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    Posted: 10 October 2005 at 1:29pm

It may have escaped the radar but there is some 'proper' cricket going on right now - the Challenger Trophy in Mohali, India. We have an India Seniors team, India A and India B in a one day tournament. The squads for all three teams, most notably, Tendulkar included in the Seniors team:

India Seniors: Tendulkar, Parab, Yuvraj Singh, Kaif (capt), Venugopal Rao, MS Dhoni (wk), Harbhajan Singh, M Kartik, Pathan, Agarkar, Zaheer Khan, Sivaramakrishnan, Jai Yadav

India A: VVS Laxman (capt), Gambhir, Raina, Badani, N Patel, D Jadhav, D Karthik (wk), R Powar, RP Singh, Balaji, S Nadeem, VR Singh, M Tewari

India B: D Mongia (capt), S Dhiwan, R Uthappa, Y Pathan, S Sriram, S Singh, P Patel (wk), S Santh, R Bose, A Bhandari, R Shukla, P Chawla, S Nair

Each team plays each other once before a final. This seems to me to be a decent idea, it gives the up and coming players a chance to pit themselves against the best and gives the selectors a chance to have a good look at them and how they play under pressure.
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India Seniors v India A. Seniors chose to bat and aren't doing fantastically, Yuvraj made 50 but Venugopal Rao has held the innings together, currently 75* and has put on 69 with Agarkar as they move on to 241/6 off of 45 overs.

Tendulkar made just 12 on his comeback.
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289/8, a fine assault off the last 5 overs - Rao fell just short of a 100, 98 from 98 balls but Agarkar remained on 54* off of 41 balls. RP Singh the pick of the bowlers with 2-34 from his 10 overs.
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India A have made a swift start to their reply, although they have lost both their openers. Laxman and Raina currently at the crease and the score is 77/2 off of 12 overs.
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What a game this turned out to be! India A beat the seniors by 1 wicket with 2 balls to spare!
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What a game this turned out to be! India A beat the seniors by 1 wicket with 2 balls to spare!


hmmmmmmm , are you sure The Seniors aren't a bunch of old men JP !!

Imagine if the B team beat both of the others - a selectorial nightmare in the making!!
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What a game this turned out to be! India A beat the seniors by 1 wicket with 2 balls to spare!


hmmmmmmm , are you sure The Seniors aren't a bunch of old men JP !!

Imagine if the B team beat both of the others - a selectorial nightmare in the making!!

I do think the 'Seniors' is a strange name for what is effectively the first team, but the B team is very inexperienced and quite young so it would take something extraordinary for them to win really.

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The seniors are well in charge, chasing down 241, they are currently 209-3 with Yuvraj and Venugopal Rao putting together an unbroken stand of well over 150 and 10 overs to get the runs.
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No problem for the Senior side, with Venugopal making 101* leaving Yuvraj Singh stranded on 99*!
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India B pulled off a great win over India A yesterday to make their way to the final. Despite a century from Laxman, the hero was Robin Uthappa who hit a century himself in ridiculously quick time to ensure a victory that I for one didn't see coming.
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India B pulled off a great win over India A yesterday to make their way to the final. Despite a century from Laxman, the hero was Robin Uthappa who hit a century himself in ridiculously quick time to ensure a victory that I for one didn't see coming.


Doesn't that highlight the lack of depth in the bowling in India?
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Posts: 6232 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 October 2005 at 2:04pm

Originally posted by Sledger

Doesn't that highlight the lack of depth in the bowling in India?

Pretty much, although some normality was resumed in the final as India B were crushed by the Seniors, only making 177 which the Seniors overhauled in 39 overs.

 
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