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BCCI Announces Squads For Women's T20 Challenge To Be Played From 4th November To 9th November In The UAE Cricket
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BCCI Announces Squads For Women's T20 Challenge To Be Played From 4th November To 9th November In The UAE

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Sunday (October 11), has announced the squads for the women's T20 challenge that will be played from 4th November to 9th November during the playoffs of men's IPL in the UAE.## Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana, and Mithali Raj have been named the captains of Supernovas, Trailblazers and Velocity respectively. The three teams will compete in the upcoming Women's T20 Challenge. Each team will play two games with the top 2 to face in the final on 9th November. ## The best of Indian women's cricket will combine with some of the leading stars from England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh, and New Zealand in a four-match tournament.## Thailand's Natthakan Chantham, who scored her country's first Women's T20 World Cup half-century, adds another feather to her cap as she will become the first Thai cricketer to feature in the tournament.## The 2020 Women's T20 Challenge will begin with last year's finalist Supernovas taking on Velocity in the opening game. The complete schedule is as below.## Match No.DateTeamsTime (IST) 1. 4 November Supernovas vs Velocity 7:30 PM 2. 5 November Velocity vs Trailblazers 3:30 PM 3. 7 November Trailblazers vs Supernovas 7:30 PM 4. 9 November Final 7:30 PM ## Here are the complete squads - ## Supernovas - Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Jemimah Rodrigues (VC), Chamari Atapattu, Priya Punia, Anuja Patil, Radha Yadav, Taniya Bhatia (WK), Shashikala Siriwardene, Poonam Yadav, Shakera Selman, Arundhati Reddy, Pooja Vastrakar, Ayushi Soni, Ayabonga Khaka, and Muskan Malik## Trailblazers - Smriti Mandhana (C), Deepti Sharma (VC), Punam Raut, Richa Ghosh, D. Hemalatha, Nuzhat Parween (WK), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Harleen Deol, Jhulan Goswami, Simran Dil Bahadur, Salma Khatun, Sophie Ecclestone, Natthakan Chantham, Deandra Dottin, and Kashvee Gautam## Velocity - Mithali Raj (C), Veda Krishnamurthy (VC), Shafali Verma, Sushma Verma (WK), Ekta Bisht, Mansi Joshi, Shikha Pandey, Sushree Dibyadarshini, Manali Dakshini, Leigh Kasperek, Danielle Wyatt, Suné Luus, Jahanara Alam, and M. Anagha## Stay tuned...

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Supernovas Beat Trailblazers In Women's One-Off T20 Challenge Cricket
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Supernovas Beat Trailblazers In Women's One-Off T20 Challenge

Women's IPL cannot ask any better start as Supernovas overcame Trailblazers challenge to beat them on the last ball of the match by 3 wickets at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Tuesday (May 22). However, the result could have been different if Jhulan Goswami had not dropped a catch on the last ball.## As it happened## In this historic match, Supernovas' skipper Harmanpreet Kaur had won the toss and opted to bowl first against Smriti Mandhana's Trailblazers. Trailblazers batted decently well and put on 129 on the board after 20 overs. Suzie Bates was the top scorer with 32 off 37 balls. In reply, Mithali Raj and Danielle Wyatt gave a solid start by adding 47 runs for the first wicket. Both scored 22 and 24 respectively. In the middle, Harmanpreet Kaur, Meg Lanning and Sophie Devine played well and kept their team in the game before Suzie Bates brought back her team into the game by picking two wickets. However, Ellyse Perry and Pooja Vastrakar held her nerve well and took their team through finishing line.## Harmanpreet took a stunner to sent back Mandhana## In the third over of the Trailblazers' innings, skipper Harmanpreet Kaur sent back Trailblazers' skipper Smriti Mandhana after taking a stunning catch. Mandhana went after Perry in trying to play over Harmanpreet's head but could not clear as Harmanpreet caught it by jumping towards the balls. It was very important wicket because Mandhana could be a dangerous player in such conditions.## Suzie Bates- Star performer of the match## Despite losing the match, Trailblazers' Suzie Bates came out to be the star performer. The Kiwi skipper awarded Man Of The Match for her all-around show with both bat and ball. The first scored 32 runs to give her team a good total and after that took two wickets and brought back her team into the game. Unfortunately, her effort went in vain as Supernovas won the match on the last ball.## What had skippers to say## Harmanpreet Kaur (Supernovas' skipper)- "Surprisingly, this surface was not easy to bat on. Told the batsmen to not too much pressure, no need to go for shots, and go ball by ball. We are focused on our fielding and I think we are improving our fielding day by day. That was the plan, and we know Smriti is a little weak against the off-spinners so I her (Anuja Patil) on and thankfully it came off. I think she is already a little angry with me for taking that catch(laughs), but she is a really good batsman and I'm glad I managed to grab that catch".## Smriti Mandhana (Trailblazers skipper)- " I did not expect to take the match to the ball but girls did well to take to the last ball. We were about 10 runs short. The wicket was really slow but 145-150 would have been a good score to defend. I told Harman 5 minutes back that I am not playing PlayStation with you for 7 days because you picked up that catch (laughs). Suzie helped me a lot in making decisions. We were discussing which bowler to bring on".## For more updates and news, stay tuned to us.## Thanks for the reading.