The Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy is a

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T20 tournament held in

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. The tournament first took place in the 2009–10 season, as the T20 equivalent to the

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Senior Women's Challenger Trophy. The participating teams were the same as in the List A tournament: India Blue,

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and

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, with India Green emerging victorious in the final. 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. 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. The tournament returned in

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, now with four teams competing, and was won by the new team, India D.

Competition format

Matches in the tournament are played using a

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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. In

, the tournament changed back to a round-robin format, but with one extra team, meaning the number of overall matches stayed the same. Teams are awarded 4 points for a win, with most wins being the first tiebreaker if teams are joint on points.

Tournament results

References

{{Senior Women's Challenger Trophy Women's Senior T20 Challenger Trophy Indian domestic cricket competitions 2010 establishments in India Twenty20 cricket leagues