India A cricket team also known as India Red (NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

Challenger 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...

) is an Indian national cricket team representing the second tier of Indian Cricket. Under the name of India Red it takes part against the India Blue and India Green (India B) in the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

Challenger 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...

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Under the name of India, it takes part in the Emerging Players Tournament. THe current captain is Subramaniam Badrinath

Subramaniam Badrinath

Subramaniam Badrinath is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed middle order batsman. Badrinath has represented India in One Day International matches. In first class cricket, he captains Tamil Nadu and in the Indian Premier League, he plays for Chennai Super Kings. He has also represented...

. It won the most recent (2009) Emerging Players Tournament by defeating South Africa A

South Africa A cricket team

The South Africa A cricket team is a national cricket team representing South Africa. It is the 'second-tier' of international South African cricket, below the full South Africa national cricket team. Matches played by South Africa A are not considered to be Test matches or One Day...

Current squad

For Emerging players Tournament 2009



Subramaniam Badrinath

Subramaniam Badrinath

Subramaniam Badrinath is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed middle order batsman. Badrinath has represented India in One Day International matches. In first class cricket, he captains Tamil Nadu and in the Indian Premier League, he plays for Chennai Super Kings. He has also represented...

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Murali Vijay

Murali Vijay

Murali Vijay Krishna is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman for Tamil Nadu, Chennai Super Kings and India.-Test career:...

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Ajinkya Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane

Ajinkya Rahane is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman, who represents India in international competitions. In local competitions Ajinkya represents Mumbai & Mumbai Indians...

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Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli ,born 5 November 1988 in Delhi) is an Indian international cricketer. He is a middle order batsman, who can also open the batting. He can also bowl right arm medium pace. Kohli was the captain of the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia...

(Vice-Captain),
Manoj Tiwary,
Ishank Jaggi

Ishank Jaggi

Ishank Jaggi is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who plays for Jharkhand. He was born in Bacheli.He was brought up in Jamshedpur and has completed his education from D.B.M.S English School Jamshedpur.Jaggi began his youth career playing with Bihar's...

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Abhishek Nayar

Abhishek Nayar

Abhishek Mohan Nayar is an Indian international cricketer. He plays first class cricket for Mumbai and also represents Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. He is selected for West Indies tour in 2009. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace.Abhishek was...

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Bhuvneshwar Kumar,
R Ashwin,
Murali Karthik,
Wriddhiman Saha

Wriddhiman Saha

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Naman Ojha

Naman Ojha

Naman Vinaykumar Ojha is an Indian first-class cricketer. He represents Madhya Pradesh in first-class cricket. He is a wicket keeper and a hard hitting batsman. He represented Rajasthan Royals in the 2009 Indian Premier League in South Africa. He opened the batting for the Royals and played some...

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Pankaj Singh

Pankaj Singh

Pankaj Singh is an Indian first-class cricketer. He was born in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Pankaj is a fast bowler. He was selected to the Indian test cricket squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series of 2007-08 in Australia, but was not selected to play....

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Dhawal Kulkarni

Dhawal Kulkarni

Dhawal Sunil Kulkarni is an Indian first class cricketer. He is a right arm medium-pace bowler and right-handed lower order batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Mumbai and in the Indian Premier League, he plays for Mumbai Indians...

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Pradeep Sangwan

Pradeep Sangwan

Pradeep Sangwan is an Indian cricketer, who represents Delhi in first-class cricket,-Career:Sangwan is a left arm medium pace bowler. He is quite handy with the bat as well.-Under 15:...

 
Sudeep Tyagi

Sudeep Tyagi

Sudeep Tyagi is an Indian international cricketer. He is a right arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed lower order batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Uttar Pradesh. In the Indian Premier League, he represents Chennai Super Kings...

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