Baroda cricket team

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Baroda cricket team
Personnel
Captain Krunal Pandya
Coach Jacob Martin
Owner Baroda Cricket Association
Team information
Founded1886
Home ground Moti Bagh Stadium
Capacity18,000
History
First-class debut Nawanagar
in 1937
at  Ajitsinhji Ground, Jamnagar
Ranji Trophy  wins5
Irani Trophy  wins0
Vijay Hazare Trophy  wins0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy  wins2
Official website BCA

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.

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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 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 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

Home grounds

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

NameBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleNotes
Batters
Jyotsnil Singh15 December 1997 (age 26)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Shivalik Sharma 28 November 1998 (age 25)Left-handedRight-arm leg break Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Shashwat Rawat 6 April 2001 (age 22)Left-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Kinit Patel16 August 2001 (age 22)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Bhanu Pania 4 September 1996 (age 27)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Dhruv Patel 12 September 1997 (age 26)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Harsh Desai30 October 2002 (age 21)Left-handedRight-arm medium-fast
All-rounders
Abhimanyu Rajput 9 May 1998 (age 25)Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Krunal Pandya 24 March 1991 (age 32)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Captain
Plays for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL
Hardik Pandya 11 October 1993 (age 30)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Wicket-keepers
Vishnu Solanki 15 October 1992 (age 31)Right-handedVice-captain
Mitesh Patel 15 May 1997 (age 26)Right-handed
Anant Bharwad29 April 1995 (age 28)Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
Mahesh Pithiya24 December 2001 (age 22)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Ninad Rathva 10 March 1999 (age 24)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Bhargav Bhatt 13 May 1990 (age 33)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Kartik Kakade 25 July 1995 (age 28)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Pace Bowlers
Atit Sheth 3 February 1996 (age 28)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Lukman Meriwala 11 December 1991 (age 32)Left-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
Soyeb Sopariya 10 September 1994 (age 29)Right-handedLeft-arm medium
Babashafi Pathan 19 August 1994 (age 29)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Akash Singh 26 April 2002 (age 21)Right-handedLeft-arm medium Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL

Updated as on 27 February 2024

Coaching staff

Famous players

Irfan Pathan Irfan Pathan.jpg
Irfan Pathan

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References

  1. "Jacob Martin, former India player with criminal record, named Baroda Ranji coach". India Today. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2018.