2019 Women's T20 Challenge

The 2019 Women's T20 Challenge was the second season of the Women's T20 Challenge, a Twenty20 cricket tournament established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2018.^[1] Unlike previous year, this year it was a three team tournament instead of a one-off match, featuring a new team called IPL Velocity.^[2] It was held from 6 to 11 May 2019 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur, coinciding with the 2019 IPL's playoffs. IPL Supernovas won their second title, by beating IPL Velocity in final by 4 wickets.^[3]

2019 Women's T20 Challenge

Dates	6 – 11 May 2019
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and final
Host(s)	India
Champions	IPL Supernovas (2nd title)
Runners-up	IPL Velocity
Participants	3
Matches	4
Player of the series	Jemimah Rodrigues (Supernovas)
Most runs	Jemimah Rodrigues (Supernovas) (123)
Most wickets	Amelia Kerr (Velocity) (6)
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The season was viewed by 71 million unique viewers in India, and recorded 2.20 billion minutes in viewership in India.^[4]

Squads

IPL Supernovas[5]	IPL Trailblazers[5]	IPL Velocity[5]
Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Anuja Patil Arundhati Reddy Chamari Atapattu Jemimah Rodrigues Lea Tahuhu Mansi Joshi Natalie Sciver Poonam Yadav Priya Punia Radha Yadav Sophie Devine Taniya Bhatia	Smriti Mandhana (c) Bharati Fulmali Dayalan Hemalatha Deepti Sharma Harleen Deol Jasia Akhtar Jhulan Goswami Ravi Kalpana Rajeshwari Gayakwad Shakera Selman Sophie Ecclestone Stafanie Taylor Suzie Bates	Mithali Raj (c) Amelia Kerr Danielle Wyatt Devika Vaidya Ekta Bisht Hayley Matthews Jahanara Alam Komal Zanzad Shafali Verma Shikha Pandey Sushma Verma Sushree Dibyadarshini Veda Krishnamurthy

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	IPL Supernovas	2	1	1	0	2	0.250
2	IPL Velocity	2	1	1	0	2	0.045
3	IPL Trailblazers	2	1	1	0	2	−0.305

Source: ^[6]

  Advanced to final

Round-robin

6 May 2019 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard

IPL Trailblazers 140/5 (20 overs)	v	IPL Supernovas 138/6 (20 overs)
Smriti Mandhana 90 (67) Radha Yadav 2/28 (4 overs)		Harmanpreet Kaur 46* (34) Sophie Ecclestone 2/11 (4 overs)

Trailblazers won by 2 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Nitin Pandit and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Smriti Mandhana (IPL Trailblazers)

• IPL Supernovas won the toss and elected to field.

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8 May 2019 15:30 Scorecard

IPL Trailblazers 112/6 (20 overs)	v	IPL Velocity 113/7 (18 overs)
Harleen Deol 43 (40) Ekta Bisht 2/13 (4 overs)		Danielle Wyatt 46 (35) Deepti Sharma 4/14 (4 overs)

Velocity won by 3 wickets Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Nitin Pandit Player of the match: Danielle Wyatt (IPL Velocity)

• IPL Velocity won the toss and elected to field.

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9 May 2019 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard

IPL Supernovas 142/3 (20 overs)	v	IPL Velocity 130/3 (20 overs)
Jemimah Rodrigues 77* (48) Amelia Kerr 2/21 (4 overs)		Danielle Wyatt 43 (33) Poonam Yadav 1/13 (4 overs)

Supernovas won by 12 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Saiyed Khalid Player of the match: Jemimah Rodrigues (IPL Supernovas)

• IPL Velocity won the toss and elected to field.

Final

11 May 2019 19:30 (D/N) Scorecard

IPL Velocity 121/6 (20 overs)	v	IPL Supernovas 125/6 (20 overs)
Sushma Verma 40* (32) Lea Tahuhu 2/21 (4 overs)		Harmanpreet Kaur 51 (37) Jahanara Alam 2/21 (4 overs)

Supernovas won by 4 wickets Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Harmanpreet Kaur (IPL Supernovas)

• IPL Supernovas won the toss and elected to field.
• IPL Supernovas won the 2019 Women's T20 Challenge.