Railways cricket team

Railways cricket team
Personnel
Captain	Saurabh Wakaskar
Coach
Owner	Railways Sports Promotion Board
Team information
Founded	1930
Home ground	Karnail Singh Stadium, New Delhi (and other stadiums)

Railways playing against Orissa at Brabourne Stadium c.2006

Railways cricket team (also known as the Indian Railways) is a domestic cricket team in India. The team's home ground is East Coast Railway Stadium in Bhubaneswar and Karnail Singh Stadium in New Delhi.^[1] The team is run by the Railways Sports Promotion Board which fields the Railways cricket team in domestic cricket competitions in India such as the Ranji Trophy.^[2]

Competition history

For most of its history, the Indian Railways has met little success in the Ranji Trophy. However, in recent years since 2000, Railways have won the trophy twice and become runners-up. As Champions of the Ranji Trophy, they have played the Irani Trophy twice, emerging victorious on both occasions.

Famous Players

Abhay Sharma, Amit Pagnis, Murali Kartik, Sanjay Bangar and Jai Prakash Yadav are few notable players

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Birthplace	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen
	Saurabh Wakaskar	(1991-09-08) 8 September 1991	Baroda, GJ	Left-handed	Right arm leg break googly	List A Captain
	Shivakant Shukla	(1986-01-26) 26 January 1986	Allahabad, UP	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
	Abhishek Yadav	(1995-06-08) 8 June 1995	Gorakhpur, UP	Left-handed
	Pratham Singh	(1992-08-31) 31 August 1992	Delhi, DL	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
	Arindam Ghosh	(1986-10-19) 19 October 1986	Kolkata, WB	Right-handed	Right arm medium
	Mrunal Devdhar	(1992-12-16) 16 December 1992	Baroda, GJ	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Karan Sharma	(1996-11-12) 12 November 1996	Amritsar, PB	Right-handed	Right arm leg break googly
	Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi	(1992-06-17) 17 June 1992	Vizianagaram, AP	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Akash Verma	(1990-11-28) 28 November 1990	Kanpur, UP	Right-handed
	Ashish Singh	(1994-12-25) 25 December 1994	Raebareli, UP	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Ashish Sehrawat	(1995-01-20) 20 January 1995	Delhi, DL	Right-handed
Wicket-keepers
	Mahesh Rawat	(1985-10-25) 25 October 1985	Faridabad, HR	Right-handed		First Class and Twenty20 Captain
	Nitin Bhille	(1989-08-18) 18 August 1989	Dharwad, KA	Right-handed
	Amit Paunikar	(1988-04-18) 18 April 1988	Nagpur, MH	Right-handed
	Akash Yadav	(1993-12-31) 31 December 1993	New Delhi, DL	Left-handed
All-rounders
	Ashish Yadav	(1985-09-01) 1 September 1985	Varanasi, UP	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Avinash Yadav	(1986-10-02) 2 October 1986	Varanasi, UP	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Prashant Awasthi	(1990-06-26) 26 June 1990	Kanpur, UP	Right-handed	Right arm off break
	Vidhyadhar Kamath	(1989-06-15) 15 June 1989		Right-handed	Right arm off break
	Manish Rao	(1990-07-19) 19 July 1990	Mumbai, MH	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Ankit Yadav	(1993-11-19) 19 November 1993	Jharsuguda, OR	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Bowlers
	Amit Mishra	(1988-08-10) 10 August 1988	Bilaspur, CG	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Anureet Singh	(1988-03-02) 2 March 1988		Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Karan Thakur	(1992-09-28) 28 September 1992	Manali, HP	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Manjeet Singh	(1991-11-01) 1 November 1991	Alwar, RJ	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Chandrakant Sakure	(1990-07-09) 9 July 1990	Seoni, MP	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Chanderpal Saini	(1986-12-20) 20 December 1986	Faridabad, PB	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Krishnakant Upadhyay	(1986-06-18) 18 June 1986		Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Satender Thakran	(1993-10-15) 15 October 1993	Delhi, DL	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Deepak Bansal	(1990-07-19) 19 July 1990	Ludhiana, PB	Right-handed	Left-arm medium
	Madhur Khatri	(1987-06-25) 25 June 1987	Bikaner, RJ	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Abhishek Sharma	(1994-12-20) 20 December 1994	Meerut, UP	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Harsh Tyagi	(1999-12-23) 23 December 1999	Delhi, DL	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Vinit Dhulap	(1989-12-06) 6 December 1989	Mumbai, MH	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Hitesh Kadam	(1988-10-05) 5 October 1988	Mumbai, MH	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox

References

↑ "One city, three matches, one day". ESPNCricinfo. 7 December 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
↑ "Ex-kabaddi player was in-charge of Karnail Singh Stadium!". The Times of India. 18 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

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[cricinfo08-1] "One city, three matches, one day". ESPNCricinfo. 7 December 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

[toif12-2] "Ex-kabaddi player was in-charge of Karnail Singh Stadium!". The Times of India. 18 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

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