WOMEN'S T20 CHALLENGE, 2019 Live Cricket Score - Supernovas vs Velocity, Final, Women's T20 Challenge, 2019 by Cricbuzz Staff • Last updated on Live Score Updates Supernovas 125-6 (20 Ovs) Lea Tahuhu 2 (8) Velocity 121-6 Shikha Pandey 3-0-17-0 Supernovas won by 4 wkts Live Scores Full Scorecard Two of India's biggest superstars share a long history of animosity © BCCI VICTORY! SUPERNOVAS ARE THE CHAMPIONS What. A. Final! Last ball, two runs needed and Radha Yadav hits it through the gap in the cover area to seal a fantastic win. Harmanpreet Kaur couldn't finish it off but her team will be the champions of the inauguram Women's T20 Challenge. Velocity fought brilliantly with the ball to take it down to the last ball, the twists and turns were instigated by their brilliance through the middle overs but unfortunately Mithali Raj's girls will have to be happy as the runners-up. WICKET: Harman falls She falls with 6 needed after a superb 51. What a final this is ! Harman hits back! This is turning out to be some contest here. Jahanara Alam bowls three on the trot but fails to take out Harmanpreet. Now the Supernovas skipper is finding the boundaries, first against Ekta Bisht and then against Alam too. She's single-handedly keeping her team in this chase now. WICKET: Alam strikes again! What a fantastic turnaround this has been. Velocity have picked up four wickets for 11 runs now. Sophie Devine is bowled neck and crop with the score just 64. WICKET: Alam strikes She gets the big one of Natalie Sciver who is out bowled for 2. Suddenly, Velocity are right back in this game and have reversed the pressure totally on Supernovas. All the work for Devine and Harmanpreet to do now. WICKET: Punia falls too! Well, well. What is happening here? Devika Vaidya now gets Priya Punia too, out stumped. Supernovas have lost two wickets on 53! WICKET: Kerr strikes! Jemimah Rodrigues is out caught and bowled by Amelia Kerr, bringing and end to a 44-run stand for the second wicket. Is there still a twist in this tale? A brisk start Jemimah Rodrigues and Priya Punia have wasted no time to get going. Their swift stand has put Supernovas in pole position to clinch the final now. WICKET: Athapaththu is run out! Fantastic fielding from Ekta Bisht at the boundary. She dives to save a boundary first and then gets the throw in to catch Athapaththu short on the third run. Innings break: Sushma Verma helps Velocity to 121 An unbeaten 40 off just 32 balls from Sushma Verma has given Velocity a total to play with. It might still be too small a total. But from 37 for 5, they'll take this. WICKET: Kerr's fightback ends Poonam Yadav has her chipping to cover and a partnership worth 71 has ended. But Kerr's smart knock of 36 has given Velocity something to play with here. A much-needed partnership Amelia Kerr and Sushma Verma have put on a steady fifty-plus stand to get the innings back on track. They could yet get to a defendable total here with four overs to go. WICKET: Sciver sends back Mithali A fourth bowler picks up a wicket in her first over. Sciver bags the big wicket of Mithali, who lofted on drive resulted in a catch to Devine at mid on. She departs for a 22-ball 12, leaving Velocity reeling at 37 for 5. WICKET: Devine strikes in her first over Velocity in more trouble as Veda departs for 8. Devine will have to thank Taniya Bhatia for the wicket. It was down the leg side and Bhatia collected the ball well and was quick to bring down the bails to have an overbalancing Veda out stumped. Velocity slip to 37 for 4 after 7. WICKET: Shafali falls too Tahuhu is hit for back-to-back boundaries by the 15-year old Shafali but then gets her caught at cover. Meanwhile, Mithali is still fighting on. WICKET: Wyatt bags a duck too! Terrible, terrible start for Velocity. Danielle Wyatt tries to take the attack to the spin of Anuja Patil but is done in by a straighter one and stumped! They're 1/2 as Mithali Raj walks in. WICKET: Tahuhu strikes early It's a big wicket off just the second ball off the innings. Tahuhu gets some shape away and gets Hayley Mathews nicking behind. What a start for Supernovas! Toss: Unchanged Supernovas opt to bowl Teams: Velocity (Playing XI): Shafali Verma, Hayley Matthews, Danielle Wyatt, Mithali Raj(c), Veda Krishnamurthy, Sushma Verma(w), Shikha Pandey, Jahanara Alam, Amelia Kerr, Devika Vaidya, Ekta Bisht Supernovas (Playing XI): Priya Punia, Chamari Athapaththu, Jemimah Rodrigues, Sophie Devine, Harmanpreet Kaur(c), Natalie Sciver, Taniya Bhatia(w), Lea Tahuhu, Anuja Patil, Poonam Yadav, Radha Yadav So, here we are finally. The final is upon us. It is going to be Mithali Raj vs Harmanpreet Kaur once again. For those who came in late, there is a long-running subtext to this match primarily because of the 'feud' between the two skippers. Velocity also came in for some flak for their go-slow approach in the previous game in order to qualify for the final. But they'd be just happy to be here, as they later justified. Can the final produce enough fireworks? Talking about which, here's some explosiveness to get you going. This is Mithali Raj, at her candid best. © Cricbuzz TAGS RELATED STORIES<doc-sep>Welcome to Sportstar's live blog of the Women's T20 Challenge final between Supernovas and Velocity. What a magnificent final we have been treated to. Supernovas win the match by four wickets off the last ball. Super over for Supernovas? 