Mumbai cricket team
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| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Aditya Tare |
| Coach | Chandrakant Pandit |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1930 |
| Home ground | Wankhede Stadium (capacity 45,000); Brabourne Stadium, (capacity 30,000) |
| History | |
| Ranji Trophy wins | 41 |
| Irani Cup wins | 14 (1 shared) |
| Nissar Trophy wins | 1 |
| Vijay Hazare trophy wins | 2 |
| Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins | 0 |
| Official website | www.mumbaicricket.com |
The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. The team's primary home ground is the Wankhede Stadium in South Mumbai. Secondary home venues include the MCA ground in Bandra Kurla Complex and Brabourne Stadium. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed when the city was officially renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.
Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It also has 14 Irani Cup titles to its name, also the most by any team. Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Polly Umrigar and Dilip Vengsarkar.
Competition history
Mumbai is one of three teams located in the state of Maharashtra (the others being the Maharashtra cricket team and the Vidarbha cricket team), and has always competed as a separate team from the rest of the state. Despite this division, Mumbai has become India's most successful domestic team. It has played in 44 of the 67 Ranji finals through 2014 winning 40.
Bombay won the first-ever Ranji Trophy competition in 1934–35 with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against Northern India. The title was retained the following season with a victory over Madras in the final. Bombay quickly showed themselves to be one of the strongest teams in the competition with 7 victories in the first 20 seasons of the Ranji Trophy. When playing Maharashtra in a semi-final of the 1948-49 season at Pune, Mumbai became the first and only team in first-class history to score over 600 runs in both innings of the same match - 651 and 714.[1]
However, it was after this period that their dominance was at its zenith. From 1955–56 to 1976–77, Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles including 15 in a row from 1958–59 to 1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the Ranji Trophy final up to the mid-1980s.
The later half of the 1980s was Bombay's least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons. However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from 1993–94 to 2003–04 under the new name of Mumbai.
In 2006–07, Mumbai won their 37th Ranji Trophy with victory over Bengal in the final at Wankhede Stadium. This win was particularly memorable as the team had recovered from the setbacks of losing their first three games, and being reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final against Baroda.
Mumbai's dominance of the Ranji Trophy has led to many consecutive appearances in the Irani Trophy with much success including 15 wins. However, they have failed to beat the Rest of India team since 1998.
Honours
- Ranji Trophy (41 titles) - 1934/35, 1935/36, 1941/42, 1944/45, 1948/49, 1951/52, 1953/54, 1955/56, 1956/57, 1958/59, 1959/60, 1960/61, 1961/62, 1962/63, 1963/64, 1964/65, 1965/66, 1966/67, 1967/68, 1968/69, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1971/72, 1972/73, 1974/75, 1975/76, 1976/77, 1980/81, 1983/84, 1984/85, 1993/94, 1994/95, 1996/97, 1999/00, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2009/10, 2012/13, 2015/16.
- Irani Cup (14 titles) - 1959/60, 1962/63, 1963/64, 1967/68, 1969/70, 1970/71, 1972/73, 1975/76, 1976/77, 1981/82, 1985/86, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1997/98; (1 shared) - 1965/66.
Notable players
The team is known for its batting and spin bowling and has produced many of the Indian cricket team's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include:
- Aavishkar Salvi
- Abey Kuruvilla
- Abhishek Nayar
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Ajit Agarkar
- Ajit Pai
- Ajit Wadekar
- Amol Muzumdar
- Arvind Apte
- Ashok Mankad
- Baloo Gupte
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Bapu Nadkarni
- Chandrakant Pandit
- Chandrakant Patankar
- Chandu Borde
- Dattaram Hindlekar
- Dattu Phadkar
- Dilip Sardesai
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Dhawal Kulkarni
- Eknath Solkar
- Farokh Engineer
- Ghulam Parkar
- Gulabrai Ramchand
- Gundibail Sunderam
- Jatin Paranjpe
- Karsan Ghavri
- KC Ibrahim
- Keki Tarapore
- Khandu Rangnekar
- Khershed Meherhomji
- Lalchand Rajput
- Laxmidas Jai
- Madhav Apte
- Madhav Mantri
- Manohar Hardikar
- Naren Tamhane
- Nilesh Kulkarni
- Paras Mhambrey
- Phiroze Palia
- Polly Umrigar
- Pravin Amre
- Raju Kulkarni
- Ramakant Desai
- Ramesh Powar
- Ramnath Kenny
- Ramnath Parkar
- Ravi Shastri
- Rohit Sharma
- Rusi Modi
- Rustomji Jamshedji
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Sadu Shinde
- Sairaj Bahutule
- Salil Ankola
- Sameer Dighe
- Sandeep Patil
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Sorabji Colah
- Subhash Gupte
- Sudhir Naik
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Suru Nayak
- Umesh Kulkarni
- Vijay Manjrekar
- Vijay Merchant
- Vinod Kambli
- Wasim Jaffer
- Zaheer Khan
Current squad and Support Staff
●Coach- Chandrakant Pandit
●Team manager - Ganesh Iyer
●Video analyst - Rohan Amladi
●Trainer - Rahul Patwardhan
●Bowling / Assistant coach - Omkar Salvi
● Mentor - Karsan Ghavri
● Physio - Vaibhav Daga
● Masseur - Vijay Kushwaha
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| No. | Name | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | FC 100s | FC 5+ Wkts | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain & Wicket-keeper Batsmen | |||||||
| Aditya Tare | 7 November 1987 | Right-handed | 7 | - | |||
| Batsmen | |||||||
| Suryakumar Yadav | 14 September 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 10 | 0 | ||
| Shreyas Iyer | 6 December 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 6 | 0 | ||
| Siddhesh Lad | 23 May 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 2 | 0 | ||
| Shrideep Mangela | 1 April 1988 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | ||||
| Nikhil Patil | 27 November 1989 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | ||||
| Ajinkya Rahane | 6 June 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | 26 | 0 | ||
| Rohit Sharma | 30 April 1987 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 19 | 0 | ||
| All-rounders | |||||||
| Abhishek Nayar | 8 October 1983 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | 12 | 4 | ||
| Akhil Herwadkar | 31 October 1994 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | 4 | 1 | ||
| Jay Bista | 23 December 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | 1 | 1 | ||
| Abhishek Raut | 3 March 1987 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | ||||
| Wicket-keepers | |||||||
| Sushant Marathe | 16 October 1985 | Right-handed | |||||
| Bowlers | |||||||
| Dhawal Kulkarni | 10 December 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 0 | 13 | ||
| Iqbal Abdulla | 2 December 1989 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | 1 | 5 | ||
| Vishal Dabholkar | 23 March 1987 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||
| Javed Khan | 20 October 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | ||||
| Wilkin Mota | 20 September 1981 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | ||||
| Shardul Thakur | 16 October 1991 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 0 | 9 | ||
| Balwinder Sandhu | 26 May 1987 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | 0 | 5 | ||
| Harmeet Singh | 7 September 1992 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | ||||
| Ankush Jaiswal | 16 June 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | ||||
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References
- ^ "Maharashtra v Bombay". http://www.cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
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