The 12th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Chennai from 1 October to 4 October 2006. The series involved the domestic players from India who were placed accordingly in the teams namely India Blue, India Red, and India Green. From this edition, the names of teams were changed from the previous edition where India Seniors, India A, and India B became India Blue, India Red, and India Green respectively.
The trophy was jointly shared by India Blue and India Red after the final was abandoned due to rain.
Squads
India Blue India Red India Green Rahul Dravid (c) Virender Sehwag Sachin Tendulkar Yuvraj Singh Dinesh Mongia Wasim Jaffer MS Dhoni (wk) Irfan Pathan Ravindra Jadeja Harbhajan Singh Ajit Agarkar Munaf Patel Rudra Pratap Singh
Coach: Ian Frazer Venugopal Rao (c) Gautam Gambhir Robin Uthappa Subramaniam Badrinath Rohit Sharma Tejinder Pal Singh Dinesh Karthik (wk) VRV Singh Sreesanth Ramesh Powar Zaheer Khan Murali Kartik C. Raghu
Coach: Robin Singh Mohammad Kaif (c) Sourav Ganguly Mithun Manhas Hemang Badani Suresh Raina Tanmay Srivastava Piyush Chawla Parthiv Patel (wk) Ashish Nehra Lakshmipathy Balaji Praveen Kumar Reetinder Sodhi Saurasish Lahiri
Coach: Lalchand Rajput
VVS Laxman
Mithun Manhas replaced VVS Laxman in the India Green squad, after he was ruled out due to a strained hamstring ahead of the tournament.
Points Table
Matches Group stage
Final
References