NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2007-08

India Blue v India Green at Ahmedabad

India Blue to take on India Red in Challenger Trophy final

India Blue captain Virender Sehwag on Saturday scored a quickfire 75 to guide his team into the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy final where they will meet India Red.
Thanks to Sehwag's 57-ball knock, which contained 14 boundaries and one six and helped him earn a recall to the Indian ODI team, India Blue beat India Green by 91 runs. The final will be played at the Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium in Motera on Sunday.
India Blue won the toss and piled on 330 for eight wickets in 50 overs and then their bowlers bowled out India Green for 239 in 38.2 overs to win with 11.4 overs to spare. Karthik's knock, however, failed to keep him in the ODI team announced during the day for the first two matches against Pakistan starting November 5.
The selectors, who met here, also ignored Raina's claim for a comeback. He had also scored a fine 92 against India Red Thursday. Also starring for India Blue, Saturday, were off-spinner Ramesh Powar and leg-spinner Amit Mishra who took three wickets apiece while Joginder Sharma took two.

India Blue 330-8 (50.0 overs) beat India Green 239-10 (38.2 overs) by 91 runs

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2007-08

India Blue v India Green at Ahmedabad

Scores

India Blue:

Virender Sehwag b Abdulla 75
Swapnil Asnodkar c Parthiv Patel b Pankaj 8
Arjun Yadav c Pujara b Tiwary 65
Suresh Raina c Tiwary b Chawla 64
Dinesh Karthik b M. Patel 65
Niraj Patel c Tiwary b Chawla 22
Ramesh Powar c M. Patel b Abdulla 0
Joginder Sharma run out (Sharma) 2
Amit Mishra not out 9
Saurabh Bandekar not out 12

Extras: (leg byes 5, wides 3) 8

Total: (for 8 wickets in 50 overs) 330

Fall of wickets: 1-23 (Asnodkar, 5.2 overs), 2-112 (Sehwag, 18.2), 3-197 (Yadav, 30.4), 4-229 (Raina, 35.4), 5-292 (Patel, 43.6), 6-293 (Powar, 44.5), 7-307 (Joginder, 46.1), 8-313 (Karthik, 47.2)

Bowling:

Munaf Patel 10 1 52 1 (1w)
Pankaj Singh 9 0 54 1
Abhishek Nayar 3 0 35 0 (1w)
Piyush Chawla 10 0 60 2
Iqbal Abdulla 9 0 56 2
Yusuf Pathan 4 0 26 0
Manoj Tiwary 3 0 25 1
Rohit Sharma 2 0 17 0

India Green:

Yusuf Pathan c Asnodkar b Joginder 6
Srikkanth Anirudha b Joginder 13
Parthiv Patel run out (Joginder) 53
Rohit Sharma st Karthik b Powar 48
Manoj Tiwary b Powar 16
Abhishek Nayar c Karthik b Mishra 22
Cheteshwar Pujara c sub b Powar 4
Piyush Chawla lbw b Mishra 18
Iqbal Abdulla not out 14
Pankaj Singh c Patel b Mishra 10
Munaf Patel c Patel b Raina
Extras: (b 2, w 15, nb 7) 24
Total: (all out in 38.2 overs) 239

Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Pathan, 2.2 overs), 2-46 (Anirudha, 6.4), 3-127 (Patel, 19.4), 4-131 (Sharma, 20.0), 5-174 (Tiwary, 24.3), 6-178 (Nayar, 25.3), 7-185 (Pujara, 28.2), 8-204 (Chawla, 31.5), 9-224 (Pankaj, 36.1)

Bowling:

Joginder Sharma 5 0 29 2 (2w)
Yo Mahesh 6 0 48 0 (1nb, 1w)
Saurabh Bandekar 4.3 0 44 0 (1nb, 1w)
Ramesh Powar 10 0 45 3 (1nb, 7w)
Amit Mishra 10 0 50 3
Virender Sehwag 2.3 0 21 0
Suresh Raina 0.2 0 0 1

Result: India Blue win by 91 runs
Man of the Match: Virender Sehwag