Mumbai cricket team

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.

For the IPL team, see Mumbai Indians.
Mumbai cricket team
Personnel
CaptainSuryakumar Yadav & Shreyas Iyer
CoachVinayak Samant
Team information
Founded1930
Home groundWankhede Stadium (capacity 45,000);
Brabourne Stadium, (capacity 30,000)
History
Ranji Trophy wins41
Irani Cup wins14 (1 shared)
Nissar Trophy wins1
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins3
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins0
Official websitewww.mumbaicricket.com

Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It also has 14 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, Rohit Sharma, 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.[1]

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 (41 titles) – 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.
  • Irani Cup (14 titles) – 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.

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:

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Siddhesh Lad (1992-05-23) 23 May 1992Right-handedRight-arm off breakPlays for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL
Played for India Green in 2019-20 Duleep Trophy
Suryakumar Yadav (1990-09-14) 14 September 1990Right-handedRight-arm mediumTwenty20 Captain
Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Played for India C in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy
Jay Bista (1995-12-23) 23 December 1995Right-handedRight-arm off break
Sarfaraz Khan (1997-10-27) 27 October 1997Right-handedRight-arm leg breakPlays for Kings XI Punjab in IPL
Shreyas Iyer (1994-12-06) 6 December 1994Right-handedRight-arm off breakList A Captain
Plays for Delhi Capitals in IPL
Played for Rest of India in 2018-19 Irani Cup
Prithvi Shaw (1999-11-09) 9 November 1999Right-handedRight-arm off breakPlays for Delhi Capitals in IPL
Hardik Tamore (1997-10-20) 20 October 1997Right-handed
Bhupen Lalwani (1999-04-07) 7 April 1999Right-handedRight-arm off break
Yashasvi Jaiswal (2001-12-28) 28 December 2001Right-handedRight-arm leg breakPlays for Rajasthan Royals in IPL
Played for India B in 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy
Ajinkya Rahane (1988-06-06) 6 June 1988Right-handedRight-arm mediumPlays for Delhi Capitals in IPL
Played for Rest of India in 2018-19 Irani Cup
Rohit Sharma (1987-04-30) 30 April 1987Right-handedRight-arm off breakPlays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
All-Rounders
Shubham Ranjane (1994-03-26) 26 March 1994Right-handedRight-arm medium
Akash Parkar (1994-05-20) 20 May 1994Right-handedRight-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
Aditya Tare (1987-11-07) 7 November 1987Right-handedFirst-class Captain
Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Spin Bowlers
Shams Mulani (1997-03-13) 13 March 1997Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Shashank Attarde (1991-11-04) 4 November 1991Right-handedRight-arm off break
Dhrumil Matkar (1996-06-03) 3 June 1996Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Sujit Nayak (1989-06-23) 23 June 1989Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
Pace Bowlers
Tushar Deshpande (1995-05-15) 15 May 1995Right-handedRight-arm mediumPlays for Delhi Capitals in IPL
Played for India Blue in 2019-20 Duleep Trophy
Shardul Thakur (1991-10-16) 16 October 1991Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastPlays for Chennai Super Kings in IPL
Dhawal Kulkarni (1988-12-10) 10 December 1988Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastPlays for Mumbai Indians in IPL
Played for India C in 2018-19 Deodhar Trophy
Shivam Dube (1993-06-26) 26 June 1993Left-handedRight-arm mediumPlays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL
Royston Dias (1993-01-30) 30 January 1993Left-handedLeft-arm medium

Support staff

Coach and support staff in Mumbai cricket team are shown below:

  • Coach- Vinayak Samant
  • Team manager – Ganesh Iyer
  • Video analyst – Prasanna Aghoram
  • Trainer – Yogesh Kanchgar
  • Assistant coach – Amit Dani
  • Physio – Deep Tomar
  • Masseur – Sunil Rajguru
  • Selectors - Ajit Agarkar Nilesh Kulkarni Jatin Paranjape Sunil More

Mumbai Cricket Association

The Mumbai cricket Association or MCA is the governing body for cricket in Mumbai and its surrounding regions like Thane and Navi Mumbai. The association comes under west zone. The Association was established in 1930 and it has a Constitution. Sharad Pawar was re-elected as the president of Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) after defeating Vijay Patil by a margin of 27 votes at the biennial elections held in Mumbai. The Mumbai cricket team is the team for the Mumbai cricket association in the Ranji Trophy. The team has won over 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It has also come runner-up in the final of the Ranji Trophy a total of 5 times. The association owns the Wankhede Stadium, near Churchgate railway station built in 1975. The office of the association is located in the same building. To promote democratic values and to bring in new ideas and enthusiasm, the constitution provides that no individual can continue in any post for more than eight years (four terms of 2 years) consecutively. After completing 8 years in a position he/she can occupy the same post after a gap of 4 years (2 terms of 2 years each). The Mumbai Cricket Association does not have a system of individual membership. Rather it has 350 ordinary members and 25 Associate members which are affiliated to the Association. Only ordinary members are eligible to vote during elections. If any ordinary member is found to be inactive in terms of cricket activity for more than 3 years the Club to which he/she belongs is demoted as an Associate member and if the club is still inactive for 3 years it automatically loses its membership.

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References
  1. "Maharashtra v Bombay". cricketarchive.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2012.
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