Railways cricket team

Railways cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Saurabh Wakaskar
Coach
Owner	Railways Sports Promotion Board
Team information
Founded	1930
Home ground	Karnail Singh Stadium, New Delhi (and other stadiums)

Railways cricket team (also known as the Indian Railways) is a domestic cricket team in India. The team's home ground is East Coast Railway Stadium in Bhubaneswar and Karnail Singh Stadium in New Delhi.^[1] The team is run by the Railways Sports Promotion Board which fields the Railways cricket team in domestic cricket competitions in India such as the Ranji Trophy.^[2]

Competition history

For most of its history, the Indian Railways has met little success in the Ranji Trophy. However, in recent years since 2000, Railways have won the trophy twice and become runners-up. As Champions of the Ranji Trophy, they have played the Irani Trophy twice, emerging victorious on both occasions.

Famous Players

Abhay Sharma, Amit Pagnis, Murali Kartik, Sanjay Bangar and Jai Prakash Yadav are few notable players

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Birthplace	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
	Saurabh Wakaskar	(1991-09-08) 8 September 1991 (age 32)	Baroda, GJ	Left-handed	Right arm leg break googly	List A Captain
	Shivakant Shukla	(1986-01-26) 26 January 1986 (age 38)	Allahabad, UP	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
	Abhishek Yadav	(1995-06-08) 8 June 1995 (age 28)	Gorakhpur, UP	Left-handed
	Pratham Singh	(1992-08-31) 31 August 1992 (age 31)	Delhi, DL	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
	Arindam Ghosh	(1986-10-19) 19 October 1986 (age 37)	Kolkata, WB	Right-handed	Right arm medium
	Mrunal Devdhar	(1992-12-16) 16 December 1992 (age 31)	Baroda, GJ	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Karan Sharma	(1996-11-12) 12 November 1996 (age 27)	Amritsar, PB	Right-handed	Right arm leg break googly
	Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi	(1992-06-17) 17 June 1992 (age 31)	Vizianagaram, AP	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Akash Verma	(1990-11-28) 28 November 1990 (age 33)	Kanpur, UP	Right-handed
	Ashish Singh	(1994-12-25) 25 December 1994 (age 29)	Raebareli, UP	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Ashish Sehrawat	(1995-01-20) 20 January 1995 (age 29)	Delhi, DL	Right-handed
Wicket-keepers
	Mahesh Rawat	(1985-10-25) 25 October 1985 (age 38)	Faridabad, HR	Right-handed		First Class and Twenty20 Captain
	Nitin Bhille	(1989-08-18) 18 August 1989 (age 34)	Dharwad, KA	Right-handed
	Amit Paunikar	(1988-04-18) 18 April 1988 (age 36)	Nagpur, MH	Right-handed
	Akash Yadav	(1993-12-31) 31 December 1993 (age 30)	New Delhi, DL	Left-handed
All-rounders
	Ashish Yadav	(1985-09-01) 1 September 1985 (age 38)	Varanasi, UP	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Avinash Yadav	(1986-10-02) 2 October 1986 (age 37)	Varanasi, UP	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Prashant Awasthi	(1990-06-26) 26 June 1990 (age 33)	Kanpur, UP	Right-handed	Right arm off break
	Vidhyadhar Kamath	(1989-06-15) 15 June 1989 (age 34)		Right-handed	Right arm off break
	Manish Rao	(1990-07-19) 19 July 1990 (age 33)	Mumbai, MH	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Ankit Yadav	(1993-11-19) 19 November 1993 (age 30)	Jharsuguda, OR	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Bowlers
	Amit Mishra	(1988-08-10) 10 August 1988 (age 35)	Bilaspur, CG	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Anureet Singh	(1988-03-02) 2 March 1988 (age 36)		Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Karan Thakur	(1992-09-28) 28 September 1992 (age 31)	Manali, HP	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Manjeet Singh	(1991-11-01) 1 November 1991 (age 32)	Alwar, RJ	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Chandrakant Sakure	(1990-07-09) 9 July 1990 (age 33)	Seoni, MP	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Chanderpal Saini	(1986-12-20) 20 December 1986 (age 37)	Faridabad, PB	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Krishnakant Upadhyay	(1986-06-18) 18 June 1986 (age 37)		Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Satender Thakran	(1993-10-15) 15 October 1993 (age 30)	Delhi, DL	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Deepak Bansal	(1990-07-19) 19 July 1990 (age 33)	Ludhiana, PB	Right-handed	Left-arm medium
	Madhur Khatri	(1987-06-25) 25 June 1987 (age 36)	Bikaner, RJ	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Abhishek Sharma	(1994-12-20) 20 December 1994 (age 29)	Meerut, UP	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Harsh Tyagi	(1999-12-23) 23 December 1999 (age 24)	Delhi, DL	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Vinit Dhulap	(1989-12-06) 6 December 1989 (age 34)	Mumbai, MH	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Hitesh Kadam	(1988-10-05) 5 October 1988 (age 35)	Mumbai, MH	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox

References

^ "One city, three matches, one day". ESPNCricinfo. 7 December 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
^ "Ex-kabaddi player was in-charge of Karnail Singh Stadium!". The Times of India. 18 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)

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[cricinfo08-1] "One city, three matches, one day". ESPNCricinfo. 7 December 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

[toif12-2] "Ex-kabaddi player was in-charge of Karnail Singh Stadium!". The Times of India. 18 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |newspaper= (help)

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