| Uttarakhand | |
| League: | Ranji Trophy (FC) Vijay Hazare Trophy (LA) Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (T20) |
| Association: | Cricket Association of Uttarakhand |
| Captain: | Jiwanjot Singh (FC) Akash Madhwal (LA, T20) |
| Coach: | Manish Jha |
| Founded: | 2018 |
| Ground: | Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium |
| Capacity: | 25,000 |
| First Fc: | vs. Bihar, Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun; 1–4 November 2018 |
| First La: | vs. Bihar, Shastri Maidan, Anand; 20 September 2018 |
| First T20: | vs. Services, Palam B Ground, New Delhi; 21 February 2019 |
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| A Title: | LA kit |
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| T Title: | T20 kit |
| Title1: | Ranji Trophy |
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| Title2: | Vijay Hazare Trophy |
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| Title3: | Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy |
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| Website: | CAU |
The Uttarakhand cricket team is a cricket team that represents 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, the Vijay Hazare Trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.[2] [3] [4]
| Season | Coach | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018–19 | Bhaskar Pillai | [5] | |
| 2019–20 | Gursharan Singh | [6] | |
| 2020–21 | Wasim Jaffer | [7] | |
| 2021–22 | Manish Jha | [8] |
See also: List of Uttarakhand cricketers.
| Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsmen | |||||
| 7 July 1994 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |||
| 6 November 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | First-class & List A Captain | ||
| Akhil Rawat | 4 November 2000 | Right-handed | |||
| 6 October 2001 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||
| 14 October 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |||
| 27 May 1996 | Right-handed | ||||
| All-rounders | |||||
| 20 November 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |||
| 22 January 1991 | Right-handed | Slow left arm orthodox | Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL | ||
| 5 October 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |||
| Deepesh Nailwal | 4 November 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | ||
| Wicket-keeper | |||||
| 7 November 1987 | Right-handed | ||||
| Spin bowlers | |||||
| 9 October 1990 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||
| 17 November 1996 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |||
| Pace bowlers | |||||
| 26 June 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |||
| 25 November 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | T20 Captain Plays for Mumbai Indians in IPL | ||
| Rajan Kumar | 8 July 1996 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium-fast | Plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL | |
| 18 October 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |||
| 24 April 1996 | Right-handed | Left-arm medium | |||
| Devendra Bora | 6 December 2000 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | ||
| Piyush Kumar Singh | 27 January 2003 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | ||
Updated as on 19 February 2024
| Ranji Trophy (First-class) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Group | Matches | Wins | Losses | Draws | No Result | Performance | |
| 2018–19 | Plate Group | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Quarter-finals | |
| 2019–20 | Group C | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2020–21 | Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | |||||||
| 2021–22 | Group E | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Quarter-finals | |
| 2022–23 | Group A | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | Quarter-finals | |
| 2023–24 | Group D | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| Total | 37 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 0 | – | ||
| Vijay Hazare Trophy (List A) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Group | Matches | Wins | Losses | Ties | No Result | Performance | |
| 2018–19 | Plate Group | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2019–20 | Plate Group | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | Group Stage | |
| 2020–21 | Plate Group | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Eliminator Stage | |
| 2021–22 | Group D | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2022–23 | Group D | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2023–24 | Group C | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| Total | 41 | 25 | 13 | 0 | 3 | – | ||
| Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (T20) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Group | Matches | Wins | Losses | Ties | No Result | Performance | |
| 2018–19 | Group E | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | Group Stage | |
| 2019–20 | Group A | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2020–21 | Group C | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2021–22 | Group E | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2022–23 | Group A | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| 2023–24 | Group D | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | Group Stage | |
| Total | 36 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 1 | – | ||
In September 2018, they lost their opening fixture of the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, to Bihar, by 5 wickets.[9] [10] 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.[11]
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.[12] 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.[13]
In November 2018, in their opening match of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, they beat Bihar by ten wickets.[14] [15] They went on to win the Plate Group and advanced to the quarter-finals of the tournament.[16] [17] However, in their quarter-final match they lost to Vidarbha by an innings and 115 runs to be knocked out of the tournament.[18]
In March 2019, Uttarakhand finished third in Group E of the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, with four wins from their seven matches.[19] Karn Kaushal was the leading run-scorer for the team in the tournament, with 176 runs, and Sunny Rana was the leading wicket-taker, with nine dismissals.[20]