Rajasthan cricket team

The Rajasthan cricket team is a cricket team which represents the Indian state of Rajasthan. The team won the Ranji Trophy in the 2010–11 and 2011-12 seasons, having finished runners-up eight times between 1960–61 and 1973-74. It is currently in the Ranji Trophy Elite group. It is run by the Rajasthan Cricket Association and is popularly known as "Team Rajasthan".

Rajputana's first recorded match came in the 1928/29 Delhi Tournament against Aligarh,^[1] with the Rajputana Cricket Association being formed shortly thereafter in 1931 at Ajmer.^{[2][n 1]} Rajputana's inaugural appearance in first-class cricket came in November 1933 against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club at Mayo College Ground in Ajmer, which resulted in a heavy innings defeat.^[3] The team entered the Ranji Trophy for the first time in the 1935/36 season, playing its first match in the competition against Central India, losing by a heavy margin.^[2][3] The team played in the following seasons Ranji Trophy, again losing to Central India, but this time by the reduced margin of just two wickets.^[3] Rajputana gained its first win in first-class cricket against Lionel Tennyson's touring eleven, with victory by two wickets in 1937.^[2] The team lost its only match against Southern Punjab in the 1938/39 Ranji Trophy, however the following season it recorded its first Ranji Trophy victory against Delhi, winning by 7 wickets.^[4] However it lost its following match against Southern Punjab by the margin of an innings and 190 runs. With the onset of World War II, cricket in India was somewhat disrupted, but first-class cricket continued to function.

• Ranji Trophy
  • Winners (2): 2010–11, 2011–12
  • Runners-up (8): 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1969–70, 1973–74

• Vijay Hazare Trophy
  • Runners-up (2): 2006-07, 2023-24

• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
  • Runners-up: 2017-18

Players from Rajasthan who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

• Salim Durani (1960)
• Hanumant Singh (1964)
• Parthasarathy Sharma (1974)
• Pravin Amre (1992)
• Pankaj Singh (2014)

Players from Rajasthan who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut:

• Gagan Khoda (1998)
• Khaleel Ahmed (2018)
• Deepak Chahar (2018)
• Rahul Chahar (2021)
• Ravi Bishnoi (2022)

Foreign international players who briefly played for Rajasthan, along with season:

• Kabir Ali (2006-07)
• Vikram Solanki (2006-07)

• Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Updated as on 25 November 2024

For more details on this topic, see

• List of Rajasthan first-class cricket records
• List of Rajasthan List A cricket records
• List of Rajasthan Twenty-20 cricket records

Rajasthan play the majority of their home matches at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium.

The ends are called the City End and the Pavilion End.

• Bowen, Rowland (31 March 1970). Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development (1970 ed.). Eyre & Spottiswoode. ISBN 0-413-27860-3.
• Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
• Wisden Cricketers' Almanack – various editions

• Official website
• CricketArchive – Lists of numerous Rajasthan records and scorecards