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 Baroda Cricket Association Stadium
Capacity40,000
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
Shivalik Sharma 28 November 1998 (age 26)Left-handedRight-arm leg break
Shashwat Rawat 6 April 2001 (age 24)Left-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Bhanu Pania 4 September 1996 (age 28)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Jyotsnil Singh15 December 1997 (age 27)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Parth Kohli 9 August 1996 (age 28)Right-handedRight-arm leg break
Nitya Pandya8 April 2006 (age 19)Left-handedRight-arm fast-medium
All-rounders
Krunal Pandya 24 March 1991 (age 34)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Captain
Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL
Atit Sheth 3 February 1996 (age 29)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Ninad Rathva 10 March 1999 (age 26)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Hardik Pandya 11 October 1993 (age 31)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Abhimanyu Rajput 9 May 1998 (age 26)Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Wicket-keepers
Vishnu Solanki 15 October 1992 (age 32)Right-handedVice-captain
Mitesh Patel 15 May 1997 (age 27)Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
Mahesh Pithiya24 December 2001 (age 23)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Bhargav Bhatt 13 May 1990 (age 34)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Chintal Gandhi25 August 1994 (age 30)Left-handedRight-arm leg break
Pace Bowlers
Raj Limbani2 February 2005 (age 20)Left-handedRight-arm medium
Lukman Meriwala 11 December 1991 (age 33)Left-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
Akash Singh 26 April 2002 (age 23)Right-handedLeft-arm medium
Babashafi Pathan 19 August 1994 (age 30)Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast

Updated as on 2 February 2025

Coaching staff

Famous players

Irfan Pathan Irfan Pathan.jpg
Irfan Pathan

References

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