The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat. The home ground of the team is the (Moti Bagh Stadium) on the (palace) grounds.
Personnel | |
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Captain | (Krunal Pandya) |
Coach | (Jacob Martin) |
Owner | (Baroda Cricket Association) |
Team information | |
Founded | 1886 |
Home ground | (Moti Bagh Stadium) |
Capacity | 18,000 |
History | |
First-class debut | (Nawanagar) in 1937 at (Ajitsinhji Ground, Jamnagar) |
Ranji Trophy wins | 5 |
(Irani Trophy) wins | 0 |
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins | 0 |
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins | 2 |
Official website | BCA |
The team is run by the (Baroda Cricket Association). It has been one of the most successful teams in the Ranji Trophy in the new millennium.
Baroda were runners-up in the . It is one of three Gujarat Teams, the others being the Saurashtra cricket team and Gujarat cricket team.
Competition history
Baroda has only emerged as a strong team in recent years. It won its last Ranji Trophy in 2000–01, but failed to defend the title, coming runner-up in the next year. This means it has had only one (Irani Trophy) appearance, in which it failed to defeat a strong Rest of India team which contained the likes of VVS Laxman (13 & 148), (Dinesh Mongia) (125 & 90*), (Debashish Mohanty), (Sarandeep Singh) and (Akash Chopra). See Scorecard. It was considered a strong team in the 1940s and 1950s, winning 4 times and coming runner-up twice. Vijay Hazare , Irfan Pathan , Yusuf Pathan , Hardik Pandya are amongst the most prominent cricketers to emerge from Baroda. They have performed exceedingly well at the international level for India.
Honours
- Ranji Trophy
- Winners (5): (1942–43), (1946–47), (1949–50), (1957–58), (2000–01)
- Runners-up (4): (1945–46), (1948–49), (2001–02), (2010–11)
- Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
- Winners (2): (2011-12), (2013-14)
- Runners-up (3): (2015-16), (2021-21), (2023-24)
Home grounds
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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Batters | ||||
Jyotsnil Singh | 15 December 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
(Shivalik Sharma) | 28 November 1998 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
(Shashwat Rawat) | 6 April 2001 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
Kinit Patel | 16 August 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
(Bhanu Pania) | 4 September 1996 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
(Dhruv Patel) | 12 September 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
Harsh Desai | 30 October 2002 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
All-rounders | ||||
(Abhimanyu Rajput) | 9 May 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
(Krunal Pandya) | 24 March 1991 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Captain Plays for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL |
Hardik Pandya | 11 October 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
Wicket-keepers | ||||
(Vishnu Solanki) | 15 October 1992 | Right-handed | Vice-captain | |
(Mitesh Patel) | 15 May 1997 | Right-handed | ||
Anant Bharwad | 29 April 1995 | Right-handed | ||
Spin Bowlers | ||||
Mahesh Pithiya | 24 December 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
(Ninad Rathva) | 10 March 1999 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
(Bhargav Bhatt) | 13 May 1990 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
(Kartik Kakade) | 25 July 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Pace Bowlers | ||||
(Atit Sheth) | 3 February 1996 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
(Lukman Meriwala) | 11 December 1991 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
(Soyeb Sopariya) | 10 September 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
(Babashafi Pathan) | 19 August 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
(Akash Singh) | 26 April 2002 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium | Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL |
Updated as on 27 February 2024
Coaching staff
- Head coach – (Jacob Martin)
- Assistant coach –
- Physio –
- Trainers –
Famous players
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- (Hemu Adhikari)
- (Amir Elahi)
- (Gul Mohammad)
- (Anshuman Gaekwad)
- (Datta Gaekwad)
- (Jayasinghrao Ghorpade)
- Vijay Hazare
- (Nayan Mongia)
- (Rashid Patel)
- Kiran More
- (C. S. Nayudu)
- Yusuf Pathan
- Irfan Pathan
- Munaf Patel
- Zaheer Khan
- Hardik Pandya
- (Krunal Pandya)
- Ambati Rayudu
- (Pinal Shah)
References
- "Jacob Martin, former India player with criminal record, named Baroda Ranji coach". India Today. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
External links
- (archived 18 November 2007)
- Baroda Cricket Team at (CricBuzz)
- ESPNcricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions