Karnataka cricket team is a cricket team that represents the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state of Karnataka

Karnataka

Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...

 in domestic first class cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

. One of the strongest teams in the Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...

 Elite Group, it has produced many of the Indian cricket team

Indian cricket team

The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....

's leading players throughout its existence. It has won the Ranji Trophy six times and has come second five times (including two runner-up positions for the earlier Mysore team). The team's home ground is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

The M. Chinnaswamy Stadium , located in Bangalore, Karnataka, is one of the cricket stadiums of India. Flanked by the picturesque Cubbon Park, Queen's Road, Cubbon and uptown MG Road, this four decade old stadium is situated in the heart of the city of Bangalore. Formerly known as the Karnataka...

 in Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

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Competition history

Karnataka has produced some of the best cricket players from the southern part of India. Its most recent wins were in the 1998/99 season and the 1997/98 season, in which it emerged victorious in its finals against Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh cricket team

The Madhya Pradesh cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is in the Plate and in elite Group of the Ranji Trophy....

 and Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh cricket team

The Uttar Pradesh cricket team is a cricket team which is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The team competes in the Ranji Trophy and won the tournament in 2005-06. They have only won 1 Ranji Trophy and have been runner-up twice. Young talents such as Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, Piyush...

 respectively. It also beat the Tamil Nadu cricket team

Tamil Nadu cricket team

The Tamil Nadu Cricket Team ; , competes in the Super League of the Ranji Trophy, the top cricketing competition in India. The team finished as runners-up behind Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy in the 2002-03 and 2003-04 seasons establishing themselves as one of the strongest teams in the country...

 in the Ranji Trophy season of 1995/96. This strong run in the Ranji Trophy was due to the emergence of Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid

Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...

, Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the second Indian pace bowler after Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. One ball that he bowled during the 1996 tour of South Africa measured...

 and Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading wicket-taker for India in both Test and One Day International matches...

, all of whom have become long-time players for the Indian national team, being the national team's leading batsman, fast bowler, and spinner in the 1990s and early 21st century. The remainder of its victories were evenly spread in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the Irani Trophy

Irani Trophy

The Irani Cup tournament was conceived during the 1959-60 season to mark the completion of 25 years of the Ranji Trophy championship and was named after the late Z.R. Irani, who was associated with the Board of Control for Cricket in India from its inception in 1928, till his death in 1970...

, it has won four times and lost twice against the Rest of India team.

Team showed good performance in 2007-2008 season. As International players had to move in and out of the squad due to their ODI schedules and Test matches clashing, the team could not well adjust with the changes in short period.

A young Karnataka unit performed well in the 2009-2010 season and made it to the finals comfortably. The finals took place in gangothri glades, Mysore where karnataka who had the backing of a charged full house crowd came in with a spirited performance went down to Mumbai by a slender margin of 6 runs. Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey

Manish Krishnanand Pandey is an Indian cricketer. He is primarily a right-handed middle order batsman, although he opened the innings for his club team, the Royal Challengers Bangalore. After 2 years of playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, he has opted to play for Pune Warriors India in...

 was the highest scorer of the season with 882 runs from 9 matches.

Famous players

• Raghuram Bhat
  Raghuram Bhat
  Adwai Raghuram Bhat is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1983.-Domestic Career:Raghuram Bhat dominated school and junior level games. After some fine performances, he made his Ranji trophy debut in the 1979-80 season against Tamil Nadu at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium....
  
  
• Roger Binny
  Roger Binny
  Roger Michael Humphrey Binny is an Indian former cricket all-rounder who is best known for his impressive bowling performance in the 1983 Cricket World Cup where he was the highest wicket-taker , and in the 1985 World Series Cricket Championship in Australia where he repeated this feat .Binny...
  
  
• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
  Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
  Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar is a former Indian cricketer who specialised in leg spin. Considered amongst the top echelon of leg-spinners, Chandrasekhar along with E.A.S. Prasanna, Bishen Singh Bedi and Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan constituted the Indian spin quartet that dominated...
  
  
• Rahul Dravid
  Rahul Dravid
  Rahul Sharad Dravid , is a cricketer in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. He was appointed as the captain of the Indian cricket team in October 2005 and resigned from the post in September 2007. Dravid was honoured as one of the top-five Wisden Cricketers...
  
  
• Syed Kirmani
  Syed Kirmani
  Padma Sri Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani played cricket for India and Karnataka as a wicket-keeper.-International career:...
  
  
• Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble
  Anil Kumble is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is currently the leading wicket-taker for India in both Test and One Day International matches...
  
