# Baroda cricket team

The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat. The home ground of the team is the Moti Bagh Stadium on the palace grounds.
The team is run by the Baroda Cricket Association. It has been one of the most successful teams in the Ranji Trophy in the new millennium.
Baroda were runners-up in the 2005/06 Ranji Trophy. It is one of three Gujarat Teams, the others being the Saurashtra cricket team and Gujarat cricket team.

## Competition history

Baroda has only emerged as a strong team in recent years. It won its last Ranji Trophy in 2000–01, but failed to defend the title, coming runner-up in the next year. This means it has had only one Irani Trophy appearance, in which it failed to defeat a strong Rest of India team which contained the likes of VVS Laxman (13 & 148), Dinesh Mongia (125 & 90*), Debashish Mohanty, Sarandeep Singh and Akash Chopra. See Scorecard. It was considered a strong team in the 1940s and 1950s, winning 4 times and coming runner-up twice. Vijay Hazare, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya are amongst the most prominent cricketers to emerge from Baroda. They have performed exceedingly well at the international level for India.

## Honours

* Ranji Trophy
** Winners (5): 1942–43, 1946–47, 1949–50, 1957–58, 2000–01
** Runners-up (4): 1945–46, 1948–49, 2001–02, 2010–11
* Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
** Winners (2): 2011-12, 2013-14
** Runners-up (3): 2015-16, 2021-21, 2023-24

## Home grounds

* Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000.
* Reliance Stadium, Vadodara – hosted 10 ODIs
* Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground

## Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.
| Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
| Batters |||||
| Shivalik Sharma | (1998-11-28) 28 November 1998 (age 26) | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| Shashwat Rawat | (2001-04-06) 6 April 2001 (age 23) | Left-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Bhanu Pania | (1996-09-04) 4 September 1996 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
| Jyotsnil Singh | (1997-12-15) 15 December 1997 (age 27) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| Parth Kohli | (1996-08-09) 9 August 1996 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| Nitya Pandya | (2006-04-08) 8 April 2006 (age 18) | Left-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| All-rounders |||||
| Krunal Pandya | (1991-03-24) 24 March 1991 (age 33) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | Captain Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL |
| Atit Sheth | (1996-02-03) 3 February 1996 (age 29) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| Ninad Rathva | (1999-03-10) 10 March 1999 (age 25) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Hardik Pandya | (1993-10-11) 11 October 1993 (age 31) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL |
| Abhimanyu Rajput | (1998-05-09) 9 May 1998 (age 26) | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
| Wicket-keepers |||||
| Vishnu Solanki | (1992-10-15) 15 October 1992 (age 32) | Right-handed | | Vice-captain |
| Mitesh Patel | (1997-05-15) 15 May 1997 (age 27) | Right-handed | | |
| Spin Bowlers |||||
| Mahesh Pithiya | (2001-12-24) 24 December 2001 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
| Bhargav Bhatt | (1990-05-13) 13 May 1990 (age 34) | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Chintal Gandhi | (1994-08-25) 25 August 1994 (age 30) | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
| Pace Bowlers |||||
| Raj Limbani | (2005-02-02) 2 February 2005 (age 20) | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |
| Lukman Meriwala | (1991-12-11) 11 December 1991 (age 33) | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
| Akash Singh | (2002-04-26) 26 April 2002 (age 22) | Right-handed | Left-arm medium | |
| Babashafi Pathan | (1994-08-19) 19 August 1994 (age 30) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
Updated as on 2 February 2025

## Coaching staff

* Head coach – Jacob Martin
* Assistant coach – Himanshu Jadhav
* Physio – Sumit Roy
* Trainers – Rakesh Gohil

## Famous players

* Hemu Adhikari
* Amir Elahi
* Gul Mohammad
* Anshuman Gaekwad
* Datta Gaekwad
* Jayasinghrao Ghorpade
* Vijay Hazare
* Nayan Mongia
* Rashid Patel
* Kiran More
* C. S. Nayudu
* Yusuf Pathan
* Irfan Pathan
* Munaf Patel
* Zaheer Khan
* Hardik Pandya
* Krunal Pandya
* Ambati Rayudu
* Pinal Shah
* Atul Bedade