Vidarbha cricket team

Vidarbha cricket team
Captain:	Faiz Fazal
Coach:	Ashok Upadhyay
Owner:	Vidarbha Cricket Association
Founded:	1957
Home ground:	Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground
Capacity:	45,000
Ranji Trophy wins:	0
Irani Trophy wins:	0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins:	0

The Vidarbha cricket team is a domestic cricket team in the Ranji Trophy, India's domestic first-class cricket competition. It represents the Vidarbha region of eastern Maharashtra.

History

Vidarbha first played first-class cricket in the 1957-58 season, competing against the other Central Zone teams until 2001-02, after which the Ranji Trophy was no longer contested on a zonal basis. Vidarbha's best seasons were 1970-71 and 1995-96, when it reached the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy and 2002-03 and 2011-12, when it reached the semi-finals of the Plate Group. Up to early November 2015, Vidarbha had played 247 first-class matches, with 37 wins, 85 losses and 125 draws.^[1]

Vidarbha's home ground has always been the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground in Nagpur.^[2]The new home ground is Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium at Jamtha in Nagpur.

Vidarbha's record score is 221 by Samir Gujar against Madhya Pradesh in 1991-92.^[3] The best bowling figures in an innings are 8 for 39 by Arun Ogiral against Madhya Pradesh in 1967-68,^[4] and the best bowling figures in a match are 13 for 162 by Akshay Wakhare against Gujarat in 2014-15.^[5]

Players

Main article: List of Vidarbha cricketers

Current squad

Coach: Paras Mhambrey

Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Captain & Batsmen
Faiz Fazal	(1985-09-07) 7 September 1985	Left-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Batsmen
Wasim Jaffer	(1978-02-16) 16 February 1978	Right-handed	Right-arm offbreak	Tests : 31
Ganesh Satish	(1988-03-15) 15 March 1988	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Aditya Shanware	(1991-07-18) 18 July 1991	Right-hand bat	Right-arm legbreak
Sanjay Ramaswamy	(1995-04-01) 1 April 1995	Right-hand bat	Right-arm legbreak
Wicket-keeper
Jitesh Sharma	(1992-10-22) 22 October 1992	Right-handed	n/a	T20 SR: 132
Amol Ubarhande	(1988-09-28) 28 September 1988	Right-handed	n/a
Dharmender Ahlawat	(1991-12-28) 28 December 1991	Right-handed	n/a
Pacer All-Rounder
Shrikant Wagh	(1988-10-09) 9 October 1988	Left-hand bat	Left-arm fast-medium
Spinner All-Rounder
Ravi Jangid	(1987-06-03) 3 June 1987	Left-hand bat	Slow left-arm orthodox	T20 Bowl.Avg : 23
Aditya Sarwate	(1989-12-10) 10 December 1989	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Fast-Bowler
Umesh Yadav	(1987-10-25) 25 October 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm fast
Shalabh Shrivastava	(1987-10-25) 25 October 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Swapnil Bandiwar	(1988-07-09) 9 July 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Rajneesh Gurbani	(1993-01-23) 23 January 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
Yadvendra Tembhare	(1990-07-02) 2 July 1990	Left-hand bat	Left-arm fast-medium
Ravikumar Thakur	(1984-09-01) 1 September 1984	Right-hand bat	Left-arm fast-medium
Spinners
Akshay Karnewar	(1992-10-12) 12 October 1992	Left-hand bat	Slow left-arm orthodox
Akshay Wakhare	(1985-10-03) 3 October 1985	Right-handed	Right-arm offbreak

Coaching Staff

Head Coach: Ashok Upadhyay^[6]
Batiing Coach: n/a
Bowling Coach: Subroto Banerjee^[7]
Under-19s Coach: Trevor Gonsalvis & Manoj Gogte
Video analyst : Aniruddha Deshpande
Trainer: Prashant Bambhal
Physio: Dr. Kishore Nakhale

References

↑ "Vidarbha playing record". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
↑ "First-class matches played on Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
↑ "Most runs in an innings for Vidarbha". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
↑ "Most wickets in an innings for Vidarbha". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
↑ "Most wickets in a match for Vidarbha". CricketArchive. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
↑ Delhi's Ranji match against Vidarbha temporarily stopped
↑ Vijay Telang appointed Vidarbha coach

External links

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