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.
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 TeamIndia Blue (Q)2 2 0 0 0 8 +0.240India Red (Q)2 1 1 0 0 4 +0.280India Green2 0 2 0 0 0 –0.460 Source: CricketArchive
Group stage
Final
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.
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