Rest of India cricket team - Wikipedia Rest of India cricket team Rest of india Rest of India cricket team 's logo Personnel Captain Karun Nair Coach Ashish Kapoor Team information Colours Cricket Whites Founded 1960 History First - class debut Bombay in 1960 at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi No. of titles 26 Irani Cup wins 26 2016 -- 17 Irani Cup Rest of India cricket team is a First - class cricket team in India. The team was officially instituted in season 1959 - 60 and played its first match on 18 March 1960 against Bombay ( Mumbai ). The team competes annually against the winner of the Ranji Trophy for Irani Cup, the tournament being forged as to be `` The Best vs Best of the Rest ''. Rest of India has won the tournament 26 times and shared the trophy 1 time with Bombay in season 1965 - 66. Contents 1 Captains 2 Team 3 Other matches 4 References Captains 2003 Saurav Ganguly Kolkata Bengal Dinesh Mongia Chandigarh Punjab 2005 Gautam Gambhir Delhi Delhi 2006 Wasim Jaffer Mumbai Mumbai 2007 Mohammad Kaif Allahabad Uttar Pradesh 2008 Anil Kumble Bangalore Karnataka 2009 Virender Sehwag Najafgarh Delhi Yuvraj Singh Chandigarh Punjab 2011 Parthiv Patel Ahmedabad Gujarat 2012 Cheteshwar Pujara Rajkot Saurashtra 2013 Virender Sehwag Najafgarh Delhi 2014 Harbhajan Singh Jalandhar Punjab 2015 Manoj Tiwary Howrah Bengal 2016 Naman Ojha Ujjain Madhya Pradesh 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara Rajkot Saurashtra 2018 Karun Nair Jodhpur Karnataka Team Name Birth Place Ranji Team Akhil Herwadkar Sangli, Pune division Mumbai Abhinav Mukund Chennai Tamil Nadu Cheteshwar Pujara ( c ) Rajkot Saurashtra Karun Nair Jodhpur Karnataka Manoj Tiwary Howrah Bengal Wriddhiman Saha † Siliguri Bengal Kuldeep Yadav S Nadeem S Kaul Pankaj Singh Mohammed Siraj Other matches BCCI has named many teams as Rest of India. Such teams have played tour matches against international team and a series of 3 First - class matches Indian national cricket team to raise funds for defence forces in 1971 - 72. A List A match was organised with the concept of `` The Best vs Best of the Rest '' played between the winner of 1989 - 90 Deodhar Trophy West Zone and Rest of India on 2 October 1989. References Jump up ^ Team Profile at Cricketarchive Jump up ^ Team Profile at Espncricinfo Jump up ^ `` Defence_Fund_Match_1971 - 72 ''. Jump up ^ `` Deodhar Trophy Winners v Rest 1989 / 90 ''. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rest_of_India_cricket_team&oldid=852380257 '' Categories : First - class cricket teams Cricket in India Indian cricket team stubs Irani Cup Hidden categories : Use dmy dates from April 2018 Use Indian English from April 2018 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 28 July 2018, at 15 : 52 ( UTC ). About Wikipedia

Question: which team plays the rest of india in the annual irani trophy cricket tournament
Answer: the winner of the Ranji Trophy