# 2009–10 Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy

The 2009–10 Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy was the inaugural season of India's Women's T20 Challenger Trophy. Three teams made up of the best players in India competed in a round-robin group, with the top two advancing to the final. India Green beat India Blue in the final by 24 runs to win the tournament. All matches were held at the Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad across four days in January 2010. The tournament is the Twenty20 equivalent of the Senior Women's Challenger Trophy, and was not played again until the 2018–19 season.

## Competition format

The three 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 Twenty20 format.
The group worked on a points system with positions with 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 are equal, teams are separated by most wins, then head-to-head record, and then by Net Run Rate.

## Squads

| India Blue | India Green | India Red |
| Reema Malhotra (c) Kathakali Banerjee Ekta Bisht Varsha Choudhary Anagha Deshpande (wk) Shweta Jadhav Veda Krishnamurthy Latika Kumari Snehal Pradhan Mithali Raj Sapna Randhawa Lalita Sharma | Jhulan Goswami (c) Nishu Choudhary Soniya Dabir Harmanpreet Kaur Sulakshana Naik (wk) Payal Panchal Shikha Pandey Punam Raut Asha Rawat Priyanka Roy Pooja Sharma Gouher Sultana | Amita Sharma (c) Anjum Chopra Diana David Rumeli Dhar Thirush Kamini Mamatha Kanojia Samantha Lobatto (wk) Neha Maji Babita Mandlik Niranjana Nagarajan Neha Tanwar |

## Standings

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| India Blue (Q) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.177 |
| India Green (Q) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.079 |
| India Red | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.106 |
    Source: ESPNcricinfo

## Group stage

* Match 1 2 January 2010 Scorecard
| India Blue 117/4 (20 overs) | v | India Red 119/5 (19.2 overs) |
| Anagha Deshpande 48 (50) Neha Maji 1/28 (4 overs) | | Anjum Chopra 34* (39) Snehal Pradhan 1/14 (4 overs) |
* India Red won by 5 wickets Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Sumit Bansal and Yeshwant Barde
* India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.
* Points: India Red 4, India Blue 0.
* Match 2 3 January 2010 Scorecard
| India Red 121/6 (20 overs) | v | India Green 122/3 (18.3 overs) |
| Thirush Kamini 46 (48) Jhulan Goswami 3/13 (4 overs) | | Sulakshana Naik 66* (58) Diana David 2/20 (4 overs) |
* India Green won by 7 wickets Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Sumit Bansal and Yeshwant Barde
* India Green won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: India Green 4, India Red 0.
* Match 3 4 January 2010 Scorecard
| India Green 109/6 (20 overs) | v | India Blue 110/3 (18 overs) |
| Sulakshana Naik 36 (42) Nishu Choudhary 1/9 (1 over) | | Reema Malhotra 31* (23) Soniya Dabir 1/13 (4 overs) |
* India Blue won by 7 wickets Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Belur Ravi and Viswanath
* India Blue won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: India Blue 4, India Green 0.

## Final

* 5 January 2010 Scorecard
| India Green 125/9 (20 overs) | v | India Blue 101/7 (20 overs) |
| Punam Raut 42 (45) Reema Malhotra 2/19 (4 overs) | | Varsha Choudhary 28 (30) Jhulan Goswami 2/7 (4 overs) |
* India Green won by 24 runs Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Belur Ravi and Viswanath
* India Blue won the toss and elected to field.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
| Mithali Raj | India Blue | 3 | 3 | 74 | 37.00 | 41 | 0 | 0 |
| Anagha Deshpande | India Blue | 3 | 3 | 70 | 23.33 | 48 | 0 | 0 |
| Punam Raut | India Green | 2 | 2 | 62 | 31.00 | 42 | 0 | 0 |
| Reema Malhotra | India Green | 3 | 3 | 46 | 46.00 | 31* | 0 | 0 |
| Sulakshana Naik | India Green | 2 | 2 | 42 | 21.00 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
Source: ESPNcricinfo

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 5w |
| Soniya Dabir | India Green | 8.0 | 3 | 8.66 | 2/13 | 0 |
| Ekta Bisht | India Blue | 12.0 | 3 | 21.66 | 1/17 | 0 |
| Jhulan Goswami | India Green | 7.0 | 2 | 13.50 | 2/7 | 0 |
| Snehal Pradhan | India Blue | 12.0 | 2 | 27.50 | 1/14 | 0 |
| Reema Malhotra | India Blue | 10.2 | 2 | 29.50 | 2/19 | 0 |
Source: ESPNcricinfo