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Punjab cricket team (India)

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Home ground:
  
PCA Stadium, Mohali

Ranji Trophy wins:
  
1

Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:
  
0

Captain
  
Yuvraj Singh

League
  
Ranji Trophy

Date founded
  
1968

Capacity:
  
28,000

Irani Trophy wins:
  
0

Official website:
  
PCA

Coach
  
Arun Sharma

Location
  
Punjab

Punjab cricket team (India)

Owner
  
Punjab Cricket Association

Arena/Stadium
  
Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium

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 first competed as a unified team in 1968-69. Before then, Southern Punjab, Eastern Punjab and Northern Punjab had competed at various times. Punjab have won the Ranji Trophy only once, in 1992-93. 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. Punjab have never won the one-day 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. New cricket grounds of International recognition are expected to come up at Bathinda and one more at Ludhiana or Amritsar as per the saying of Punjab govt

The international stadium and proposed of Punjab cricket team:-

  • Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali - it is a regular Test venue of BCCI, and also the home of IPL team Kings XI Punjab
  • Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar - hosted 2 ODI matches
  • Gandhi Stadium, Jalandhar - hosted a Test and 3 ODI
  • Dhruve Pandove Stadium, Patiala - oldest ground in Punjab
  • Mullanpur International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur - proposed in 2010
  • Shaheed Udham Singh Stadium, Amritsar - proposed in 2011
  • Bathinda International Cricket Stadium, Bathinda - proposed and under-construction since 2007
  • Famous players from Punjab

  • Harbhajan Singh
  • Yuvraj Singh
  • Reetinder Singh Sodhi
  • Dinesh Mongia
  • Rahul Sharma
  • Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Lala Amarnath
  • Mohinder Amarnath
  • Surinder Amarnath
  • Vijay Mehra
  • Rajinder Singh Ghai
  • Yashpal Sharma
  • Bhupinder Singh (Sr)
  • Vikram Rathour
  • VRV Singh
  • Sarandeep Singh
  • Harvinder Singh
  • Aashish Kapoor
  • Manpreet Gony
  • Gurkeerat Mann
  • Barinder Sran
  • Current squad

    Players with international caps are listed in bold.

    References

    Punjab cricket team (India) Wikipedia