1999–2000 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 1999/2000
Date	10th - 13th February 2000
Location	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Result	Won by India Seniors
Teams India Seniors India A India B Captains Rahul Dravid Mohammad Azharuddin Ajay Jadeja Most runs VVS Laxman (201) Sridharan Sharath (155) Mohammad Kaif (183) Most wickets Sunil Joshi (6) Nikhil Chopra (6) Amit Bhandari (7) Reetinder Singh Sodhi (3)

The 6th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Ahmedabad from 10 February to 13 February 2000. The series involved the domestic and national players from India who were allocated in India Seniors, India A, and India B. India Seniors defeated India A by 84 runs in the final to become the champions of the tournament.

Squads

India Seniors	India A	India B
Rahul Dravid (c) SS Das VVS Laxman Jacob Martin Robin Singh Anil Kumble Nikhil Chopra Sunil Joshi Sameer Dighe (wk) Harvinder Singh Sodhi Venkatesh Prasad Vinod Kambli	Mohammad Azharuddin (c) Nayan Mongia (wk) Jagadeesh Arunkumar Sridharan Sharath Virender Sehwag Murali Kartik Amit Bhandari Sanjay Bangar T Kumaran Aashish Kapoor Niraj Patel Amit Dani	Ajay Jadeja (c) Nikhil Haldipur Yuvraj Singh Mohammad Kaif Anup Dave JP Yadav Devendra Bundela Reetinder Singh Sodhi Dodda Ganesh Rashmi Parida Ajay Ratra (wk) Debashish Mohanty

Points Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	India Seniors	2	2	0	0	4	0.633
2	India A	2	1	1	0	2	−0.120
3	India B	2	0	2	0	0	−0.516

Source: 'Points Table'

Matches

Group stage

10 February 2000

India Seniors 279 (50 overs)	v	India A 227 (47.3 overs)
SS Das 73 (102) Sanjay Bangar 3/54 (10 overs)		Jagadeesh Arunkumar 72 (90) Anil Kumble 3/34 (9 overs)

India Seniors won by 52 runs. Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Krishna Hariharan (IND) and Jasbir Singh (IND)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Seniors 2, India A 0

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11 February 2000

India B 274/8 (50 overs)	v	India Seniors 275/4 (48.1 overs)
Mohammad Kaif 90 (106) Nikhil Chopra 3/47 (10 overs)		Vinod Kambli 78* (86) Reetinder Singh Sodhi 2/58 (10 overs)

India Seniors won by 6 wickets. Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Ivaturi Shivram (IND) and V.K Ramaswamy (IND)

• India B won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India Seniors 2, India B 0

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12 February 2000

India A 295/5 (50 overs)	v	India B 255 (48.5 overs)
Niraj Patel 70* (62) Dodda Ganesh 1/51 (10 overs)		Mohammad Kaif 93 (117) Amit Bhandari 3/52 (9.5 overs)

India A won by 40 runs. Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Jasbir Singh (IND) and Krishna Hariharan (IND)

• India A won the toss and elected to bat.
• Points: India A 2 , India B 0

Final

13 February 2000

India Seniors 320/9 (50 overs)	v	India A 236/9 (50 overs)
SS Das 114 (120) Amit Bhandari 4/53 (10 overs)		Sridharan Sharath 61 (84) Venkatesh Prasad 3/46 (10 overs)

India Seniors won by 84 runs. Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Umpires: Krishna Hariharan (IND) and V. K. Ramaswamy (umpire) (IND)

• India Seniors won the toss and elected to bat.
• India Seniors became the winners of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 1999/2000.