Uttarakhand cricket team
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| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Coach | Bhaskar Pillai |
| Owner | Uttarakhand Cricket Association |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 2018 |
| Home ground | Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium |
| Capacity | 25,000 |
| Official website: | BCCI |
The Uttarakhand cricket team is a cricket team representing the state of Uttarakhand in Indian domestic competitions.[1] In July 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named the team as one of the nine new sides that would compete in domestic tournaments for the 2018–19 season, including the Ranji Trophy and the Vijay Hazare Trophy.[2][3][4] Ahead of the 2018-19 season, Bhaskar Pillai was appointed as the team's coach.[5]
In September 2018, they lost their opening fixture of the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, to Bihar, by 5 wickets.[6][7] In the Plate Group fixture between Uttarakhand and Sikkim, Karn Kaushal made the first double-century in the history of the Vijay Hazare Trophy, scoring 202 runs.[8]
In their first season in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, they finished in second place in the Plate Group, with seven wins and one loss from their eight matches.[9]Karn Kaushal finished as the leading run-scorer, with 489 runs, and Deepak Dhapola was the leading wicket-taker for the team, with eleven dismissals.[10]
In November 2018, in their opening match of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, they beat Bihar by ten wickets.[11][12]
Squad
The following players were named for the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy and the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy tournaments:[13][14]
Rajat Bhatia (c)
Vineet Saxena (vc)- Malolan Rangarajan
- Vaibhav Bhatt
- Karn Kaushal
- Mayank Mishra
- Vaibhav Singh Panwar
- Sunny Rana
- Dhanraj Sharma
- Saurabh Rawat
- Shubham Saundiyal
- Deepak Dhapola
- Saurabh Chauhan
- Vijay Jethi
- Arya Sethi
- Kartik Joshi
- Shivam Khurana
- Sunny Kashyap
- Piyush Joshi
- Girish Rauturi
References
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