193/3 (47.4 overs)	India Blue won by 7 wickets Scorecard	India Green 7/192/4 (50 overs)	Dr. Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam	[5]
2011–12	India Red 179/8 (50 overs)	India Red won by 41 runs Scorecard	India Blue 138 (43.1 overs)	Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara	[6]
2012–13	India Blue 225/5 (50 overs)	India Blue won by 60 runs Scorecard	India Red 165 (48.2 overs)	Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai	[7]
2013–14	India Blue 186/2 (46.2 overs)	India Blue won by 8 wickets Scorecard	India Red 183/5 (50 overs)	Heavy Engineering Corporation International Cricket Stadium Complex, Ranchi	[8]
2015	India Blue 180 (49.5 overs)	India Blue won by 18 runs Scorecard	India Red 162 (48.1 overs)	Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground, Mysore	[9]
2016–17	India Red 131/3 (30.4 overs)	India Red won by 7 wickets Scorecard	India Blue 129/9 (50 overs)	Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara	[10]
2017–18	India Blue 207/9 (50 overs)	India Blue won by 33 runs Scorecard	India Green 174 (45.2 overs)	Holkar Stadium, Indore	[11]
2018–19	India Red 183 (49.2 overs)	India Red won by 15 runs Scorecard	India Blue 168 (47.2 overs)	Devineni Venkata Ramana Praneetha Ground, Mulapadu	[12]
2019–20	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[13]
2021–22	India A 224/7 (45.4 overs)	India A won by 3 wickets Scorecard	India D 219/8 (50 overs)	Devineni Venkata Ramana Praneetha Ground, Mulapadu	[3]

References

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