BCCI Corporate Trophy

BCCI Corporate Trophy

Countries	India
Administrator	BCCI
Format	Limited-overs
First edition	2009
Tournament format	Round-robin then knockout
Number of teams	12
Most successful	Air India Red (1 title)

The BCCI Corporate Trophy was an Indian cricket competition. It was established in 2009 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as a 12-team inter-corporate tournament beginning at the start of the Indian cricket season before the start of the Ranji Trophy competition. This tournament was a 50-over a side tournament involving corporate teams. All the top Indian cricketers were expected to play along with academy cricket players and those who play regular domestic cricket in India. ^[1]

History

The corporate trophy acts as a high-profile starter to the Indian domestic cricket season. The BCCI's prime objective is to promote employment opportunities for domestic cricketers in India's corporate houses.^{[ citation needed ]} The board has invited 12 corporate teams to take part which will involve some of India's top cricketers.

The winners collect ₹ 10 million (US$204,272) while the runners-up receive ₹ 5 million (US$102,109) however, unlike the Indian Premier League (IPL) no foreign players would take part.

The tournament initially involved players formerly from the now-defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL). Some of the ICL players said that after the announcement of the Corporate Trophy, they had received calls from their employers asking them to cut ties with the rebel league. ^[2]

The inaugural was won by Air India Red after they beat Air India Blue by 93 runs in the final.

2014 teams

Group A

• Andhra Bank : Arjun Yadav (c), Shoaib Ahmed, Neeraj Bist, Mohammed Khader, Abhinav Kumar, Sarvesh Kumar, Lalith Mohan, Pagadala Naidu, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Ashish Reddy, Naveen Reddy, Ronald Roy Rodrigues, Amol Shinde, Hanuma Vihari
• Chemplast : Hemanth Kumar (c), Mayank Agarwal, V Ashwin, Robin Bist, Piyush Chawla, Napoleon Einstein, H Gopinath, Rajamani Jesuraj, Prasanth Parameswaran, Murthy Prabhu, P Sakthi, Rajagopal Sathish, Sandeep Sharma, Gowjith Subhash, Rangaraj Suthesh, Murali Vijay
• Income Tax (India) : Amol Ubarhande (c), Subramanian Anand, Ajitesh Argal, Sangram Atitkar, Puneet Bisht, Aniket Choudhary, Rohit Dahiya, Jay Desai, Vaibhav Deshpande, Ashish Hooda, Ravi Jangid, Amol Jungade, Iresh Saxena, Bhavik Thaker, Aditya Waghmode
• Indian Oil Corporation : Rajesh Pawar (c), Syed Abbas Ali, Amit Dani, Murtuza Hussain, Paresh Patel, Mandar Phadke, Rohan Raje, Balwinder Sandhu, Pinal Shah, Ravikant Shukla, Vikrant Yeligati

Group B

• Comptroller and Auditor General : Jalaj Saxena (c), Imtiyaz Ahmed, Sachin Baby, Avi Barot, Ankur Julka, Rameez Khan, Ankit Lamba, Bibhudutta Panda, Biplab Samantray, Saurya Sanandiya, Aditya Sarwate, Bravish Shetty, Rituraj Singh, Arpit Vasavada, Shrikant Wagh
• Madras Rubber Factory : Yaleeka Gnaneswara Rao (c), Varun Aaron, Srikkanth Anirudha, Prashanth Chandran, Yalaka Venugopal Rao, Sunil Sam, Thalaivan Sargunam, Sridharan Sriram, Umashankar Sushil, Sandeep Warrier
• Oil & Natural Gas Corporation : Unmukt Chand (c), Amit Bhandari, Prashant Bhandari, Gautam Gambhir, Praveen Kumar, Saurabh Kumar, Vikramjeet Malik, Mithun Manhas, Sumit Narwal, Ajay Ratra, Sandeep Sharma, Suhail Sharma, Tanmay Srivastava
• State Bank of Travancore : Vinan Nair (c), Pallam Anfal, Perumparambath Anthaf, K Chandrasekhara, Sony Cheruvathur, Raiphi Gomez, VA Jagadeesh, Vinod Kumar (cricketer), Abhishek Mohan, Kevin Oscar, Karimuttathu Rakesh, S Ramakrishnan, Chovvakkaran Shahid, Kanakkatharaparambu Sreejith, Chandra Tejas

