2001–02 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2001/02 [1]
Date	10th - 13th January 2002
Location	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Result	Won by India A
Player of the series	Sarandeep Singh (India A)
Teams India Seniors India A India B Captains Sourav Ganguly VVS Laxman Anil Kumble Most runs Hemang Badani (170) Sangram Singh (114) Dinesh Mongia (133) Most wickets Sourav Ganguly (5) Sarandeep Singh (9) Anil Kumble (3)

The 8th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Bangalore from 10 January to 13 January 2002. The series involved the domestic and national players from India who were allocated in India Seniors, India A, and India B. India A defeated India Seniors by 8 wickets in the final to become the champions of the tournament.^[2]

Squads

India Seniors [3][4]	India A [5][6]	India B [7][8]
Sourav Ganguly (c) SS Das Virender Sehwag Hemang Badani Sanjay Bangar Deep Dasgupta (wk) Harbhajan Singh Sunil Joshi Tinu Yohannan Iqbal Siddiqui Debasis Mohanty Jacob Martin	VVS Laxman (c) Connor Williams Daniel Manohar Rohan Gavaskar Sangram Singh Yuvraj Singh Ajay Ratra (wk) Reetinder Singh Sodhi Murali Kartik Zaheer Khan Ajit Agarkar Sarandeep Singh Sitanshu Kotak	Anil Kumble (c) Mohammad Kaif S Sriram Dinesh Mongia Hrishikesh Kanitkar Arjun Yadav Syed Zakaria Zuffri (wk) Vijay Bharadwaj Pankaj Dharmani (wk) Ashish Nehra Sanjay Pandey Amit Bhandari Devendra Bundela

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India A	2	2	0	0	8	0.748
2	India Seniors	2	1	1	0	4	0.439
3	India B	2	0	2	0	0	−1.254

Source: 'Points Table'

Matches

Group stage

10 January 2002 [9]

India Seniors 229/9 (50 overs)	v	India A 235/8 (47.5 overs)
Hemang Badani 41 (36) Sarandeep Singh 3/36 (9 overs)		Yuvraj Singh 55 (77) Sourav Ganguly 4/40 (10 overs)

India A won by 2 wickets. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: MS Mahal (IND) and Satish Gupta (IND)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India A 4, India Seniors 0

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11 January 2002 [10]

India B 288/7 (50 overs)	v	India Seniors 289/5 (39.5 overs)
Dinesh Mongia 131 (140) Harbhajan Singh 2/53 (10 overs)		Virender Sehwag 125 (93) Ashish Nehra 2/66 (10 overs)

India Seniors won by 5 wickets. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Krishna Hariharan (IND) and SK Sharma (IND)

• India B won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Seniors 4, India B 0
• India Seniors were fined 3 overs for maintaining slow over rate. Hence, their target was 289 runs in 47 overs.

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12 January 2002 [11]

India A 289/7 (50 overs)	v	India B 230 (38.4 overs)
Connor Williams 73 (91) Anil Kumble 2/47 (10 overs)		Mohammad Kaif 69 (68) Sarandeep Singh 5/57 (10 overs)

India A won by 59 runs. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Satish Gupta (IND) and MS Mahal (IND)

• India B won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India A 4, India B 0

Final

13 January 2002 [12]

India Seniors 154 (36 overs)	v	India A 157/2 (32 overs)
Hemang Badani 52 (55) Murali Kartik 3/28 (5 overs)		Sangram Singh 75 (78) Harbhajan Singh 2/30 (9 overs)

India A won by 8 wickets. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Krishna Hariharan (IND) and SK Sharma (IND)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to bat.
• India A became the winners of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2001/02.

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