All About NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

The Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI introduced the Challenger series in1994-95 for on condition to chance the young players to evaluate the talent. The Challenger Trophy named the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy from 1998-99. Till it’s starting time the tournament was not played in 2002-03 only.

The annual tournaments played between three sides made up 36 of the best players in India. The three teams were India Senior and India A & India B. Team names were changed for the 2006 version of this tournament. India Seniors became India Blue and India A and India B became India Red and India Green, respectively. India Senior have won 7 times including the 2005-06 edition.

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy always held as a day-nigh match. The match of 2007 will be started from 25 October.

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, 2007/08(Fixture)

October 2007
Thu 25 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT	India Red v India Blue Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Fri 26 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT	India Red v India Green Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Sat 27 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT	India Blue v India Green Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad
Sun 28 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT	Final - TBC v TBC Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad

The top big three cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid will not take part in the upcoming NKP Salve Challenger Trophy. The players have divided in three parts like, Red, Green and Blue. Each teams will play each others and then final.

Teams:

India Red: Mohd Kaif (C), Karan Goel, Gautam Gambhir, S Bhadrinath, Virat Kohli, Ravneet Ricky, Praveen Kumar, Mahesh Rawat, Pragyan Ojha, Sidharth Trivedi, Ishant Sharma, Penal Shah, Srikant Munde, Paresh Patel, Lalchand Rajput (Coach)

India Green: Parthiv Patel (C), Cheteshwar Pujara, Rohit Sharma, Murali Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan Abhishek Nair, Niranjan Behra, Iqbal Abdullah, Pankaj Singh, Munaf Patel, Gagandeep Singh, Anirudh Srikant, Satyajeet Parab Venkatesh Prasad (coach)

India Blue: Virender Sehwag(C), Ajinkya Rahane, Dinesh Karthik, Suresh Raina, Neeraj Patel, Arjun Yadav, Joginder Sharma, Ramesh Powar, Amit Mishra, Yo Mahesh, Randeb Bose Swapnil Asnodkar, Rakesh V Dhruv, Saurav Bandekar Praveen Amre (Coach)