Mumbai cricket team

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Mumbai cricket team

Captain:	Aditya Tare
Coach:	Chandrakant Pandit
Founded:	1930
Home ground:	Wankhede Stadium (capacity 45,000); Brabourne Stadium, (capacity 30,000)
Ranji Trophy wins:	40
Irani Cup wins:	16
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	2
Wills Trophy wins:	5
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins:	1
Official website:	MCA

The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. The team's primary home ground is the Wankhede Stadium in South Mumbai. Secondary home venues include the MCA ground in Bandra Kurla Complex and Brabourne Stadium. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed when the city was officially renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.

Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 40 titles, the most recent being in 2012–13. It also has 16 Irani Cup titles to its name, also the most by any team. Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Polly Umrigar and Dilip Vengsarkar.

Competition history

Mumbai is one of three teams located in the state of Maharashtra (the others being the Maharashtra cricket team and the Vidarbha cricket team), and has always competed as a separate team from the rest of the state. Despite this division, Mumbai has become India's most successful domestic team. It has played in 44 of the 67 Ranji finals through 2014 winning 40.

Bombay won the first-ever Ranji Trophy competition in 1934–35 with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against Northern India. The title was retained the following season with a 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.

However, it was after this period that their dominance was at its zenith. From 1955–56 to 1976–77, Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles including 15 in a row from 1958–59 to 1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the Ranji Trophy final up to the mid-1980s.

The later half of the 1980s was Bombay's least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons. However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from 1993–94 to 2003–04 under the new name of Mumbai.

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 being reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final against Baroda.

Mumbai's dominance of the Ranji Trophy has led to many consecutive appearances in the Irani Trophy with much success including 15 wins. However, they have failed to beat the Rest of India team since 1998.

Honours

• Ranji Trophy Champions: 40

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

• Ranji Trophy Runner-up: 4

1947–48, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1990–91

Notable players

Main article: List of Mumbai cricketers

Sachin Tendulkar

The team is known for its batting and spin bowling and has produced many of the Indian cricket team's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include:

• 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
• 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
• Sorabji Colah
• Subhash Gupte
• Sudhir Naik
• Sunil Gavaskar
• Suru Nayak
• Umesh Kulkarni
• Vijay Manjrekar
• Vijay Merchant
• Vinod Kambli
• Wasim Jaffer
• Zaheer Khan

Current squad and Support Staff

Coach- Chandrakant Pandit

Team manager - Ganesh Iyer

Video analyst - Rohan Amladi

Trainer - Rahul Patwardhan

Bowling coach - Omkar Salvi

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
	Akhil Herwadkar	(1994-10-31) 31 October 1994	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	Shreyas Iyer	(1994-12-06) 6 December 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Most runs for Ranji Trophy, 2015/16
	Siddhesh Lad	(1992-05-23) 23 May 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Shrideep Mangela	(1988-04-01) 1 April 1988	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
	Nikhil Patil	(1989-11-27) 27 November 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Ajinkya Rahane	(1988-06-06) 6 June 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Vice-captain
	Rohit Sharma	(1987-04-30) 30 April 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Captain
	Suryakumar Yadav	(1990-09-14) 14 September 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
All-rounders
	Jay Bista	(1995-12-23) 23 December 1995	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Abhishek Nayar	(1983-10-08) 8 October 1983	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Abhishek Raut	(1987-03-03) 3 March 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
Wicket-keepers
	Sushant Marathe	(1985-10-16) 16 October 1985	Right-handed
	Aditya Tare	(1987-11-07) 7 November 1987	Right-handed
Bowlers
	Iqbal Abdulla	(1989-12-02) 2 December 1989	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Vishal Dabholkar	(1987-03-23) 23 March 1987	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Javed Khan	(1990-10-20) 20 October 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Dhawal Kulkarni	(1988-12-10) 10 December 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Wilkin Mota	(1981-09-20) 20 September 1981	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Shardul Thakur	(1991-10-16) 16 October 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Balwinder Sandhu	(1987-05-26) 26 May 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Harmeet Singh	(1992-09-07) 7 September 1992	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Ankush Jaiswal	(1992-06-16) 16 June 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm off break