Baroda cricket team

Baroda cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Ambati Rayudu
Coach	Jacob Martin
Owner	Baroda Cricket Association
Team information
Founded	1886
Home ground	Moti Bagh Stadium
Capacity	18,000
History
First-class debut	Nawanagar; in 1937; at Ajitsinhji Ground, Jamnagar
Ranji Trophy wins	5
Irani Trophy wins	0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	2
Official website	BCA

The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat. 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.

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[edit]

Baroda has only emerged as a strong team in recent years. It won its last Ranji Trophy 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 , Hardik Pandya 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[edit]

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[edit]

Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000.
Reliance Stadium, Vadodara – hosted 10 ODIs
Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground

Current squad[edit]

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batters
Jyotsnil Singh	(1997-12-15) 15 December 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Pratyush Kumar	(1995-07-01) 1 July 1995 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Ambati Rayudu	(1985-09-23) 23 September 1985 (age 39)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Captain Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Bhanu Pania	(1996-09-04) 4 September 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Shashwat Rawat	(2001-04-06) 6 April 2001 (age 23)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Priyanshu Moliya	(2005-06-17) 17 June 2005 (age 19)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Aditya Waghmode	(1989-11-08) 8 November 1989 (age 35)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
Harsh Desai	(2002-10-30) 30 October 2002 (age 22)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
All-rounders
Mahesh Pithiya	(2001-12-24) 24 December 2001 (age 23)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Abhimanyusingh Rajput	(1998-05-09) 9 May 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Krunal Pandya	(1991-03-24) 24 March 1991 (age 33)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Plays For Lucknow Super Giants in IPL
Dhruv Patel	(1997-09-12) 12 September 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Hardik Pandya	(1993-10-11) 11 October 1993 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Plays For Gujarat Titans in IPL
Wicket-keeper
Vishnu Solanki	(1992-10-15) 15 October 1992 (age 32)	Right-handed		Vice-captain
Mitesh Patel	(1997-05-15) 15 May 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
Ninad Rathva	(1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 25)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Bhargav Bhatt	(1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 (age 34)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Chintal Gandhi	(1994-08-25) 25 August 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Kartik Kakade	(1995-07-25) 25 July 1995 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Pace Bowlers
Lukman Meriwala	(1991-12-11) 11 December 1991 (age 33)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast-medium
Atit Sheth	(1996-02-03) 3 February 1996 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Varun Aaron	(1989-10-29) 29 October 1989 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
Babashafi Pathan	(1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Soyeb Sopariya	(1994-09-10) 10 September 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium
Safvan Patel	(1998-10-03) 3 October 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium

Updated as on 24 January 2023

Coaching staff[edit]

Head coach – Jacob Martin^[1]
Assistant coach – Himanshu Jadhav
Physio – Sumit Roy
Trainers – Rakesh Gohil

Famous players[edit]

Irfan Pathan

^[2]

Pinal Shah

References[edit]

↑ "Jacob Martin, former India player with criminal record, named Baroda Ranji coach". India Today. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
↑ Baroda Cricket Hall of Fame Archived 5 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) – Official website (archived 18 November 2007)
Baroda Cricket Team at CricBuzz
Cricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions

[1] "Jacob Martin, former India player with criminal record, named Baroda Ranji coach". India Today. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

[2] Baroda Cricket Hall of Fame Archived 5 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine

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