N. K. P. Salve Challenger Trophy

There is a affectionate of aberration about Candid in the country. Humans adulation to see annihilation accompanying to candid anywhere anytime. As there is a deluge of able cricketers in the country, acclimation a clash accompanying to candid is not absolute difficult. Admitting there are endless amount of calm and all-embracing candid tournaments captivated in the country every year, humans attending advanced to anniversary clash with agog interest. Out of several calm candid tournaments captivated in India every year, the N. K. P. Salve Challenger Bays has a appropriate agreeableness because it not alone showcases the abeyant aptitude of the calm akin players; it is an absolute analysis of their all-embracing standards. Read on to accept added about the N. K. P. Salve Challenger Trophy.

History

The Challenger Bays fabricated its admission in India's calm amphitheatre in 1994-95. It was launched befitting in apperception the charge for a superior calm clash in the one-day format. It does not alone advice in befitting the calm akin candid in India animate and active, it aswell gives an befalling to adjudicator the calm teams on the all-embracing parameters. From 1998-99, the clash has been renamed as N. K. P. Salve Challenger Bays in account of above BCCI admiral N. K. P. Salve who was active in bringing the World Cup to the sub-continent in 1987.

Pattern of Play

Though the arrangement of the play is like any added calm one-day abject tournament, what makes this clash adorable is the bold of aptitude amid the civic and calm team. In Challenger trophy, the teams are disconnected into three groups- India Seniors, India A and India B. The senior’s aggregation is fabricated up of the arch players of the civic aggregation while the added two teams accept the country's a lot of able talents in their roster. It is in fact a arduous clash amid 36 a lot of able cricketers of the country in accepted times. In 2006 the names of the aggregation were afflicted India Seniors became India Blue and India A and India B became India Red and India Green, respectively.

Significance

Even admitting the seniors aggregation is usually accepted to airing abroad with the top honors, the youngsters have, on absolutely a few occasions, accustomed the chief pros a acceptable run for their money. The tournament, with its one-day architecture and the aggregation of the best players of the country, aswell becomes one of the a lot of agitative contest in the calm season. It gives the inferior players in the country an befalling to prove their animation over their seniors who are already able players of the Indian civic team.

Challenger Bays Statistics



Year Winning Team


2008-09 India Blue

2007-08 India Blue

2006-07 India Blue/India Red(Joint)

2005-06 India Seniors

2004-05 India A

2003-04 India A

2002-03 Not Played

2001-02 India A

2000-01 India Seniors

1999-00 India Seniors

1998-99 India A / India B (Joint)

1997-98 India Seniors

1996-97 India Seniors

1995-96 India Seniors

1994-95 India Seniors