Group C

• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited : Suryakumar Yadav (c), Kiran Adhav, Swapnil Hazare, Vinit Indulkar, Uday Kaul, Onkar Khanvilkar, Abhishek Nayar, Saurabh Netravalkar, Pragyan Ojha, Manish Pandey, Anup Revandkar, Aavishkar Salvi, Bhavin Thakkar, Rajesh Verma
• Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited : Joginder Singh (c), Sanjay Bamel, Niranjan Behera, Kuldeep Diwan, Satish Kumar, Kamlesh Makvana, Rohit Mehra, NS Negi, Bikas Pati, Sourav Sarkar, Sumeet Sharma, Brijesh Tomar
• Canara Bank : Neravanda Aiyappa (c), Rajoo Bhatkal, G Chaitra, Bharat Chipli, Deepak Chougule, Sunil Joshi, Mansur Ali Khan, David Mathias, Srinivasa Murthy, KB Pawan, C Raghu, B Rajashekhar, Ravikumar Samarth
• State Bank of Hyderabad : Tirumalasetti Suman (c), Alfred Absolem, Akash Bhandari, Khushal Jilla, Ravi Kiran, Pawan Kumar, Daniel Manohar, Anoop Pai, Syed Quadri, Vishal Sharma, Anirudh Singh, M. Srinivas, Bodapati Sumanth, Ashwin Yadav

Group D

• Air India : Yuvraj Singh (c), Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla, Royston Dias, Sushant Marathe, Naman Ojha, RG Pal, Rashmi Parida, Sachin Rana, Sonu Sharma, Pankaj Singh, Paul Valthaty
• Tata Sports Club : Ajit Agarkar (c), Saurabh Tiwary, Mandeep Singh, Sufiyan Shaikh, Satish Gaikwad, Usman Malvi, Arya Moheet, Gaurav Jathar, Ramesh Powar, Nikhil Patil, Shardul Thakur,
• India Cements : Dinesh Karthik (c), Baba Aparajith, Palani Amarnath, Subramaniam Badrinath, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Baba Indrajith, Arun Karthik, Suresh Kumar, Abhinav Mukund, Ramaswamy Prasanna, Rahil Shah, Yo Mahesh
• State Bank of Mysore : Balachandra Akhil (c), Kayan Abbas, Sreenath Aravind, KC Avinash, Pavan Deshpande, Aniruddha Joshi, Anand Katti, MK Manjunath, Syed Nooruddin, C Sasikumar, HS Sharath, Chethan William

2009 tournament

The 1st round takes place from 1–3 September with the 12 teams split into 4 groups of 3. The group winners will play in semi-finals on 5 and 7 September and the final being played on 8 September. The winners will receive Rs 10 million with the runners-up receiving Rs 5 million. ^[1]

Air India Red won the tournament by beating Air India Blue by 93 runs in the final.

Group stages

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Air India Blue	7	2	1	0	1	+3.405
India Revenue	3	2	1	1	0	-1.489
ITC	2	2	0	1	1	-0.120

1 September 2009 Scorecard

Air India Blue	v	ITC

Match abandoned without a ball bowled Punjab CA Stadium, Mohali, India Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and Sanjay Hazare (both IND)

• Groundstaff announced that due to heavy overnight rain in Mohali, the pitch was not playable because of a wet outfield. ^[3]

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2 September 2009 Scorecard

India Revenue 255/8 (50 overs)	v	ITC 249/9 (50 overs)
Avik Chowdhury 110 (158) Mohammed Abid Khan 2/52 (10 overs)		Mohit Sharma 61 (76) Ajinkya Joshi 4/54 (10 overs)

India Revenue won by 6 runs Punjab CA Stadium, Mohali, India Umpires: Sanjay Hazre and Sanjeeva Rao (both IND)

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3 September 2009 Scorecard

Air India Blue 362/1 (42 overs)	v	India Revenue 222/8 (42 overs)
Manvinder Bisla 152 (113) Rakesh Bhadrapur 1/60 (9 overs)		Ameya Srikhande 121 (119) R. P. Singh 2/24 (5 overs)

Air India Blue won by 143 runs (VJD Method) Punjab CA Stadium. Mohali, India Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and Sanjeeva Rao (both IND)

• Match reduced to 42 overs a side

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Oil & Natural Gas	7	2	1	0	1	+1.420
MRF	3	2	1	1	0	-0.752
Bharat Petroleum	2	2	0	1	1	-0.421

1 September 2009 Scorecard

Bharat Petroleum 120/6 (28.3 overs)	v	MRF 191/all out (48.4 overs)
Anup Revandkar 35 (55) Pandian Dharma 3/22 (7 overs)		Gnaneswara Rao 53 (74) Aavishkar Salvi 3/37 (9 overs)

MRF won by 12 runs (VJD Method) ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India Umpires: Shashank Ranade and Suresh Shastri (both IND)

