Karnataka cricket team

Karnataka cricket team

Captain:	Vinay Kumar
Coach:	Jagadeesh Arunkumar & Mansur Ali Khan
Owner:	Karnataka State Cricket Association
Founded:	1933
Home ground:	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Capacity:	40,000
Ranji Trophy wins:	8
Irani Trophy wins:	6
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	2
Official website:	KSCA

Karnataka cricket team represents the Indian state of Karnataka in domestic cricket competitions. It has traditionally been one of the strongest teams in the domestic circuit and has produced many of Indian cricket team's iconic players. It was known as Mysore cricket team before the state of Mysore was officially renamed as Karnataka in 1973. It has won the Ranji Trophy eight times and has come second six times (including two runner-up positions for the earlier Mysore team). The team's home ground is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

Competition history

Karnataka has produced some of the best cricketers from the southern part of India. There was a time during late 90s when 8 out of 11 players were from Karnataka and from 1996 to 2001 there were about 4-5 players from the state consistently representing the Indian team.

Its recent wins were in the 1998/99 season and the 1997/98 season, in which it emerged victorious in its finals against Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh respectively. It also beat Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy season of 1995/96. This strong run in the Ranji Trophy was due to the emergence of Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath and Sunil Joshi, all of whom have gone on to play for the country with distinction.

In the Irani Trophy, Karnataka has won six times and lost twice against the Rest of India team.

The team showed good performance in 2007-08 season. As international players had to move in and out of the squad due to their national duties, the team could not adjust well with the changes in a short period.

A young Karnataka unit performed well in the 2009-10 season and made it to the finals comfortably. The finals took place at the picturesque Gangotri Glades in Mysuru, where Karnataka, backed by a charged full-house crowd, came up with a spirited performance but went down to Mumbai by a slender margin of 6 runs. Manish Pandey was the highest scorer of the season with 882 runs from 9 matches.

The team emerged winners in the 2013-14 season under the captaincy of Vinay Kumar beating Maharashtra by 7 wickets in the finals played at Hyderabad. They went on to win the Irani Trophy (vs Rest of India) and Vijay Hazare Trophy (domestic ODI tournament) in the same season, thus completing a historic treble.

Karnataka continued their dominance in 2014-15 season too. Firstly, they successfully defended the Vijay Hazare Trophy, winning their final against Punjab by 156 runs. They had a stupendous run in the Ranji Trophy too, and beat Tamil Nadu by an innings and 217 runs in the final at Mumbai to retain the trophy. Karun Nair scored 328, the highest ever individual score in a Ranji Trophy final (bettering Gul Mohammad's 319, scored in the 1946/47 season final). Vinay Kumar became the first captain to pick up a five-wicket haul and score a century in a Ranji final. In the Irani Trophy game that followed, they beat the Rest of India team by 246 runs and retained the trophy. By doing so, they not only repeated the historic treble of the previous season, but also became only the second domestic team (after Bombay) to bag back-to-back Irani Cups.

Karnataka had a modest 2015-16 Ranji season, chalking up 2 wins, 1 loss and 5 draws in the league stage. They did not qualify for the knock-outs. Karnataka's only loss came against Maharashtra in their final league game, which ended an unbeaten streak of 37 first-class matches (20 wins, 17 draws) that stretched back to November 2012. Karnataka did not qualify for the knock-outs in the Vijay Hazare Trophy too, despite winning 4 of their 6 league games.

Rahul Dravid scored hundreds in the finals of both 1995-96 and 1997-98 Ranji Trophy.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Season	Position	Captain	Opponent	Irani Cup
1941-42	Runner-up	Safi Darashah	Bombay	--
1959-60	Runner-up	K Vasudevamurthy	Bombay	--
1973-74	Winner	EAS Prasanna	Rajasthan	Yes
1974-75	Runner-up	EAS Prasanna	Bombay	--
1977-78	Winner	EAS Prasanna	Uttar Pradesh	No
1978-79	Runner-up	GR Vishwanath	Delhi	--
1981-82	Runner-up	GR Vishwanath	Delhi	--
1982-83	Winner	Brijesh Patel	Bombay	Yes
1995-96	Winner	Anil Kumble	Tamil Nadu	Yes
1997-98	Winner	Rahul Dravid	Uttar Pradesh	Yes
1998-99	Winner	Sunil Joshi	Madhya Pradesh	No
2009-10	Runner-up	Robin Uthappa	Mumbai	--
2013-14	Winner	Vinay Kumar	Maharashtra	Yes
2014-15	Winner	Vinay Kumar	Tamil Nadu	Yes

Famous players

Main article: List of Karnataka cricketers

Anil Kumble is one of the three bowlers to have taken more than 600 Test wickets.

Players from Karnataka who have represented India in at least one international match:

^† indicates inductees of KSCA Hall of Fame^[1]

Current squad and support staff

●Video analyst - Shrinivas ●Head coach - Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Birth place	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Captain
	Vinay Kumar	(1984-02-12) 12 February 1984	Davangere, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	FC Wkts : 350+
Batsmen
	Mayank Agarwal	(1991-02-16) 16 February 1991	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed
	Shishir Bhavane	(1991-09-24) 24 September 1991	Hubli, KA	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	Kunal Kapoor	(1987-09-18) 18 September 1987	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Karun Nair	(1991-12-06) 6 December 1991	Jodhpur, RJ	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Middle-order Batsmen
	Manish Pandey	(1989-09-10) 10 September 1989	Nainital, UT	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	KL Rahul	(1992-04-18) 18 April 1992	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed		Occasional wicketkeeper
	Abhishek Reddy	(1994-09-14) 14 September 1994	Bidar, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Ravikumar Samarth	(1993-01-22) 22 January 1993	Mysore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Robin Uthappa	(1985-11-11) 11 November 1985	Kodagu, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Occasional wicketkeeper
All-rounders
	Stuart Binny	(1984-06-03) 3 June 1984	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Shreyas Gopal	(1993-09-04) 4 September 1993	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
	Udit Patel	(1984-08-31) 31 August 1984	Vadodara, GJ	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Jagadeesha Suchith	(1994-01-16) 16 January 1994	Mysore, KA	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
	CM Gautam	(1986-03-08) 8 March 1986	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed		FC 100s : 10
Bowlers
	Sreenath Aravind	(1984-04-08) 8 April 1984	Bangalore, KA	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
	Abrar Kazi	(1989-09-29) 29 September 1989	Bangalore, KA	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Prasidh Krishna	(1996-02-19) 19 February 1996	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	David Mathias	(1991-03-20) 20 March 1991	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Abhimanyu Mithun	(1989-10-25) 25 October 1989	Bangalore, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	HS Sharath	(1993-06-02) 2 June 1993	Mandya, KA	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast

References

↑ http://www.ksca.cricket/halloffame.html

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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