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    Baroda cricket team

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    Baroda cricket team
    Personnel
    CaptainKrunal Pandya
    CoachJacob Martin
    OwnerBaroda Cricket Association
    Team information
    Founded1886
    Home groundBaroda Cricket Association Stadium
    Capacity40,000
    History
    First-class debutNawanagar
    in 1937
    at Ajitsinhji Ground, Jamnagar
    Ranji Trophy wins5
    Irani Trophy wins0
    Vijay Hazare Trophy wins0
    Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins2
    Official websiteBCA

    The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat. The home ground of the team is the Baroda Cricket Association Stadium. It is one of the three first-class cricket teams based in the state of Gujarat, the other two being the Saurashtra cricket team and the Gujarat cricket team.

    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.

    Competition history

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    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.

    Honours

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    • Ranji Trophy
      • Winners (5): 1942–43, 1946–47, 1949–50, 1957–58, 2000–01
      • Runners-up (4): 1945–46, 1948–49, 2001–02, 2010–11
    • Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
      • Winners (2): 2011-12, 2013-14
      • Runners-up (3): 2015-16, 2021-21, 2023-24

    Home grounds

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    • Baroda Cricket Association Stadium – Capacity 40,000.
    • Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000.
    • Reliance Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted 10 ODIs.
    • Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground

    Current squad

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    Players with international caps are listed in bold.

    Name Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
    Batters
    Shivalik Sharma (1998-11-28) 28 November 1998 (age 26) Left-handed Right-arm leg break
    Shashwat Rawat (2001-04-06) 6 April 2001 (age 24) Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast
    Bhanu Pania (1996-09-04) 4 September 1996 (age 28) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
    Jyotsnil Singh (1997-12-15) 15 December 1997 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm off break
    Parth Kohli (1996-08-09) 9 August 1996 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
    Nitya Pandya (2006-04-08) 8 April 2006 (age 19) Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium
    All-rounders
    Krunal Pandya (1991-03-24) 24 March 1991 (age 34) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Captain
    Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL
    Atit Sheth (1996-02-03) 3 February 1996 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm medium
    Ninad Rathva (1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 26) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
    Hardik Pandya (1993-10-11) 11 October 1993 (age 31) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
    Abhimanyu Rajput (1998-05-09) 9 May 1998 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
    Wicket-keepers
    Vishnu Solanki (1992-10-15) 15 October 1992 (age 32) Right-handed Vice-captain
    Mitesh Patel (1997-05-15) 15 May 1997 (age 28) Right-handed
    Spin Bowlers
    Mahesh Pithiya (2001-12-24) 24 December 2001 (age 23) Right-handed Right-arm off break
    Bhargav Bhatt (1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 (age 35) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
    Chintal Gandhi (1994-08-25) 25 August 1994 (age 30) Left-handed Right-arm leg break
    Pace Bowlers
    Raj Limbani (2005-02-02) 2 February 2005 (age 20) Left-handed Right-arm medium
    Lukman Meriwala (1991-12-11) 11 December 1991 (age 33) Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium
    Akash Singh (2002-04-26) 26 April 2002 (age 23) Right-handed Left-arm medium
    Babashafi Pathan (1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 (age 30) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast

    Updated as on 2 February 2025

    Coaching staff

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

    Famous players

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    • Hemu Adhikari
    • Anshuman Gaekwad
    • Datta Gaekwad
    • Jayasinghrao Ghorpade
    • Vijay Hazare
    • Nayan Mongia
    • Rashid Patel
    • Kiran More
    • C. S. Nayudu
    • Yusuf Pathan
    • Irfan Pathan
    • Munaf Patel
    • Zaheer Khan
    • Hardik Pandya
    • Krunal Pandya
    • Ambati Rayudu
    • Pinal Shah
    • Atul Bedade

    References

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