Baroda cricket team

Baroda cricket team
Captain: Aditya Waghmode
Coach: Tushar Arothe
Owner: Baroda Cricket Association
Founded: 1930
Home ground: Moti Bagh Stadium
Capacity: 45,000
Ranji Trophy wins: 5
Irani Trophy wins: 0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: 0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins: 2

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

Home grounds

Famous players

Irfan Pathan

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
18 Kedar Devdhar 14 December 1989 Right-handed Opening Batsmen
Dhiren Mistry 5 September 1992 Right-handed Right-arm off break
9 Ambati Rayudu 23 September 1985 Right-handed Right-arm off break FC 100s : 15
Aditya Waghmode 8 November 1989 Left-handed Right-arm off break Captain
Pacer All-rounders
56 Irfan Pathan 27 October 1984 Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium FC Wkts : 300+
Hardik Pandya 11 October 1993 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Spinner All-rounders
28 Yusuf Pathan 17 November 1982 Right-handed Right-arm off break FC Wkts : 150+; T20 100/50: 1/16
Deepak Hooda 19 April 1995 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Krunal Pandya 24 March 1991 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
Pinal Shah 3 November 1987 Right-handed
Bowlers
8 Munaf Patel 13 July 1983 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast T20 Avg: 22
13 Bhargav Bhatt 13 May 1990 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Sagar Mangalorkar 19 September 1990 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Lukman Meriwala 11 December 1991 Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium
Gagandeep Singh 26 June 1987 Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast
Swapnil Singh 22 January 1991 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Murtuja Vahora 1 December 1985 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast

Coaching Staff

References

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

External links

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