Challenger Trophy, Indian domestic season, 2007-08

As I mentioned many times the selection policy in Indian cricket is pathetic, I was just going through the article published in cricinfo where they have find out some interesting facts about the teams and players of Challenger Trophy. This is the premier one day tournament of best domestic players and as per the BCCI all the players who are selected for the tournament are on the basis of their performance in domestic cricket.

Here is a part of the same article "A day after the national selection committee had picked 42 players for the Challenger Series, the Indian board sent out a clarification: " ... in India Green Team we have wrongly mentioned the name of Satyajit Parab in place of Satyajit Satbhai from Maharashtra CA". They ought to have provided one more clarification, something to the effect of: "We've picked the squads arbitrarily. On-field performances have not influenced our choice whatsoever. Any correlation between performance and selection is unintentional and coincidental." Satbhai, for example, averaged 15.75 with the bat in nine matches last season. I am sure you would like to read more, you can go here to read the full article.