Baroda cricket team

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The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat. The home ground of the team is the Moti Bagh Stadium on the palace grounds.

The team is run by the Baroda Cricket Association. It has been one of the most successful teams in the Ranji Trophy in the new millennium.

Baroda were runners-up in the 2005/06 Ranji Trophy. It is one of three Gujarat Teams, the others being the Saurashtra cricket team and Gujarat cricket team.

Competition history

Baroda has only emerged as a strong team in recent years. It won its last Ranji Trophy in 2000–01, but failed to defend the title, coming runner-up in the next year. This means it has had only one Irani Trophy appearance, in which it failed to defeat a strong Rest of India team which contained the likes of VVS Laxman (13 & 148), Dinesh Mongia (125 & 90*), Debashish Mohanty, Sarandeep Singh and Akash Chopra. See Scorecard. It was considered a strong team in the 1940s and 1950s, winning 4 times and coming runner-up twice. Vijay Hazare , Irfan Pathan , Yusuf Pathan , Hardik Pandya are amongst the most prominent cricketers to emerge from Baroda. They have performed exceedingly well at the international level for India.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2010–11	Runner-up
2001–02	Runner-up
2000–01	Winner
1957–58	Winner
1949–50	Winner
1948–49	Runner-up
1946–47	Winner
1945–46	Runner-up
1942–43	Winner

Home grounds

Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000.
Reliance Stadium, Vadodara – hosted 10 ODIs
Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batters
Jyotsnil Singh	1997-12-15 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Pratyush Kumar	1995-7-1 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Ambati Rayudu	1985-9-23 (age 41)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Captain Plays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Bhanu Pania	1996-9-4 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Shashwat Rawat	2001-4-6 (age 25)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Priyanshu Moliya	2005-6-17 (age 21)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Aditya Waghmode	1989-11-8 (age 37)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
Harsh Desai	2002-10-30 (age 24)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
All-rounders
Mahesh Pithiya	2001-12-24 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Abhimanyusingh Rajput	1998-5-9 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Krunal Pandya	1991-3-24 (age 35)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Plays For Lucknow Super Giants in IPL
Dhruv Patel	1997-9-12 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Hardik Pandya	1993-10-11 (age 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Plays For Gujarat Titans in IPL
Wicket-keeper
Vishnu Solanki	1992-10-15 (age 34)	Right-handed		Vice-captain
Mitesh Patel	1997-5-15 (age 29)	Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
Ninad Rathva	1999-3-10 (age 27)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Bhargav Bhatt	1990-5-13 (age 36)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Chintal Gandhi	1994-8-25 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Kartik Kakade	1995-7-25 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Pace Bowlers
Lukman Meriwala	1991-12-11 (age 35)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast-medium
Atit Sheth	1996-2-3 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Varun Aaron	1989-10-29 (age 37)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
Babashafi Pathan	1994-8-19 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Soyeb Sopariya	1994-9-10 (age 32)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium
Safvan Patel	1998-10-3 (age 28)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium