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.

2016–17 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy

Dates	22 October 2016 (2016-10-22) – 25 October 2016
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	50 over
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and final
Host(s)	BCA
Champions	India Red (2nd title)
Runners-up	India Blue
Participants	3
Matches	4
Most runs	Smriti Mandhana (192) (India Red)
Most wickets	Poonam Yadav (6) (India Blue)

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.