Mumbai cricket team

मुंबई क्रिकेट संघ
Personnel
Captain	Ajinkya Rahane
Coach	Omkar Salvi
Owner	Mumbai Cricket Association
Team information
Founded	1865
Home ground	Wankhede Stadium
Capacity	33,108
Secondary home ground(s)	Bandra Kurla Complex Ground
Secondary ground capacity	5,000
History
First-class debut	Lord Hawke's XI in 1892 at Bombay Gymkhana. Bombay
Ranji Trophy wins	41
Irani Cup wins	14 (1 shared)
Nissar Trophy wins	1
Wills Trophy wins	8
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	4
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	1
Official website	www.mumbaicricket.com

The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team which represents Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket.^{[note 1]} It is governed by Mumbai Cricket Association. Its home ground is Wankhede Stadium in Churchgate.^[1]

The team also plays its home matches at Bandra Kurla Complex Ground and Brabourne Stadium. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed its name when the city was renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.^[2]

Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 41 titles. Its most recent title was in 2015–16. It also has won 14 (and 1 shared) Irani Cups.

Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Rohit Sharma, Vijay Merchant, Ajinkya Rahane, Polly Umrigar and Dilip Vengsarkar.^[3][4]

History

The first recorded cricket match in Mumbai took place between a Military XI and an Island XI in 1797. The affluent Parsis of Mumbai founded the short-lived Orient Cricket Club in 1848.^[1] In 1850, the Young Zoroastrian Club, which exists to this day was founded. In 1866, the Bombay Union Hindu Club, a forerunner of the Hindu Gymkhana was founded. In 1884, Sir Dorabji Tata formed the Parsi Gymkhanaand helped an all-Parsi team tour England in 1886. Despite a cricketing failure, the Parsis organised another tour of England in 1888.

In 1889-90, an English team managed by George Vernon and captained by Lord Hawke played against the Bombay Gymkhana and the Parsis at the Gymkhana Ground during their tour of Ceylon and India. The Parsis pulled off a famous victory, a first for an Indian team against English opposition.^[5]

The Bombay Tournament, patronised by the Governor of Bombay Lord Harris, was played between the Parsis and Europeans, alternately in Bombay and Poona from 1892 to 1906. The 1892 match was the first First-class cricket match to be played in India. In 1906, Hindus played Parsis to create the Bombay Triangular. in 1912, the Muslims of the Mohammeden Gymkhana were invited to play and create the famous Bombay Quadrangular. In 1937, a fifth team, called The Rest, was admitted to the tournament. It comprised Buddhists, Jews, and Indian Christians. In 1946 that the Pentangular tournament was abandoned by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and replaced by a zonal competition. The Ranji Trophy, in which regional teams from all over India competed, became the pre-eminent Indian cricket competition.

The Quadrangular Committee, consisting of the four Gymkhanas in Bombay, met to 6 August 1928 to discuss the formation of a single governing entity for cricket in the Bombay Presidency outside Sind.^[6] On 6 October 1928, 'The Bombay Presidency (Proper) Cricket Association' was adopted as the name of the governing body and clubs began to be enrolled as members. On 16 August 1934, the Gujarat Cricket Association and the Maharashtra Cricket Association approached the Board of Control for Cricket in India for direct affiliation, separating from The Bombay Presidency (Proper) Cricket Association.^[6] The rump organisation then adopted the name Bombay Cricket Association, with its jurisdiction limited to the 'Greater Bombay and Thana District'.^[6]

Grounds

Statistics and Honours

• Ranji Trophy
  • Winners (41): 1934–35, 1935–36, 1941–42, 1944–45, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2015–16
  • Runners-up (5): 1947–48, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1990–91, 2016–17, 2021–22
• Irani Cup (14) – 1959–60, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1967–68, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98; (1 shared) – 1965–66
• Wills Trophy
  • Winners (8): 1981–82, 1982–83, 1985–86, 1990–91, 1990–91, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1997–98; (1 shared) – 1978-79
• Vijay Hazare Trophy
  • Winners (4): 2003–04, 2006-07, 2018-19, 2020-21
  • Runners-up: 2011-12
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
  • Winners: 2022-23

Notable players

Sachin Tendulkar

The team is known for its batting and spin bowling and has produced many of the Indian cricket team's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include:

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Updated as on 6 January 2024

Support staff

Notes

References