Mumbai cricket team

मुंबई क्रिकेट संघ
Personnel
Captain	Ajinkya Rahane
Coach	Amol Muzumdar
Owner	Mumbai Cricket Association
Team information
Founded	1865
Home ground	Wankhede Stadium
Capacity	33,108
Secondary home ground(s)	Bandra Kurla Complex Ground
Secondary ground capacity	5,000
History
First-class debut	Lord Hawke's XI in 1892 at Bombay Gymkhana. Bombay
Ranji Trophy wins	41
Irani Cup wins	14 (1 shared)
Nissar Trophy wins	1
Wills Trophy wins	8
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	4
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	1
Official website	www.mumbaicricket.com

The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team which represents Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket.^{[note 1]} It is governed by Mumbai Cricket Association. Its home ground is Wankhede Stadium of Churchgate.

The team also plays its home matches at Bandra Kurla Complex Ground and Brabourne Stadium. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but it 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 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It also has 14(1 shared) 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, Ajinkya Rahane, Polly Umrigar, and Dilip Vengsarkar.

History

It has played in 44 of the 67 Ranji finals as of 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 latter 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 is 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 the India team since 1998.

Statistics and Honours

• Ranji Trophy
  • Winners (41): 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
  • Runners-up (5): 1947–48, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1990–91, 2016–17

• Irani Cup (14) – 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

• Wills Trophy
  • Winners (8): 1981-82, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1997-98; (1 shared) – 1978-79

• Vijay Hazare Trophy
  • Winners (4): 2003-04, 2006-07, 2018-19, 2020-21
  • Runners-up (1): 2011-12

• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (1)
  • Winners (1): 2022-23

Notable players

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.

Updated as on 29 November 2023

Support staff

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

• Coach- Amol Muzumdar
• Team manager – Arman Mallick
• Video analyst – Ganesh Tyagi
• Trainer – Amogh Pandit
• Assistant coach – Wilkin Mota
• Physio – Abhishek Sawant
• Masseur – Sunil Rajguru
• Selectors -

1. Salil Ankola – Chairman 2. Sanjay Patil 3. Ravindra Thaker 4. Zulfiqar Parkar 5. Ravi Kulkarni

Notes

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