  
• Budhi Kunderan
  Budhi Kunderan
  Budhisagar Krishnappa Kunderan was an Indian cricketer...
  
  
• Brijesh Patel
  Brijesh Patel
  Brijesh Patel grew up in Bangalore is an Indian cricketer who played for the Indian national cricket team as a right-handed batsman from 1974 until 1979....
  
  
• Erapalli Prasanna
  E. A. S. Prasanna
  Erapalli Anantharao Srinivas Prasanna is a famous former cricket player from Bangalore, India. He was a spin bowler, specializing in off spin and a member of the Indian spin quartet. He is an alumunus of National Institute of Engineering , Mysore.-Career:Prasanna played his debut Test cricket...
  
  
• Javagal Srinath
  Javagal Srinath
  Javagal Srinath is a former Indian cricketer. He was a frontline fast bowler for the Indian cricket team until his retirement, being the second Indian pace bowler after Kapil Dev to take 200 Test wickets. One ball that he bowled during the 1996 tour of South Africa measured...
  
  
• Venkatesh Prasad
  Venkatesh Prasad
  Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad is a former Indian cricketer. He is the bowling coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, having formerly performed the same role for the Indian cricket team from 2007 to 2009. He made his debut in 1996...
  
  
• Sunil Joshi
  Sunil Joshi
  Sunil Bandacharya Joshi is a former Indian cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls slow left arm spin and bats left-handed. He used to travel 40 miles to Hubli each morning for practice, and then return to his native town of Gadag in time for school...
  
  
• Robin Uthappa
  Robin Uthappa
  Robin Venu Uthappa is an Indian cricketer. His father is Venu Uthappa, an international hockey referee from Kodagu, Karnataka, mother Roselyn is a home maker and hails from Kozhikode, Kerala and his sister Sharon is a business owner. He studied at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore...
  
  
• R. Vinay Kumar
  Vinay Kumar
  Vinay Kumar is an Indian cricket player who represents the state of Karnataka.He was signed to play for the Bangalore Royal Challengers team in the Indian Premier League for the first three seasons. In the fourth season he was contracted by Kochi Tuskers Kerala for US$475,000...
  
  
• M. R. Srinivasaprasad
• Sudhakar Rao
  Sudhakar Rao
  Ramchandra Sudhakar Rao is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Karnataka and played one One Day International for India against New Zealand in 1976....
  
  
• Gundappa Viswanath
  Gundappa Viswanath
  Gundappa Rangnath Viswanath is a former Indian cricketer. He was one of India's finest batsmen throughout the 1970s. He played Test cricket for India from 1969 to 1983 making 91 appearances and scoring over 6000 runs. He also played in One Day Internationals from 1974 to 1982 including the World...
  
  
• Vijay Bharadwaj
  Vijay Bharadwaj
  Raghvendrarao Vijay Bharadwaj is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm offbreak bowler. He was a key architect of Karnataka's three Ranji Trophy triumphs in the 1990s. He won the Man of the Series award on his debut one day international series against South...
  
  
• Dodda Ganesh
  Dodda Ganesh
  Doddanarasiah Ganesh is a former Indian cricketer who played in 4 Tests and one ODI in 1997. He was a right arm seam bowler....
  
  
• Sadanand Viswanath
  Sadanand Viswanath
  Sadanand Viswanath is a former Indian cricketer who played in 3 Tests and 22 ODIs, from 1985 to 1988. Currently, he is a first class umpire and coach....
  
  
• David Johnson
  David Johnson (cricketer)
  David Jude Johnson is a former Indian cricketer who played in 2 Tests in 1996.On the short side for a fast bowler, David Johnson came into the Indian side on the basis of some fine performances around the domestic circuit for Karnataka. He recorded his best match figures of 10 for 152 against...
  
  
• Abhimanyu Mithun
  Abhimanyu Mithun
  Abhimanyu Mithun is an Indian international cricketer. In first class cricket, he plays for Karnataka. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Mithun was called up to the India squad for the first Test against South Africa in 2009–10, only ten weeks after making his first-class debut. He has also...
  
  

Current squad

• Vinay Kumar
  Vinay Kumar
  Vinay Kumar is an Indian cricket player who represents the state of Karnataka.He was signed to play for the Bangalore Royal Challengers team in the Indian Premier League for the first three seasons. In the fourth season he was contracted by Kochi Tuskers Kerala for US$475,000...
  
   (c
  Captain (cricket)
  The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...
  
