Delhi cricket team

The Delhi cricket team is one of the first-class cricket teams, that plays in India's domestic competition, the Ranji Trophy. They have won the tournament seven times and have been runners-up seven. Their latest title in 2007-08 came after a long wait of 16 years. The previous win was in the 1991-92 season when they beat Tamil Nadu in the final. The team's home ground is Feroz Shah Kotla. In the Duleep and Deodhar Trophy, Delhi comes under the North Zone team.

Competition history

Delhi have made a strong performance in the Ranji Trophy throughout its history. Three of its five wins came in the 1980s and the remainder were in the late 1970s, a period marked by the dominance of a famous Mumbai team. This formed a golden period for Delhi between 1978 and 1987: it was in the finals for all but one of those years (winning 4, runner up for 4).

Its five appearances in the Irani Trophy showed mixed results, losing to the Rest of India side 3 times and winning twice.

Famous players

• Mohinder Amarnath
• Bishan Singh Bedi
• Chetan Chauhan
• Aakash Chopra
• Gautam Gambhir
• Ajay Jadeja
• Manoj Prabhakar
• Virender Sehwag
• Ajay Sharma
• Ashish Nehra
• Ishant Sharma

2006/07 squad

• Mithun Manhas (c)
• Abhinav Bali
• Amit Bhandari
• Rajat Bhatia
• +Punit Bisht
• Gaurav Chhabra
• Akash Chopra
• +Vijay Dahiya
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Gautam Gambhir
• Aditya Jain
• Virat Kohli
• Kunal Lal
• Ashish Malhotra
• Chetan Nanda
• Ashish Nehra
• Kuldeep Rawat
• Yogesh Sachdeva
• Rahul Sanghvi
• Pradeep Sangwan
• Virender Sehwag
• Abhishek Sharma
• Ishant Sharma
• Sohail Sharma
• Mayank Tehlan

External links

• Cricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions
• Ranji Trophy 2006/7 Batting Averages
• Ranji Trophy One Day 2006/7 Batting Averages
• Inter State Twenty20 Tournament 2006/7 Batting Averages