Andhra Pradesh cricket team

Andhra cricket team
Captain:	Mohammed Kaif
Coach:	Mukund Parmar^[1]
Owner:	Andhra Cricket Association
Founded:	1930
Home ground:	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium (capacity 45,000); YS Raja Reddy Stadium, Cuddapah (capacity 15,000)
Ranji Trophy wins:	0
Irani Trophy wins:	0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins:	0
Official website:	ACA

The Andhra cricket team is an Indian domestic cricket team representing the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The team's home ground is the APCA-VDCA Stadium at Visakhapatnam, but some of their home matches are also played at Vijayawada and Anantapur.^[2]

Overview

It has never featured in a Ranji Trophy final and has therefore never had a chance to participate in the Irani Trophy. In the 2007/08 season Andhra achieved two wins out of six in the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy, missing out of the semi-finals. It falls under the South Zone of Indian cricket. In the 2007-08 season, the Andhra Pradesh cricket team was captained by Mannava Prasad. The contingent also included Arjun Kumar, Mohammad Faiq, Sarath Babu and Paidikalva Vijaykumar.^[2]

In a recent match held in February 2013 in Goa, Andhra Pradesh played an outstanding game to beat the host team Goa by an embarrassing 170-run in the South Zone meet at the Vijay Hazare (Vijay Hazare Trophy) National One Day Championship. Played with superb all round batting and ferocious bowling, Andhra Pradesh scored 261 for six in 50 overs with the star player of the game, K.S. Bharat notching up 125 runs. Likewise, the Goa team saw a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Andhra bowlers at just 91 in 25.4 overs.^[3]

Andhra finished seventh in the 2013-14 Ranji Trophy season, winning just one game. In limited-overs tournaments, the results were equally middling. In the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament, they finished last in the South Zone group and failed to progress to the Super League. Although their Vijay Hazare campaign also ended on a similar note, Andhra were third on the South Zone table, behind Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

Home Ground

Venue	City	Established	Capacity	Notes
International Ground
Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium	Visakhapatnam	2003	35,000
Indira Priyadarshini Stadium	Visakhapatnam	1987	25,000
Indira Gandhi Stadium	Vijayawada	1960	n/a
Domestic Ground
Dr PVG Raju ACA Sports Complex(ACA Academy Stadium)	Vizianagram	2013	n/a	hosted 2 Women's ODI
Andhra Cricket Association Women's Cricket Academy Ground	Guntur	2011	n/a
CSR Sarma College Ground	Ongole	2012	n/a
Kandula Sreenivasa Reddy Memorial College of Engineering Ground	Cuddapah	2012	n/a
Port Trust Diamond Jubilee Stadium	Visakhapatnam	1993	n/a	hosted Afro-Asia Under-19 Cup in 2005
Rural Development Trust Stadium	Anantapur	2003	5,000
YS Raja Reddy Stadium	Cuddapah	2011	15,000
Ukku Stadium	Visakhapatnam	1991	n/a

Notable players

The ACA has produced very few international players. Many players from the ACA have played for India U-19s. The teams most notable players are:

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

The following players featured in at least one first-class, list A or Twenty20 game for Andhra during the 2014/15 season.

Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Captain
Mohammad Kaif	(1980-12-01) 1 December 1980	Right-handed	Right arm off break	FC 100/50 : 19/57
Vice-captain
DB Prasanth Kumar	(1991-12-13) 13 December 1991	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Batsmen
AG Pradeep	(1987-01-13) 13 January 1987	Right-handed	Right arm off break	FC 100/50 : 6/10
Bodapati Sumanth	(1988-05-10) 10 May 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	FC 100/50 : 5/14
Murumulla Sriram	(1992-09-21) 21 September 1992	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Ricky Bhui	(1996-09-29) 29 September 1996	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi	(1992-06-17) 17 June 1992	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Koripalli Sreekanth	(1992-11-23) 23 November 1992	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Wicket-keeper
Srikar Bharat	(1993-10-03) 3 October 1993	Right-handed	—	Opening Batsmen
All-rounders
Ashwin hebbar	(1995-11-15) 15 November 1995	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
D. Siva Kumar	(1990-02-11) 11 February 1990	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium	FC 100/50 : 1/4; FC Wkts : 100+
Spinners
Shaik Basha	(1993-05-22) 22 May 1993	Right-handed	Right arm off break
D. Naren Reddy	(1994-12-14) 14 December 1994	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Bodavarapu Sudhakar	(1991-07-25) 25 July 1991	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Dasari Swaroop Kumar	(1986-05-07) 7 May 1986	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Fast Bowlers
Paidikalva Vijaykumar	(1986-10-20) 20 October 1986	Right-handed	Right arm medium	FC Wkts : 180+
CV Stephen	(1993-12-03) 3 December 1993	Left-handed	Left arm medium	FC Wkts : 40+
Tekkami Atchuta Rao	(1986-08-21) 21 August 1986	Left-handed	Left arm medium
Kakani Harish	(1991-05-19) 19 May 1991	Right-handed	Right arm medium
KV Sasikanth	(1995-07-17) 17 July 1995	Right-handed	Right arm medium

Coaching Staff

Head coach - Mukund Parmar
Asst. Coach - Amit Pathak
Physio - Mahesh Pradeep Barun
Trainer - Gohil Rakesh
Video analyst - V Chaitanya Nag
Manager - MS Kumar

References

↑ "Welcome to Andhra Cricket Association". Andhracricketassociation.in. Retrieved 2015-12-17.
1 2 "Andhra Pradesh cricket team". Sports Pundit. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
↑ "VIjay Hazare Trophy 2013: Andhra Pradesh thrash Goa". Cricket Country. com. Retrieved 7 July 2013.

Ranji Trophy

Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 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 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Current teams	Andhra Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Mumbai Odisha Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Vidarbha

Former teams	Army Bihar Central India Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Holkar Madhya Bharat Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab United Provinces

Records Triple centuries

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