Punjab cricket team (India)

This article is about the Indian cricket team. For the Pakistani cricket team, see Punjab cricket team (Pakistan).

Punjab cricket team

Personnel
Captain	Mandeep Singh
Coach	Aavishkar Salvi
Owner	Punjab Cricket Association
Team information
Founded	1890
Home ground	Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Mohali Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, Mohali Dhruve Pandove Stadium, Patiala Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar
Capacity	28,000
History
First-class debut	Jammu and Kashmir in 1968 at Maulana Azad Stadium, Jammu
Ranji Trophy wins	1
Irani Trophy wins	0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	1
Official website	PCA

The Punjab cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents the Indian state of Punjab. They have qualified for only one Ranji Trophy semi-final in the last five seasons and made it to the final in the 2004–05 tournament, where they lost to Railways in the 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.

Competition history

In 1968-69, Punjab competed as a unified team for the first time. Before then, Southern Punjab, Eastern Punjab and Northern Punjab had competed at various times. Punjab has won the Ranji Trophy only once, in 1992–93. That year, they lost the Irani Trophy against a Rest of the Indian team that featured the likes of Rahul Dravid, and Sourav Ganguly. Ajay Jadeja and Nayan Mongia. Punjab has never won the one-day trophy.

Honours

• Ranji Trophy
  • Winners: 1992–93
  • Runners-up (3): 1938–39, 1994–95, 2004–05
• Vijay Hazare Trophy
  • Runners-up (2): 2002-03, 2014-15
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
  • Winners: 2023–24
  • Runners-up (4): 2006-07, 2011-12, 2012-13, 2014-15

Home ground

The Punjab cricket team are based and plays their home matches at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, established in 1993 on 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 the Punjab govt.

The international stadium and the proposed of Punjab cricket team:-

• Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar. It is a regular test venue for the BCCI and the home of the 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 – the oldest ground in Punjab.
• Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Mullanpur, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar.
• Shaheed Udham Singh Stadium, Amritsar – proposed in 2011.
• Bathinda International Cricket Stadium, a stadium presented by Bathinda, has been under construction since 2007.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Name	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batters
Mandeep Singh	(1991-12-18) 18 December 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Captain
Nehal Wadhera	(2000-09-04) 4 September 2000	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Plays for Mumbai Indiansin IPL
Anmolpreet Singh	(1998-03-28) 28 March 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Naman Dhir	(1999-12-31) 31 December 1999	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Mumbai Indiansin IPL
Vishwanath Pratap Singh	(1998-06-18) 18 June 1998	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Shubman Gill	(1999-09-08) 8 September 1999	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Plays for Gujarat Titans in IPL
All-rounders
Abhishek Sharma	(2000-09-04) 4 September 2000	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Sanvir Singh	(1996-10-12) 12 October 1996	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Ramandeep Singh	(1997-04-13) 13 April 1997	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	Plays for Kolkata Knight Ridersin IPL
Abhinav Sharma	(1997-12-25) 25 December 1997	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
Wicket-keeper
Prabhsimran Singh	(2000-08-10) 10 August 2000	Right-handed		Vice-captain Plays for Punjab Kings in IPL
Spin Bowlers
Mayank Markande	(1997-11-11) 11 November 1997	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	Plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL
Prerit Dutta	(1998-09-22) 22 September 1998	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Harpreet Brar	(1995-09-16) 16 September 1995	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	Plays for Punjab Kings in IPL
Pace Bowlers
Siddarth Kaul	(1990-05-19) 19 May 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Baltej Singh	(1990-11-04) 4 November 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
Arshdeep Singh	(1999-02-05) 5 February 1999	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	Plays for Punjab Kings in IPL

Updated as on 19 February 2024

Notable players

Main article: List of Punjab cricketers

Players from Punjab who have played Test cricket for India, along with their year of Test debut

• Mohammad Jahangir Khan (1932)
• Lall Singh (1932)
• Mohammad Nissar (1932)
• Syed Nazir Ali (1932)
• Syed Wazir Ali (1932)
• Lala Amarnath (1933)
• Dilawar Hussain (1934)
• Yadavindra Singh (Maharaja of Patiala) (1934)
• Baqa Jilani (1936)
• Abdul Hafeez Kardar (1946)
• Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi (Nawab of Pataudi) (1946)
• Amir Elahi (1947)
• Kanwar Rai Singh (1948)
• Vijay Rajindernath (1952)
• Vijay Mehra (1955)
• Bishan Singh Bedi (1966)
• Mohinder Amarnath (1969)
• Surinder Amarnath (1976)
• Yashpal Sharma (1979)
• Yograj Singh (1981)
• Navjot Singh Sidhu (1983)
• Gursharan Singh (1990)
• Aashish Kapoor (1994)
• Vikram Rathour (1996)
• Harbhajan Singh (1998)
• Harvinder Singh (1998)
• Sarandeep Singh (2000)
• Yuvraj Singh (2003)
• Vikram Raj Vir Singh (2006)
• Shubman Gill (2020)

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

• Bhupinder Singh (1994)
• Pankaj Dharmani (1996)
• Reetinder Singh Sodhi (2000)
• Dinesh Mongia (2001)
• Manpreet Gony (2008)
• Rahul Sharma (2011)
• Barinder Sran (2016)
• Gurkeerat Singh Mann (2016)
• Siddarth Kaul (2018)
• Arshdeep Singh (2022)

Players from Punjab who have played T20I but not ODI or Test cricket for India, along with their year of T20I debut

• Sandeep Sharma (2015)
• Mandeep Singh (2016)
• Mayank Markande (2019)

Notable players at the domestic level

• Dhruv Pandove
• Uday Kaul
• Anmolpreet Singh
• Abhishek Sharma
• Prabhsimran Singh

External links

• First-class matches played by Punjab at CricketArchive