Rest of India cricket team (ROI) is a first-class cricket team in India that is composed of players from across the country except for those from the current Ranji Trophy winners.Team Profile at CricketArchiveTeam Profile at ESPNcricinfo It competes annually against the Ranji Trophy winner for the Irani Cup, in a "The Best vs Best of the Rest" tournament. The team was officially instituted for the 1959–60 Irani Cup, playing its first match on 18 March 1960 against the Bombay.
Rest of India has won Irani Cup 30 times (outright wins and first innings leads in drawn matches) and shared the trophy twice (with Bombay in 1965–66 and Delhi in 1979–80).
Honours
Irani Cup (31) : 1966–67, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2026–27; (2 shared) – 1965–66, 1979–80
Captains Year Captain Ranji Team1959Nari ContractorGujarat1962Pankaj RoyBengal1963 Chandu Borde Maharashtra19651966 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Hyderabad19671968Hanumant Singh1969Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi1970Chandu BordeBaroda1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Madras19721973Erapalli PrasannaKarnataka1974Mansoor Ali Khan PataudiHyderabad1975 Bishan Singh Bedi Delhi19761977Parthasarathy SharmaRajasthan1978Srinivasaraghavan VenkataraghavanMadras1979colspan=2 1980Sunil GavaskarBombay1981Gundappa ViswanathKarnataka1982Sunil GavaskarBombay1983Mohinder AmarnathDelhi1984Kapil DevHaryana1985Kapil DevHaryana1986Dilip VengsarkarBombay1987Arun LalBengal1988Arun LalBengal1989Lalchand Rajput1990Ravi ShastriBombay1991Syed KirmaniKarnataka1992Woorkeri RamanTamil Nadu1993Sanjay ManjrekarBombay1994Pravin Amre1995Nayan MongiaBaroda1996Navjot Singh SidhuPunjab1997Anil KumbleKarnataka1998VVS LaxmanHyderabad1999Nayan MongiaBaroda2000VVS LaxmanHyderabad2001VVS LaxmanHyderabad 2002 Yuvraj Singh Punjab 2003 Saurav Ganguly Bengal 2004 Dinesh Mongia Punjab 2005 Gautam Gambhir Delhi 2006 Wasim Jaffer Mumbai 2007 Mohammad Kaif Uttar Pradesh 2008 Anil Kumble Karnataka 2009 Virender Sehwag Delhi 2010 Yuvraj Singh Punjab 2011 Parthiv Patel Gujarat 2012 Cheteshwar Pujara Saurashtra 2013 Virender Sehwag Delhi 2014 Harbhajan Singh Punjab 2015 Manoj Tiwary Bengal 2016 Naman Ojha Madhya Pradesh 2017 Cheteshwar Pujara Saurashtra 2018 Karun Nair Karnataka 2019 Ajinkya Rahane Mumbai 2020 Hanuma Vihari Andhra 2022 Mayank Agarwal Karnataka 2023 Hanuma Vihari Andhra 2024 Ruturaj Gaikwad Maharashtra 2025 Rajat Patidar Madhya Pradesh
Current Team (for 2024–25 Irani Cup)
Name Ranji Team Ruturaj Gaikwad (c) Maharashtra Mayank Agarwal Karnataka Khaleel Ahmed Rajasthan Ricky Bhui Andhra Rahul Chahar Rajasthan Yash Dayal Uttar Pradesh Saransh Jain Madhya Pradesh Dhruv Jurel Uttar Pradesh Ishan Kishan Jharkhand Prasidh Krishna Karnataka Mukesh Kumar Bengal Devdutt Padikkal Karnataka Shashwat Rawat Baroda Sai Sudharsan Tamil Nadu Manav Suthar Rajasthan
Other forms The Board of Control for Cricket in India has named other Rest of India teams. These have played tour matches against international teams, and in 1971–1972 played a series of 3 first-class matches against the Indian national cricket team to raise funds for defence forces. A List A "Best vs Best of the Rest" match was organized between Rest of India and the winner of 1989–90 Deodhar Trophy, West Zone, on 2 October 1989.
See also Ranji Trophy Rest of England cricket teams aka The Rest (of England) Rest of Australia
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