The 5th NKP Salve Challenger Trophy was an Indian domestic cricket tournament that was held in Ahmedabad from 15 October to 18 October 1998. The series involved the domestic and national players from India allocated in India Seniors, India A, and India B.
Due to cyclone all the matches were washed out due to rain except for the first match played between India Seniors and India A.'Rain ruins the Challenger series'
No play was possible on the final day, and India A shared the trophy with India B, both getting declared as joint winners.
Squads
India Seniors India A India B Nayan Mongia (c & wk) JP Yadav VVS Laxman Sujith Somasunder Rahul Dravid Hrishikesh Kanitkar Robin Singh Ajit Agarkar Rahul Sanghvi Harbhajan Singh Debashish Mohanty Sairaj Bahutule Mohammad Azharuddin Ajay Jadeja (c) Saba Karim (wk) Gagan Khoda Nikhil Haldipur Amol Muzumdar Jatin Paranjpe Venkatesh Prasad Dodda Ganesh Nikhil Chopra Sunil Joshi Gyanendra Pandey Jacob Martin Sourav Ganguly (c) Sachin Tendulkar Rohan Gavaskar Devang Gandhi Sanjay Raul Amay Khurasiya Vanka Pratap Nekkanti Madhukar Robin Singh Jr KN Ananthapadmanabhan Nilesh Kulkarni MSK Prasad (wk)
Initially, Mohammad Azharuddin was selected to captain India Seniors, but he opted out of the tournament for personal reasons. Nayan Mongia was named as captain of the side, and JP Yadav was included in the squad as his replacement.'Mongia to lead India Seniors after Azharuddin opts out, JP Yadav replaces'
Points Table
Matches Group stage
Final
References