Baroda cricket team

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The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara. 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 40s and 50s, winning 4 times and coming runner-up twice. Vijay Hazare, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan 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

Famous players

Irfan Pathan

Ref:[1]

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Abhimanyu Chauhan (1986-12-29) 29 December 1986 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Dhiren Mistry (1992-09-05) 5 September 1992 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Ambati Rayudu (1985-09-23) 23 September 1985 Right-handed Right-arm off break Vice-captain
Rakesh Solanki (1985-06-01) 1 June 1985 Left-handed Right-arm off break
Aditya Waghmode (1989-11-08) 8 November 1989 Left-handed Right-arm off break
Saurabh Wakaskar (1991-09-08) 8 September 1991 Left-handed Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
Ketan Panchal (1986-10-04) 4 October 1986 Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Irfan Pathan (1984-10-27) 27 October 1984 Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium
Yusuf Pathan (1982-11-17) 17 November 1982 Right-handed Right-arm off break Captain
Wicket-keepers
Pinal Shah (1987-11-03) 3 November 1987 Right-handed
Kedar Devdhar (1989-12-14) 14 December 1989 Right-handed
Bowlers
Ajitesh Argal (1988-09-21) 21 September 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Firdaush Bhaja (1988-10-08) 8 October 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Bhargav Bhatt (1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Munaf Patel (1983-07-13) 13 July 1983 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Utkarsh Patel (1987-10-11) 11 October 1987 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Gagandeep Singh (1987-06-26) 26 June 1987 Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast
Murtuja Vahora (1985-12-01) 1 December 1985 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Sankalp Vohra (1983-08-24) 24 August 1983 Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast

References

  1. ↑ Baroda Cricket Hall of Fame
  2. ↑ Jitendra Patel's record

External links

Ranji Trophy cricket teams
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