1 RUN REQUIRED OF 1 BALL NOW! Supernovas vs Velocity: Harmanpreet Kaur brings up her fifty off 34 deliveries. Two balls later the fifty-run partnership comes up as well. But wait, a twist in the tale as Harmanpreet departs for 51. Amelia Kerr gets her. Can the Velocity still do it? Seven required off four now. Supernovas vs Velocity: That is massive! With those two monstrous sixes, skipper Harmanpreet has now moved on to 48 off 31 balls. 10 runs required off 12 balls now. Supernovas 112/5 after 18 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: After Natalie Sciver it is Sophie Devine! Plays the wrong line completely as the ball zips in towards the right-hander. Jahanara Alam is loving it. Supernovas has lost four wickets for 11 runs after the timeout. Supernovas 64/5 after 14 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Castled! Bangladesh's Jahanara Alam removes Natalie Sciver cheaply. Supernovas 59/4 after 12 overs. The pressure is building now! Supernovas vs Velocity: STUMPED! Priya Punia has to take the long walk back to the pavilion right after the strategic timeout! She dances out to take the aerial roue but she misses the line completely. Supernovas 53/3 after 10.1 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: And Jemimah Rodrigues goes! Amelia Kerr takes the big wicket: A lofted delivery from Kerr sees Jemimah try to go straight. She ends up handing Kerr a sitter instead. Supernovas 53/2 after 10 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Supernovas' Priya Punia and Jemimah Rodrigues seem to be in no hurry to finish things here. Velocity at this point was at 43/5 compared to Supernovas' 48/1. Supernovas vs Velocity: Ekta Bisht and Jahanara Alam curb the run flow a bit. Seven runs come from the sixth and seventh over. Supernovas 39/1 after 7 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Matthews to continue. Jemimah joins the fun, cashes in with a cut shot for four. More damage : this time over long-on for four. 10 off the over. Ekta Bisht into the attack. Just one off the over. Supernovas vs Velocity: Just two off Shikha's first over. Matthews to share the new ball. Supernovas can take it easy at the start. It's a modest score, however going into a shell early in the chase isn't advisable. Priya finds the gap through the off-side for her first boundary of the match. GONE! The duo tries to steal a third and Athapaththu pays the price. She's run out. Jemimah Rodrigues comies to the crease. Seven off the over. Shikha to continue. Priya gets two back-to-back boundaries. She follows it up with an equally delightful cover drive. 12 off it. Supernovas 21/1 after 3 overs. Chamari Athapaththu and Priya Punia will open the innings, Shikha Pandey with the new ball. ================================== Supernovas vs Velocity: Natalie Sciver continues to bowl wide outside off stump and quite rightly has been punished this time. Sushma Verma goes big and we have the first maximum of the match! Velocity finishes at 121/6. Will that be enough to defend? Supernovas vs Velocity: Velocity crosses the 100-run mark, the second fifty coming off 45 deliveries. And there! The 71-run partnership has been broken. Amelia Kerr has got to go. Kerr dances down and tries to go for the covers as Poonam lures her in with a lofted delivery. Harmanpreet Kaur takes a sitter. Velocity 108/6 after 19 overs. Our correspondent P. K. Ajith Kumar updates from Jaipur: A combination of fine bowling and poor batting has had Velocity struggling, after being put in. There is fine bit of recovery underway though at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, where the crowd is estimated to be close to 15,000. That’s great attendance indeed. Out there in the middle, Amelia Kerr, a superstar in the making from New Zealand, and wicket-keeper Sushma Verma, are staging a magnificent fightback to keep their team in the game. Velocity is 87 for five in the 16th over. Supernovas vs Velocity: Amelia Kerr and Sushma Verma still trying to get a feel of things at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. One