The Mumbai cricket team is a

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team representing the city of

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

in Indian domestic cricket. The team's primary home ground is the Wankhede Stadium in

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. Secondary home venues include the MCA ground in Bandra Kurla Complex Ground and

Brabourne Stadium The Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai in Western India, built in the British Bombay era. It was the home ground of the Mumbai men's and women's cricket teams. It can accommodate 50,000 people for sports matches. The ground is owne ...

. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed when the city was officially renamed from Bombay to Mumbai. Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of

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's premier domestic cricket competition, with 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It also has 14(1 shared)

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titles to its name, also the most by any team. Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time such as

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, and

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Competition history

Mumbai is one of three teams located in the state of

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(the others being the

Maharashtra cricket team The Maharashtra cricket team is a domestic cricket team that represents Maharashtra state in domestic cricket of India. It is govern by Maharashtra Cricket Association. It plays its home matches at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune ...

and the

Vidarbha cricket team The Vidarbha cricket team is an Indian domestic cricket team plays in the India's domestic first-class cricket competition Ranji Trophy and limited-overs Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. It represents the Vidarbha region of eas ...

), and has always competed as a separate team from the rest of the state. Despite this division, Mumbai has become India's most successful domestic team. It has played in 44 of the 67 Ranji finals through 2014 winning 40. Bombay won the first-ever

competition in 1934–35 with

starring in the final against Northern India. The title was retained the following season with a victory over

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in the final. Bombay quickly showed themselves to be one of the strongest teams in the competition with 7 victories in the first 20 seasons of the

. When playing

in a semi-final of the 1948–49 season at

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

, Mumbai became the first and only team in first-class history to score over 600 runs in both innings of the same match – 651 and 714. However, it was after this period that their dominance was at its zenith. From 1955–56 to 1976–77, Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles including 15 in a row from 1958–59 to 1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the

final up to the mid-1980s. The latter half of the 1980s was Bombay's least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons. However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from 1993–94 to 2003–04 under the new name of Mumbai. In 2006–07, Mumbai won their 37th

with victory over

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in the final at Wankhede Stadium. This win was particularly memorable as the team had recovered from the setbacks of losing their first three games and is reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final against

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. Mumbai's dominance of the

has led to many consecutive appearances in the

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with much success including 15 wins. However, they have failed to beat the Rest of the India team since 1998.

Honours

** Winners (41): 1934–35, 1935–36, 1941–42, 1944–45, 1948–49, 1951–52, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2012–13, 2015–16 ** Runners-up (5): 1947–48, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1990–91, 2016–17 *

(14) – 1959-60, 1962-63, 1963-64, 1967-68, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1981-82, 1985-86, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1997-98; (1 shared) – 1965-66 *

Wills Trophy The Wills One-Day Trophy (named after sponsor Wills of ITC Limited), commonly referred to as the Wills Trophy, was an Indian List A cricket tournament organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Established in the 1977–78 se ...

** Winners (8): 1981-82, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1990-91, 1990-91, 1994-95, 1996-97, 1997-98; (1 shared) – 1978-79 *

Vijay Hazare Trophy The Vijay Hazare Trophy, (officially known as Mastercard Vijay Hazare trophy for sponsorship reasons) also known as the Ranji One-Day Trophy, is an annual limited-overs cricket domestic competition involving state teams from the Ranji Trophy pl ...

** Winners (4): 2003-04, 2006-07, 2018-19, 2020-21 ** Runners-up (1): 2011-12 *

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a domestic T-20 cricket championship in India, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), among the teams from the Ranji Trophy. It is named after Indian former test cricketer Syed Mushtaq Al ...

(1) ** Winners (1): 2022-23

Notable players

The team is known for its

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and

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and has produced many of the

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's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include: * Aavishkar Salvi *

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Abhishek Nayar Abhishek Mohan Nair (born 8 October 1983) is a former Indian international cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. He played first class cricket for Mumbai and also represented Mumbai Indians, Kings ...

Ajit Agarkar Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar (born 4 December 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and a commentator. He has represented India in more than 200 international matches in all three formats of the game. He is the third highest wicket-taker for India i ...

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Amol Muzumdar Amol Anil Muzumdar (born 11 November 1974) was an Indian cricketer, domestically, having previously played for Mumbai and Assam. He was primarily a right-handed batsman. He held the record for the most runs scored in the Ranji Trophy, India's pr ...

* Arvind Apte *

Ashok Mankad Ashok Mulvantrai Mankad (12 October 1946 – 1 August 2008) was an Indian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, he played for India in 22 Test matches. Ashok Mankad was born in a Vadnagra Nagar Brahmin family as the eldest son of Vinoo Manka ...

Baloo Gupte Balkrishna Pandharinath "Baloo" Gupte (30 August 1934 – 5 July 2005) was an Indian cricketer. He was a leg-spinner. Gupte was born in Bombay in British India. He made his debut under Nari Contractor in 1960–61 against Pakistan led by Fa ...

