South Zone cricket team
Appearance
The South Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents southern India in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and previously in Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy also. It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana. South Zone has the third strongest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 11 times, with the best team, North Zone having won 17 times.
Current squad
Name | Domestic team | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Notes |
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Batsmen | |||||
Vijay Shankar | Tamil Nadu | 26 January 1991 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium pace | Vice-Captain |
Tanmay Agarwal | Hyderabad | 3 May 1995 | Left-handed | ||
Mayank Agarwal | Karnataka | 16 February 1991 | Right-handed | ||
Ricky Bhui | Andhra | 29 September 1996 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | |
Hanuma Vihari | Andhra | 13 October 1993 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | |
All-rounders | |||||
Pavan Deshpande | Karnataka | 16 September 1989 | Left-handed | Right arm off break | |
Basil Thampi | Kerala | 11 September 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium pace | |
Wicket-keepers | |||||
Vishnu Vinod | Kerala | 2 December 1993 | Right-handed | ||
Dinesh Karthik | Tamil Nadu | 1 June 1985 | Right-handed | - | |
Bowlers | |||||
Vinay Kumar | Karnataka | 12 February 1984 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | Captain |
Rahil Shah | Tamil Nadu | 20 October 1985 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
Murugan Ashwin | Tamil Nadu | 8 September 1990 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | |
Dasari Swaroop Kumar | Andhra | 7 May 1986 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break and googly | |
Chama Milind | Hyderabad | 4 September 1994 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium pace | |
Sandeep Warrier | Kerala | 4 April 1991 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | |
Sreenath Arvind | Karnataka | 8 April 1984 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium pace |
International players from South Zone
- Roger Binny
- S. Venkataraghavan
- Syed Abid Ali
- Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
- Syed Kirmani
- Brijesh Patel
- M. L. Jaisimha
- Abbas Ali Baig
- Mohammad Azharuddin
- Lakshmipathy Balaji
- Rahul Dravid
- Dinesh Karthik
- Anil Kumble
- V. V. S. Laxman
- Sreesanth
- Javagal Srinath
- Venkatesh Prasad
- Pragyan Ojha
- Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
- Erapalli Prasanna
- Kris Srikkanth
- Gundappa Viswanath
- Sunil Joshi
- Murali Vijay
- Vijay Bhardwaj
- Ravichandran Ashwin
- Robin Uthappa
- Karun Nair
- Manish Pandey
- Stuart Binny
- Vinay Kumar
- Abhinav Mukund
- Abhimanyu Mithun
- Sreenath Aravind
- Vijay Shankar (cricketer)
- KL Rahul
- Mayank Agarwal
- Hanuma Vihari
- Mohammad Siraj
- Sanju Samson
- Washington Sundar
- T. Natarajan
Tinu Yohannan
External links
- South Zone at CricketArchive