Allahabad Cricketers (इलाहाबाद क्रिकेटर्स) was founded as a cricket club in 1985 at

Madan Mohan Malviya Stadium Madan Mohan Malaviya Stadium is a stadium in Allahabad, India. It is used by Uttar Pradesh cricket team for their domestic matches. Sports like Cricket, Hockey, Javelin throw, Taekwondo, and Judo are played here. It is named after the famous ...

Prayagraj Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

for young cricketers. Its first coach and manager was Ramesh Pal. He appointed Alok Ranjan Singh as the club's first full-time captain.

Famous players

The players like

Ashish Zaidi Ashish Winston Zaidi, popularly known as Zaidi is an Indian cricketer, who has represented Uttar Pradesh in 157 first-class matches, as a Fast bowler between 1988 and 2006. He was almost selected to play for India in his heyday. Due to his Hi ...

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, Mohammad Saif,

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Jyoti Yadav Jyoti Yadav (born 26 September 1977) is an Indian first class cricketer from Allahabad. A left-handed middle order batsman, Yadav plays for and captains Uttar Pradesh. He made his first class debut in 1994/95 playing for Uttar Pradesh agains ...

have grown while playing for this club. The main practice ground for this club has been

in the historical

Alfred Park Chandrashekhar Azad Park (also known by its former name Alfred Park, and Company Bagh during the Company Raj) is a public park in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. Built in 1870 to mark Prince Alfred's visit to the city, with an area of 133 ...

Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ...

. One of its prodigies, Rambabu Pal who was in under-16 India camp along with

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and

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, committed suicide at the age of 34. Allahabad has produced several cricketers for Under-19 and

University of Allahabad , mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees" , established = , type = Public , chancellor = Ashish Chauhan , vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava , head_label ...

cricket team. L.B. Kala, Ramesh Pal, Brijesh Sahay, B.N. Agrwal, Arun Singh, Ravindra Singh, Vinod Pandey, Alok Singh, Mohammad Asif,Nouman Fazal and many others went on to play for the university team. Brijesh Sahay, B.N. Agrwal and Alok Singh also played regularly for famous Subhania Club in DDCA's A-Division league and other tournaments in Delhi. Allahabad Cricketers has had several senior players from the

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teams of

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and

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right from the beginning. Veteran players like

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have guided players for many years.

Coaches

Allahabad Cricketers has also produced coaches who were trained at National Institute of Sports (NIS) and

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. Following the footsteps of Ramesh Pal, like Arun Singh, Ravindra Singh and many more become qualified and successful coach for next generation of players in different parts of India. MP Singh who worked as the Cricket Coach of

University of Allahabad , mottoeng = "As Many Branches So Many Trees" , established = , type = Public , chancellor = Ashish Chauhan , vice_chancellor = Sangita Srivastava , head_label ...

, after graduating from National Institute of Sports (NIS) contributed to talent development and coaching set-up in Allahabad. Later MP Singh moved to Delhi to assist

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awardee Gurcharan Singh at

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Cricket Center. There he developed several national and international players.

References

{{Reflist Indian club cricket teams 1985 establishments in Uttar Pradesh