Delhi cricket team
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The Delhi cricket team is one of the first-class cricket teams, that plays in India's domestic competition, the Ranji Trophy. They have won the tournament six times and have been runners-up seven. Their last title was in the 1991-92 season when they beat Tamil Nadu in the final. The team's home ground is Feroz Shah Kotla. In the Duleep and Deodhar Trophy, Delhi comes under the North Zone team.
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[edit] Competition history
Delhi have made a strong performance in the Ranji Trophy throughout its history. Its last win, however, was in the 1991-92 season, in which it beat Tamil Nadu in the final. Three of its other five wins came in the 80s and the remainder were in the late 70s, a period marked by the dominance of a famous Mumbai team. This formed a golden period for Delhi between 1978 and 1987: it was in the finals for all but one of those years (winning 4, runner up for 4).
Its five appearances in the Irani Trophy showed mixed results, losing to the Rest of India side 3 times and winning twice.
[edit] Famous players
The two most well known cricketers that have come from Delhi are Mohinder Amarnath and Virender Sehwag. However, many other players from Delhi have played international cricket including:
- Bishan Singh Bedi
- Chetan Chauhan
- Aakash Chopra
- Gautam Gambhir
- Ajay Sharma
- Manoj Prabhakar
- Ajay Jadeja
[edit] Current squad
2006-07 Ranji Trophy Super League squad [1]
- Mithun Manhas (c)
- Amit Bhandari
- Puneet Bisht (wk)
- Aakash Chopra
- Vijay Dahiya (wk)
- Shikhar Dhawan
- Gautam Gambhir
- Virat Kohli
- Kunal Lal
- Chetanya Nanda
- Ashish Nehra
- Yogesh Sachdeva
- Rahul Sanghvi
- Ishant Sharma
- Mayank Tehlan
[edit] References
| Indian first class cricket teams in the Ranji Trophy |
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| Andhra Pradesh | Assam | Baroda | Bengal | Delhi | Goa | Gujarat | Haryana | Himachal Pradesh | Hyderabad | Jammu and Kashmir | Jharkhand | Karnataka | Kerala | Madhya Pradesh | Maharashtra | Mumbai | Orissa | Punjab | Railways | Rajasthan | Saurashtra | Services | Tamil Nadu | Tripura | Uttar Pradesh | Vidarbha |
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