Rest of India cricket team
 Rest of India cricket team's logo | |
| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Karun Nair |
| Coach | Ashish Kapoor |
| Team information | |
| Colours | Cricket Whites |
| Founded | 1960 |
| History | |
| First-class debut | Bombay in 1960 at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi |
| No. of titles | 26 |
| Irani Cup wins | 26 |
 2016–17 Irani Cup | |
Rest of India cricket team is a first-class cricket team in India that continually changes, being composed from players across the country except for those from the season's current Ranji Trophy winner.[1][2] It annually competes against the Ranji Trophy winner for the Irani Cup, "The Best vs Best of the Rest" tournament. The team was officially instituted in season 1959-60, playing its first match on 18 March 1960 against the Bombay cricket team (now Mumbai). Rest of India has won the tournament 26 times and shared the trophy once with Bombay in season 1965-66.
Captains
| 2003 | Saurav Ganguly | Kolkata | Bengal |
| 2004 | Dinesh Mongia | Chandigarh | Punjab |
| 2005 | Gautam Gambhir | Delhi | Delhi |
| 2006 | Wasim Jaffer | Mumbai | Mumbai |
| 2007 | Mohammad Kaif | Allahabad | Uttar Pradesh |
| 2008 | Anil Kumble | Bangalore | Karnataka |
| 2009 | Virender Sehwag | Najafgarh | Delhi |
| 2010 | Yuvraj Singh | Chandigarh | Punjab |
| 2011 | Parthiv Patel | Ahmedabad | Gujarat |
| 2012 | Cheteshwar Pujara | Rajkot | Saurashtra |
| 2013 | Virender Sehwag | Najafgarh | Delhi |
| 2014 | Harbhajan Singh | Jalandhar | Punjab |
| 2015 | Manoj Tiwary | Howrah | Bengal |
| 2016 | Naman Ojha | Ujjain | Madhya Pradesh |
| 2017 | Cheteshwar Pujara | Rajkot | Saurashtra |
| 2018 | Karun Nair | Jodhpur | Karnataka |
Team
| Name | Birth Place | Ranji Team |
|---|---|---|
| Akhil Herwadkar | Sangli, Pune division | Mumbai |
| Abhinav Mukund | Chennai | Tamil Nadu |
| Cheteshwar Pujara (c) | Rajkot | Saurashtra |
| Karun Nair | Jodhpur | Karnataka |
| Manoj Tiwary | Howrah | Bengal |
| Wriddhiman Saha † | Siliguri | Bengal |
Other forms
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has named other Rest of India teams. These have played tour matches against international teams, and in 1971-1972 played a series of 3 first-class matches against the Indian national cricket team to raise funds for defence forces.[3] A List A "Best vs Best of the Rest" match was organized between Rest of India and the winner of 1989-90 Deodhar Trophy, West Zone, on 2 October 1989.[4]