The Odisha cricket team (known as Orissa until 2011) is a domestic

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team based in the

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n state of

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

. It is in the elite group of the

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. Its main home ground is

Barabati Stadium The Barabati Stadium is an Indian sports stadium used mostly for cricket and association football, and also sometimes for concerts and field hockey, located in Cuttack, Odisha. It is a regular venue for international cricket and is the home gro ...

Cuttack Cuttack (, or officially Kataka ) in Odia is the former capital and the second largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It is the headquarters of the Cuttack district. The name of the city is an anglicised form of ''Kataka'' which literally ...

. Home matches are also played at

DRIEMS Ground Dhaneswar Rath Institute of Engineering and Management Sciences Ground is located in the city of Cuttack, Odisha, India. It is currently used by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Odisha Cricket Association for Women's One Day Intern ...

East Coast Railway Stadium East Coast Railway Stadium is a cricket stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. It hosts Ranji Trophy, and other matches. History The present stadium was built across an area of over 22 acres at a cost of Rs 6 crore. The stadium has four turfs for pr ...

Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. The region, especially the old town, was historically often depicted as ''Ekamra Kshetra'' (area (''kshetra'') adorned with mango trees (''ekamra'')). Bhubaneswar i ...

, Veer Surendra Sai Stadium in

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, KIIT Cricket Stadium in Bhubaneswar and other grounds. The team's recent best performance in the Ranji Trophy came in the 2016–17 season and 2019-20 season, when they advanced to the quarter-final stage. They lost there to the eventual champions

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and

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respectively.Under the captaincy of Govinda Poddar

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and Subhranshu Senapati 2019-20. The Odisha cricket team is selected by the

Odisha Cricket Association Odisha Cricket Association (abbreviated OCA) is the governing body of the Cricket activities in the Odisha state of India and the Odisha cricket team. It was formed in the year of 1961 and its headquarters is in Cuttack Barabati Stadium Complex. ...

(OCA). The OCA organises the

Odisha Premier League Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of Sch ...

every year to promote cricket and search for local talent throughout the state.

History

Odisha first competed at first-class level in the 1949–50 Ranji Trophy, when they lost to

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by 356 runs. Their first victory came in 1952–53, when they defeated

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by an innings. They played only against other East Zone teams (Bihar, Assam and

) until 1983–84, when they progressed to the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals for the first time. At the completion of the 2017–18 season, Odisha had played 296 Ranji Trophy matches. They had won 64, lost 106 and drawn 126.

Past and present players

Players from Odisha who have played International Cricket, along with year of debut: *

Debashish Mohanty Debasish (or Debasis) Sarbeswar Mohanty (born 20 July 1976) is a former Indian cricketer who played in two Test matches and 45 One Day Internationals between 1997 and 2001. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler who coupled pace to his natural ...

(1997) *

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(1998) * Shiv Sunder Das (2000) * Anshuman Rath (2014) (Played International Cricket for

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) Prominent players at the domestic level: *

Rashmi Parida Rashmi Ranjan Parida (born 7 July 1977) is an Indian cricketer, who plays for Vidarbha in Indian Domestic Cricket.He has played for Odisha, Rajasthan and Assam. He is primarily a right-handed batsman. He made his debut for Odisha in 1994 and pla ...

* Pravanjan Mullick *

Ranjib Biswal Ranjib Biswal (born 21 September 1970) is a former Indian cricketer and the former Chairman of Indian Premier League. He played domestic cricket for the Odisha and represented India in Under-19 cricket, Captaining the side against Pakistan in fo ...

* Basant Mohanty * Biplab Samantray * Govinda Poddar *

Natraj Behera Natraj Bhuban Behera (born 28 May 1988) was the captain of Odisha cricket team. Under his able leadership East Zone won its first Duleep Trophy championship of 2011-12 defeating Central Zone The Central Indo-Aryan languages or Hindi langu ...

Squad

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

Coaches

Coaches in Odisha cricket team are listed below: *

* Shiv Sunder Das *

* Sanjay Kumar Satapathy * Subit Biswal *

Michael Bevan Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970) is a former Australian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left arm wrist-spin bowler. He has been credited for initiating the art of finishing matches. For several years, he was considered as ...

* Balvinder Sandhu * Sourajit Mohapatra * Abakash Khatua *

Wasim Jaffer Wasim Jaffer (born 16 February 1978) is an Indian retired professional cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right arm off-break bowler. He is currently the highest run-scorer in Ranji Trophy cricket, surpassing Am ...

Records

''For more details on this topic, see List of Odisha first-class cricket records, List of Odisha List A cricket records, List of Odisha Twenty20 cricket records.''

References

External links

Cricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions
Indian first-class cricket teams Cricket in Odisha 1930 establishments in India Cricket clubs established in 1930 {{India-cricket-team-stub