The 15th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Nagpur from 8 October to 11 October 2009. The series involved the domestic teams from India which were India Blue, India Red, and India Green. India Red defeated India Blue by 7 wickets in the final to become the champions of the tournament.
Squads
India Blue India Red India Green MS Dhoni (c & wk) Wasim Jaffer Abhinav Mukund Jalaj Saxena Suresh Kumar Kedar Jadhav Abhishek Nayar Yusuf Pathan Naman Ojha (wk) Harbhajan Singh Siddharth Trivedi S Sreesanth Ashok Dinda Dhiraj Goswami Sachin Tendulkar Subramaniam Badrinath (c) Murali Vijay Sunny Sohal Shikhar Dhawan Ishank Jaggi Ravindra Jadeja Ameya Shrikhande Bhuvneshwar Kumar Wriddhiman Saha (wk) Ravichandran Ashwin Sudeep Tyagi Munaf Patel Saurabh Tiwary Ishant Sharma Harshad Khadiwale Yuvraj Singh Suresh Raina (c) Ajinkya Rahane Tanmay Srivastava Ravi Inder Singh Anirudha Srikkanth Chetanya Nanda Parthiv Patel (wk) Saurabh Tiwary Shadab Jakati Vikramjeet Malik Lakshmipathy Balaji Dhawal Kulkarni Pankaj Singh Uday Kaul Irfan Pathan Manoj Tiwary
Abhinav Mukund replaced Sachin Tendulkar in the India Blue squad, after the selectors gave Tendulkar rest due to the food poisoning he suffered during the Champions trophy.Tendulkar to miss NKP Salve Challenger Trophy Subramaniam Badrinath who was originally picked for India Green squad, replaced Yuvraj Singh as the captain of India Red after Yuvraj Singh had to force himself out of the tournament due to injury while Ameya Shrikhande was named as replacement.Badrinath replaces Yuvraj Singh as captain In India Green, Vikramjeet Malik replaced Irfan Pathan who had to also force himself out of the tournament due to an injury along with Yuvraj Singh. Saurabh Tiwary also replaced Manoj Tiwary in the squad, after Manoj Tiwary was called to represent Delhi Daredevils for the Champions League Twenty20.Vikramjeet Malik and Saurabh Tiwary replace Irfan Pathan and Manoj Tiwary respectively
Points Table
Matches Group stage
Final
References