All you need to know about the Senior Women’s One Day League 2018-19

The Women’s T-20 World Cup is over. So, let’s move from international cricket to domestic cricket. The next tournament for Senior Women cricketers is “The Senior Women’s One Day League” and need not say, it is one of the major List A cricket tournament organised by BCCI for Women since 2006-07.

The 2018-19 edition is going to start on 1^st December 2018 having 36 domestic teams participating in it (including Railways team) and is a month long competition.

Interestingly, this is the 13^th edition of this tournament and Railways has won it eleven (11) times in the past 12 editions, becoming the sole and most successful team so far and are also the Defending Champions for this year.

Following is the schedule of this year’s edition:

1. 1^st December to 20^th December – Round I to Round XII matches
2. 26^th and 27^th December – Quarterfinals among top eight (8) teams
3. 29^th December – Semifinals among the winners of four quarterfinals
4. 31^st December – Final between the winners of semifinals

Total 12 matches will be played on the opening day of the tournament.

Following is the list of India’s national team’s players and the team represented by them:

Name of the player	Team
Mithali Raj	Railways
Punam Raut	Railways
Ekta Bisht	Railways
Poonam Yadav	Railways
Rajeshwari Gayakwad	Railways
Sukanya Parida	Railways
Mona Meshram	Railways
Veda Krishnamurthy	Railways
Arundatti Reddy	Railways
Nuzhat Praveen	Railways
Harmanpreet Kaur	Punjab
Taniya Bhatia	Punjab
Smriti Mandhana	Maharashtra
Anuja Patil	Maharashtra
Jemmimah Rodrigues	Mumbai
Shikha Pandey	Goa
Jhulan Goswami	West Bengal
Tanushree Sarkar	West Bengal
Monikha Das	Assam
Radha Yadav	Baroda
Latika Kumari	Delhi
Neha Tanwar	Delhi
Priya Punia	Delhi
Sushma Verma	Himachal Pradesh
Vanitha VR	Karnataka
Pooja Vastrakar	Madhya Pradesh
Fatima Jaffer	Mumbai

From the above data, it is pretty much clear that how strong the Railways team is and why they are the favourites this time too. But would be more interesting if some other team gives some really competitive challenges to Railways and the fans could cheer a completely new group of stars.

It can be rightly concluded that this tournament is very crucial for all the players to get noticed and get selected in the national team. Since it is a month long tournament and most of the national team players play in this competition, it gives an advantage to the state level players to share dressing room and intake a number of technical and psychological knowledge from them.

So guys, which player and team are you backing this time!!!

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