Baroda cricket team
| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Irfan Pathan |
| Coach | Tushar Arothe |
| Owner | Baroda Cricket Association |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Home ground | Moti Bagh Stadium |
| Capacity | 18,000 |
| History | |
| 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 1940s and 1950s, 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
- Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara - Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000.
- Reliance Stadium, Vadodara - hosted 10 ODIs
Famous players
- Hemu Adhikari
- Amir Elahi
- Gul Mohammad
- Anshuman Gaekwad
- Datta Gaekwad
- Jayasinghrao Ghorpade
- Vijay Hazare
- Nayan Mongia
- Rashid Patel
- Kiran More
- C. S. Nayudu
- Yusuf Pathan
- Irfan Pathan
- Munaf Patel
RAKESH PATEL
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| No. | Name | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain & All-Rounder | ||||||
| 56 | Irfan Pathan | 27 October 1984 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Plays for Rising Pune Supergiants | |
| Vice-Captain & All-Rounder | ||||||
| Deepak Hooda | 19 April 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad | ||
| 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 | Plays for Mumbai Indians | |
| Aditya Waghmode | 8 November 1989 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | |||
| Seam/Swing All-rounders | ||||||
| Hardik Pandya | 11 October 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm Medium-fast bowling | Plays for Mumbai Indians | ||
| Spinning All-rounders | ||||||
| 28 | Yusuf Pathan | 17 November 1982 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders | |
| Krunal Pandya | 24 March 1991 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Plays for Mumbai Indians | ||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |||
| Rishi Arothe | 12 November 1995 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | |||
Coaching Staff
- Head Coach - Tushar Arothe
- Assistant Coach - Himanshu Jadhav
- Physio - Sumit Roy
- Trainers - Rakesh Gohil
References
- ^ Baroda Cricket Hall of Fame Archived April 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine