The Jharkhand Cricket Team is a first-class

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team based in the

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Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

. When the old state of Bihar was split into Jharkhand state and

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, the Jharkhand team took the place of the

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, as much of the former's state's cricketing infrastructure was in

History

Jharkhand State Cricket Association Jharkhand State Cricket Association is the governing body of the cricket activities in the Jharkhand state of India and the Jharkhand cricket team. It is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India. History It came in existence in ...

was formed on November 15, 2000 and the team made its first-class debut in November 2004 against Saurashtra in the 2004/05 Ranji Trophy at

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. The match was drawn. The team won the 2010/11 Vijay Harare Trophy against

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at the

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. Jharkhand batted first and were boosted by several useful contributions from their batsmen while Gujarat in their reply failed to measure up against a dominating bowling performance to sink to a 159-run defeat. In 2021, Jharkhand have scored 422 runs losing 9 wickets in the first innings. It is the highest ever total in 50 over domestic cricket in India. In March 2022, in the preliminary quarter-final match against

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in the 2021–22 Ranji Trophy, Jharkhand made their highest team total in a first-class cricket match with 880, the fourth-highest team total in the Ranji Trophy.

Home grounds

Notable players

Players from Jharkhand who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut: *

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Mahendra Singh Dhoni (; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian former international cricketer who was captain of the Indian national cricket team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. He is also the curren ...

(2005) *

Varun Aaron Varun Raymond Aaron (born 29 October 1989) is an Indian cricketer from Jamshedpur. A right-arm fast bowler, he first played for Jharkhand U-19 followed by Jharkhand Ranji team. He played his first One Day International (ODI) for India in Octo ...

(2011) *

Shahbaz Nadeem Shahbaz Nadeem (born 12 August 1989) is an Indian international cricketer who is a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He made his first-class cricket debut in December 2004. He has played for Bihar Under-14 side and Indian U-19s and currently plays ...

(2019) Players from Jharkhand who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut : *

Saurabh Tiwary Saurabh Sunil Tiwary (born 30 December 1989) is an Indian cricketer who plays as a left-handed middle order batsman. He was one of the key batsmen in the Indian team that won the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. Indian Premier League He re ...

(2010) *

Ishan Kishan Ishan Kishan (born 18 July 1998) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team as a wicket-keeper batsman. He made his international debut in March 2021 against England. He plays for Mumbai Indians in the ...

(2021) Notable players at the domestic level: *

Ishank Jaggi Ishank Jaggi (born 27 January 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who plays for Jharkhand. He was born in Bacheli. He was brought up in Jamshedpur. Jaggi began his youth career playing with Bihar's ...

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold. ''Updated as on 27 December 2022''

Coaching staff

Coaching staff have one head coach. * Head Coach :- Rajiv Kumar

References

External links

Official website of Jharkhand State Cricket Association

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