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 | |
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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:-
Famous players from Punjab
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.