Teams named for Challenger Trophy

Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif and S Badrinath will lead the three teams in the fray for the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy one-day series to be held in Cuttack from Oct 23 to 26, the BCCI said in a press release at Bangalore today. Teams: The series will give chance to players like Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Pathan and Piyush Chawla to impress the selectors. Leg-spinner Amit Mishra and pacer R P Singh, who are in the current India Test squad against australia, are in the India Blue and India Green teams respectively. INDIA BLUES: Yuvaraj Singh (capt), Ajinkya Rahane, Robin Uthappa, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Ravinder Singh, Irfan Pathan, Yogesh Takawale (wk), Ashok Dinda, Pradeep Sangwan, Amit Mishra, Arjun Yadav, Siddarth Trivedi, R Ashwin. INDIA REDS: S Badrinath (capt), M Vijay, F Fazal, Manoj Tiwary, Rohit Sharma, Jaydev Shah, Abhishek Nayar, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Praveen Kumar, L Balaji, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar, Monish Parmar, Parthiv Patel (wk). INDIA GREENS: Mohammad Kaif (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Naman Ojha (wk), Suresh Raina, Cheteshwar Pujara, Saurabh Tiwary, Yusuf Pathan, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manpreet Gony, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Rajat Bhatia, Abhinav Kumar, Pankaj Singh.