The Challengers

India Red	India Green	India Blue
Mohammad Kaif (captain) (UPCA)	Parthiv Patel (captain) (Gujarat)	Virender Sehwag (captain) (DDCA)
Karan Goel (Punjab)	Cheteshwar Pujara (Saurashtra)	Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai)
Gautam Gambhir (DDCA)	Rohit Sharma (Mumbai)	Dinesh Karthik (TNCA)
S Badrinath (TNCA)	Murali Kartik (Railway)	Suresh Raina (UPCA)
Virat Kohli (DDCA)	Manoj Tiwary (Bengal)	Neeraj Patel (Gujarat)
Ravneet Ricky (Punjab)	Yusuf Pathan (Baroda)	Arjun Yadav (Hyderabad)
Praveen Kumar (UPCA)	Abhishek Nair (Mumbai)	Joginder Sharma (Haryana)
Mahesh Rawat (w/k) (Haryana)	Niranjan Behra (Orissa)	Ramesh Powar (Mumbai)
Pragyan Ojha (Hyderabad)	Iqbal Abdullah (Mumbai)	Amit Mishra (Haryana)
Sidharth Trivedi (Gujarat)	Pankaj Singh (Rajasthan)	Yo Mahesh (TNCA)
Ishant Sharma (DDCA)	Munaf Patel [Images] (Maharashtra)	Randeb Bose (Bengal)
Penal Shah (Baroda)	Gagandeep Singh (Punjab)	Swapnil Asnodkar (Goa [Images])
Srikant Munde (Maharashtra)	Anirudh Srikant (TNCA)	Rakesh V Dhruv (Saurashtra)
Paresh Patel (Orissa)	Satyajeet Parab (Maharshtra)	Saurav Bandekar (Goa)
Coach: Lalchand Rajput	Coach: Venkatesh Prasad	Coach: Praveen Amre

Match Schedule:
Oct 25: India Red v/s India Blue
Oct 26: India Green v/s India Red
Oct 27: India Green v/s India Blue
Oct 28: Final

All in all ,not a bad selection at all.

The selectors have done well to play those India players who have not had much match practice during the current Australia tour while resting those who have been playing non-stop ( through the Twenty 20s and the 7 ODI set).

The selection also gives the India players pause between the end of the Australia series ( Oct 17) through the beginning of the Pakistan series ( Nov 6).

All in all, a job well done.

Credibility

I read this first on the Fox Sports site

IF Andrew Symonds wasn't such a gentle fellow, India's Shanthakumaran Sreesanth's nose would probably be plastered all over his leering face.

The Hindu and occasionally Christian bowler can thank all his gods that the secular Queenslander is a man of peace and tranquility.

which pretty much says everything that had to be said about the credibility of the article.

Then the Sydney Morning Herald picked on the story

Sources within the Australian team say the Indian squad member made several aggressive gestures towards the visiting batsmen during their unsuccessful run chase, most of which were ignored.

But Sreesanth's attempt to goad Symonds after his late-innings dismissal - apparently by clapping in the Australian's face, followed by a few choice words - sparked a heated confrontation, with Clark moving in to separate the warring factions. Sreesanth denied clapping in Symonds's face or goading him. He admitted he said, "Hard luck, you're going to lose" to Symonds.

Sources within the Australian team talking to an Australian journalist about their pet peeve - taken with a ladleful of salt

None of the Indian media outlets have reported on this "incident" thus far. Cricinfo had George Binoy on the ground and Anand Vasu and Sriram Veera doing the ball by ball commentary. Nothing about this "incident" has been mentioned in the ball by ball commentary or the post match reports.

Imagine my surprise then, as unnamed "Cricinfo staff" deem it a story worthy of the main page of their web site...

S Sreesanth, India's fast bowler, has denied clapping in the face of Andrew Symonds after he was dismissed in the fourth one-day match on Monday. Sreesanth, a 12th man in Chandigarh, reportedly had to be calmed down by Stuart Clark, who was also running the drinks, when Symonds was approached between the field and the entry to the dressing room.

Sreesanth has had an eventful series after targeting the Australians with his strange behaviour and he apparently continued to argue with Symonds and his team-mates after the eight-run loss. Despite not playing, Sreesanth went to Symonds as he walked off with 75 and observers said he clapped in the batsman's face.

Strange behavior indeed!!