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Rajasthan cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Ashok Menaria
Team information
Home ground	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Capacity	30,000
History
Ranji Trophy wins	2
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	0
Official website	Rajasthan Cricket Association

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The Rajasthan cricket team is a cricket team which represents the Indian state of Rajasthan. The team won the Ranji Trophy in the 2010–11 and 2011-12 seasons, having finished runners-up eight times between 1960–61 and 1973-74. It is currently in the Ranji Trophy Elite group. It is run by the Rajasthan Cricket Association and is popularly known as "Team Rajasthan".

History

Rajputana

Rajputana's first recorded match came in the 1928/29 Delhi Tournament against Aligarh,^[1] with the Rajputana Cricket Association being formed shortly thereafter in 1931 at Ajmer.^[2]^{[n 1]} Rajputana's inaugural appearance in first-class cricket came in November 1933 against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club at Mayo College Ground in Ajmer, which resulted in a heavy innings defeat.^[3] The team entered the Ranji Trophy for the first time in the 1935/36 season, playing its first match in the competition against Central India, losing by a heavy margin.^[2]^[3] The team played in the following seasons Ranji Trophy, again losing to Central India, but this time by the reduced margin of just two wickets.^[3] Rajputana gained its first win in first-class cricket against Lionel Tennyson's touring eleven, with victory by two wickets in 1937.^[2] The team lost its only match against Southern Punjab in the 1938/39 Ranji Trophy, however the following season it recorded its first Ranji Trophy victory against Delhi, winning by 7 wickets.^[4] However it lost its following match against Southern Punjab by the margin of an innings and 190 runs. With the onset of World War II, cricket in India was somewhat disrupted, but first-class cricket continued to function.

Rajasthan

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2010-11	Winner
2011-12	Winner
1960–61	Runner-up
1961–62
1962–63
1963–64
1965–66
1966–67
1969–70
1973–74

Famous players

Players from Rajasthan who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

Players from Rajasthan who have played Test cricket for England, along with year of Test debut:

Kabir Ali (2003)

Players from Rajasthan who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut:

Gagan Khoda (1998)
Khaleel Ahmed (2018)
Deepak Chahar (2018)
Rahul Chahar (2021)

Players from Rajasthan who have played ODI but not Test cricket for England, along with year of ODI debut:

Vikram Solanki (2000)

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Ashok Menaria	(1990-10-29) 29 October 1990 (age 35)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Captain
Mahipal Lomror	8 April 1998 (age 20)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Plays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL
Arjit Gupta	(1989-09-12) 12 September 1989 (age 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Rajesh Bishnoi Sr	(1987-10-08) 8 October 1987 (age 38)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Aditya Garhwal	(1996-04-15) 15 April 1996 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Salman Khan	(1998-12-26) 26 December 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Yash Kothari	(1995-10-06) 6 October 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Ankit Lamba	(1991-12-03) 3 December 1991 (age 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Amitkumar Gautam	(1995-10-10) 10 October 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
Chandrapal Chundawat	(1994-09-08) 8 September 1994 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Wicket-keepers
Manender Singh	(1996-01-02) 2 January 1996 (age 30)	Right-handed
Bharat Sharma	(1999-08-09) 9 August 1999 (age 27)	Right-handed
Spinner
Shubham Sharma	(1997-03-26) 26 March 1997 (age 29)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Ravi Bishnoi	(2000-09-05) 5 September 2000 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Plays for Punjab Kings in IPL
Rahul Chahar	(1999-08-04) 4 August 1999 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Fast Bowlers
Aniket Choudhary	(1990-01-28) 28 January 1990 (age 36)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium
Tanveer-Ul-Haq	(1991-12-03) 3 December 1991 (age 34)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium fast
Khaleel Ahmed	(1997-12-05) 5 December 1997 (age 28)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Rituraj Singh	(1990-10-19) 19 October 1990 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Abhimanyu Lamba	(1995-10-31) 31 October 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Akash Singh	(2002-04-26) 26 April 2002 (age 24)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium	Plays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL
Arafat Khan	(1996-12-27) 27 December 1996 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Deepak Chahar	(1992-08-07) 7 August 1992 (age 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL

Captains

2018-2019 Mahipal Lomror
2013/14-2017 Pankaj Singh
2010/11–2012/13 Hrishikesh Kanitkar
1992/1997 Rajiv Rathore
1990/91– Parmindar Singh
1989/90 Sanjay Vyas
1988/89 Padam Shastri
1985/86–1987/88 Sanjay Vyas
1979/80–1984/85 Parthasarathy Sharma
1977/78–1978/79 Kailash Gattani
1966/67–1976/77 Hanumant Singh
1962/63–1965/66 Raj Singh Dungarpur
1960/61–1961/62 Kishan Rungta
1957/58–1959/60 Vinoo Mankad
1951/52–1956/57 Maharana of Mewar
1935/36–1939/40 Walter Bradshaw
1933/34–1937/38 Maharaja of Dungarpur

Records

For more details on this topic, see List of Rajasthan first-class cricket records, List of Rajasthan List A cricket records, List of Rajasthan Twenty20 cricket records.

Grounds

Sawai Mansingh Stadium

Rajasthan play the majority of their home matches at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

The ends are called the City End and the Pavilion End.

Other grounds

Notes

↑ What is today the modern state of Rajasthan was then a part of the British Raj and was known as Rajputana.

References

↑ "Other Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "RCA History". Rajasthan Cricket Association. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 "First-Class Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
↑ "Delhi v Rajputana, 1939/40 Ranji Trophy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

External links

[3] What is today the modern state of Rajasthan was then a part of the British Raj and was known as Rajputana.

[OTH-1] "Other Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

[HIST-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 "RCA History". Rajasthan Cricket Association. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

[FCM-4] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 "First-Class Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 November 2012.

[5] "Delhi v Rajputana, 1939/40 Ranji Trophy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

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Current teams	Andhra Arunachal Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Mumbai Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks