MUMBAI: eo Cricket brings to its viewers non-stop cricketing action this season with the telecast of premier domestic one-day tournament, NKP Salve Challengers Series 2009 live and exclusive starting from 8th October till 11th October.
Challengers Series is a short tournament of 4 one day matches with plenty of fireworks, featuring current & upcoming cricketers of India. The series is played with the purpose of show-casing the talent that the country has, as well as providing opportunities to younger players to make an impression
India?s best cricketing talents will play against each other at Nagpur this year for the Challenger Series. While Yuvraj Singh will captain the India Red team, Suresh Raina will lead the India Green team and India Blue team will be lead by Mahendra Singh Dhoni whose team also includes the powerhouse performer, Sachin Tendulkar.
TEAMS:
India Red: Yuvraj Singh (captain), M Vijay, Sunny Sohal, Shikhar Dhawan, Ishank Jaggi, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), R Ashwin, Sudeep Tyagi, Munaf Patel, Saurabh Tiwary, Ishant Sharma, Harshad Khadiwale
India Green: Suresh Raina (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Tanmay Srivastava, Irfan Pathan, Ravi Inder Singh, S Badrinath, Chetanya Nanda, Parthiv Patel (wicketkeeper), Manoj Tiwary, Shadab Jakati, L Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pankaj Singh, Uday Kaul
India Blue: MS Dhoni (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Jaffer, Jalaj Saxena, Suresh Kumar, Kedar Jadhav, Abhishek Nayar, Yusuf Pathan, Naman Ojha (possible wicket keeper), Harbhajan Singh, Siddharth Trivedi, Sreesanth, Ashok Dinda, Dhiraj Goswami
Commenting on the live telecast of NKP Salve Challengers Series on NEO Cricket, Mautik Tolia, Head Programming ? NEO Sports Broadcast Pvt. Ltd. said, ? Reiterating our commitment towards bringing our viewers the best of cricketing action on our channel, we will be telecasting the premium one day tournament, Challengers Series from 8th to 11th October. Since this series will be soon followed by the India - Australia ODIs, it will provide the best possible match practice for the Indian players just ahead of the vital series.?
The channel entertained its viewers from 1st to 5th October with live and exclusive cricketing action from the Irani Trophy. Starting 25th October, Neo Cricket is all set to bring to its viewers live action of Australia?s tour of India ODI matches.