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What is Challenger's trophy? Well, its a short tournament of 4 one day matches with plenty of fireworks and features current & upcoming cricketers of India.. a domestic oneday tournament started in 1994, NKP Challengers trophy is its full name and is played every year in the month of October.

Consistent performance by Suresh Raina & heroics in finals by Dinesh Karthik - India Blue won the tournament in 2007 whereas 2006 version didn't yeild a result and India Blue + India Red were awarded as the champions. more history.

2008 edition of NKP Salve Challengers trophy will be played at Cuttack in Orissa state and following is a list of important informations fans of Indian domestic cricket (like you and I) might be looking for..

Schedule
Like I said - only 4 match tournament, starting with India Blue vs India Red on 23 October 2008, then India Green vs India Red on 24th, India Blue vs India Green on 25th and the final of Challenger trphy 2008 will be played on October 26.

Telecast
Nimbus communication has the telecast rights for all domestic cricket played in India and thus - NKP Salve Challengers trophy will be live on their channel Neosports aka Neocricket.. in India. Internationally - same Neosports is the broadcaster channel but it's highly unlikely that any sports channel will show this domestic tournament in India.

Squads

NKP Salve Challengers cup trophy 2008 squads
India Blue	India Red	India Green
Yuvraj Singh (capt)	S. Badrinath (capt)	Mohammad Kaif (capt)
Ajinkya Rahane	Murali Vijay	Shikhar Dhawan
Robin Uthappa	F Fazal	Naman Ojha
Virat Kohli	Manoj Tiwary	Suresh Raina
Dinesh Karthik (wk)	Rohit Sharma	Cheteshwar Pujara
Irfan Pathan	Jaydev Shah	Saurabh Tiwary
Amit Mishra	Abhishek Nayar	Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Ravinder Singh	Wriddhiman Saha (wk)	Manpreet Goni
Yogesh Takawale	Parthiv Patel (wk)	Rudra Pratap Singh
Ashok Dinda	Praveen Kumar	Pragyan Ojha
Pradeep Sangwan	Laxmipati Balaji	Rajat Bhatia
Arjun Yadav	Piyush Chawla	Abhinav Kumar
Siddarth Trivedi	Vinay Kumar	Pankaj Singh
R Ashwin	Monish Parmar	Yusuf Pathan

Match Tickets
I'm afraid that tickets for challengers trophy cricket 2008 won't be available online for the simple reason that not many fans are expected to travel from outer states and watch the match. Tickets will be available at the stadium counter all throughout the 4 matches everyday. Please note the cuttack cricket ground's address and contact details below..

Address : Orissa cricket association, Barabati stadium, Cuttack, Orissa Pin - 753005. Phone : 0671-2302742, Fax = 0671-2301702, Email : orissacricket@yahoo.co.in & official website : www.orissacricket.org

Match Timings
All the matches will be played as Day-Night one day matches (not regarded as one day internationals or ODI) so they will be starting at 2.30pm or 1430hrs india time. match of challengers trophy 2008 will be finishing around 10pm to 11 pm.

Previous Challengers trophy tournaments
India seniors (now known as India blue) have won Challengers trophy 8 times whereas they were joint winners on two occasions. India A have won it 3 times out of 14 tournaments played and only in year 2002 when the this triseries wasn't played. detailed history.

Match Live Scores
You can get all the latest and live scores of all the matches of challengers trophy here at itsonlycricket.com but if, due to some technical issues we are not able to bring you the match scores - try www.cricinfo.com or www.cricbuzz.com who also do a running commentary of all important domestic matches in India.

Indian domestic tournament : NKP Salve Challengers Cup 2008

Profiles of players in Challenger series 2008 squad.

Match 1 : Easy win for India Blue over India Red

Match 2 : India Red beat India Green to keep hopes alive

Match 4 : India Blue wins Challengers Cup 2008.