of them must look to go for the big shots now. Velocity 84/5 after 15 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Poonam Yadav into the attack. Kerr has swept one away for four. Seven off the over and Velocity has limped to 50 at the half-way stage. Devine to continue. Three off the over. Poonam to continue. Kerr gets a much-needed boundary. Good over for Velocity, 10 from it. Velocity 63/5 after 12 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Sophie Devine has been introduced into the attack. Veda has been stumped and wickets just keep falling for Velocity. Sushma Verma joins Mithali. Just two off the over. Natalie Sciver will roll her arm. Mithali departs. Oh Dear, that's a huge blow for Velocity. Amelia Kerr joins Sushma. Second wicket maiden of the match. Tahuhu to bowl out. Brilliant save from Priya Punia saves a certain boundary. Just two for Velocity. Six runs off the over. Velocity 43/5 after 9 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Veda Krishnamurthy comes to the crease. Patil to continue. Mithali plays a late cut for four and follows it up with a glorious cover drive. Eight off the over. Tahuhu is back for her third. Veda gets a boundary four byes. She gets off the mark now, with a strike to sweeper cover. Eight off it in the end. Radha Yadav has been introduced into the attack. Veda, you beauty: steps out and carves it over sweeper cover for four. Five off it. Velocity 35/3 after 6 overs. Supernovas vs Velocity: Hayley Matthews and Shafali Verma to open for Velocity. Lea Tahuhu to start the proceedings with the new ball. What a start! Tahuhu strikes, gets rid of Matthews with the second ball of the match. Danielle Wyatt comes to the crease. A wicket maiden to start the final. Anuja Patil to share the new ball. GONE! Wyatt has been stumped and Velocity are in trouble.<doc-sep>Velocity qualify for the final! Judging by the way Mithali Raj and Veda Krishnamurthy have gone about in the last two overs, it certainly looks like they are not going for a win and rather ensuring qualification for the May 11 final first. Mithali completes it by a boundary over cover as Velocity qualify for the final<doc-sep>Teenager Jemimah Rodrigues struck an unbeaten 77 to help Supernovas beat Velocity by 12 runs and enter the final of the Women's T20 Challenge here on Thursday. The two sides will again face each other in the summit clash on Saturday as the third team, Trailblazers, who also secured the same two points as Velocity and Supernova, finished third on the basis of net run rate. Sent into bat in their must-win match, the Supernovas scored 142 for 3, thanks to 18-year-old Rodrigues' 48-ball 77 not out and then restricted Velocity to 130 for 3 to win the final round-robin league match of the tournament. After Thursday's result, all the three teams ended on two points each after one win by each side but Velocity and Supernovas ended with plus 0.25 and plus 0.045 net runs rates respectively while the Trailblazers secured minus 0.305. Trailblazers had beaten Supernovas by 2 runs in the opening match on Monday while Velocity had defeated Trailblazers by three wickets on Wednesday. Chasing 143 for a win, Velocity lost early wickets with the openers Hayley Matthews (11) and Shafali Verma (2) being dismissed cheaply to be reduced to 21 for 2 in the fourth over. One-down Englishwoman Danielle Wyatt threatened to take the game away from Supernovas with a 33-ball 43 but she was out in the 12th over after a 56-run stand with captain Mithali Raj who remained 40 not out off 42 balls. Raj shared 53 runs with Veda Krishnamurthy (30 not out) for the unconquered fourth wicket but the duo could not chase down the target. The total was, however, enough for Velocity to make it to the final. By the 19th over, the duo knew that their team would be through to the final despite a loss. For Supernovas, leg-spinner Poonam Yadav was the most impressive bowler with one wicket at the expense of 13 runs from her four overs. Earlier, Rodrigues struck 10 fours and a six from 48 balls in her aggressive unbeaten innings after the Supernovas were sent into bat in their must-win match. Coming out to bat in the fifth over after the fall of opener Priya Punia (16) when the team score was 29 for 1, Rodrigues was involved in two substantial partnerships as she anchored the Supernova innings admirably well. She first had a 55-run stand with Sri Lankan Chamari Atapattu (31) for the second wicket before stitching another partnership of 50 runs with Sophie Devine (9) of New Zealand for the third wicket. Rodrigues, a member of the semifinalist Indian side in the 2018 Women's T20 World Cup, was most severe against pacewoman Komal Zanzad (0/29) who was hit for four boundaries. Rodrigues hit the only six of her unbeaten knock off the bowling of Jahanara Alam (0/34) in the 18th over. Captain Harmanpreet Kaur also remained not out on 1 from five deliveries. The Supernovas, however, failed to accelerate in the second half of their innings after they were 63 for 1 at the end of 10 overs. They added just 33 in the last five overs. For Velocity, New Zealander Amelia Kerr took two wickets for 21 runs from her leg-spin while pacewoman Shikha Pandey got one.<doc-sep>
