Mumbai cricket team
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मुंबई क्रिकेट संघ | |
Personnel | |
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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 | 42 |
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 |
The Mumbai cricket team, formerly known as the Bombay 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 42 titles. Its most recent title was in 2023–24. 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, Polly Umrigar and Dilip Vengsarkar.[3][4]
History
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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 Gymkhana and 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
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]
Ranji Trophy
Early success
Bombay won the first-ever Ranji Trophy competition in 1934–35, with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against Northern India. They retained title the following season with victory over Madras in the final. Bombay quickly showed themselves to be one of the strongest teams in the competition with 7 victories in the first 20 seasons of the Ranji Trophy. When playing Maharashtra in a semi-final of the 1948–49 season at Pune, Mumbai became the first and only team in first-class history to score over 600 runs in both innings of the same match – 651 and 714.[7]
1950s-1970s dominance
However, it was only after this period of success that their dominance was at its zenith. Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles from 1955–56 to 1976–77, including 15 consecutive titles from 1958–59 to 1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the Ranji Trophy final up to the mid-1980s.
1980s struggles
The latter half of the 1980s was Bombay's least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons.
1990s resurgence
However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from
21st century
In 2006–07, Mumbai won their 37th Ranji Trophy with victory over Bengal in the final at Wankhede Stadium. This win was particularly memorable as the team had recovered from the setbacks of losing their first three games and is reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final against Baroda.
Mumbai's dominance of the
Grounds
Brabourne Stadium
The
The Mumbai cricket team played its home matches at the Brabourne Stadium until 1971, when a dispute between CCI president Vijay Merchant and the Bombay Cricket Association over the allocation of seats for England's 1972-73 tour of India prompted the construction of the Wankhede Stadium.[11]
Wankhede Stadium
The Mumbai cricket team has played at the Wankhede Stadium since its construction in 1974. In the 1984–85 Ranji Trophy match against Baroda, Mumbai's Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in an over off Tilak Raj, en-route to the fastest double century in first-class cricket at the time.[12][13]
Bandra Kurla Complex Ground
The Mumbai Cricket Association built the MCA Recreation Centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex Ground in 2007. It houses an indoor cricket school and a cricket ground where Ranji Trophy matches are played.[14]
Statistics and Honours
- Ranji Trophy
- Winners (42): 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, 2023–24
- 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
- Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
- Winners: 2022-23
Notable players
The team is known for its
- Aavishkar Salvi
- Abey Kuruvilla
- Abhishek Nayar
- Ajinkya Rahane
- Ajit Agarkar
- Ajit Pai
- Ajit Wadekar
- Amol Muzumdar
- Arvind Apte
- Ashok Mankad
- Baloo Gupte
- Balwinder Sandhu
- Bapu Nadkarni
- Chandrakant Pandit
- Chandrakant Patankar
- Chandu Borde
- Dattaram Hindlekar
- Dattu Phadkar
- Dilip Sardesai
- Dilip Vengsarkar
- Dhawal Kulkarni
- Eknath Solkar
- Farokh Engineer
- Ghulam Parkar
- Gulabrai Ramchand
- Gundibail Sunderam
- Jatin Paranjpe
- Karsan Ghavri
- KC Ibrahim
- Keki Tarapore
- Khandu Rangnekar
- Khershed Meherhomji
- Lalchand Rajput
- Laxmidas Jai
- Madhav Apte
- Madhav Mantri
- Manohar Hardikar
- Naren Tamhane
- Nilesh Kulkarni
- Paras Mhambrey
- Phiroze Palia
- Polly Umrigar
- Pravin Amre
- Prithvi Shaw
- Raju Kulkarni
- Ramakant Desai
- Ramesh Powar
- Ramnath Kenny
- Ramnath Parkar
- Ravi Shastri
- Rohit Sharma
- Rusi Modi
- Rustomji Jamshedji
- Sachin Tendulkar
- Sadu Shinde
- Sairaj Bahutule
- Salil Ankola
- Sameer Dighe
- Sandeep Patil
- Sanjay Manjrekar
- Sarfaraz Khan
- Shardul Thakur
- Shivam Dube
- Shreyas Iyer
- Sorabji Colah
- Subhash Gupte
- Sudhir Naik
- Sunil Gavaskar
- Suru Nayak
- Suryakumar Yadav
- Umesh Kulkarni
- Vijay Manjrekar
- Vijay Merchant
- Vinod Kambli
- Wasim Jaffer
- Yashasvi Jaiswal
- Zaheer Khan
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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Batters | ||||
Ajinkya Rahane | 6 June 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Captain Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL |
Jay Bista | 23 December 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
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Bhupen Lalwani | 7 April 1999 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
|
Sarfaraz Khan | 22 October 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break |
|
Suved Parkar | 6 April 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
|
Angkrish Raghuvanshi | 5 June 2005 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox |
Plays for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL |
Prithvi Shaw | 9 November 1999 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
Plays for Delhi Capitals in IPL |
Yashasvi Jaiswal | 28 December 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break |
Plays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL |
Suryakumar Yadav | 14 September 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
Rohit Sharma | 30 April 1987 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
All-Rounders | ||||
Shivam Dube | 26 June 1993 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | Vice-captain Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL |
Shardul Thakur | 16 October 1991 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL |
Atharva Ankolekar | 26 September 2000 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox |
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Wicket-keepers | ||||
Prasad Pawar | 31 January 1995 | Right-handed | ||
Hardik Tamore | 20 October 1997 | Right-handed | ||
Spin Bowlers | ||||
Shams Mulani | 13 March 1997 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox |
Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
Tanush Kotian | 16 October 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break |
Plays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL |
Pace Bowlers | ||||
Mohit Avasthi | 18 November 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
Tushar Deshpande | 15 May 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL |
Royston Dias | 30 January 1993 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium | |
Dhawal Kulkarni | 10 December 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast |
Updated as on 22 March 2024
Support staff
Men's cricket team
Coach and support staff in Mumbai men's cricket team are shown below:
- Coach – Omkar Salvi[15]
- Batting coach – Vinit Indulkar[15][16]
- Fielding coach – Omkar Gurav[15][16]
- Team manager – Arman Mallick
- Video analyst – Ganesh Tyagi
- Trainer – Amogh Pandit[17]
- Assistant coach – Wilkin Mota
- Physio – Abhishek Sawant[17]
- Masseur – Sunil Rajguru
- Selectors -
1. Raju Kulkarni – Chairman 2. Sanjay Patil 3. Ravindra Thaker 4. Jeetendra Thackeray 5. Kiran Powar[18]
Women's cricket team
Coach and support staff in Mumbai women's cricket team are shown below:
- Coach – Sunetra Paranjpe[19]
- Assistant Coach – Sarvesh Damle[19]
Notes
- ^ It also represents Thane district, Palghar district, Navi Mumbai and Mumbai City district .
References
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- ^ "Ranji Trophy West Zone League, 1984-85:Bombay v Baroda". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^ Acscricket.com, Fastest double centuries in first class cricket
- ^ "MCA :: Mumbai Cricket Association". www.mumbaicricket.com. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
- ^ a b "MCA ::: Senior Men Coach for Mumbai Cricket Association". www.mumbaicricket.com. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
- ^ a b "MCA >>> Physio & Trainers for MCA Teams". www.mumbaicricket.com. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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