India Blues suffered an embarassing defeat at the hands of the Venugopal Rao led India Red. After starting off well, with Tendulkar and Sehwag laying a quick-n-strong foundation, they faltered to give away the match by 21 runs. Yuvraj was the only other batsman to make any impact with a well-crafted 57.
Now, the Challenger is an interesting tournament. One good performance here has often catapulted players into the big league. Piyush Chawla flumoxxed Tendulkar with his googlie in a previous edition, and immediately grabbed the attention of the nation, and more importantly the selectors. Now Zaheer Khan is not in the same position as Chawla was ( first call vs recall) - but he bowled well within himself today, and returned with figures of 2-34. He may have more importantly, a la Chawla claimed the maestro's wicket in the Challenger. Is Vengsarkar listening?
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