NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2007/08 [1]
Date	25th – 28th October 2007
Location	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Result	Won by India Blue
Player of the series	Suresh Raina (India Blue)
Teams India Blue India Red India Green Captains Virender Sehwag Subramaniam Badrinath Parthiv Patel Most runs Suresh Raina (206) Subramaniam Badrinath (178) Manoj Tiwary (81) Most wickets Amit Mishra (8) Praveen Kumar (9) Iqbal Abdulla (4)

The 13th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Ahmedabad from 25 October to 28 October 2007. The series involved the domestic teams from India which were India Blue, India Red, and India Green. India Blue defeated India Red by 6 wickets in the final to become the champions of the tournament.^[2]

Squads

India Blue [3]	India Red [4]	India Green [5]
Virender Sehwag (c) Ajinkya Rahane Dinesh Karthik (wk) Suresh Raina Niraj Patel Arjun Yadav Joginder Sharma Ramesh Powar Amit Mishra Yo Mahesh Ranadeb Bose Swapnil Asnodkar Rakesh Dhruv Saurabh Bandekar	Mohammad Kaif (c) Gautam Gambhir Karan Goel Subramaniam Badrinath Virat Kohli Ravneet Ricky Praveen Kumar Mahesh Rawat (wk) Pragyan Ojha Siddharth Trivedi Ishant Sharma Pinal Shah (wk) Shrikant Mundhe Paresh Patel	Parthiv Patel (c & wk) Cheteshwar Pujara Rohit Sharma Piyush Chawla Manoj Tiwary Yusuf Pathan Abhishek Nayar Niranjan Behera Piyush Chawla Iqbal Abdulla Pankaj Singh Munaf Patel Gagandeep Singh Srikkanth Anirudha Satyajit Satbhai Murali Kartik

• Piyush Chawla replaced Murali Kartik in the India Green squad, after he was given rest by the selectors.^[6]

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India Blue	2	2	0	0	8	0.397
2	India Red	2	1	1	0	4	0.617
3	India Green	2	0	2	0	0	−1.001

Matches

Group stage

25 October 2007 [7]

India Blue 246 (50 overs)	v	India Red 234/8 (50 overs)
Suresh Raina 92 (100) Praveen Kumar 4/42 (10 overs)		Mahesh Rawat 47 (64) Joginder Sharma 3/30 (10 overs)

India Blue won by 12 runs. Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: Arani Jayaprakash (IND) and AY Gokhale (IND) Player of the match: Suresh Raina (India Blue)

• India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Blue 4, India Red 0

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26 October 2007 [8]

India Red 303/7 (50 overs)	v	India Green 215 (47 overs)
Subramaniam Badrinath 82* (79) Pankaj Singh 2/37 (8 overs)		Manoj Tiwary 65 (71) Praveen Kumar 5/45 (9 overs)

India Red won by 88 runs. Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: Sameer Bandekar (IND) and Shashank Ranade (IND) Player of the match: Subramaniam Badrinath (India Red)

• India Red won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Red 4, India Green 0

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25 October 2008 [9]

India Blue 330/8 (50 overs)	v	India Green 239 (38.2 overs)
Virender Sehwag 75 (57) Piyush Chawla 2/60 (10 overs)		Parthiv Patel 53 (50) Ramesh Powar 3/45 (10 overs)

India Blue won by 91 runs. Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: Arani Jayaprakash (IND) and Sameer Bandekar (IND) Player of the match: Virender Sehwag (India Blue)

• India Blue won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Blue 4 , India Green 0

Final

26th October 2008 [10]

India Red 269 (49.3 overs)	v	India Blue 270/4 (41 overs)
Gautam Gambhir 82 (77) Amit Mishra 3/45 (10 overs)		Dinesh Karthik 116* (91) Shrikant Mundhe 1/34 (5 overs)

India Blue won by 6 wickets. Sardar Patel Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad Umpires: Arani Jayaprakash (IND) and Sameer Bandekar (IND) Player of the match: Dinesh Karthik (India Blue)

• India Red won the toss and elected to bat.
• India Blue became the winners of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2007/08.

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