# 2019 Women's T20 Challenge

The 2019 Women's T20 Challenge was the second season of the Women's T20 Challenge, a Twenty20 cricket tournament established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2018. Unlike previous year, this year it was a three team tournament instead of a one-off match, featuring a new team called IPL Velocity. It was held from 6 to 11 May 2019 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, coinciding with the 2019 IPL's playoffs. IPL Supernovas won their second title, by beating IPL Velocity in final by 4 wickets.
The season was viewed by 71 million unique viewers in India, and recorded 2.20 billion minutes in viewership in India.

## Squads

| IPL Supernovas | IPL Trailblazers | IPL Velocity |
| Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Anuja Patil Arundhati Reddy Chamari Atapattu Jemimah Rodrigues Lea Tahuhu Mansi Joshi Natalie Sciver Poonam Yadav Priya Punia Radha Yadav Sophie Devine Taniya Bhatia | Smriti Mandhana (c) Bharati Fulmali Dayalan Hemalatha Deepti Sharma Harleen Deol Jasia Akhtar Jhulan Goswami Ravi Kalpana Rajeshwari Gayakwad Shakera Selman Sophie Ecclestone Stafanie Taylor Suzie Bates | Mithali Raj (c) Amelia Kerr Danielle Wyatt Devika Vaidya Ekta Bisht Hayley Matthews Jahanara Alam Komal Zanzad Shafali Verma Shikha Pandey Sushma Verma Sushree Dibyadarshini Veda Krishnamurthy |

## Points table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | IPL Supernovas | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.250 |
| 2 | IPL Velocity | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0.045 |
| 3 | IPL Trailblazers | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | −0.305 |
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## Round-robin

* 6 May 2019 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| IPL Trailblazers 140/5 (20 overs) | v | IPL Supernovas 138/6 (20 overs) |
| Smriti Mandhana 90 (67) Radha Yadav 2/28 (4 overs) | | Harmanpreet Kaur 46* (34) Sophie Ecclestone 2/11 (4 overs) |
* Trailblazers won by 2 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Nitin Pandit and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (IPL Trailblazers)
* IPL Supernovas won the toss and elected to field.
* 8 May 2019 15:30 Scorecard
| IPL Trailblazers 112/6 (20 overs) | v | IPL Velocity 113/7 (18 overs) |
| Harleen Deol 43 (40) Ekta Bisht 2/13 (4 overs) | | Danielle Wyatt 46 (35) Deepti Sharma 4/14 (4 overs) |
* Velocity won by 3 wickets Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Nitin Pandit Player of the match: Danielle Wyatt (IPL Velocity)
* IPL Velocity won the toss and elected to field.
* 9 May 2019 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| IPL Supernovas 142/3 (20 overs) | v | IPL Velocity 130/3 (20 overs) |
| Jemimah Rodrigues 77* (48) Amelia Kerr 2/21 (4 overs) | | Danielle Wyatt 43 (33) Poonam Yadav 1/13 (4 overs) |
* Supernovas won by 12 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Saiyed Khalid Player of the match: Jemimah Rodrigues (IPL Supernovas)
* IPL Velocity won the toss and elected to field.

## Final

* 11 May 2019 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard
| IPL Velocity 121/6 (20 overs) | v | IPL Supernovas 125/6 (20 overs) |
| Sushma Verma 40* (32) Lea Tahuhu 2/21 (4 overs) | | Harmanpreet Kaur 51 (37) Jahanara Alam 2/21 (4 overs) |
* Supernovas won by 4 wickets Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Harmanpreet Kaur (IPL Supernovas)
* IPL Supernovas won the toss and elected to field.
* IPL Supernovas won the 2019 Women's T20 Challenge.