The Punjab cricket team is the official first-class cricket team that represents the Indian state of Punjab. First-class cricket refers to the class of Cricket matches of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players and officially adjudged first-class by Cricket is a bat-and-ball team Sport that originated in England and is now played in more than 100 countries India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Punjab (ਪੰਜਾਬ पंजाब pəɲdʒaːb is a state in northwest India. They have qualified for three Ranji Trophy semi-finals in the last five seasons, and made it to the final in 2004–05 tournament, where they lost to Railways on first innings. The Ranji Trophy is a domestic First-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides equivalent to the County Championship This article describes the history of cricket in India from the 2000-01 season to the present The Railways Cricket Team (also known as the Indian Railways has been very successful in the Ranji Trophy in recent years although much of their history has been spent in unsuccessful They also play in other domestic cricket tournaments in India. They have only been winners of the Ranji Trophy once, in the 1992–93 season. The Ranji Trophy is a domestic First-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides equivalent to the County Championship This article describes the history of cricket in India from the 1985-86 season to 2000
Competition history
Punjab have won the Ranji Trophy only once in its history. In that year, they lost the Irani Trophy against a Rest of India team that featured the likes of Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly. The Irani Trophy tournament was conceived during the 1959-60 season to mark the completion of 25 years of the Ranji Trophy championship and was named after the late Z Rahul Sharad Dravid ( Kannada:ರಾಹುಲ್ ಶರದ್ ದ್ರಾವಿಡ Marathi:राहुल शरद द्रविड) (b Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (সৌরভ গাঙ্গুলী ( (born 8 July 1972 is an Indian Cricketer and former former captain of the Indian national Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia. Ajaysinhji Daulatsinhji Jadeja was born on 1 February 1971 in Jamnagar, Gujarat. Nayan Ramlal Mongia (born December 19, 1969 in Vadodara) was an Indian Cricketer active from 1994 to 2004 when he retired It has never won the Ranji ODI Trophy.
Home ground
The Punjab cricket team are based and play their home games at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali, Chandigarh, which was established in 1993, with floodlights, on what was previously swampland. Mohali (ਮੋਹਾਲੀ मोहाली mōhālī) is a city adjacent to Chandigarh, 18th District in Punjab, India. Chandigarh ( ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ, चंडीगढ़) also called The City Beautiful
Famous players from Punjab
Harbhajan Singh
Yuvraj Singh
Current squad
2006-07 Ranji Trophy Super League squad [1]
References
- ^ Cricinfo - Punjab
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