# 2011–12 NKP Salve Challenger Trophy

The 17th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Nagpur from 10 October to 13 October 2011. The series involved the domestic teams from India which were India Blue, India Red, and India Green. India Red and India Green were declared as joint winners, after the final ended in a tie.

## Squads

| India Blue | India Red | India Green |
| Subramaniam Badrinath (c) Dinesh Karthik (wk) Murali Vijay Paul Valthaty Manish Pandey Mandeep Singh Saurabh Tiwary Irfan Pathan Amit Mishra Pragyan Ojha Yaju Krishanatry Prashant Parameshwaran Pradeep Sangwan Tanmay Srivastava | Gautam Gambhir (c) Shikhar Dhawan Abhinav Mukund Ambati Rayudu Ashok Menaria Wriddhiman Saha (wk) Jalaj Saxena Piyush Chawla Bhargav Bhatt Pankaj Singh Jaydev Unadkat TP Sudhindra Yusuf Pathan RP Singh | Harbhajan Singh (c) Robin Uthappa Srikkanth Anirudha Tirumalasetti Suman Mohnish Mishra Ishank Jaggi Mohammad Kaif CM Gautham (wk) Sarabjit Ladda Iqbal Abdulla Abhimanyu Mithun Samad Fallah Ishwar Chaudhary Sumit Narwal |

## Points Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | India Red | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.962 |
| 2 | India Green | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.095 |
| 3 | India Blue | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | −0.960 |

## Matches
### Group stage

* 10 October 2011
| India Blue 274/8 (50 overs) | v | India Red 275/5 (47.3 overs) |
| Subramaniam Badrinath 56 (80) Bhargav Bhatt 2/48 (10 overs) | | Abhinav Mukund 127 (133) Pradeep Sangwan 3/61 (9 overs) |
* India Red won by 5 wickets. Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Chettithody Shamshuddin (IND) and C. K. Nandan (IND) Player of the match: Abhinav Mukund (India Red)
* India Red won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: India Red 4, India Blue 0
* 11 October 2011
| India Green 170 (40.3 overs) | v | India Red 152/2 (29 overs) |
| Robin Uthappa 56 (47) Yusuf Pathan 4/25 (8 overs) | | Abhinav Mukund 61 (70) Ishwar Chaudhary 1/21 (6 overs) |
* India Red won by 8 wickets (VJD method). Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Chettithody Shamshuddin (IND) and Vineet Kulkarni (IND) Player of the match: Abhinav Mukund (India Red)
* India Red won the toss and elected to bat.
* Points: India Red 4, India Green 0
* 12 October 2011
| India Green 348/9 (50 overs) | v | India Blue 269 (41.4 overs) |
| Robin Uthappa 132 (103) Pradeep Sangwan 4/58 (10 overs) | | Saurabh Tiwary 74 (70) Samad Fallah 3/59 (8 overs) |
* India Green won by 79 runs. Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Sundaram Ravi (IND) and Vineet Kulkarni (IND) Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (India Green)
* India Blue won the toss and elected to field.
* Points: India Green 4, India Blue 0

## Final

* 13 October 2011
| India Green 238/8 (50 overs) | v | India Red 238 (49.4 overs) |
| Harbhajan Singh 49* (54) Pankaj Singh 2/44 (10 overs) | | Piyush Chawla 92 (85) Iqbal Abdulla 3/37 (10 overs) Harbhajan Singh 3/37 (10 overs) |
* Match Tied. Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: C. K. Nandan (IND) and Sundaram Ravi (IND)
* India Red won the toss and elected to field.
* The trophy was jointly shared by India Red and India Green after the match ended in tie.