Rizvi College to face Gargi College in Red Bull Campus Cricket Final 2024

Defending champions Rizvi College Mumbai and Gargi College Delhi have qualified for the Red Bull Campus Cricket National Finals 2024 in the women’s competition. The final will be held at the DY Patil University Ground in Navi Mumbai from 2 pm IST onwards on Saturday (June 1).

Red Bull Campus Cricket is celebrating the tournament’s 13^th year anniversary in India. Women’s edition of the competition started in 2021 and Rizvi college are currently the defending champions having won the trophy last year. Rizvi college also won the inaugural event before going down against Marwari College from Ranchi in the 2022 edition.

Red Bull Campus Cricket is a unique international tournament in the T20 format for college and university students. It has seen the best women’s college teams take on each other from 2021. A total of 16 women’s teams participated in the regional qualifiers of the 2024 edition of the competition.

With the men’s and women’s 2024 India finals set to take place in Navi Mumbai on June 1, the winners will be named the national champions of Red Bull Campus Cricket. 

Defending champions Rizvi have a strong core of current and former Mumbai Under-19 players in Saloni Kushte, Kashish Nirmal, Zeal D’Mello, Nirmiti Rane, Tushi Shah, Aachal Valanju and others.

Men's final will also be held on the same day after the round-robin format of three games each from May 29 to May 21 at the Western Railway Cricket Ground in Lower Parel, Mumbai. The top two sides from there will qualify for the final on June 1 and the men's national final will be played from 6:00pm IST onwards. Rajasthan Royals franchise with the players and coaches will be present to scout talent at the matches for the men's leg.

Teams:

Rizvi College (Mumbai): Saloni Kushte, Kashish Nirmal, Riddhi Thakkar, Zeal D’Mello, Tanisha Gaikawad, Nirmiti Rane, Ketki Dhure, Himaja Patil, Akshara Pillai, Tushi Shah, Shraddha Shetty, Aachal Valanju, Sara Samant, Samiksha Bangal

Gargi College (Delhi): Riya Shokeen, Nikita Singh Chandel, Sanskriti, Riya Choudhary, Akshita Jain, Deeksha Sharma, Neha Parmar, Riya Shanker, Shruti Swaraj, Shivangi Tyagi, Jyoti Yadav, Vandana, Anchal