Balwinder Sandhu Balwinder Singh Sandhu (born 3 August 1956) is a former Indian Test cricketer. He represented India in eight Test matches as a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball and was a useful batsman. Career A late starter in cricket, Sandhu' ...

* Bapu Nadkarni *

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Chandrakant Patankar Chandrakant Trimbak Patankar (born 24 November 1930) is a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1955. Life and career Born in Pen in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, Patankar attended Bombay University, gaining an MSc. He pla ...

* Chandu Borde *

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Dattu Phadkar Dattatraya Gajanan "Dattu" Phadkar (12 December 1925 – 17 March 1985) was an all-rounder who represented India in Test cricket. Phadkar was an attacking middle order batsman, a medium pace bowler who could swing the ball both ways and extrac ...

Dilip Sardesai Dilip Narayan Sardesai (; 8 August 1940 – 2 July 2007) was an Indian international cricketer. He played Tests for the Indian national team as a batsman, the first Goa-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as one of India' ...

Dhawal Kulkarni Dhawal Sunil Kulkarni (born 10 December 1988) is an Indian cricketer as well as first class cricketer. He is a right arm medium-pace bowler and right-handed lower order batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Mumbai and in the Indian Pre ...

Eknath Solkar Eknath Dhondu 'Ekky' Solkar (18 March 1948 – 26 June 2005) was an Indian all-round cricketer who played 27 Tests and seven One Day Internationals for his country. He was born in Bombay, and died of heart attack in the same city at the age o ...

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Karsan Ghavri Karsan Devjibhai Ghavri (born 28 February 1951) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 39 Test matches and 19 One Day Internationals from 1974 to 1981. He played in the 1975 and 1979 World Cups. Ghavri started his career playing Ranji Tr ...

* KC Ibrahim *

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Khershed Meherhomji Khershedji Rustomji Meherhomji (; 9 August 1911 – 10 February 1982) was an Indian cricketer who played as a wicket-keeper. Meherhomji toured England in 1936 and played in the Test at Manchester. He represented Parsis in Bombay Pentangular and ...

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* Laxmidas Jai *

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* Manohar Hardikar *

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* Prithvi Shaw * Raju Kulkarni *

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* Ramnath Parkar *

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* Shivam Dube *

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* Sudhir Naik *

* Suru Nayak * Suryakumar Yadav * Umesh Kulkarni *

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Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold. ''Updated as on 26 November 2022''

Support staff

Coach and support staff in Mumbai cricket team are shown below: * Coach-

* Team manager – Arman Mallick * Video analyst – Ganesh Tyagi * Trainer – Amogh Pandit * Assistant coach – Wilkin Mota * Physio – Abhishek Sawant * Masseur – Sunil Rajguru * Selectors - 1.

– Chairman 2.

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3. Ravindra Thaker 4.

Zulfiqar Parkar Zulfiqar Parkar (born 22 November 1957) is an Indian first-class cricketer who represented Mumbai (then Bombay). He made his first-class debut for Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capi ...

5. Ravi Kulkarni

Mumbai Cricket Association

The Mumbai Cricket Association or MCA is the governing body for cricket in

and its surrounding regions like

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and

Navi Mumbai Navi Mumbai (), is a planned city situated on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent, located in the Konkan division of Maharashtra state, on the mainland of India. Navi Mumbai is part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The city is ...

. The association comes under the west zone. The Association was established in 1930 and it has a Constitution.

Sharad Pawar Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: �əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Mini ...

was re-elected as the president of Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) after defeating Vijay Patil by a margin of 27 votes at the biennial elections held in Mumbai. The Mumbai cricket team is the team for the Mumbai cricket association in the

. The team has won over 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It has also come runner-up in the final of the Ranji Trophy a total of 5 times. The association owns the Wankhede Stadium, near

Churchgate Churchgate (Marathi pronunciation: ͡ʃəɾt͡ʃɡeːʈ is an area in South Mumbai. During the eighteenth and up to the mid-19th century, Mumbai was a walled city. The city walls had three gates, and Churchgate, named after St. Thomas Cathe ...

railway station built-in 1975. The office of the association is located in the same building. To promote democratic values and to bring in new ideas and enthusiasm, the constitution provides that no individual can continue in any post for more than eight years (four terms of 2 years) consecutively. After completing 8 years in a position he/she can occupy the same post after a gap of 4 years (2 terms of 2 years each). The Mumbai Cricket Association does not have a system of individual membership. Rather it has 350 ordinary members and 25 Associate members who are affiliated with the Association. Only ordinary members are eligible to vote during elections. If any ordinary member is found to be inactive in terms of cricket activity for more than 3 years the Club to which he/she belongs is demoted as an Associate member and if the club is still inactive for 3 years it automatically loses its membership.

References

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