Baroda cricket team

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Baroda cricket team
Personnel
CaptainKrunal Pandya
CoachJacob Martin
OwnerBaroda Cricket Association
Team information
Founded1930
Home groundMoti Bagh Stadium
Capacity18,000
History
Ranji Trophy wins5
Irani Trophy wins0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins2
Official websiteBCA

The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Baroda. The home ground of the team is the Moti Bagh Stadium on the palace grounds.

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. Although there are very few notable cricket players in history that have played for this team based in Gujarat, it has begun producing some of the most talented cricketers in India and is particularly noted for its fast bowlers.

Baroda were runners-up in the 2005/06 Ranji Trophy. 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 first Ranji Trophy in 43 years 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.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy[]

Year Position
2010–11 Runner-up
2001–02 Runner-up
2000–01 Winner
1957–58 Winner
1949–50 Winner
1948–49 Runner-up
1946–47 Winner
1945–46 Runner-up
1942–43 Winner

Home grounds[]

Current squad[]

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Kedar Devdhar (1989-12-14) 14 December 1989 (age 32) Right-handed List A captain
Aditya Waghmode (1989-11-08) 8 November 1989 (age 32) Left-handed Right-arm off break
Bhanu Pania (1996-09-04) 4 September 1996 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Shashwat Rawat (2001-04-06) 6 April 2001 (age 20) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Parth Kohli (1996-08-09) 9 August 1996 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Pratyush Kumar (1995-07-01) 1 July 1995 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm medium
All-rounders
Krunal Pandya (1991-03-24) 24 March 1991 (age 30) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class and Twenty20 Captain
Kartik Kakade (1995-07-25) 25 July 1995 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Abhimanyusingh Rajput (1998-05-09) 9 May 1998 (age 23) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Dhruv Patel (1997-09-12) 12 September 1997 (age 24) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Gurjindersingh Maan (1994-09-08) 8 September 1994 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Hardik Pandya (1993-10-11) 11 October 1993 (age 28) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Wicket-keepers
Vishnu Solanki (1992-10-15) 15 October 1992 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Viraj Bhosale (1992-04-04) 4 April 1992 (age 29) Right-handed
Mitesh Patel (1997-05-15) 15 May 1997 (age 24) Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
Bhargav Bhatt (1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 (age 31) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Ninad Rathva (1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 22) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Ansh Patel (2002-02-19) 19 February 2002 (age 19) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Chintal Gandhi (1994-08-25) 25 August 1994 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Pace Bowlers
Lukman Meriwala (1991-12-11) 11 December 1991 (age 30) Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium
Atit Sheth (1996-02-03) 3 February 1996 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Babashafi Pathan (1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Soyeb Sopariya (1994-09-10) 10 September 1994 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm medium

Coaching staff[]

  • Head Coach – Jacob Martin[1]
  • Assistant Coach –
  • Physio –
  • Trainers –

Famous players[]

Irfan Pathan
  • 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
  • Jaykishan Kolsawala

[2]

References[]

  1. ^ "Jacob Martin, former India player with criminal record, named Baroda Ranji coach". India Today. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. ^ Baroda Cricket Hall of Fame Archived 5 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine

External links[]

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