The 2020 Women's T20 Challenge, branded as the Jio Women's T20 Challenge, was the third season of the Women's T20 Challenge, a Twenty20 cricket tournament established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2018. Like the previous edition, it featured three teams and consisted of a group stage of three matches followed by a final.
The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in May 2020 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, coinciding with the IPL playoffs. However, it was postponed along with the IPL due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The tournament was eventually held from 4 to 9 November 2020 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in the United Arab Emirates, again coinciding with the IPL playoffs. Trailblazers defeated Supernovas by 16 runs in the final to win their maiden title.
The season was watched by 105 million unique viewers in India, an increase of 47% compared to the previous season. It recorded 5.34 billion viewing minutes, representing a 2.45-fold growth over the 2019 edition.
Squads On 11 October 2020, BCCI announced squads and schedule for Women's T20 Challenge.
IPL Supernovas IPL Trailblazers IPL Velocity 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 Muskan Malik Smriti Mandhana (c) Deepti Sharma (vc) Punam Raut Richa Ghosh Dayalan Hemalatha Nuzhat Parween (wk) Rajeshwari Gayakwad Harleen Deol Jhulan Goswami Simran Bahadur Salma Khatun Sophie Ecclestone Natthakan Chantam Deandra Dottin Kashvee Gautam Mithali Raj (c) Veda Krishnamurthy (vc) Shafali Verma Sushma Verma (wk) Ekta Bisht Mansi Joshi Shikha Pandey Devika Vaidya Sushree Dibyadarshini Manali Dakshini Leigh Kasperek Danni Wyatt Suné Luus Jahanara Alam Murali Anagha Meghna Singh
Natthakan Chantam became the first Thai cricketer to be represented in this tournament. Overseas players Sophie Devine, Suzie Bates, Nat Sciver, Stafanie Taylor, Amelia Kerr, Lea Tahuhu and Hayley Matthews were not part of the 2020 edition, due to the fixture clash with the 2020–21 Women's Big Bash League season in Australia. Mansi Joshi was ruled out of Women's T20 Challenge due to testing positive for COVID-19. Meghna Singh was named as her replacement in Velocity squad.
Points table
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Round-robin
Final
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo