Delhi cricket team

Delhi cricket team

Captain:	Gautam Gambhir
Coach:	Vijay Dahiya
Owner:	Delhi District Cricket Association
Founded:	1934
Home ground:	Feroz Shah Kotla
Capacity:	55,000
Ranji Trophy wins:	7
Irani Trophy wins:	2
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	1
Official website:	DDCA

For the IPL team, see Delhi Daredevils.

The Delhi cricket team is one of the first-class cricket teams based in Delhi, run by the Delhi District Cricket Association, that plays in India's domestic competition, the Ranji Trophy. They have won the tournament seven times and have been runners-up seven. Their latest title in 2007-08 came after a long wait of 16 years. The previous win was in the 1991-92 season when they beat Tamil Nadu in the final. The team's home ground is Feroz Shah Kotla Ground. In the Duleep and Deodhar Trophy, Delhi comes under the North Zone team.

Competition history

Delhi have made a strong performance in the Ranji Trophy throughout its history. Three of its five wins came in the 1980s and the remainder were in the late 1970s, 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 six appearances in the Irani Trophy showed mixed results, losing to the Rest of India side four times and winning twice.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2007-08	Winner
1991-92
1988-89
1985-86
1981-82
1979-80
1978-79
1996-97	Runner-up
1989-90
1986-87
1984-85
1983-84
1980-81
1976-77

Famous players

Main article: List of Delhi cricketers

Virender Sehwag

• Aakash Chopra
• Ajay Sharma
• Amit Bhandari
• Arun Lal
• Ashish Nehra
• Ashok Gandotra
• Atul Wassan
• Bishan Singh Bedi
• Chetan Chauhan
• Gautam Gambhir
• Gursharan Singh
• Ishant Sharma
• Kirti Azad
• Madan Lal
• Man Sood
• Maninder Singh
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
• Mohinder Amarnath
• Nikhil Chopra
• Parvinder Awana
• Prakash Bhandari
• Rahul Sanghvi
• Rajinder Pal
• Rakesh Shukla
• Ramesh Saxena
• Robin Singh, Jr.
• Sanjeev Sharma
• Sarandeep Singh
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Vijay Dahiya
• Virat Kohli
• Virender Sehwag
• Vivek Razdan

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
9	Unmukt Chand	(1993-03-26) 26 March 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
25	Shikhar Dhawan	(1985-12-15) 15 December 1985	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
5	Gautam Gambhir	(1981-10-14) 14 October 1981	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Captain, Opening Batsmen
18	Virat Kohli	(1988-11-05) 5 November 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
	Milind Kumar	(1991-02-15) 15 February 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
99	Mithun Manhas	(1979-10-12) 12 October 1979	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Vaibhav Rawal	(1991-11-09) 9 November 1991	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break
	Nitish Rana	(1993-12-27) 27 December 1993	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
All-rounders
22	Rajat Bhatia	(1979-10-22) 22 October 1979	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
7	Yogesh Nagar	(1990-01-06) 6 January 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Sumit Narwal	(1982-04-16) 16 April 1982	Left-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Manan Sharma	(1991-03-19) 19 March 1991	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Shivam Sharma	(1993-09-09) 9 September 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Wicket-keepers
	Puneet Bisht	(1986-06-15) 15 June 1986	Right-handed
Bowlers
34	Parvinder Awana	(1986-07-19) 19 July 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
	Vikas Mishra	(1992-12-27) 27 December 1992	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
15	Pawan Negi	(1993-01-06) 6 January 1993	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
64	Ashish Nehra	(1979-04-29) 29 April 1979	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
8	Pradeep Sangwan	(1990-11-05) 5 November 1990	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
29	Ishant Sharma	(1988-09-02) 2 September 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
	Varun Sood	(1990-10-12) 12 October 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
33	Pawan Suyal	(1989-10-15) 15 October 1989	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast
	Vikas Tokas	(1986-10-16) 16 October 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Pranshu Vijayran	(1995-11-18) 18 November 1995	Left-handed	Right-arm medium

Coaching Staff

• Head Coach - Vijay Dahiya
• Assistant Coach - Amit Bhandari
• Maneger - Manoj Kumar
• Under-19s Coach - Madan Sharma
• Physio - Deepak Suriya
• Trainers - Nishant

External links

• Cricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions
• Ranji Trophy 2006/7 Batting Averages
• Ranji Trophy One Day 2006/7 Batting Averages
• Inter State Twenty20 Tournament 2006/7 Batting Averages