Baroda cricket team

Baroda cricket team
Personnel
Captain Deepak Hooda
Coach Jacob Martin
Owner Baroda Cricket Association
Team information
Founded 1930
Home ground Moti Bagh Stadium
Capacity 18,000
History
Ranji Trophy wins 5
Irani Trophy wins 0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins 0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins 2

The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara. 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. Although there are very few notable cricket players in history that have played for this team based in Gujarat, it has begun producing some of the most talented cricketers in India and is particularly noted for its fast bowlers.

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 first Ranji Trophy in 43 years 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

YearPosition
2010-11Runner-up
2001-02Runner-up
2000-01Winner
1957-58Winner
1949-50Winner
1948-49Runner-up
1946-47Winner
1945-46Runner-up
1942-43Winner

Home grounds

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Captain & All-Rounder
56Irfan Pathan27 October 1984Left-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
Vice-Captain & All-Rounder
Deepak Hooda19 April 1995Right-handedRight-arm off breakPlays for Sunrisers Hyderabad
Opening Batsmen
18Kedar Devdhar14 December 1989Right-handed
Urvil Patel17 October 1998Right-handedWicket-keeper
Batsmen
Dhiren Mistry5 September 1992Right-handedRight-arm off break
Aditya Waghmode8 November 1989Left-handedRight-arm off break
Seam/Swing All-rounders
Atit Sheth3 February 1996Right-handedRight-arm mediumPicked for Rest of India cricket team in 2017–18 Irani Cup
Spinning All-rounders
28Yusuf Pathan17 November 1982Right-handedRight-arm off breakPlays for Sunrisers Hyderabad
Krunal Pandya24 March 1991Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodoxPlays for Mumbai Indians
Wicket-keepers
Pinal Shah3 November 1987Right-handedn/a
Bowlers
8Munaf Patel13 July 1983Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastT20 Avg: 22
Sagar Mangalorkar19 September 1990Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Lukman Meriwala11 December 1991Left-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
Swapnil Singh22 January 1991Right-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Rishi Arothe12 November 1995Left-handedLeft-arm medium-fast
Babashafi Pathan19 August 1994Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
On National Duty
Hardik Pandya11 October 1993Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastPlays for Mumbai Indians

Coaching staff

  • Head Coach - Jacob Martin[1]
  • Assistant Coach - Himanshu Jadhav
  • Physio - Sumit Roy
  • Trainers - Rakesh Gohil

Famous players

Irfan Pathan

References

  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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