Supernovas win by 12 runs The Supernovas have beaten the Velocity team by 12 runs in this match. The match seemed done and dusted when the Velocity team decided to stop chasing their target and instead book their place in the final by reaching a total of 117. Finally, all the three teams in the competition won one match each, while Supernovas and Velocity finished in the top two places respectively with better net run rates. Velocity qualify for the final Mithali Raj slams a boundary off Harmanpreet Kaur and secures a place in the final for Velocity. Since it’s impossible for them to lose this match by more than 26 runs, the Velocity team will go through to the final even if they lose this match. Radha Yadav concedes just six runs Veda and Mithali are just looking for singles at the moment. If they go on to lose the match by 25 runs or less, they will still qualify for the final. It looks like the batters are aiming to secure a place in the final first, before going for the win. They need 37 runs from 18 balls to win. Velocity rest their hopes on Mithali and Veda Mithali and Veda have slowed down the run rate after the Wyatt’s departure. The duo will need to start hitting the big shots now. Velocity need 51 runs from 30 balls to win. Wyatt departs for 43 runs Poonam loops a delivery and Wyatt misses the delivery while playing a sweep shot. The ball clips the leg stump and the bails are dislodged. Wyatt goes for 43 runs as Velocity need 64 runs from 48 balls. Wyatt slams Sciver for two boundaries The partnership between Wyatt and Mithali is becoming a threatening one. Wyatt slams Sciver for two boundaries as Velocity reach 67/2 in 9 overs. Velocity reach 46/1 in 6 overs Danielle Wyatt has struck two boundaries and two sixes in her innings so far. A big score is on the cards for her as Velocity reach 46/1 in 6 overs. Anuja Patil traps Hayley Matthews LBW Anuja Patil traps Hayley Matthews LBW for just 11 runs as Velocity lose their second wicket. The Mithali Raj-led team is in deep trouble now. Verma departs for two runs Verma skips down the track but misses the ball from Radha completely. The opening batter is bowled out for just two runs. Radha Yadav concedes just 4 runs Radha Yadav starts brilliantly for the Supernovas. She bowls five dot balls and concedes a boundary in the first over. Velocity: 4/0. Supernovas post 142/3 in 20 overs Shikha Pandey bowls a brilliant last over as the Supernovas post 142/3 in 20 overs. Harmanpreet struggled to get going in the final over against Pandey as the fast bowler conceded just 7 runs. Devine departs for 9 runs Devine goes for a big shot and presents a catch for Mithali in the deep. Devine departs for nine runs as Harmanpreet walks out to provide a final flourish for the Supernovas. Rodrigues smashes Alam for a six Rodrigues is setting the stage on fire. She takes on Alam and sends her for a six over the deep mid-wicket boundary. Supernovas: 133/2 in 18 overs. Rodrigues scores fifty Rodrigues smashes Ekta for two consecutive boundaries as she brings up her half-century off 31 balls. The Supernovas batter has played a splendid innings so far. Athapaththu departs for 31 runs Athapaththu steps out against Kerr’s bowling but misses the delivery completely. Verma completes a simple stumping as the Supernovas lose their second wicket. Supernovas: 84/1 in 12.3 overs. Rodrigues on song Rodrigues smashes Alam for a boundary as the Supernovas inch closer to 100. Athapaththu and Rodrigues have strung a sensible partnership of 47 runs so far. Athapaththu smashes Ekta for a boundary Athapaththu has decided to go after the bowling now. She skips down the track and smashes the ball to the straight boundary. Supernovas: 62/1 in 9.4 overs. Rodrigues and Athapaththu power Supernovas on Rodrigues has looked very confident in the middle so far. She has struck three boundaries as the Supernovas move to 47/1 in 7 overs. Punia departs for 16 runs Priya Punia tries to clear long-off, but presents a simple catch for Veda Krishnamurthy off Shikha Pandey’s bowling. Punia departs for 16 runs. Athapaththu plays confidently Athapaththu is striking the ball well at the moment. She is trying to go after the bowling and a couple of boundaries have come her way.