NKP Salve Challenger Trophy in 2005–06

The 12th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Mohali from 10 October to 13 October 2005. The series involved the domestic teams from India which were India Seniors, India A, and India B. India Seniors defeated India B by 3 wickets in the final to become the champions of the tournament.

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2005
Date	10th – 13th October 2005
Location	Mohali, India
Result	Won by India Seniors

Squads

India Seniors	India A	India B
Mohammad Kaif (c) Sachin Tendulkar Satyajit Parab Yuvraj Singh Y Venugopal Rao MS Dhoni Harbhajan Singh Murali Kartik Irfan Pathan Ajit Agarkar Zaheer Khan JP Yadav Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan	VVS Laxman (c) Gautam Gambhir Dheeraj Jadhav Suresh Raina Hemang Badani Niraj Patel Dinesh Karthik Ramesh Powar RP Singh Lakshmipathy Balaji VRV Singh Shahbaz Nadeem Manoj Tiwary	Dinesh Mongia (c) Shikhar Dhawan Robin Uthappa Sridharan Sriram Sunny Singh Parthiv Patel Sreesanth Ranadeb Bose Amit Bhandari Ravikant Shukla Piyush Chawla Sreekumar Nair

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India B	2	1	1	0	6	0.451
2	India Seniors	2	1	1	0	6	0.207
3	India A	2	1	1	0	6	−0.705

Source: 'Points Table'

Matches

Group stage

10th October 2005

India Seniors 289/8 (50 overs)	v	India A 291/9 (49.4 overs)
Venugopal Rao 98 (99) RP Singh 2/34 (10 overs)		VVS Laxman 48 (62) Irfan Pathan 3/69 (10 overs)

India A won by 1 wicket. PCA Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Ivaturi Shivram (IND) and MR Singh (IND) Player of the match: Venugopal Rao (India Seniors)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India A 5, India Seniors 1

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11th October 2005

India B 240 (49.4 overs)	v	India Seniors 242/3 (45.5 overs)
Parthiv Patel 53 (44) Irfan Pathan 3/39 (9 overs)		Venugopal Rao 101* (125) Sreesanth 2/63 (10 overs)

India Seniors won by 7 wickets. PCA Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Ivaturi Shivram (IND) and Tej Handu (IND) Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (India Seniors)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: India Seniors 5, India B 1

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12th October 2005

India A 260/8 (50 overs)	v	India B 264/3 (38.5 overs)
VVS Laxman 143 (143) Sreesanth 2/44 (10 overs)		Robin Uthappa 116 (93) VRV Singh 1/51 (10 overs)

India B won by 7 wickets. PCA Stadium, Mohali Umpires: MR Singh (IND) and Tej Handu (IND) Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (India B)

• India B won the toss and elected to field.
• Points: India B 5 , India A 1

Final

13th October 2005 [4]

India B 177 (42.5 overs)	v	India Seniors 181/7 (39 overs)
Parthiv Patel 39 (62) Murali Kartik 5/29 (9.5 overs)		Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan 87 (107) Sreesanth 3/32 (9 overs)

India Seniors won by 7 wickets. PCA Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Ivaturi Shivram (IND) and MR Singh (IND) Player of the match: Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (India Seniors)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to field.

See also

• NKP Salve Challenger Trophy