Rest of India cricket team

Rest of India cricket team 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.[1][2] 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
Rest of India cricket team's logo
Personnel
CaptainRuturaj Gaikwad
Team information
ColoursCricket Whites
Founded1960
History
First-class debutBombay
in 1960
at Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Irani Cup wins32 (30 wins and 2 shared)
2024–25 Irani Cup

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

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Captains

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Year Captain Ranji Team
1959 Nari Contractor Gujarat
1962 Pankaj Roy Bengal
1963 Chandu Borde Maharashtra
1965
1966 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Hyderabad[3]
1967
1968 Hanumant Singh
1969 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi
1970 Chandu Borde Baroda
1971 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Madras
1972
1973 Erapalli Prasanna Karnataka
1974 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi Hyderabad
1975 Bishan Singh Bedi Delhi
1976
1977 Parthasarathy Sharma Rajasthan
1978 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan Madras
1979
1980 Sunil Gavaskar Bombay
1981 Gundappa Viswanath Karnataka
1982 Sunil Gavaskar Bombay
1983 Mohinder Amarnath Delhi
1984 Kapil Dev Haryana
1985 Kapil Dev Haryana
1986 Dilip Vengsarkar Bombay
1987 Arun Lal Bengal
1988 Arun Lal Bengal
1989 Lalchand Rajput
1990 Ravi Shastri Bombay
1991 Syed Kirmani Karnataka
1992 Woorkeri Raman Tamil Nadu
1993 Sanjay Manjrekar Bombay
1994 Pravin Amre
1995 Nayan Mongia Baroda
1996 Navjot Singh Sidhu Punjab
1997 Anil Kumble Karnataka
1998 VVS Laxman Hyderabad
1999 Nayan Mongia Baroda
2000 VVS Laxman Hyderabad
2001 VVS Laxman Hyderabad
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

Current Team (for 2024–25 Irani Cup)

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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

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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.[4] 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.[5]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Team Profile at CricketArchive
  2. ^ Team Profile at ESPNcricinfo
  3. ^ "The Hyderabad Connection". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Defence_Fund_Match_1971-72".
  5. ^ "Deodhar Trophy Winners v Rest 1989/90".