Punjab cricket team

Punjab cricket team

The Punjab cricket team is the official first-class cricket team that represents the Indian state of Punjab. 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. 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.

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. Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia. 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.

Famous players from Punjab

*Harbhajan Singh
*Yuvraj Singh
*Bishan Bedi
*Dinesh Mongia
*Navjot Singh Sidhu

Current squad

"2006-07 Ranji Trophy Super League squad [ [http://www.cricinfo.com/india/content/squad/269052.html Cricinfo - Punjab ] ] "
* Pankaj Dharmani (c/wk)
* Luv Ablish
* Amanpreet Singh
* Gagandeep Singh
* Karan Goel
* Gaurav Gupta
* Uday Kaul
* Ishan Malhatra
* Gaurav Marwaha
*Dinesh Mongia
* Muneesh Sharma
* Rajesh Sharma
* Ravneet Ricky
* V. R. V. Singh
* Reetinder Sodhi
* Amit Uniyal
* Vipul Sharma

References


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