Women’s T20 Challenge 2020 Preview: Supernovas face Velocity in tournament opener

Harmanpreet Kaur’s Supernovas and Mithali Raj’s Velocity will take on each other at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Match 1 of Jio Women’s T20 Challenge 2020. BCCI has announced Jio as the title sponsor for 2020 Women’s T20 Challenge. In this 3 team league stage format, it is important that teams try to win both their matches to confirm a berth for themselves in the finals.

The team losing this game will hope for other results to go in their favour, and not lose the match by a huge margin. The last time the two teams met, it was the final of the Women’s T20 Challenge 2019. Supernovas won the match by 6 wickets, with the match going down to the final ball.

Match Info:

Match 1- Supernovas vs Velocity

Venue- Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah

Time – 7:30 PM IST

Head To Head:

Team News:

Supernovas:

The skipper of defending champions Supernovas, Harmanpreet Kaur did not perform to the best of her abilities in this year’s T20 World Cup and would be looking to set things straight. She is the first Indian cricketer to have played 100 International T20 matches, so she has a lot of experience with her which can benefit the team immensely. Another Supernovas player to watch out for this season shall be the cheerful Jemimah Rodrigues, known as Jemi by her teammates. She had a decent World Cup and would be looking to make sure Supernovas win their 3rd consecutive title.

Velocity:

One of India’s legends in Women’s cricket, Mithali Raj shall now be captaining Velocity after last playing a T20 international in March 2019. Shafali Varma will be one of the players to watch out for this season. She impressed everyone with her explosive batting at the top in the Women’s T20 World Cup 2020, where India reached the finals. The defending champions would want to keep their 100% win record against Velocity intact, so Velocity would have to put up a good performance against them to break this record.