# 2016–17 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

The 2016–17 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy was the seventh edition of the women's List-A tournament in India. It was played from 22 October to 25 October 2016. It was played in a round-robin format, with a final between the top two teams. India Red won the tournament, beating India Blue in the final by 7 wickets.

## Squads

| India Blue | India Green | India Red |
| Mithali Raj (c) Madhusmita Behera Preeti Bose Mansi Joshi Veda Krishnamurthy Mona Meshram Shikha Pandey Anuja Patil Kavita Patil Punam Raut Sushma Verma (wk) Poonam Yadav | Deepti Sharma (c) Neeragattu Anusha Manali Dakshine Suman Gulia Disha Kasat Sanjula Naik Ellutla Padmaja Yashi Pandey Nuzhat Parween (wk) Challuru Prathyusha Jemimah Rodrigues Tanusree Sarkar Radha Yadav | Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Ekta Bisht Rajeshwari Gayakwad Jhulan Goswami Dayalan Hemalatha Ravi Kalpana (wk) Mandeep Kaur Smriti Mandhana Sabbhineni Meghana Niranjana Nagarajan Sukanya Parida Devika Vaidya Vellaswamy Vanitha |

## Standings

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| India Blue (Q) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +0.240 |
| India Red (Q) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.280 |
| India Green | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –0.460 |
    Source: CricketArchive

## Group stage

* 22 October 2016 Scorecard
| India Red 183/9 (50 overs) | v | India Blue 184/9 (49.2 overs) |
| Smriti Mandhana 67 (83) Poonam Yadav 4/38 (10 overs) | | Veda Krishnamurthy 87 (87) Ekta Bisht 2/37 (10 overs) |
* India Blue won by 1 wicket Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Kittur Ramesh Nagaraj and Abhiroope Sud Player of the match: Veda Krishnamurthy (Blue)
* India Blue won the toss and elected to field.
* 23 October 2016 Scorecard
| India Green 152/8 (50 overs) | v | India Red 154/4 (42 overs) |
| Deepti Sharma 41 (92) Jhulan Goswami 2/25 (10 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 63 (86) Deepti Sharma 1/15 (10 overs) |
* India Red won by 6 wickets Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Kittur Ramesh Nagaraj and Abhiroope Sud Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Red)
* India Red won the toss and elected to field.
* 24 October 2016 Scorecard
| India Blue 111 (45.1 overs) | v | India Green 90 (43.2 overs) |
| Shikha Pandey 37 (54) Tanusree Sarkar 3/7 (4.1 overs) | | Neeragattu Anusha 21 (28) Madhusmita Behera 3/13 (4.3 overs) |
* India Blue won by 21 runs Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Kittur Ramesh Nagaraj and Abhiroope Sud Player of the match: Shikha Pandey (Blue)
* India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.

## Final

* 25 October 2016 Scorecard
| India Blue 129/9 (50 overs) | v | India Red 131/3 (30.4 overs) |
| Sushma Verma 35* (63) Sukanya Parida 2/13 (5 overs) | | Smriti Mandhana 62 (82) Preeti Bose 2/24 (8 overs) |
* India Red won by 7 wickets Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Kittur Ramesh Nagaraj and Abhiroope Sud Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (Red)
* India Red won the toss and elected to field.

## Overview

The Mithali Raj-led India Blue had won both their league matches to book a place in the finals while India Red had only beaten India Green in the run up to the finals. With a seven-wicket win against India Blue in the final, India Red lifted the Women's Challenger Trophy 2016–17. Smriti Mandhana led the 130-run chase in the one-day game with an unbeaten 62-run knock after the Jhulan Goswami-led attack had restricted the opposition to a sub-par score.