The Challenger series is sandwiched between the Indian team’s return from Malaysia and the commencement of the ICC Champions Trophy, in India, beginning October 7. The Challenger trophy has been renamed Challenger Series for the NKP Salve Trophy and will be held from Oct 1 to Oct 4. Sourav Ganguly and Zaheer Khan will be seen in action in the Challenger Trophy tournament in Chennai next week. The national selectors included them in the ‘India Green’ and ‘India Red’ teams respectively.
V V S Laxman, Ashish Nehra and Laxmipathy Balaji also get a chance to prove their credentials in the three-team tournament, which has ‘India Blue’ as the third team. India Blue will be led by Rahul Dravid, while Venugopal Rao and Mohammad Kaif will captain the Red and Green teams respectively.
Telecast:
The Challenger Series, like last year’s edition, will be telecast live in the UK through Sky Sports, Fox Sports in Australia, Super Sport in Africa, Astro in Malaysia and on the internet through Willow TV. In India, the Challenger Trophy matches will be telecast live on Doordarshan. In India, the Challenger Trophy matches will be shown on Neo Sports, the channel of Nimbus group.
For US and Canada, there is no official word so far but more than likely Dishnetwork in US and ATN’s CBN in Canada will be showing it live. For US and Canada, no one is showing it on TV but Dishnetwork is offering the telecast through Willow TV on internet. Read here for more details.
Teams:
India Blue: Rahul Dravid (captain), Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Mongia, Wasim Jaffer, M S Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Ajit Agarkar, Munaf Patel, Rudra Pratap Singh, Ravinder Jadeja. Coach: Ian Frazer
India Red: Vengupal Rao (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, S Badrinath, Rohit Sharma, T P Singh, D Karthik, V R V Singh, S Sreesanth, Ramesh Powar, Zaheer Khan, Murali Karthik, C Raghu. Coach: Robin Singh
India Green: Mohammad Kaif (captain), Sourav Ganguly, V V S Laxman, Hemang Badani, Suresh Raina, Tanmay Srivastav, Piyush Chawla, Parthiv Patel, Saurasish Lahiri, Ashish Nehra, Laxmipathy Balaji, Pravin Kumar, R S Sodhi. Coach: Lalchand Rajput.
Fixtures:
October 1: India Blue vs India Red
October 2: India Blue vs India Green
October 3: India Red vs India Green
October 4: Final
So now Saurav has to play under Kaif, somebody whom he groomed. One may say anything about Ganguly’s batsmanship but one has to admire the man’s mental attitude apart from his captaincy.
Hope he plays well if selected.
Well the thing is that Ganguly was an exceptional batsman and the best Indian captain ever. But his days with the bat seems to be over, he has been in the worst of form for the last one year. Also his spat with Chappel didn’t do him any good.
I don’t see him making a comback into the Indian team unless he starts making centuries in all the Ranji matches he plays. He should have left at the top while the going was still good.
Ganguly is a great batsman and we cant forget him for his captaincy and his game in past.
Just he was out of form for a few months and now he should be back.
I hope he plays well in the trophy and get selected…
I would like to say one thing that Indians are known as ahsan framosh. Everybody seems to forget that this is the guy who put a brave heart in Indian players as they were known to be dead, chokers etc, etc…..
I’m confident if he given atleast 8-10 chances in one day internationals he is going to show the world that he is a victim of plitics !
Just because of politice in cricket in India a great player & great batsman sitting out of the team, he is the man who created hopes for indian to win the world cup, & under his captaincy india become a runners up in world cup’2003, shared winner of champoions trophy with sri lanka,under his captiancy only india become the second best team in india & now just bcoz of he is not in form they kicked him out seriously not fair with this guy…shame on indian cricket….
Just because of politics in cricket in India a great player & great batsman sitting out of the team, he is the man who created hopes for indian to win the world cup, & under his captaincy india become a runners up in world cup’2003, shared winner of champoions trophy with sri lanka,under his captiancy only india become the second best team in world & made many new world records under his captaincy only & now just bcoz of he is not in form they kicked him out seriously not fair with this guy…shame on indian cricket
I just checked doordharshan channels and the matches are not ‘live’ as mentioned here.
Hi
Badly want to watch the match but cannot find it on any channel. If some is watching it please let the rest of us know ASAP!!!!
Cheers,
On which channel matches are being telecast ?
Yes Pure Politics keeps Saurabh away from the Team India .
As i am sure Kiran more has done lot of damage to Indian Cricket with the help of Greg and some extent of Rahul Also as being a captain he should have forced his point for saurabh.
And i am dam sure Virendra Sahewag is in team only cze Coach and Captain feels he is good and not sure for how many more yrs they will give him chances.Which saurabh would have been deserved.
Thanks atlast we can see a gr8 criket knowledgable man on the seat AS A CHEIF selector.
Good bye kiran and hope will not see you as a selector in future .
Thanks
Anil.
hello
i want to know site whic shows free streaming and tht too live doordarshan on internet