Andhra Pradesh cricket team

The Andhra Pradesh cricket team is an Indian domestic cricket team representing the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The team's home ground is the APCA-VDCA Stadium at Visakhapatnam, but some of their home matches are also played at Vijayawada and Anantapur.^[2]

Overview

It has never featured in a Ranji Trophy final and has therefore never had a chance to participate in the Irani Trophy. In the 2007/08 season Andhra achieved two wins out of six in the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy, missing out of the semi-finals. It falls under the South Zone of Indian cricket. In the 2007-08 season, the Andhra Pradesh cricket team was captained by Mannava Prasad. The contingent also included Arjun Kumar, Mohammad Faiq, Sarath Babu and Paidikalva Vijaykumar.^[2]

In a recent match held in February 2013 in Goa, Andhra Pradesh played an outstanding game to beat the host team Goa by an embarrassing 170-run in the South Zone meet at the Vijay Hazare (Vijay Hazare Trophy) National One Day Championship. Played with superb all round batting and ferocious bowling, Andhra Pradesh scored 261 for six in 50 overs with the star player of the game, K.S. Bharat notching up 125 runs. Likewise, the Goa team saw a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Andhra bowlers at just 91 in 25.4 overs.^[3]

Andhra finished seventh in the 2013-14 Ranji Trophy season, winning just one game. In limited-overs tournaments, the results were equally middling. In the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, they finished last in the South Zone group and failed to progress to the Super League. Although their Vijay Hazare campaign also ended on a similar note, Andhra were third on the South Zone table, behind Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Home Ground

Famous players

• Danthala Venkata Meher Baba
• Mannava Prasad
• Venugopal Rao
• Ambati Rayudu
• Amol Muzumdar

Current squad

• The following players featured in at least one first-class, list A or Twenty20 game for Andhra during the 2012/13 season.
• denotes players with international caps.

Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Captain
Mohammad Kaif	India	(1980-12-01) 1 December 1980	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Vice-captain
DB Prasanth Kumar	India	(1991-12-13) 13 December 1991	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	Vice-captain
Batsmen
Murumulla Sriram	India	(1992-09-21) 21 September 1992	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Ricky Bhui	India	(1996-09-29) 29 September 1996	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
AG Pradeep	India	(1987-01-13) 13 January 1987	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Bodapati Sumanth	India	(1988-05-10) 10 May 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Koripalli Sreekanth	India	(1992-11-23) 23 November 1992	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Wicket-keepers
Srikar Bharat	India	(1993-10-03) 3 October 1993	Right-handed	—
All-rounders
K. Bharat Reddy	India	(1989-10-02) 2 October 1989	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
D. Siva Kumar	India	(1990-02-11) 11 February 1990	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
Spinners
Shaik Basha	India	(1993-05-22) 22 May 1993	Right-handed	Right arm off break
D. Naren Reddy	India	(1994-12-14) 14 December 1994	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Bodavarapu Sudhakar	India	(1991-07-25) 25 July 1991	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Dasari Swaroop Kumar	India	(1986-05-07) 7 May 1986	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Fast-Bowlers
Tekkami Atchuta Rao	India	(1986-08-21) 21 August 1986	Left-handed	Left arm medium
Kakani Harish	India	(1991-05-19) 19 May 1991	Right-handed	Right arm medium
Paidikalva Vijaykumar	India	(1986-10-20) 20 October 1986	Right-handed	Right arm medium
CV Stephen	India	(1993-12-03) 3 December 1993	Left-handed	Left arm medium

Coaching Staff

• Head coach - Ramakrishnan Sridhar
• Bowling Coach - Krishna Rao
• Fielding coach - Thomson Charles
• Physio - Ronak Hosabettu
• Manager - M S Kumar

References