Punjab cricket team (India)

Punjab cricket team
Captain:	Yuvraj Singh
Coach:	Arun Sharma
Owner:	Punjab Cricket Association
Founded:	1968
Home ground:	PCA Stadium, Mohali
Capacity:	28,000
Ranji Trophy wins:	1
Irani Trophy wins:	0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	0
Official website:	PCA

The Punjab cricket team is the official first-class cricket team that represents the Indian state of Punjab. They have qualified for three Ranji Trophy semi-finals in the last five seasons, and made it to the final in 2004–05 tournament, where they lost to Railways on first innings. They also play in other domestic cricket tournaments in India. They have only been winners of the Ranji Trophy once, in the 1992–93 season.

Competition history

Punjab first competed as a unified team in 1968-69. Before then, Southern Punjab, Eastern Punjab and Northern Punjab had competed at various times. Punjab have won the Ranji Trophy only once, in 1992-93. In that year, they lost the Irani Trophy against a Rest of India team that featured the likes of Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly. Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia. Punjab have never won the one-day trophy.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2004–05	Winner
1994–95	Runner-up
1992–93	Winner
1938–39	Runner-up

Home ground

The Punjab cricket team are based and play their home games at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali, Chandigarh, which was established in 1993, with floodlights, on what was previously swampland. New cricket grounds of International recognition are expected to come up at Bathinda and one more at Ludhiana or Amritsar as per the saying of Punjab govt

The international stadium and proposed of Punjab cricket team:-

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali - it is a regular Test venue of BCCI, and also the home of IPL team Kings XI Punjab
Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar - hosted 2 ODI matches
Gandhi Stadium, Jalandhar - hosted a Test and 3 ODI
Dhruve Pandove Stadium, Patiala - oldest ground in Punjab
Mullanpur International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur - proposed in 2010
Shaheed Udham Singh Stadium, Amritsar - proposed in 2011
Bathinda International Cricket Stadium, Bathinda - proposed and under-construction since 2007

Famous players from Punjab

Main article: List of Punjab cricketers

Harbhajan Singh is the captain of the team.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Captain
12	Yuvraj Singh	(1981-12-12) 12 December 1981	Left-handed	Slow left arm orthodox	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad
Batsmen
	Himanshu Chawla	(1991-05-31) 31 May 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
	Mayank Sidhana	(1986-12-04) 4 December 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
22	Gurkeerat Singh	(1990-06-29) 29 June 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Jiwanjot Singh	(1990-11-06) 6 November 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
12	Mandeep Singh	(1991-12-18) 18 December 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	FC 100s : 10
	Pargat Singh	(1992-04-13) 13 April 1992	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
29	Manan Vohra	(1993-07-18) 18 July 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
All-rounders
	Gurinder Singh	(1992-07-09) 9 July 1992	Right-handed	Slow left arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
	Uday Kaul	(1987-12-02) 2 December 1987	Left-handed
	Gitansh Khera	(1991-06-04) 4 June 1991	Right-handed
Bowlers
	Deepak Bansal	(1990-07-19) 19 July 1990	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
	Harmeet Singh Bansal	(1987-10-09) 9 October 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
37	Siddarth Kaul	(1990-05-19) 19 May 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	FC Wicks : 200+
	Varun Khanna	(1984-10-12) 12 October 1984	Right-handed	Slow left arm orthodox
1	Sarabjit Ladda	(1986-07-10) 10 July 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
19	Sandeep Sharma	(1993-05-18) 18 May 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Baltej Singh	(1990-11-04) 4 November 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
3	Harbhajan Singh	(1980-07-03) 3 July 1980	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
51	Barinder Sran	(1992-12-10) 10 December 1992	Left-handed	Left-arm fast-medium

References

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 2016–17

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 Eastern Punjab Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin

Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

Punjab cricket team – current squad

Baltej D Bansal HS Bansal H Chawla Gurinder 22 Gurkeerat 3 Harbhajan (c) Jiwanjot 37 S Kaul U Kaul Khanna Khera 1 Ladda 12 Mandeep Pargat Sidhana 19 S Sharma 51 Sran 29 Vohra 12 Yuvraj Coach: Arun Sharma

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