# 2017–18 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

The 2017–18 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy was the eighth edition of the women's List-A tournament in India. It was played from 4 January to 8 January 2018. It was played in a round-robin format, with a final between the top two teams. India Blue won the tournament, their fifth, beating India Green in the final.

## Squads

| India Blue | India Green | India Red |
| Smriti Mandhana (c) Taniya Bhatia (wk) Neena Choudhary Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Dayalan Hemalatha Mona Meshram Challuru Prathyusha Tanusree Sarkar Vellaswamy Vanitha Pooja Vastrakar Radha Yadav Soni Yadav | Anuja Patil (c) Sobhana Asha Ekta Bisht Preeti Bose Monika Das Adila Khanam Shannti Kumari Shikha Pandey Nuzhat Parween (wk) Punam Raut Jemimah Rodrigues Meghna Singh Devika Vaidya | Mithali Raj (c) Nishu Choudhary Manali Dakshini Bharti Fulmali Mansi Joshi Tanuja Kanwar Sukanya Parida Priyanka Priyadarshini Priya Punia Deepti Sharma Neha Tanwar Sushma Verma (wk) Poonam Yadav |

## Standings

| Position | Team | Matches | Won | Lost | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | India Green | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.737 |
| 2 | India Blue | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -0.192 |
| 3 | India Red | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | -0.557 |
The top two teams qualified for the final.

## Group stage

    Source: BCCI
* Match 1 4 January 2018 09:00 IST (03:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Red 199 (49.5 overs) | v | India Blue 200/2(46.1 overs) |
| Mithali Raj 72 (92) Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/23 (10 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 100* (123) Poonam Yadav 1/27 (9.1 overs) |
* India Blue won by 8 wickets Holkar Stadium, Indore Umpires: Belur Ravi and Vinod Seshan
* India Blue won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 2 5 January 2018 09:00 IST (03:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Green 217/6 (50 overs) | v | India Red 219/2 (42.4 overs) |
| Deepti Sharma 76 (113) Anuja Patil 2/42 (10 overs) | | Punam Raut 84* (124) Deepti Sharma 2/47 (9.4 overs) |
* India Green won by 8 wickets Holkar Stadium, Indore Umpires: Vinod Seshan and Krishnamachari Bharatan
* India Green won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 3 6 January 2018 09:00 IST (03:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Blue 232/8 (50 overs) | v | India Green 196/7 (50 overs) |
| Punam Raut 101 (125) Radha Yadav 3/39 (10 overs) | | Mona Meshram 56 (68) Anuja Patil 2/37 (10 overs) |
* India Green won by 36 runs Holkar Stadium, Indore Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Belur Ravi
* India Blue won the toss and elected to field.

## Final

* 8 January 2018 09:00 IST (03:30 GMT) Scorecard
| India Blue 207/9 (50 overs) | v | India Green 174 (45.2 overs) |
| Mona Meshram 63 (90) Sorhana Asha 3/29 (10 overs) | | Punam Raut 88 (120) Challuru Prathyusha 4/23 (6.2 overs) |
* India Blue won by 33 runs Holkar Stadium, Indore Umpires: Belur Ravi and Vinod Seshan Player of the match: Mona Meshram (Blue)
* India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| Punam Raut | India Green | 3 | 3 | 273 | 136.50 | 73.98 | 101* | 1 | 2 |
| Smriti Mandhana | India Blue | 3 | 3 | 195 | 97.50 | 79.26 | 100* | 1 | 1 |
| Jemimah Rodrigues | India Green | 3 | 3 | 179 | 59.67 | 79.91 | 84 | 0 | 2 |
| Mona Meshram | India Blue | 3 | 3 | 163 | 81.50 | 73.75 | 63 | 0 | 2 |
| Mithali Raj | India Red | 2 | 2 | 414 | 60.50 | 86.42 | 72 | 0 | 1 |
| Last Updated: 8 January 2018 ||||||||||

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Ave | Econ | BBI | SR |
| Anuja Patil | India Green | 3 | 3 | 7 | 17.28 | 4.03 | 3/42 | 25.71 |
| Challuru Prathyusha | India Blue | 2 | 2 | 5 | 12.00 | 3.67 | 4/23 | 19.60 |
| Radha Yadav | India Blue | 3 | 3 | 5 | 20.80 | 3.85 | 3/39 | 32.40 |
| Rajeshwari Gayakwad | India Blue | 3 | 3 | 4 | 24.00 | 3.31 | 2/23 | 43.50 |
| Sobhana Asha | India Green | 2 | 2 | 3 | 21.66 | 3.61 | 3/29 | 36.00 |
| Last Updated: 8 January 2018 |||||||||