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• Mayank Agarwal
• NC Aiyappa
• KP Appanna
• Sreenath Aravind
  Sreenath Aravind
  Sreenath Aravind is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka and the Royal Challengers Bangalore. A left-arm quick bowler, he was called up to India's One Day International squad for the series against England in October 2011In the CLT20 2011 he guided his team the Royal Challengers to the...
  
  
• Stuart Binny
  Stuart Binny
  Stuart Binny is an Indian First Class cricketer. He is son of former Indian Test cricketer Roger Binny...
  
  
• Bharat Chipli
  Bharat Chipli
  Bharat Chipli is an Indian cricketer who plays for Karnataka in first-class cricket. He is married to Shruthi Shetty, who is a HR Lead with an IT consulting giant.-Career:...
  
  
• CM Gautam
• Abhimanyu Mithun
  Abhimanyu Mithun
  Abhimanyu Mithun is an Indian international cricketer. In first class cricket, he plays for Karnataka. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Mithun was called up to the India squad for the first Test against South Africa in 2009–10, only ten weeks after making his first-class debut. He has also...
  
  
• Manish Pandey
  Manish Pandey
  Manish Krishnanand Pandey is an Indian cricketer. He is primarily a right-handed middle order batsman, although he opened the innings for his club team, the Royal Challengers Bangalore. After 2 years of playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, he has opted to play for Pune Warriors India in...
  
  
• Udit Patel
• KB Pawan
• Sunil Raju
• Ganesh Satish
  Ganesh Satish
  Ganesh Satish is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper who currently plays for Karnataka. He was born in Davanagere....
  
  
• Robin Uthappa
  Robin Uthappa
  Robin Venu Uthappa is an Indian cricketer. His father is Venu Uthappa, an international hockey referee from Kodagu, Karnataka, mother Roselyn is a home maker and hails from Kozhikode, Kerala and his sister Sharon is a business owner. He studied at St. Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore...
  
  
• Amit Verma

Karnataka Under 19 Cricket Team

• Rithesh Devraj (c)
• Sangay G Prakash (vc)
• Punith
• Nithin Babu
• Raghavendra
• Shishir Arjun
• Roshan H
• Karan Singh
• Varun V
• Gautham S
• Rohith L S
• Sankarshan
• Shiva Kumar
• Anand K S
• Pream

• Coach: Sanath kumar

Twenty20 League (KPL)

Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) has launched a zonal Twenty20 League to promote Twenty20 in the state of Karnataka called the Karnataka Premier League

Karnataka Premier League

Mantri Karnataka Premier League is an Indian Twenty20 cricket league established by the Karnataka State Cricket Association in August, 2009. The domestic cricket competition is modeled along the lines of the popular Indian Premier League...

. The league consists of 10 teams which are from Bangalore

Bangalore

Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

, Mysore, Mangalore

Mangalore

Mangalore is the chief port city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is located about west of the state capital, Bangalore. Mangalore lies between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghat mountain ranges, and is the administrative headquarters of the Dakshina Kannada district in south western...

, Dharwad

Dharwad

Dharwad, also known as Dharwar, is a city and a DISTRICT PLACE in India's Karnataka state.Dharwad is the administrative seat of the Dharwad District. The municipality of Hubli-Dharwad covers an area of 200.23 km²...

, Raichur

Raichur

Raichur , is a city municipal council in Raichur district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Raichur, on the banks of the Tungabhadra River, is the headquarters of Raichur district. It was in the princely state of Mysore during the rule of Tipu Sultan...

, Tumkur

Tumkur

Tumkur is one of the busiest industrial towns located in the state of Karnataka. Since 28 August 2010, Tumkur has been accorded the status of a Corporation city. It is situated at a distance of 70 kilometers north west of the city of Bangalore along National Highway 4...

, Shimoga, Bellary

Bellary

Bellary is a historic city in Bellary District in Karnataka state, India.-Origins of the city's name:There are several legends about how Bellary got its name....

, Gulbarga

Gulbarga

Gulbarga is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of Gulbarga District. It was formerly part of Nizam's Hyderabad state...

 and Belgaum

Belgaum

Belgaum is a city and a municipal corporation in Belgaum district in the state of Karnataka, India. It is the fourth largest city of the state of Karnataka, the first three being Bangalore, Mysore, Hubli-Dharwad....

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The teams are: Bangalore Brigadiers, Belagaavi Panthers, Bijapur Bulls, Malnad Gladiators Shimoga, Mangalore United, Mysore Maharaajas, Provident Bangalore, Shamanur Davanagere Diamonds