Emerging Player Tournament 2009

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A 17-man Australian Institute of Sport squad has been named to take part in the Emerging Players Tournament in Queensland starting on July 20. The group will be coached by Greg Chappell and features several players with a solid base of first-class experience as well as one, Moises Henriques, who has already represented Australia.

AIS squad Tom Cooper, Chris Duval, James Faulkner, Peter Forrest, Peter George, Moises Henriques, Jon Holland, Josh Mangan, Mitchell Marsh, Alister McDermott, Robert Quiney, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Tom Triffitt, Matthew Wade, Rahul Shukla, Nizar Niyas.

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India, New Zealand and South Africa are also a part of the tournament, and have some well known names in their sides.

NEW ZEALAND -Peter Fulton will captain a New Zealand Emerging Players team set to take part in a quadrangular tournament in Australia in July. Fulton and Tim Southee are the only players in the 15-man squad with international experience.

Squad Peter Fulton (capt), Nick Beard, Hamish Bennett, Te Ahu Davis, Colin de Grandhomme, Anaru Kitchen, Tarun Nethula, Jeet Raval, Lance Shaw, Tim Southee, Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson, George Worker, Reece Young.

INDIA -S Badrinath will lead the Indian team in the Emerging Players Tournament to be played in Australia from July 20. Virat Kohli will be the vice-captain of the 16-man squad, announced by the selectors in Chennai on Monday.

The other members in the side with international experience are legspinner Amit Mishra, opener M Vijay, allrounder Abhishek Nayar and Bengal batsman Manoj Tiwary.

India Emerging Players squad: S Badrinath (capt), Virat Kohli (vice-capt), M Vijay, Ajinkya Rahane, Manoj Tiwary, Ishank Jaggi, Abhishek Nayar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, R Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha, Pankaj Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Pradeep Sangwan, Sudeep Tyagi

SOUTH AFRICA - Three out of the 15 - Thandi Tshabalala, Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Vaughn van Jaarsveld - have played international cricket.

South Africa Emerging Players squad: Vaughn van Jaarsveld (capt), Craig Alexander, Farhaan Behardien, Henry Davids, CJ de Villiers, Dean Elgar, Reza Hendricks, Heino Kuhn, Rilee Rossouw, Daryn Smit, Juan Theron, Thandi Tshabalala, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Stiaan van Zyl, Basheeru Walters.

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DAY ONE
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India Emerging Players 4 for 102 (Rahane 43*, Nayar 30, George 2-9) beat Australian Institute of Sports 7 for 101 (Cooper 63*, Tyagi 2-15, Sangwan 2-20) by six wickets

South Africa Emerging Players 130 for 4 (Davids 58*, van Jaarsveld 53) beat New Zealand Emerging Players 8 for 129 (de Grandhomme 49, Elgar 3-21) by six wickets

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DAY TWO
50 over

Australian Institute of Sports 6 for 300 (Smith 125*, Wade 61, Quiney 58) beat New Zealand Emerging Players 110 (Faulkner 3-4, Duval 2-17) by 190 runs
Shaun Tait even got a game taking 1/15 from 3.1 overs - Is this an issue he couldnt finish the over, but have not found anything about him being injured)

South Africa Emerging Players 9 for 214 (Kuhn 46, Smit 45, Tyagi 6-37) beat India Emerging Players 204 (Saha 47, Theron 3-49) by 10 runs