2017–18 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

2017–18 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy
Dates	4 January 2018 – 8 January 2018
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and final
Champions	India Blue (5th title)
Runners-up	India Green
Participants	3
Matches	4
Most runs	Punam Raut (273) ; (India Green)
Most wickets	Anuja Patil (7) ; (India Green)
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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.^[1] 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^[2]	India Green^[2]	India Red^[2]
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	Pts	NRR
1	India Green	2	2	0	8	+0.737
2	India Blue	2	1	1	4	-0.192
3	India Red	2	0	2	0	-0.557

The top two teams qualified for the final.^[3]

Group stage

Source: BCCI^[4]

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

References

^ "Senior women's challenger trophy". bcci.tv. 1 October 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Squads for Senior Women's Challenger Trophy announced". Retrieved 27 December 2016.
^ "Standings". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
^ "Summary". Retrieved 30 December 2017.

[1] "Senior women's challenger trophy". bcci.tv. 1 October 2017.

[Squads-2] "Squads for Senior Women's Challenger Trophy announced". Retrieved 27 December 2016.

[3] "Standings". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Archived from the original on 17 January 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2018.

[4] "Summary". Retrieved 30 December 2017.

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