MUMBAI: The first multi-team Women’s T20 challenge begins today in Jaipur where Harmanpreet Kaur’s Supernovas take on Smriti Mandhana’s Trailblazers. Some of the best female international players from India, New Zealand, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka will be in action over the span of 6 days. Adding to the excitement, Star Sports has a host of programming initiatives in store for cricket fans and will broadcast the matches LIVE in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu & Bengali.
The Women's T20 Challenge 2019 match between Supernovas and Trailblazers will be played at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. The matches will broadcast during prime time at 7.30 pm IST with the toss to take place at 7.00 pm IST.
Keeping ardent cricket fans ahead of the game and sharing a ball by ball analysis will be Star Sports experts Reema Malhotra, Irfan Pathan, RP Singh, Dean Jones & Scott Styris.
Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Mithali Raj will lead Supernovas, Trailblazers and Velocity – the new team this edition – respectively.
Channels to broadcast Women’s T20 challenge:
Star Sports 1, Star Sports 1 HD, Star Sports 1 Tamil, Star Sports 1 Kannada, Star Sports 1 Hindi, Star Sports 1 Hindi HD, Star Sports 1 Bangla, Star Sports 1 Telugu, Star Sports 1 Kannada.
Squads:
Supernovas: Harmanpreet Kaur (c), Anuja Patil, Arundhati Reddy, Jemimah Rodrigues, Mansi Joshi, Poonam Yadav, Priya Punia, Radha Yadav, Taniya Bhatia (wk), Chamari Atapattu, Lea Tahuhu, Sophie Devine*, Natalie Sciver
Coach: WV Raman
Trailblazers: Smriti Mandhana (c), Bharti Fulmali, D Hemalatha, Deepti Sharma, Harleen Deol, Jasia Akhtar, Jhulan Goswami, R Kalpana (wk), Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Suzie Bates, Sophie Ecclestone, Shakera Selman, Stafanie Taylor
Coach: Biju George
Velocity: Mithali Raj (c), Devika Vaidya, Ekta Bisht, Komal Zanzad, Shafali Verma, Shikha Pandey, Sushma Verma (wk), Sushri Dibyadarshini, Veda Krishnamurthy, Amelia Kerr, Danielle Wyatt, Hayley Matthews, Jahanara Alam
Coach: Mamatha Maben