The Baroda cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the city of Vadodara, Gujarat. The home ground of the team is the Baroda Cricket Association Stadium. It is one of the three first-class cricket teams based in the Indian state of Gujarat (the other two being the Saurashtra cricket team and the Gujarat cricket team).
The team is run by the Baroda Cricket Association. It has been one of the most successful teams in the Ranji Trophy in the new millennium. Baroda were runners-up in the 2005/06 Ranji Trophy.
Competition history
Baroda has only emerged as a strong team in recent years. It won its last Ranji Trophy in 2000–01, but failed to defend the title, coming runner-up in the next year. This means it has had only one Irani Trophy appearance, in which it failed to defeat a strong Rest of India team which contained the likes of VVS Laxman (13 & 148), Dinesh Mongia (125 & 90*), Debashish Mohanty, Sarandeep Singh and Akash Chopra. See Scorecard. It was considered a strong team in the 1940s and 1950s, winning 4 times and coming runner-up twice. Vijay Hazare, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya are amongst the most prominent cricketers to emerge from Baroda. They have performed exceedingly well at the international level for India.
Honours Ranji Trophy Winners (5): 1942–43, 1946–47, 1949–50, 1957–58, 2000–01 Runners-up (4): 1945–46, 1948–49, 2001–02, 2010–11 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Winners (2): 2011-12, 2013-14 Runners-up (3): 2015-16, 2021-21, 2023-24
Home grounds Baroda Cricket Association Stadium – Capacity 40,000. Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted three ODIs. Capacity 18,000. Reliance Stadium, Vadodara – Hosted 10 ODIs. Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground
Current squad
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Name Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters Vishnu Solanki Right-handed Right-arm off break Shashwat Rawat Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast Shivalik Sharma Left-handed Right-arm leg break Jyotsnil Singh Right-handed Right-arm off break Sukirt Pandey Right-handed Right-arm off break Bhanu Pania Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Priyanshu Moliya Right-handed Right-arm off break Nitya Pandya Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast All-rounders Krunal Pandya Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Captain Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL Ninad Rathva Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Hardik Pandya Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL Wicket-keepers Mitesh Patel Right-handed Jitesh Sharma Right-handed Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL Amit Pasi Right-handed Spin Bowlers Mahesh Pithiya Right-handed Right-arm off break Bhargav Bhatt Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Aryan Chavda Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox Pace Bowlers Atit Sheth Right-handed Right-arm medium Vice-captain Rasikh Salam Dar Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL Raj Limbani Left-handed Right-arm medium Babashafi Pathan Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Karan Umatt Right-handed Right-arm medium
Updated as on 1 February 2026
Coaching staff
Head coach – Jacob Martin Assistant coach – Himanshu Jadhav Physio – Sumit Roy Trainers – Rakesh Gohil
Famous players
Hemu Adhikari Anshuman Gaekwad Datta Gaekwad Jayasinghrao Ghorpade Vijay Hazare Nayan Mongia Rashid Patel Kiran More C. S. Nayudu Yusuf Pathan Irfan Pathan Munaf Patel Zaheer Khan Hardik Pandya Krunal Pandya Ambati Rayudu Pinal Shah Atul Bedade
References
External links Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) – Official website (archived 18 November 2007) Baroda Cricket Team at CricBuzz ESPNcricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions