Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy

For the Senior Women's One Day Challenger Trophy, see Senior Women's Challenger Trophy.

The Senior Women's 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]

Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy

Countries	India
Administrator	BCCI
Format	Twenty20
First edition	2009–10
Latest edition	2022–23
Tournament format	Round-robin and final
Number of teams	4
Current champion	India D (1st title)
Most successful	India Green (1 title) India Blue (1 title) India C (1 title) India D (1 title)

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. "Senior Women's 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. "Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy 2022/23". BCCI. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
11. "Women's Twenty20 Challenger Trophy 2019/20 Table". CricketArchive. Retrieved 5 August 2021.