Rajasthan cricket team

Rajasthan cricket team
Personnel
Captain Pankaj Singh
Team information
Home ground Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Capacity 30,000
History
Ranji Trophy wins 2
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins 0
Inter-State T20 wins 0
Official website: Rajasthan Cricket Association

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.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

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

Players

1 Pankaj singh

2 deepak chahar 3 khalil ahmed

Current squad

  • double-dagger denotes players with international caps.
Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Captain
Devi Lal Suthar  double-dagger 6 May 1985 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast FC Wickets : 384 ; LA Wickets : 103 ;
Batsmen
Ashok Menaria 29 October 1990 Left-handed Leg break googly Captain & Played in DPL for Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club.
Vaibhav Deshpande 11 January 1987 Left-handed Right-arm off break &
—
Ankit Lamba 3 December 1991 Right-handed Leg break googly &
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Rajesh Bishnoi 8 October 1987 Right-handed Right-arm medium pace &
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Puneet Yadav 12 August 1987 Right-handed Right-arm medium pace &
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Vineet Saxena 3 December 1980 Left-handed Right-arm off break &
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Amitkumar Gautam 10 October 1995 Right-handed Leg break googly &
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Pranay Sharma 16 March 1988 Left-handed Right-arm medium pace &
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Mahipal Lomror 16 November 1999 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Plays for Rajasthan Royals
S. F. Khan 26 December 1988 Right-handed Right-arm off break &
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All-rounders
Rajat Bhatia 22 October 1979 Right-handed Right-arm medium pace &
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Tajinder Singh 25 May 1992 Right-handed Right-arm off break Plays for Mumbai Indians
Wicket-keepers
Dishant Yagnik 22 June 1983 Left-handed &
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Manender Singh 2 February 1996 Right-handed &
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Chetan Bist 3 September 1989 Right-handed &
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Right-arm Pacers
Deepak Chahar 7 August 1992 Right-handed Right-arm medium pace Plays for Chennai Super Kings
Rituraj Singh 19 October 1990 Right-handed Right-arm medium pace &
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Nathu Singh 8 September 1995 Right-handed Right-arm medium pace &
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Left-arm Pacers
Aniket Choudhary 28 January 1990 Right-handed Left-arm medium pace Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore FC Wkts : 91
Tanveer-Ul-Haq 3 December 1991 Right-handed Left-arm medium fast &
—
Khaleel Ahmed 5 December 1997 Right-handed Left-arm medium Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad
Spinner
Gajendra Singh 10 September 1988 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox &
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Chandrapal Singh 8 September 1994 &
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Kukna Ajay Singh 13 December 1996 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox &
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Rahul Chahar 4 August 1999 Right-handed Leg break googly Plays for Mumbai Indians

Former players

  • List of Rajasthan first-class players
  • List of Rajasthan List A players
  • List of Rajasthan Twenty20 players

Captains

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

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

References

  1. ↑ "Other Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 "RCA History". Rajasthan Cricket Association. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 "First-Class Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Delhi v Rajputana, 1939/40 Ranji Trophy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

Further reading

  • Bowen, Rowland. Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development (1970 ed.). Eyre & Spottiswoode. ISBN 0-413-27860-3.
  • Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
  • Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions
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