NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2001-02

Past history of the series:
In 1994-95, the BCCI introduced this annual day-night one-day tournament keeping in view India's one-day international commitments. The India Senior and India A & B teams are the participants. From 1998-99 the tournament was known as the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy.

The Squads

India Senior: Sourav Ganguly (Bengal, captain), Shiv Sunder Das (Orissa), Virender Sehwag (Delhi), Hemang Badani (Tamil Nadu), Sanjay Bangar (Railways), Deep Dasgupta (Bengal, wicket-keeper), Harbhajan Singh (Punjab), Sunil Joshi (Karnataka), Tinu Yohannan (Kerala), Iqbal Siddiqui (Kerala), Debasis Mohanty (Orissa) and Jacob Martin (Baroda)

India 'A': VVS Laxman (Hyderabad, captain), Connor Williams (Baroda), Daniel Manohar (Hyderabad), Rohan Gavaskar (Bengal), Sangram Singh (Himachal Pradesh), Yuvraj Singh (Punjab), Ajay Ratra (Haryana, wicket-keeper), Reetinder Singh Sodhi (Punjab), Murali Karthik (Railways), Zaheer Khan (Baroda), Ajit Agarkar (Mumbai), Sarandeep Singh (Delhi) and Sitanshu Kotak (Saurashtra).

India 'B':
Anil Kumble (Karnataka, captain),
Mohammad Kaif (Uttar Pradesh),
Sridhar Sriram (Tamil Nadu),
Dinesh Mongia (Punjab),
Hrishikesh Kanitkar (Maharashtra),
Arjun Yadav (Hyderabad),
Syed Zakaria Zuffri (Assam, wicket-keeper),
Vijay Bharadwaj (Karanataka),
Pankaj Dharmani (Punjab, wicket-keeper),
Ashish Nehra (Delhi),
Sanjay Pandey (Madhya Pradesh),
Amit Bhandari (Delhi),
Devinder Bundela (Madhya Pradesh).

Detailed scorecards: Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Final match

Season	Winners	Runners Up	3rd Team	Venue	Trophy
1994-95	India Senior	India A	India B	Calcutta	Kedia Cup
1995-96	India Senior	India A	India B	Hyderabad	Liberty Cup
1996-97	India Senior	India B	India A	Mohali
1997-98	India Senior	India B	India A	Mumbai
1998-99+	{India A - India B}	India Senior		Ahmedabad	NKP Salve Trophy
1999-00	India Senior	India A	India B	Ahmedabad	NKP Salve Trophy
2000-01	India Senior	India A	India B	Chennai	NKP Salve Trophy
2001-02	India A	India Senior	India B	Bangalore	NKP Salve Trophy

+ India A & India B were declared joint winners 1998-99 at Ahmedabad, when rain abandoned most of the matches

MATCH NO: 1

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India Seniors v India A
Toss: India Seniors
Result: India A won by 2 wickets
India Seniors : 229-9 in 50 overs (SS Das 34, HK Badani 41, Harbhajan Singh 36; DS Manohar 3-26)
India A : 235-8 in 48.1 overs (DS Manohar 37, Yuvraj Singh 55, A Ratra 36, SB Bangar 3-43, SC Ganguly 4-40)


MATCH NO: 2

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India Seniors vs India B
Toss: India B
Result: India Seniors won by 5 wickets
India B : 288-7 in 50 overs (D Mongia 131, Mohd Kaif 61; Harbhajan Singh 2-53)
India Seniors : 289-5 in 39.5 overs (V Shewag 125, HK Badani 77)


MATCH NO: 3

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India A v India B
Toss: India B
Result: India A won by 59 runs
India A : 289-7 in 50 overs (CC Williams, 73, Sangram Singh 39, RS Gavaskar 45, Yuvraj Singh 48; A Kumble 2-47
India B : 230-10 in 50 overs (Mohd Kaif 69, HH Kanitkar 47, R Vijay Bharadwaj 43; A Agarkar 3-55, Sarandeep Singh 5-57)


Final

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India Seniors v India A
Toss: India Seniors
Result: India A won by 8 wickets
India Seniors : 154-10 in 35.5 overs (HK Badani 52 not out, SC Ganguly 25; M Kartik 3-30)
India A : 157-2 in 32 overs (Sangram Singh 75; Harbhajan Singh 2-30)


The following awards were presented at the end of the match

Man of the series: Sarandeep Singh Ind A (Rs 50,000 & a Hero Honda CBZ motor bike)
Best Batsman: Hemang Badani Ind Snr (Rs 50,000)
Best Bowler: Ajit Agarkar Ind A (Rs 50,000)
Best fielder: Yuvraj Singh, Ind A (Rs 50,000)

Winning Team (India A): NKP Salve Trophy and Rs 2 lakh, 50 thousand
Runners up (India Senior): Rs 1 lakh.


