Rajasthan cricket team

For the Indian Premier League franchise, see Rajasthan Royals.

Rajasthan cricket team
Captain:	Hrishikesh Kanitkar
Home ground:	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Capacity:	30,000
Ranji Trophy wins:	2
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	0
Inter-State T20 wins:	0
Official website:	Rajasthan Cricket Association

The Rajasthan cricket team is a cricket team which represents the Indian state of Rajasthan. The team emerged champions of the Ranji Trophy in 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons, after finishing runners-up eight times (1960–1974). It is currently in the Ranji Trophy Elite group. "Rajasthan cricket team" is also popularly known as "Team Rajasthan" and it is run by the Rajasthan Cricket Association.

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 large 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.

Players

Current squad

denotes players with international caps.

Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Ashok Menaria	(1990-10-29) 29 October 1990	Left-handed	Leg break googly	Captain
Robin Bist	(1987-11-02) 2 November 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	& —
Vaibhav Deshpande	(1987-01-11) 11 January 1987	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	& —
Ankit Lamba	(1991-12-03) 3 December 1991	Right-handed	Leg break googly	& —
Rajesh Bishnoi	(1987-10-08) 8 October 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace	& —
Puneet Yadav	(1987-08-12) 12 August 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace	& —
Vineet Saxena	(1980-12-03) 3 December 1980	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	& —
All-rounders
Rajat Bhatia	(1979-10-22) 22 October 1979	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	& —
Madhur Khatri	(1987-06-25) 25 June 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	& —
Wicket-keepers
Dishant Yagnik	(1983-06-22) 22 June 1983	Left-handed	& —
Bowlers
Deepak Chahar	(1992-08-07) 7 August 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace	& —
Gajendra Singh	(1988-09-10) 10 September 1988	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	& —
Aniket Choudhary	(1990-01-28) 28 January 1990	Right-handed	Left-arm medium pace	FC Wkts : 91
Rituraj Singh	(1990-10-19) 19 October 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace	& —
Pankaj Singh	(1985-05-06) 6 May 1985	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	& —
Ramesh Powar	(1978-05-20) 20 May 1978	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	& —
Nathu Singh	(1995-09-08) 8 September 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm medium pace	& —
Kukna Ajay Singh	(1996-12-13) 13 December 1996	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	& —

Former players

List of Rajasthan first-class players
List of Rajasthan List A players
List of Rajasthan Twenty20 players

Captains

2010/11–2012/13 Hrishikesh Kanitkar
1992/1997 Rajiv Rathore
1990/91– Parmindar Singh
1989/90 Sanjay Vyas
1988/89 Padam Shastri
1985/86–1987/88 Sanjay Vyas
1979/80–1984/85 Parthasarathy Sharma
1977/78–1978/79 Kailash Gattani
1966/67–1976/77 Hanumant Singh
1962/63–1965/66 Raj Singh Dungarpur
1960/61–1961/62 Kishan Rungta
1957/58–1959/60 Vinoo Mankad
1951/52–1956/57 Maharana of Mewar
1935/36–1939/40 Walter Bradshaw
1933/34–1937/38 Maharaja of Dungarpur

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

For more details on this topic, see 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

For a complete list of grounds used by Rajasthan, see List of Rajasthan cricket team grounds.

Notes

↑ What is today the modern state of Rajasthan was then a part of the British Raj and was known as Rajputana.

References

↑ "Other Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
1 2 3 "RCA History". Rajasthan Cricket Association. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
1 2 3 "First-Class Matches played by Rajputana". CricketArchive. Retrieved 1 November 2012.
↑ "Delhi v Rajputana, 1939/40 Ranji Trophy". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2 November 2012.

External links

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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

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