| Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy | |
| Country: | India |
| Administrator: | BCCI |
| Cricket Format: | Twenty20 |
| Last: | 2022–23 |
| Tournament Format: | Round-robin and final |
| Participants: | 4 |
| Champions: | India D (1st title) |
| Most Successful: | India Green (1 title) India Blue (1 title) India C (1 title) India D (1 title) |
The Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy is a women's T20 tournament held in India. The tournament first took place in the 2009–10 season, as the T20 equivalent to the List A Senior Women's Challenger Trophy. The participating teams were the same as in the List A tournament: India Blue, India Green and India Red, with India Green emerging victorious in the final.[1] The tournament later returned in the 2018–19 season, with India Blue winning their first title, defeating India Red by 4 runs in the final.[2] [3] [4] In the third edition of the tournament in 2019–20, the teams competing were named India A, India B and India C, with India C winning the final by 8 wickets over India B.[5] The tournament returned in 2022–23, now with four teams competing, and was won by the new team, India D.[6]
Matches in the tournament are played using a Twenty20 format. In the first season, the three teams played each other once in a round-robin format, with the top two in the group advancing to the final to play-off for the title. In the next two seasons, the tournament expanded to a double round-robin format, with teams playing each twice in the initial group stage before the top two advanced to the final.[7] [8] In 2022–23, the tournament changed back to a round-robin format, but with one extra team, meaning the number of overall matches stayed the same.[9]
Teams are awarded 4 points for a win, with most wins being the first tiebreaker if teams are joint on points.[10] [11]
| Season | Final | Final venue | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Result | Runner-up | |||
| 2009–10 | India Green 125/9 (20 overs) | India Green won by 24 runsScorecard | India Blue 101/7 (20 overs) | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | |
| 2018–19 | India Blue 131/7 (20 overs) | India Blue won by 4 RunsScorecard | India Red 127/7 (20 overs) | KSCA Cricket Ground (3), Alur, Bangalore | |
| 2019–20 | India C 135/2 (15.2 overs) | India C won by 8 wicketsScorecard | India B 131/6 (20 overs) | Barabati Stadium, Cuttack | |
| 2022–23 | India D 148/3 (19 overs) | India D won by 7 wicketsScorecard | India A 144/5 (20 overs) | Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium, Naya Raipur | |