TOP BATSMEN

Name	Team	M	Inns	No	Runs	Hs	Avg	100	50	0	Balls	S/R	Ct	St
Badani HK	IND	3	3	1	170	77	85.00	-	2	-	152	111.84	-	-
Shewag V	IND	3	3	-	151	125	50.33	1	-	-	124	121.77	-	-
Mongia D	I - 'B'	2	2	-	133	131	66.50	1	-	-	147	90.48	1	-
Kaif Mohd	I - 'B'	2	2	-	130	69	65.00	-	2	-	144	90.28	1	-
Sangram Singh	I - 'A'	2	2	-	114	75	57.00	-	1	-	119	95.80	-	-
Yuvraj Singh	I - 'A'	3	2	-	103	55	51.50	-	1	-	117	80.03	-	-
Williams CC	I - 'A'	2	2	-	92	73	46.00	-	1	-	128	71.88	-	-
Laxman VVS	I - 'A'	3	3	1	70	29*	35.00	-	-	-	81	86.42	3	-
Bharadwaj Vijay	I - 'B'	2	2	-	67	43	33.50	-	-	-	52	128.85	-	-
Gavaskar RS	I - 'A'	3	3	1	67	45	33.50	-	-	-	94	71.28	3	-
Manohar DS	I - 'A'	2	2	-	62	37	31.00	-	-	-	119	52.10	-	-
Kanitkar HH	I - 'B'	2	2	-	56	47	28.00	-	-	-	76	73.68	-	-
Martin JJ	IND	3	3	1	52	28*	26.00	-	-	-	70	74.29	-	-
Ratra A	I - 'A'	3	2	-	49	36	24.50	-	-	-	68	72.06	5	-
Das SS	IND	3	3	-	47	34	15.67	-	-	-	73	64.38	1	-
Joshi SB	IND	3	3	-	45	25	15.00	-	-	-	85	52.94	3	-
Dharmani P	I - 'B'	2	2	-	40	36	20.00	-	-	-	46	86.96	2	-
Harbhajan Singh	IND	3	2	-	40	36	20.00	-	-	-	57	70.18	-	-

TOP BOWLERS

Name	Team	M	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Avg	4W	5W	B-B	R/O	S/R
Sarandeep Singh	I - 'A'	3	162	2	125	9	13.89	-	1	5-57	4.63	18.00
Agarkar AB	I - 'A'	3	162	-	117	7	16.71	-	-	3-55	4.33	23.14
Ganguly SC	IND	3	108	1	108	5	21.60	1	-	4-40	6.00	21.60
Harbhajan Singh	IND	3	174	-	127	4	31.75	-	-	2-30	4.38	43.50
Kartik Murali	I - 'A'	3	125	1	109	4	27.25	-	-	3-30	5.23	31.25
Manohar DS	I - 'A'	2	66	-	56	4	14.00	-	-	3-26	5.09	16.50
Bangar SB	IND	3	138	2	112	3	37.33	-	-	3-43	4.87	46.00
Kumble A	I - 'B'	2	120	-	102	3	34.00	-	-	2-47	5.10	40.00
Pandey S	I - 'B'	2	95	-	124	2	62.00	-	-	1-60	7.83	47.50
Nehra A	I - 'B'	2	120	4	121	2	60.50	-	-	2-66	6.05	60.00
Yohanan T	IND	3	168	2	117	2	58.50	-	-	1-35	4.18	84.00
Zaheer Khan	I - 'A'	3	160	2	116	1	116.0	-	-	1-27	4.35	160.0
Yadav AS	I - 'B'	2	60	-	48	1	48.00	-	-	1-48	4.80	60.00
Bandari A	I - 'B'	1	48	-	44	1	44.00	-	-	1-44	5.50	48.00
Kanitkar HH	I - 'B'	2	24	-	29	1	29.00	-	-	1-29	7.25	24.00
Shewag V	IND	3	24	-	27	1	27.00	-	-	1-27	6.75	24.00

CATCHES/STUMPINGS

Name	M	Ct	St	Team
Ratra A	3	5	-	I - 'A'
Dasgupta D	3	4	-	IND
Gavaskar RS	3	3	-	I - 'A'
Laxman VVS	3	3	-	I - 'A'
Joshi SB	3	3	-	IND
Dharmani P	2	2	-	I - 'B'
Sarandeep Singh	3	2	-	I - 'A'
Yohanan T	3	2	-	IND

Detailed scorecards: Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Final match