Rest of India cricket team

Rest of India cricket team is a first-class cricket team in India that continually changes, being composed from players across the country except for those from the season's current Ranji Trophy winner.[1][2] It annually competes against the Ranji Trophy winner for the Irani Cup, "The Best vs Best of the Rest" tournament. The team was officially instituted in season 1959-60, playing its first match on 18 March 1960 against the Bombay cricket team (now Mumbai). Rest of India has won the tournament 27 times and shared the trophy twice (with Bombay in 1965-66 and Delhi in 1979-80).

Rest of india
Rest of India cricket team's logo
Personnel
CaptainAjinkya Rahane
Team information
ColoursCricket Whites
Founded1960
History
First-class debutBombay
in 1960
at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Irani Cup wins27
2018–19 Irani Cup

Captains

YearCaptainRanji Team
2002Yuvraj SinghPunjab
2003Saurav GangulyBengal
2004Dinesh MongiaPunjab
2005Gautam GambhirDelhi
2006Wasim JafferMumbai
2007Mohammad KaifUttar Pradesh
2008Anil KumbleKarnataka
2009Virender SehwagDelhi
2010Yuvraj SinghPunjab
2011Parthiv PatelGujarat
2012Cheteshwar PujaraSaurashtra
2013Virender SehwagDelhi
2014Harbhajan SinghPunjab
2015Manoj TiwaryBengal
2016Naman OjhaMadhya Pradesh
2017Cheteshwar PujaraSaurashtra
2018Karun NairKarnataka
2019 Ajinkya RahaneMumbai

Current Team (for 2018–19 Irani Cup)

NameRanji Team
Ajinkya Rahane (c)Mumbai
Mayank AgarwalKarnataka
Anmolpreet SinghPunjab
sai ganeshHyderabad
Shreyas IyerMumbai
Ishan Kishan (wk)Jharkhand
Krishnappa GowthamKarnataka
Dharmendrasinh JadejaGujarat
Rahul ChaharRajasthan
Ankit RajpootUttar Pradesh
Tanvir Mashart Ul-HaqRajasthan
Ronit MoreKarnataka
Sandeep WarrierKerala
Rinku SinghUttar Pradesh
Snell PatelGujarat

Other forms

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has named other Rest of India teams. These have played tour matches against international teams, and in 1971-1972 played a series of 3 first-class matches against the Indian national cricket team to raise funds for defence forces.[3] A List A "Best vs Best of the Rest" match was organized between Rest of India and the winner of 1989-90 Deodhar Trophy, West Zone, on 2 October 1989.[4]

References

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