# 2021–22 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

The 2021–22 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy was the tenth edition of the Senior Women's Challenger Trophy, a women's limited overs competition in India. It took place from 4 to 9 December 2021. The tournament featured four teams, India A, India B, India C and India D, made up of the best players from across India. India A won the tournament, beating India D by three wickets in the final.

## Competition format

The four teams played in a round-robin group, playing each other team once, with the top two advancing to the final. Matches were played using a 50 over format.
The group worked on a points system with positions within the group being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
Win: 4 points. Tie: 2 points. Loss: 0 points. No Result/Abandoned: 2 points.
If points in the final table were equal, teams were separated by their Net Run Rate.

## Squads

| India A | India B | India C | India D |
| Sneh Rana (c) Anusha Bareddy Yastika Bhatia Sushree Dibyadarshini Simran Dil Bahadur Vrinda Dinesh Challa Jhansi Lakshmi Sonal Kalal Disha Kasat Mehak Kesar Shivali Shinde (wk) Renuka Singh Maya Sonawane Ganga Waikhom Lakshmi Yadav (wk) | Taniya Bhatia (c) (wk) Riya Chaudhary (wk) Harleen Deol Sarla Devi Rashi Kanojiya Humeira Kazi Palak Patel Kesava Ramyashri Shubha Satish Meghna Singh Saima Thakoor Soumya Tiwari Anju Tomar Gongadi Trisha Chandu Venkateshappa | Shikha Pandey (c) Arti Devi Priyanka Garkhede Kashvee Gautam Shipra Giri (wk) Dhara Gujjar Muskan Malik Tarannum Pathan Challuru Prathyusha Priya Punia Rizu Saha Aishwarya Singh Anushka Sharma Sweta Verma (wk) Radha Yadav | Pooja Vastrakar (c) Kanika Ahuja Gnanananda Divya Rajeshwari Gayakwad Saika Ishaque Keerthi James Amanjot Kaur Ashwini Kumari Sabbhineni Meghana Sanjula Naik Monica Patel Kumar Prathyoosha (wk) Pooja Raj Indrani Roy (wk) Ayushi Soni |

## Standings

| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| India D (Q) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | +0.720 |
| India A (Q) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.083 |
| India C | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.219 |
| India B | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.422 |
    Source: BCCI

## Fixtures
### Group stage

* 4 December 2021 Scorecard
| India A 234 (50 overs) | v | India B 237/3 (48.5 overs) |
| Yastika Bhatia 81 (81) Chandu Venkateshappa 3/30 (9 overs) | | Palak Patel 79 (124) Simran Dil Bahadur 2/39 (9.5 overs) |
* India B won by 7 wickets ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: Swaroopanand Kannur and Parashar Joshi
* India B won the toss and elected to field.
* 4 December 2021 Scorecard
| India D 251/8 (50 overs) | v | India C 211 (49.2 overs) |
| Sabbhineni Meghana 60 (73) Radha Yadav 3/47 (10 overs) | | Shipra Giri 43 (71) Kanika Ahuja 4/37 (10 overs) |
* India D won by 40 runs ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: Ramesh Kumar and K Raghuram
* India D won the toss and elected to bat.
* 5 December 2021 Scorecard
| India C 205 (47.1 overs) | v | India A 206/5 (46.1 overs) |
| Radha Yadav 82 (98) Sneh Rana 3/32 (8.1 overs) | | Sneh Rana 59 (75) Shikha Pandey 1/26 (9 overs) |
* India A won by 5 wickets ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: Swaroopanand Kannur and Akshay Marathe
* India C won the toss and elected to bat.
* 5 December 2021 Scorecard
| India D 230 (48.5 overs) | v | India B 184 (50 overs) |
| Sabbhineni Meghana 102 (86) Sarla Devi 2/24 (4 overs) | | Harleen Deol 73 (86) Pooja Vastrakar 3/37 (10 overs) |
* India D won by 46 runs ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: Ramesh Kumar and MM Srinivasarangan
* India B won the toss and elected to field.
* 7 December 2021 Scorecard
| India D 219/7 (50 overs) | v | India A 197/7 (50 overs) |
| Pooja Vastrakar 96 (96) Renuka Singh 3/47 (10 overs) | | Disha Kasat 51 (73) Saika Ishaque 2/31 (10 overs) |
* India D won by 22 runs ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: Akshay Marathe and Parashar Joshi
* India A won the toss and elected to field.
* 7 December 2021 Scorecard
| India C 212 (48.2 overs) | v | India B 187/8 (50 overs) |
| Anushka Sharma 63 (91) Chandu Venkateshappa 5/40 (10 overs) | | Harleen Deol 46 (69) Tarannum Pathan 4/39 (10 overs) |
* India C won by 25 runs ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: K Raghuram and MM Srinivasarangan
* India B won the toss and elected to field.

### Final

* 9 December 2021 Scorecard
| India D 219/8 (50 overs) | v | India A 224/7 (45.4 overs) |
| Amanjot Kaur 55* (74) Disha Kasat 3/39 (8 overs) | | Yastika Bhatia 86 (102) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 4/36 (10 overs) |
* India A won by 3 wickets ACA–KDCA Cricket Ground, Mulapadu Umpires: Swaroopanand Kannur and Ramesh Kumar
* India A won the toss and elected to field.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
| Sabbhineni Meghana | India D | 4 | 4 | 207 | 51.75 | 102 | 1 | 1 |
| Yastika Bhatia | India A | 4 | 4 | 199 | 49.75 | 86 | 0 | 2 |
| Harleen Deol | India B | 3 | 3 | 181 | 60.33 | 73 | 0 | 2 |
| Pooja Vastrakar | India D | 4 | 4 | 161 | 53.67 | 96 | 0 | 2 |
| Disha Kasat | India A | 4 | 4 | 153 | 38.25 | 53 | 0 | 2 |
Source: BCCI

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 5w |
| Chandu Venkateshappa | India B | 27.5 | 10 | 11.00 | 5/40 | 1 |
| Kanika Ahuja | India D | 36.0 | 8 | 18.62 | 4/37 | 0 |
| Rajeshwari Gayakwad | India D | 36.2 | 7 | 16.14 | 4/36 | 0 |
| Tarannum Pathan | India C | 25.0 | 7 | 19.28 | 4/39 | 0 |
| Simran Dil Bahadur | India A | 33.5 | 7 | 19.85 | 3/37 | 0 |
Source: BCCI