2023–24 Senior Women's Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy

2023–24 Senior Women's Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy was the fifth season of the Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy, a women's first-class cricket competition played in India.^[1] It took place from 28 March to 11 April 2024.^[2] The tournament featured six zonal teams – Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, North East Zone, South Zone and West Zone.^[3] The fixtures were hosted by the Maharashtra Cricket Association at Pune.^[4] The tournament saw the teams competing in five knockout games including the final, with each match lasting a maximum of three days.^[5] It was the first women's domestic red-ball competition in India since 2018.^[6] North Zone were the defending champions. East Zone were crowned as the champions after beating South Zone by one wicket in the final.^[7]

2023–24 Senior Women's Cricket Inter Zonal Multi-Day Trophy

Dates	28 March – 11 April 2024
Administrator(s)	Board of Control for Cricket in India
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Host(s)	India
Champions	East Zone (1st title)
Runners-up	South Zone
Participants	6
Matches	5
Player of the series	Deepti Sharma (East Zone)
Most runs	Punam Raut (258) (Central Zone)
Most wickets	Deepti Sharma (27) (East Zone)
← 2017–18

Format

Unlike the previous four seasons in which the five participating teams played against each other team once in the round-robin and the table topper was crowned the winner, the 2023-24 season was in a single-elimination format. After a drawing of lots, North Zone and South Zone were immediately placed in the semi-finals. East Zone faced North East Zone and West Zone faced Central Zone in the quarter-finals. ^[5]

In case of a draw, the team with the lead in the first innings would proceed to the next round, as West Zone's first innings lead in the quarter-finals and South Zone's first innings lead in the semi-finals took them to the semi-finals and the final respectively. ^[8]

Fixtures

Quarter-finals

28–30 March 2024 Scorecard

East Zone	v	North East Zone
385/8d (100 overs) Dhara Gujjar 140 (216) Debasmita Dutta 5/76 (32 overs)		108 (34.3 overs) Prodhan Samayita 40 (72) Deepti Sharma 5/9 (7 overs)
		157 (75.3 overs) (f/o) Ningthoujam Devi 39 (84) Suravi Roy 2/0 (1.3 overs)

East Zone won by an innings and 120 runs Pune Club Ground, Pune Umpires: Ritika Buley and Kaushik Gandhi

• East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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28–30 March 2024 Scorecard

Central Zone	v	West Zone
245 (87.3 overs) Punam Raut 84 (209) Anuja Patil 5/75 (27.3 overs)		356 (76.2 overs) Anuja Patil 122 (120) Poonam Yadav 7/116 (25 overs)
307/4d (92 overs) Punam Raut 174 (281) Radha Yadav 2/69 (25 overs)

Match drawn DY Patil Academy, Ambi Umpires: Ankita Guha and Anoop Pai

• Central Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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Semi-finals

3–5 April 2024 Scorecard

East Zone	v	North Zone
132 (71.4 overs) Monika Das 29 (75) Shafali Verma 2/4 (5.4 overs)		144 (41.3 overs) Shafali Verma 58 (88) Mamta Paswan 5/53 (18 overs)
282/9d (80 overs) Dhara Gujjar 58 (131) Mannat Kashyap 4/72 (16 overs)		135 (48.2 overs) Shafali Verma 49 (66) Deepti Sharma 6/49 (20 overs)

East Zone won by 135 runs Pune Club Ground, Pune Umpires: Nikhil Patil and Rohan Shrivastava

• East Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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3–5 April 2024 Scorecard

South Zone	v	West Zone
289 (94.5 overs) Arundhati Reddy 85 (166) Radha Yadav 4/72 (21.5 overs)		230 (70.5 overs) Yastika Bhatia 67 (127) Minnu Mani 6/73 (23.5 overs)
262/5 (101 overs) Tamanna Nigam 99 (200) Shradda Pokharkar 2/23 (12 overs)

Match drawn DY Patil Academy, Ambi Umpires: HD Rawle and Tanmay Srivastava

• South Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

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Final

9–11 April 2024 Scorecard

South Zone	v	East Zone
133 (54.5 overs) Arundhati Reddy 57 (122) Deepti Sharma 4/28 (14.5 overs)		129 (43.4 overs) Richa Ghosh 25 (43) Minnu Mani 5/47 (15.4 overs)
179 (70.5 overs) Miriyala Durga 64 (130) Deepti Sharma 6/61 (25.5 overs)		184/9 (61.3 overs) Deepti Sharma 46 (92) Sahana Pawar 3/44 (17 overs)

East Zone won by 1 wickets Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune Umpires: Narayanan Janani and Gayathri Venugopalan

• South Zone won the toss and elected to bat.

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Matches	Innings	Runs	Average	HS	100s	50s
Punam Raut	Central Zone	1	2	258	129.00	174	1	1
Dhara Gujjar	East Zone	3	5	236	47.20	140	1	1
Tamanna Nigam	South Zone	2	4	190	47.50	99	0	2
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

Player	Team	Overs	Wickets	Average	5w	BBI
Deepti Sharma	East Zone	94.1	27	7.29	3	6/49
Minnu Mani	South Zone	61	14	13.21	2	6/73
Radha Yadav	West Zone	90.5	9	28.77	0	4/72
Source: ESPNcricinfo