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.
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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, Saurav 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
Current Squad
- Dinesh Mongia
- Reetinder Sodhi
- +Pankaj Dharmani
- Gagandeep Singh
- Ankur Kakkar
- Ravneet Ricky
- Muneesh Sharma
- Rajesh Sharma
- Navdeep Singh
- Amit Uniyal
- Gaurav Gupta
- Vineet Sharma
- Love Abhilish
- Ishan Malhotra
- Karan Goel
- Uday Kaul
- Hardavinder Sandhu
- Sunny Sohel
- Bipul Sharma
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 | Jharkand | Karnataka | Madhya Pradesh | Maharashtra | Mumbai | Orissa | Punjab | Railways | Rajasthan | Saurashtra | Services | Tamil Nadu | Tripura | Uttar Pradesh | Vidarbha |