Challengers Trophy

[rasi]

Andrew, could you make this topic pinned please? Just for four days.

The TVS Salve Challengers Trophy begins in Bangalore today. India's top players compete in a three-way clash as Sourav Ganguly's India Seniors, Anil Kumble's India 'A' and Rahul Dravid's India 'B'.
Virender Sehwag will miss this series due to his back injury.

The squad for the NZ tour will be picked based on these matches.

The Squads:

India Seniors:

Sourav Ganguly ( Capt. )
V.V.S.Laxman
Hemang Badani
A.T.Rayudu
Sanjay Bangar
Parthiv Patel ( Wkt. )
Harbhajan Singh
Amit Mishra
Murali Karthik
Zaheer Khan
L.Balaji
R.S.Sodhi

Coach : John Wright

India 'A':

Anil Kumble ( Capt. )
Sachin Tendulkar
Gautam Gambhir
Rohan Gavaskar
Mohammed Kaif
Wasim Jaffer
S.Sriram
Ajay Ratra ( Wkt. )
Irfan Pathan Jr.
Avishkar Salvi
Mithin Minhas
Ramesh Powar

Coach : Sandeep Patil

India 'B':

Rahul Dravid ( Capt. )
S.S.Das
Satyajit PArab
Vijay Bharadwaj
Yuvraj Singh
Dinesh Mongia
Thilak Naidu ( Wkt. )
J.P.Yadav
Ajit Agarkar
Siddarth Trivedi
Sarandeep Singh
Sairaj Bahutule
Amit Bhandari

Coach : Ashok Malhotra.

Schedule:

Sept.10: India Seniors vs India 'A'
Sept.11: India Seniors vs India 'B'
Sept.12: rest day
Sept.13: India 'A' vs India 'B'
Sept.14: Final

Hours of Play: 2:30 to 6:30 PM; 6:45 PM to end of match.

India 'A' won the trophy last year.
Live Telecast on DD Sports. :sorry:

 

[Sanju]

These days we dont get DDSports on cable i'll still try and tune it up.

 

[Sanju]

R these day-Night matches???

 

[rasi]

Luckily we get DD Sports here. But, I get fed-up watching because the commentary is hindi half the time.

And, yes, the matches are day-nighters.

 

[temp]

Oh, thanks for telling me I have DD Sports here. :

 

[andrew_nixon]

India A won the first match of the tournament.

Result

India A: 276/8 (Sriram 77, Gavaskar 79 not out, Balaji 5/50)
India: 249/8 (Badani 73, Bangar 76)

India A win by 27 runs.

 

[Neo!]

I wish I had DD sports

 

[imported_akeel]

is there any other channel which will telecast he series i wanna wath it i have ten sports,espnstar,super sports 1 to 5,sky sports,and last but not the least fox sports what else can i get to watch a match .

 

[rasi]

There is no other channel telecasting this series. And the Irani trophy is coming up in a few days. It is going to be one cracking series with nearly all the top players playing in it.

 

[Neo!]

yeah I have the same channels as abid but those channels doesnt telecast

 

[andrew_nixon]

India B beat India in the second match of the tournament, meaning that the final will be between India A and India B.

Result

India B: 338/5 (Agarkar 57, Dravid 107, Extras 50)
India: 275/5 (Sodhi 51, Badani 61 not out, Bangar 63)

India B win by 63 runs

 

[Nirav85]

i cant believe india srs lost both matches...to me they have the stronger side...with gangu patungu, bhaju, Big Z(Zaheer), badani, sodhi...i am cheering for india B...go dravida

 

[rasi]

The strongest team is got to be India 'A'. Look at the line-up: Sachin, Gambhir, Jaffer, Kaif, Sriram, Gavaskar. That's terrific. Tell you what, put in Ganguly and Dravid, that's one of the test line-ups for India. And in bowling, they have Avishkar Salvi - whose is known as India's McGrath, Irfan Pathan Jr. ( he's my friend B) ).

 

[imported_akeel]

well india a lookin strong :cheezy:

 

[Sanju]

I think which ever batting team bats the last and a double disadvantage first thing is that most probly the team batting first will score a 280 plus total on indian tracks then then another thing is that in the night there will be some due which will help the fast bowlers and it will be cool for the fielding side in the night,So i reckon the team which wins the toss in the remaing two matches should bat first and 75% they r safe.