Railways cricket team

Railways cricket team
Captain:	Mahesh Rawat
Coach:
Owner:	Railways Sports Promotion Board
Founded:	1930
Home ground:	Karnail Singh Stadium, New Delhi (and other stadiums)

Railways playing against Orissa at Brabourne Stadium c.2006

Railways Cricket Team (also known as the Indian Railways) is a domestic cricket team in India. The team's home ground is East Coast Railway Stadium in Bhubaneswar and Karnail Singh Stadium in New Delhi.^[1] The team is run by the Railways Sports Promotion Board which fields the Railways cricket team in domestic cricket competitions in India such as the Ranji Trophy.^[2]

Competition history

For most of its history, the Indian Railways has met little success in the Ranji Trophy. However, in recent years since 2000, Railways have won the trophy twice and become runners-up. As Champions of the Ranji Trophy, they have played the Irani Trophy twice, emerging victorious on both occasions.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Birthplace	Batting style	Bowling style
Captain & Spinner All-Rounder
	Karn Sharma	(1987-10-23) 23 October 1987	Meerut, Uttar Pradesh	Left-handed	Right arm leg break googly
Batsmen
	Ashish Singh	(1994-12-25) 25 December 1994		Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Shivakant Shukla	(1986-01-26) 26 January 1986	Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh	Left-handed	Right-arm off-break
	V Cheluvaraj
	Arindam Ghosh
	Nitin Bhille
	Amit Paunikar
All-rounders
	Ashish Yadav	(1985-09-01) 1 September 1985		Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
	Mahesh Rawat	(1985-10-25) 25 October 1985		Right-handed
Bowlers
	Manjeet Singh	(1991-11-01) 1 November 1991	Alwar, Rajasthan	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Ranjit Mali
	Anureet Singh
	Krishnakant Upadhyay

Shailendra Gehlot
Harshad Rawle
Hardik Rathod

References

↑ "One city, three matches, one day". ESPNCricinfo. 7 December 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2012.
↑ "Ex-kabaddi player was in-charge of Karnail Singh Stadium!". The Times of India. 18 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2012.

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

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