2005–06 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

The 11th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament, played under List A rules, 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 2005/06
Date	10 – 13 October 2005
Location	Mohali, Punjab, India
Result	Won by India Seniors
Teams India Seniors India A India B Captains Mohammad Kaif VVS Laxman Dinesh Mongia Most runs Venugopal Rao (217) VVS Laxman (158) Robin Uthappa (135) Most wickets Murali Kartik (7) Ramesh Powar (2) Sreesanth (7)

Also, this tournament marked the last time with team names India Seniors, India A and India B, being used.

Squads

India Seniors	India A	India B
Mohammad Kaif (c) Sachin Tendulkar Satyajit Parab Yuvraj Singh Y Venugopal Rao MS Dhoni (wk) 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 (wk) 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 (wk) 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	1.200
2	India Seniors	2	1	1	0	6	0.400
3	India A	2	1	1	0	6	−1.600

Source: 'Points Table'

Matches

Group stage

10 October 2005

India Seniors 289/8 (50 overs)	v	India A 291/9 (49.4 overs)
Y 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: Y Venugopal Rao (India Seniors)

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

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11 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)		Y Venugopal Rao 101* (125) Sreesanth 2/63 (10 overs)

India Seniors won by 8 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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12 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

13 October 2005 [1]

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.