Abhimanyu cricket academy

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium: Minnu Mani, Harleen Deol, Jemimah Rodrigues and Sneh Rana have been named captains of Teams A, B, C and D respectively for the upcoming Senior Women’s Multi-Day Challenger Trophy. The red-ball tournament will take place at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium and Abhimanyu Cricket Academy in Dehradun from March 25 to April 8.

The red-ball tournament had come back in the India women’s cricket domestic circuit in 2024 after last making an appearance in 2018. If it was hosted in the zonal format last year, the BCCI has now done away with it for the upcoming edition of the tournament and constituted teams based on first four alphabets in the English language.

The competition will be played in round-robin format and games will be of three days each, with the team having most points being adjudged as the winner of the tournament. All four teams have players who are mostly comprising of regulars in the Indian team as well as top performers from the recent Women’s Premier League (WPL) like Amanjot Kaur, who was adjudged as Emerging Player of the 2025 season, where her team Mumbai Indians won the title.