• Bharat Petroleum Corporation were set 133 from 28.3 overs

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2 September 2009 Scorecard

MRF 258/9 (50 overs)	v	Oil & Natural Gas 329/9 (50 overs)
Sridharan Sriram 108 (104) Munaf Patel 3/48 (10 overs)		Gagan Khoda 105 (103) Pandian Dharma 5/75 (8 overs)

Oil & Natural Gas won by 71 runs ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India Umpires: Suresh Shastri and Madanmohan Singh (both IND)

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3 September 2009 Scorecard

Bharat Petroleum	v	Oil & Natural Gas

Match abandoned without a ball bowled [4] ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam, India Umpires: Shashank Ranade and Madanmohan Singh (both IND)

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Tata Sports Club	7	2	1	0	1	+1.972
Indian Oil	4	2	0	0	2	0
AIPSSPB	1	2	0	1	1	-1.972

1 September 2009 Scorecard

AIPSSPB 168/all out (35.4 overs)	v	Tata Sports Club 241/8 (36 overs)
Pankaj Thakur 50 (52) Ajit Agarkar 2/6 (5 overs)		Rohan Gavaskar 93 (87) Rajinder Bisht 2/37 (5 overs)

Tata SC won by 73 runs HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, India Umpires: Krishna Hariharan and Amiesh Saheba (both IND)

• Match Reduced to 36 overs a side

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2 September 2009 Scorecard

AIPSSPB	v	Indian Oil

Match abandoned without a ball bowled HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, India Umpires: Rajesh Deshpandey and Amiesh Saheba (both IND)

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3 September 2009 Scorecard

Indian Oil	v	Tata Sports Club

Match abandoned without a ball bowled HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala, India Umpires: Rajesh Deshpandey and Krishna Hariharan (both IND)

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	NR	NRR
Air India Red	6	2	1	0	1	+0.504
India Cements	4	1	1	15	0	+0u.032
Bharat Sanchar Nigam	2	2	0	1	1	-0.532

1 September 2009 Scorecard

Air India Red 16/1 (2.5 overs)	v	Bharat Sanchar Nigam 258/7 (50 overs)
Suresh Raina 10 (9) Joginder Singh 1/7 (1.5 overs)		Arindam Das 82 (107) Saurabh Netravalkar 2/22 (7 overs)

No Result M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: S Ravi and Shavir Tarapore (both IND)

• Rain in Bangalore caused the match to be abandoned 2.5 overs into the Air India Red innings ^[5]

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2 September 2009 Scorecard

Bharat Sanchar Nigam 228/9 (47 overs)	v	India Cements 253/5 (47 overs)
Anshul Kapoor 51 (72) Hemang Badani 2/26 (7 overs)		Subramaniam Badrinath 90 (108) Niranjan Behera 2/37 (6 overs)

India Cements won by 25 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe and Shavir Tarapore (both IND)

• Match reduced to 47 overs a side ^{[6] [7]}

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3 September 2009 Scorecard

Air India Red 244/3 (43 overs)	v	India Cements 243/9 (47 overs)
Suresh Raina 92 (107) Sudeep Tyagi 2/46 (9 overs)		Subramaniam Badrinath 91 (110) Saurabh Netravalkar 3/48 (9 overs)

Air India Red won by 7 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe and S Ravi (both IND)

• Match reduce to 47 overs aside ^[8]

Knockout stages

Semi-finals

5 September 2009 Scorecard

Air India Red 215/5 (40 overs)	v	Oil & Natural Gas 213/all out (48 overs)
Sushant Marathe 80* (106) Sarandeep Singh 2/36 (10 overs)		Gautam Gambhir 63 (75) Dhawal Kulkarni 3/40 (10 overs)

Air India Red won by 5 wickets [9] M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: Subroto Das and Shavir Tarapore (both IND)

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6 September 2009 Scorecard

Air India Blue 247/5 (43.2 overs)	v	Tata Sports Club 267/all out (49.4 overs)
Chandan Madan 114 (129) Ramesh Powar 2/56 (9 overs)		Nishit Shetty 63 (82) Pankaj Singh 4/41 (10 overs)

Air India Blue won by 5 wickets PCA stadium, Mohali, India Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and Sanjay Hazare (both IND)

• Floodlight failure 27.5 overs (154/1) into the Air India Blue innings caused delay. Air India Blue's target was then revised to 246 from 45 overs ^[10]

Final

8 September 2009 Scorecard [11]

Air India Red 284/8 (50 overs)	v	Air India Blue 191/all out (41.5 overs)
Robin Uthappa 157 (148) Harbhajan Singh 4/55 (10 overs)		Chandan Madan 85 (126) Yuvraj Singh 3/30 (10 overs)

Air India Red won by 93 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India Umpires: Amiesh Saheba and Shavir Tarapore (both IND)

References

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