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One-day captain:
  
Suresh Raina

Ranji Trophy wins:
  
1

Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:
  
1

League
  
Ranji Trophy

Location
  
Uttar Pradesh

Colours:
  
Blue      White

Irani Trophy wins:
  
0

Captain
  
Praveen Kumar

Coach
  
Rizwan Shamshad

Date founded
  
1934

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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) Dr. Akhilesh Das Gupta Stadium, Lucknow (Capacity: 20,000)

Arena/Stadium
  
Northern Railway Divisional Sports Association Stadium

Owner
  
Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association

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.

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Competition history

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

Famous players

  • 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.

    Coaching Staff

  • Head Coach: Manoj Prabhakar
  • Assistant Coach: Rohit Prakash
  • Trainer: n/a
  • Physio: n/a
  • Manager: Javed Anwar
  • References

    Uttar Pradesh cricket team Wikipedia