page_title: Karnataka cricket team
section_title: Famous players
hierarchical_section_title: Karnataka cricket team / Famous players
caption_attribution_description: English: Anil Kumble of India in action - South Africa tour of India, 1st Test: India v South Africa at Chennai, Mar 26-30, 2008
context_page_description: Karnataka cricket team represents the Indian state of Karnataka in domestic cricket competitions. It has traditionally been one of the strongest teams in the domestic circuit and has produced many of Indian cricket team's iconic players. It was known as Mysore cricket team before the state of Mysore was officially renamed as Karnataka in 1973. It has won the Ranji Trophy eight times and has come second six times. The team's home ground is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. There was a major push in cricketing infrastructure in 2010s and as of now, grounds in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Hubli are constantly used in Ranji Trophy, Vijay Hazare Trophy & Karnataka Premier League
context_section_description: Players from Karnataka who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:
  Erapalli Prasanna (1962)†
  Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (1964)†
  Venkataraman Subramanya (1965)†
  Gundappa Viswanath (1969)†
  Brijesh Patel (1974)†
  Syed Kirmani (1976)†
  Roger Binny (1979)†
  Raghuram Bhat (1983)†
  Sadanand Viswanath (1985)†
  Anil Kumble (1990)†
  Javagal Srinath (1991)†
  Sunil Joshi (1996)†
  Venkatesh Prasad (1996)†
  Rahul Dravid (1996)†
  David Johnson (1996)†
  Dodda Ganesh (1997)†
  Vijay Bharadwaj (1999)†
  Abhimanyu Mithun (2010)†
  Vinay Kumar (2012)†
  Stuart Binny (2014)†
  Lokesh Rahul (2014)†
  Karun Nair (2016)†
  Mayank Agarwal (2018)†
  Players from Karnataka who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut :
  Sudhakar Rao (1976)†
  Sujith Somasunder (1996)†
  Robin Uthappa (2006)†
  Manish Pandey (2015)†
  Players from Karnataka who have played T20I but not ODI or Test cricket for India, along with year of T20I debut :
  Sreenath Aravind (2015)†
  Cricketers who played a small portion of their first-class career for Karnataka, and played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut :
  Phiroze Palia (1932)
  Venkatappa Muddiah (1959)†
  Budhi Kunderan (1960)†
  † indicates inductees of KSCA Hall of Fame
caption: Anil Kumble is one of the three bowlers to have taken more than 600 Test wickets.
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