Karnataka cricket team

Karnataka Cricket Team
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Coach:	K Jeshwanth
Captain:	Vinay Kumar
Founded:	1933
Home ground:	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Capacity:	55,000
Official website:	[1]

Karnataka cricket team is a cricket team that represents the Indian state of Karnataka in domestic first class cricket. One of the strongest teams in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group, it has produced many of the Indian cricket team's leading players throughout its existence. It has won the Ranji Trophy six times and has come second five times (including two runner-up positions for the earlier Mysore team). The team's home ground is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.

Competition history

Karnataka has produced some of the best cricket players from the southern part of India. Its most recent wins were in the 1998/99 season and the 1997/98 season, in which it emerged victorious in its finals against Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh respectively. It also beat the Tamil Nadu cricket team in the Ranji Trophy season of 1995/96. This strong run in the Ranji Trophy was due to the emergence of Rahul Dravid, Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble, all of whom have become long-time players for the Indian national team, being the national team's leading batsman, fast bowler, and spinner in the 1990s and early 21st century. The remainder of its victories were evenly spread in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the Irani Trophy, it has won four times and lost twice against the Rest of India team.

Team showed good performance in 2007-2008 season. As International players had to move in and out of the squad due to their ODI schedules and Test matches clashing, the team could not well adjust with the changes in short period.

A young Karnataka unit performed well in the 2009-2010 season and made it to the finals comfortably. The finals took place in gangothri glades, Mysore where karnataka who had the backing of a charged full house crowd came in with a spirited performance went down to Mumbai by a slender margin of 6 runs. Manish Pandey was the highest scorer of the season with 882 runs from 9 matches.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2009-10	Runner-up
1998-99	Winner
1997-98	Winner
1995-96	Winner
1982-83	Winner
1981-82	Runner-up
1977-78	Winner
1974-75	Runner-up
1973-74	Winner
1959-60	Runner-up
1941-42	Runner-up

Famous players

Anil Kumble, one of the popular cricketers from Karnataka

Rahul Dravid, ex-captain of India

• Raghuram Bhat
• Roger Binny
• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
• Rahul Dravid
• Syed Kirmani
• Anil Kumble
• Budhi Kunderan
• Phiroze Palia
• Brijesh Patel
• Erapalli Prasanna
• Javagal Srinath
• Venkatesh Prasad
• Sunil Joshi
• Robin Uthappa
• R. Vinay Kumar
• M. R. Srinivasaprasad
• Sudhakar Rao
• Gundappa Viswanath
• Vijay Bharadwaj
• Dodda Ganesh
• Sujith Somasunder
• Sadanand Viswanath
• David Johnson
• Abhimanyu Mithun

Current squad

Robin Uthappa

• Vinay Kumar (c)
• Mayank Agarwal
• Neravanda Aiyappa
• SL Akshay
• KP Appanna
• Sreenath Aravind
• Stuart Binny
• Bharat Chipli
• Rahul Dravid
• Muralidharen Gautam
• Abhimanyu Mithun
• Manish Pandey
• Udit Patel
• KB Pawan
• Sunil Raju
• Ganesh Satish
• Robin Uthappa
• Amit Verma

Current under 19 Cricket Team

Practise session of U19 players

Fitness training in KIOC

• Rithesh Devraj (c)
• Sangay Prakash
• Girish K
• Nithin Babu
• Shishir Arjun
• Roshan H
• Ashik Kumar
• Rajesh R
• Amar M V
• Rohith L S
• Dilip S
• Praveen Kumar
• Mahesh Chandra
• Chandra Gowda
• Suchith Jagadeesh
• Abhilash

Best performances of under 19 Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2010-11	Winner
2007-08	Runner Up
2005-06	Winner
2005-06	Winner
2001-02	Winner
1981-82	Participated
1977-78	Winner
1974-75	Participated
1973-74	Participated
1959-60	Runner-up
1941-42	Forth Place

Twenty20 League (KPL)

Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has launched a zonal Twenty20 League to promote Twenty20 in the state of Karnataka called the Karnataka Premier League. The league consists of 10 teams which are from Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Dharwad, Raichur, Tumkur, Shimoga, Bellary, Gulbarga and Belgaum. The teams are: Bangalore Brigadiers, Belagaavi Panthers, Bijapur Bulls, Malnad Gladiators Shimoga, Mangalore United, Mysore Maharaajas, Provident Bangalore, Shamanur Davanagere Diamonds