Uttar Pradesh cricket team

Uttar Pradesh Cricket Team
उत्तर प्रदेश क्रिकेट टीम

Captain:	Praveen Kumar
One-day captain:	Suresh Raina
Coach:	Rizwan Shamshad
Colours:	Blue White
Owner:	Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association
Founded:	1934
Home ground:	Green Park Stadium, Kanpur (Capacity: 25,000) K. D. Singh Babu Stadium, Lucknow (Capacity: 25,000) Teerthanker Mahaveer University Ground, Moradabad (Capacity: 10,000) University Ground, Lucknow (Capacity: 50,000)
Ranji Trophy wins:	1
Irani Trophy wins:	0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:	1
Official website:	UPCA

The Uttar Pradesh cricket team (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश क्रिकेट टीम),formerly United Provinces Cricket Team, is a domestic cricket team which is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, run by the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association. The team competes in the Ranji Trophy and won the tournament in 2005-06. They have won the Ranji Trophy only once and have been runners-up on five occasions. Young talents such as Suresh Raina, Mohammad Kaif, Piyush Chawla, R. P. Singh and Praveen Kumar and have passed through Uttar Pradesh and gone on to represent India.

Competition history

The team was formed in 1934 under the name of "United Provinces". The team's best performance in the Ranji Trophy in their early years came in 1939-40 when they finished as runners-up. In the 1950-51 season, the team's name was changed to "Uttar Pradesh".^[1]

Uttar Pradesh have not been strong in the Ranji Trophy cricket for any prolonged period in their history. Their only victory in the Ranji Trophy Elite Group was in the 2005-06 season. The Ranji Trophy win was one of the most spectacular comebacks in cricketing history, since at one point of time in the season Uttar Pradesh were on the brink of relegation.

They have finished runner-up twice before, once in 1997-98 against a strong Karnataka side, and once in 1977-78 against the same team under the captaincy of Mohammad Shahid and team manager was Abdul Karim Chishti, former captain Uttar Pradesh. They finished runners-up in the 2007-08 season, reprising a performance, similar to the one witnessed in the 2005-06 season, when they came back from the brink of relegation to win the championship. This time though, they lost to Delhi in the final.

This season's stellar performers were Mohammad Kaif, their captain who finished as the season's 3rd highest run-getter, medium pacer Sudeep Tyagi,season's 2nd highest wicket taker and Praveen Kumar who took 8 wickets in the Ranji Trophy final.^[2]

Their best performance in the Vijay Hazare Trophy came in 2004-05 when they were joint-winners with Tamil Nadu. In 2006 they won the Nissar Trophy, defeating Sialkot cricket team in Dharmasala. Their only appearance in the Irani Trophy came in the 2006-07 season in which they lost to the Rest of India team.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2008-09	Runner-up
2007-08	Runner-up
2005-06	Winner
1997-98	Runner-up
1977-78	Runner-up
1939-40	Runner-up

Famous players

Main article: List of Uttar Pradesh cricketers

Suresh Raina
Mohammad Kaif
Sudeep Tyagi
R. P. Singh
Piyush Chawla
Gopal Sharma
Gyanendra Pandey
Praveen Kumar
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Sarfaraz Khan
Clarence Woolmer - father of Bob Woolmer
Obaid Kamal

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
	Arish Alam	(1986-11-19) 19 November 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Middle-order Batsmen
	Mukul Dagar	(1990-12-17) 17 December 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Prashant Gupta	(1988-06-23) 23 June 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly
	Akshdeep Nath	(1993-05-10) 10 May 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	T20 Captain
3	Suresh Raina	(1986-11-27) 27 November 1986	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	Mohammad Saif	(1996-08-30) 30 August 1996	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Almas Shaukat	(1995-12-12) 12 December 1995	Left-handed
	Tanmay Srivastava	(1989-11-07) 7 November 1989	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Shubham yadav	(1996-06-21) 21 June 1996	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
All-rounders
21	Piyush Chawla	(1988-12-24) 24 December 1988	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	LA Captain
15	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	(1990-12-05) 5 December 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
8	Praveen Kumar	(1986-10-02) 2 October 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	FC captain
Wicket-keepers
	Eklavya Dwivedi	(1988-07-22) 22 July 1988	Right-handed		Vice-captain
Bowlers
	Imtiyaz Ahmed	(1985-11-10) 10 November 1985	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Amit Mishra	(1991-11-11) 11 November 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Ali Murtaza	(1990-01-01) 1 January 1990	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Ankit Rajpoot	(1993-12-04) 4 December 1993	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Kuldeep Yadav	(1994-12-14) 14 December 1994	Left-handed	Slow left-arm chinaman

Coaching Staff

Head Coach: Manoj Prabhakar^[3]
Assistant Coach: Rohit Prakash
Trainer: n/a
Physio: n/a
Manager: Javed Anwar

References

Ranji Trophy

Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

Current teams	Andhra Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Mumbai Odisha Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Vidarbha

Former teams	Army Bihar Eastern Punjab Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin

Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

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