Baroda cricket team
{{short description|Indian cricket team}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox cricket team
| name = Baroda cricket team
| image =
| captain = Krunal Pandya
| coach = Jacob Martin
| founded = 1886
| ground = Moti Bagh Stadium
| capacity = 18,000
| owner = Baroda Cricket Association
| first_fc = Nawanagar
| first_fc_year = 1937
| first_fc_venue = Ajitsinhji Ground, Jamnagar
| title1 = Ranji Trophy
| title1wins = 5
| title2 = Irani Trophy
| title2wins = 0
| title3 = Vijay Hazare Trophy
| title3wins = 0
| title4 = Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
| title4wins = 2
|website = [http://cricketbaroda.com/ 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
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. [http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/2001-02/IND_LOCAL/IRANI/BARODA_R-O-I_IRANI_13-17OCT2001.html 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.
Honours
Home grounds
- Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000.
- Reliance Stadium, Vadodara – hosted 10 ODIs
- Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;" | ||||
| align=center| Name
!align=center| Birth date !align=center| Batting style !align=center| Bowling style !align=center| Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| colspan="5" style="background: #DCDCDC" align=center| Batters | ||||
| Shivalik Sharma | {{Birth date and age|1998|11|28|df=y}} | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| Shashwat Rawat | {{Birth date and age|2001|4|6|df=y}} | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Bhanu Pania | {{birth date and age|1996|9|4|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Jyotsnil Singh | {{birth date and age|1997|12|15|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| Parth Kohli | {{Birth date and age|1996|8|9|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| Nitya Pandya | {{birth date and age|2006|4|8|df=y}} | Left-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| colspan="5" style="background: #DCDCDC" align=center| All-rounders | ||||
| Krunal Pandya | {{birth date and age|1991|3|24|df=y}} | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Captain Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL |
| Atit Sheth | {{birth date and age|1996|2|3|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| Ninad Rathva | {{birth date and age|1999|3|10|df=y}} | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Hardik Pandya | {{birth date and age|1993|10|11|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
| Abhimanyu Rajput | {{birth date and age|1998|5|9|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| colspan="5" style="background: #DCDCDC" align=center| Wicket-keepers | ||||
| Vishnu Solanki | {{Birth date and age|1992|10|15|df=y}} | Right-handed | Vice-captain | |
| Mitesh Patel | {{birth date and age|1997|5|15|df=y}} | Right-handed | ||
| colspan="5" style="background: #DCDCDC" align=center| Spin Bowlers | ||||
| Mahesh Pithiya | {{Birth date and age|2001|12|24|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| Bhargav Bhatt | {{birth date and age|1990|5|13|df=y}} | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Chintal Gandhi | {{Birth date and age|1994|8|25|df=y}} | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| colspan="5" style="background: #DCDCDC" align=center| Pace Bowlers | ||||
| Raj Limbani | {{birth date and age|2005|2|2|df=y}} | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| Lukman Meriwala | {{birth date and age|1991|12|11|df=y}} | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
| Akash Singh | {{birth date and age|2002|4|26|df=y}} | Right-handed | Left-arm medium | |
| Babashafi Pathan | {{birth date and age|1994|8|19|df=y}} | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast |
Updated as on 2 February 2025
Coaching staff
- Head coach – Jacob Martin{{cite news | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/jacob-martin-baroda-ranji-team-coach-criminal-record-341073-2016-09-14 | title=Jacob Martin, former India player with criminal record, named Baroda Ranji coach | date=14 September 2016 | publisher=India Today | access-date=18 June 2018 }}
- Assistant coach – Himanshu Jadhav
- Physio – Sumit Roy
- Trainers – Rakesh Gohil
Famous players
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20071118132319/http://www.barodacricket.org/ Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) – Official website ] (archived 18 November 2007)
- [http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-team/baroda/170 Baroda Cricket Team] at CricBuzz
- [http://www.cricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/IND/HISTORY/ ESPNcricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions]
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