cricket
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
competition. It was established in 2009 by the
Board of Control for Cricket in India
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(BCCI) as a 12-team inter-corporate tournament beginning at the start of the Indian cricket season before the start of the
Ranji Trophy
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competition. This tournament was a 50-over a side tournament involving
corporate
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teams. All the top Indian cricketers were expected to play along with academy cricket players and those who play regular domestic cricket in India.
History
The corporate trophy acted as a high-profile starter to the Indian domestic cricket season. The BCCI's prime objective was to promote employment opportunities for domestic cricketers in India's corporate houses. The board invited 12 corporate teams to take part which involved some of India's top
cricketer
Cricket is a Bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball game played between two Sports team, teams of eleven players on a cricket field, field, at the centre of which is a cricket pitch, pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two Bail (cr ...
s.
The winners collected 10 million (204,272) while the runners-up received 5 million (102,109) however, unlike the
Indian Premier League
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(IPL) no foreign players took part.
The tournament initially involved players formerly from the now-defunct
Indian Cricket League
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(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.
The inaugural tournament was won by Air India Red after they beat Air India Blue by 93 runs in the final.
The last edition of the competition was in 2014, the BCCI cited the difficulty of scheduling it in a full cricket calendar as the reason future editions did not take place.
2014 teams
Group A
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Sarvesh Kumar
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Hanuma Vihari
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Sandeep Sharma
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Murali Vijay
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Aniket Choudhary
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Rohit Dahiya
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Vaibhav Deshpande
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Balwinder Sandhu
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Pinal Shah
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Ravikant Shukla
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Jalaj Saxena
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Imtiyaz Ahmed
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Sachin Baby
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Ankit Lamba
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Biplab Samantray
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Aditya Sarwate
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Arpit Vasavada
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Varun Aaron
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Sridharan Sriram
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Unmukt Chand
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Vikramjeet Malik
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Mithun Manhas
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Sumit Narwal
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Ajay Ratra
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Sandeep Sharma
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Suhail Sharma
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Tanmay Srivastava
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Suryakumar Yadav
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Pragyan Ojha
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Manish Pandey
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Niranjan Behera
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A
* Bandaru Ayyappa (born 1992)
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Ashwin Yadav
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Group D
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Yuvraj Singh
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Saurabh Tiwary
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Mandeep Singh
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Dinesh Karthik
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Palani Amarnath
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Subramaniam Badrinath
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Lakshmipathy Balaji
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Balachandra Akhil
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Pavan Deshpande
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Aniruddha Joshi
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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.Air India Red won the tournament by beating Air India Blue by 93 runs in the final.