# 2018–19 Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy

The 2018–19 Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy was the second edition of the women's T20 tournament in India, and the first time the tournament had been played since 2009–10. It was played from 14 August to 21 August 2018. The participating teams were India Blue, India Green and India Red. It was played in double round-robin format followed by a final. India Blue defeated India Red by 4 runs in the final to win their first T20 title.

## Squads

| India Blue | India Green | India Red |
| Mithali Raj (c) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Preeti Bose Suman Gulia Dayalan Hemalatha Keerthy James Mansi Joshi Anuja Patil Neha Tanwar Saima Thakor Vellaswamy Vanitha Poonam Yadav Radha Yadav | Veda Krishnamurthy (c) Krutika Chaudhari Monika Das Sushree Dibyadarshini Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Fatima Jaffer Sukanya Parida Challuru Prathyusha Priya Punia Arundhati Reddy Jemimah Rodrigues Sajeevan Sajana Devika Vaidya Sushma Verma (wk) | Deepti Sharma (c) Ekta Bisht Harleen Deol Reemalaxmi Ekka Tanuja Kanwar Disha Kasat Shannti Kumari Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Nuzhat Parween (wk) Punam Raut Tanusree Sarkar Aditi Sharma |
Fatima Jaffer was replaced by Krutika Chaudhari due to injury.

## Standings

| Position | Team | Matches | Won | Lost | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | India Red | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 12 | +0.750 |
| 2 | India Blue | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | +0.654 |
| 3 | India Green | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | −1.468 |
The top two teams qualified for the finals.
Last updated: 18 August 2018

## Group stage

* Match 1 14 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Blue 100/8 (20 overs) | v | India Red 79/3 (16.3 overs) |
| Mithali Raj 51 (51) Deepti Sharma 2/15 (4 overs) | | Deepti Sharma 45* (44) Mansi Joshi 1/11 (2.3 overs) |
* India Red won by 7 runs (VJD Method) KSCA Cricket Ground (3), Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Red the toss and elected to field.
* Rain interrupted India Red innings at 16.3 overs with no further play possible.
* Match 2 15 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Blue 82/5 (17 overs) | v | India Green 84/3 (15.5 overs) |
| Vellaswamy Vanitha 35 (39) Arundhati Reddy 2/13 (4 overs) | | Priya Punia 47* (51) Anuja Patil 1/8 (4 overs) |
* India Green won by 7 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground (3), Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Green the toss and elected to field.
* Rain interrupted India Blue innings at 4.3 overs and both innings reduced to 17 overs
* Match 3 16 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Red 114/8 (20 overs) | v | India Green 106 (19.4 overs) |
| Mona Meshram 33 (36) Sushree Dibyadarshini 4/19 (4 overs) | | Veda Krishnamurthy 27 (25) Shikha Pandey 2/11 (3 overs) |
* India Red won by 8 runs KSCA Cricket Ground (3), Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Green the toss and elected to field.
* Match 4 17 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Red 84/7 (20 overs) | v | India Blue 86/2 (17.4 overs) |
| Punam Raut 28 (44) Dayalan Hemalatha 2/11 (3 overs) | | Vellaswamy Vanitha 51* (45) Shikha Pandey 1/11 (3 overs) |
* India Blue won by 8 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Blue the toss and elected to field.
* Match 5 18 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Green 46 (19.4 overs) | v | India Blue 47/2 (9.5 overs) |
| Challuru Prathyusha 18 (36) Preeti Bose 3/1 (1.4 overs) | | Taniya Bhatia 29* (27) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/15 (4 overs) |
* India Blue won by 8 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground (3), Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Blue the toss and elected to field.
* Match 6 19 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Green 51 (18.4 overs) | v | India Red 52/1 (9.2 overs) |
| Challuru Prathyusha 14 (26) Reemalaxmi Ekka 3/21 (4 overs) | | Punam Raut 26* (25) |
* India Red won by 9 wickets KSCA Cricket Ground (2), Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Green the toss and elected to bat.

## Final

* 21 August 2018 10:00 IST (04:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Blue 131/7 (20 overs) | v | India Red 127/7 (20 overs) |
| Dayalan Hemalatha 48 (56) Shikha Pandey 2/16 (4 overs) | | Punam Raut 52 (51) Poonam Yadav 3/25 (4 overs) |
* India Blue won by 4 runs KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur, Bengaluru Umpires: Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind)
* India Red the toss and elected to field.
* India Blue won the Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Punam Raut | India Red | 5 | 5 | 135 | 33.75 | 81.81 | 52 | 0 | 1 |
| Vellaswamy Vanitha | India Blue | 5 | 5 | 128 | 25.6 | 102.4 | 51 | 0 | 1 |
| Deepti Sharma | India Red | 5 | 5 | 124 | 31 | 107.82 | 45* | 0 | 0 |
| Last updated: 21 August 2018 ||||||||||

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR |
| Anuja Patil | India Blue | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3.36 | 3/4 | 14.25 |
| Shikha Pandey | India Red | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9.28 | 3.61 | 2/4 | 15.42 |
| Poonam Yadav | India Blue | 5 | 5 | 6 | 12.66 | 4.26 | 3/25 | 17.83 |
| Last updated: 21 August 2018 |||||||||