Rajasthan cricket team
Personnel
CaptainDeepak Hooda
CoachAnshu Jain
OwnerRajasthan Cricket Association
Team information
Founded1928
Home groundSawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Capacity30,000
History
First-class debutMarylebone Cricket Club
in 1933
at Mayo College Ground, Ajmer
Ranji Trophy wins2
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins0
Official websiteRajasthan 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.

Honours

Honours

Famous players

Players from Rajasthan who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

Players from Rajasthan who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut:

Foreign international players who briefly played for Rajasthan, along with season:

Current squad

  • Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Name Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes
Batters
Mahipal Lomror16 November 1999Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodoxPlays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL
Abhijeet Tomar14 March 1995Right-handedRight-arm off break
Deepak Hooda19 April 1995Right-handedRight-arm off breakCaptain
Plays for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL
Yash Kothari6 October 1995Right-handedRight-arm leg break
Karan Lamba28 November 2004Right-handedRight-arm leg break
Salman Khan26 December 1998Right-handedRight-arm off break
Aditya Garhwal15 April 1996Right-handedRight-arm leg break
Ram Chouhan28 March 1999Left-handedRight-arm off break
Mukul Choudhary6 August 2004Right-handed
Arjit Gupta12 September 1989Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Shubham Garhwal14 May 1995Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
Kunal Rathore9 October 2002Left-handedPlays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL
Samarpit Joshi19 September 1999Right-handedRight-arm medium-fast
Spinners
Manav Suthar3 August 2002Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodoxPlays for Gujarat Titans in IPL
Rahul Chahar4 August 1999Right-handedRight-arm leg breakPlays for Punjab Kings in IPL
Shubham Sharma26 March 1997Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Ajay Singh13 December 1996Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Fast Bowlers
Aniket Choudhary28 January 1990Right-handedLeft-arm mediumVice-captain
Arafat Khan27 December 1996Right-handedRight-arm medium
Khaleel Ahmed5 December 1997Right-handedLeft-arm medium
Deepak Chahar7 August 1992Right-handedRight-arm mediumPlays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Sahil Dhiwan3 July 1997Right-handedRight-arm medium

Updated as on 12 January 2024

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. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. 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

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