Published 16:41 IST, November 2nd 2020

Women's Challenge 2020: Twitter India comes out with special emojis for teams, players

Through these unique Women's Challenge 2020 emojis, fans can show instant support to their favourite teams and players on Twitter during the matches.

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race for Dream11 IPL 2020 playoffs qualification gets interesting with three spots up for grabs and two matches remaining. Qualifier 1 of playoffs st will begin from Thursday, vember 5. But prior to that, Women's Challenge 2020 exhibition matches will be played.

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Women's Challenge 2020 is scheduled to take place in Sharjah from 4 to 9 vember. tournament will be played between three teams -- Velocity, Supervas and Trailblazers with finals set to take place on vember 9, a day before Dream11 IPL 2020 final. Ahead of women's matches, Twitter India and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) releasing a special emoji before Women's Challenge 2020.

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BCCI and Twitter India releases Women's Challenge emojis

teams will be lead by Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti Mandhana and Mithali Raj and ahead of start of tournament, Twitter India and BCCI launched seven new custom emojis around league. This is first time that an Indian women's sports league has got its own Twitter emojis. Through se unique emojis, fans will be able to show instant support to ir favourite teams and players on Twitter during matches. Fans will also be able to follow and participate in live conversations.

emojis have been designed for teams and respective captains. Fans will be able to activate se emojis by tweeting with following hashtags: #MithaliRaj or #Mithali, #Harmanpreet or #Harman, #Smriti or #SM18, #WomensT20Challenge, #Velocity, #Supervas and #Trailblazers. In 2017, Mithali Raj became first women's cricketer from India to get an emoji during Women’s Cricket World Cup. 

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Women's Challenge 2020: Indian Women cricketers end quarantine period

Recently, members of Indian women's cricket team celebrated ir quarantine ending with a fun day of trampolining and relaxing led by Jemimah Rodrigues. In a series of videos, she can be seen buzzing around her Indian teammates Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Radha Yadav and ors ahead of Women's Challenge 2020.

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Speaking about Women's Challenge 2020, all three teams will face each or once, with top two teams qualifying for finals. With each of matches being played at Sharjah Cricket Ground, we can expect some high scoring action from all sides. Harmanpreet Kaur will be captain of defending champions, Supervas, while Smriti Mandhana will lead Trailblazers. Last year's runners up Velocity will be led by India's prolific batswoman Mithali Raj.  first match of tournament will be between  Supervas and Velocity. 

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16:41 IST, November 2nd 2020