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Mumbai cricket team

मुंबई क्रिकेट संघ
Personnel
Captain	Shardul Thakur (FC & LA) Shreyas Iyer (T20)
Coach	Omkar Salvi
Owner	Mumbai Cricket Association
Team information
Founded	1865
Home ground	Wankhede Stadium
Capacity	33,108
Secondary home ground	Bandra Kurla Complex Ground
Secondary ground capacity	5,000
History
First-class debut	Lord Hawke's XI in 1892 at Bombay Gymkhana. Bombay
Ranji Trophy wins	42
Irani Cup wins	14 (1 shared)
Nissar Trophy wins	1
Wills Trophy wins	8
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins	4
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins	2
Official website	www.mumbaicricket.com

TheMumbai cricket team is acricket team which representsMumbai in Indian domestic cricket.^{[note 1]} It is governed byMumbai Cricket Association. Its home ground isWankhede Stadium inMumbai.^[1]

The team also plays its home matches atBandra Kurla Complex Ground andBrabourne Stadium. The team comes under theWest Zone designation. It was formerly known as theBombay cricket team, but changed its name when the city was renamed from Bombay to Mumbai.^[2]

Mumbai is the most successful team in the history ofRanji Trophy,India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 42 titles. Its most recent title was in2023–24. It also has won 14 (and 1 shared)Irani Cups.

Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time, such asSachin Tendulkar,Sunil Gavaskar,Ajinkya Rahane,Rohit Sharma,Vijay Merchant,Polly Umrigar, andDilip Vengsarkar.^[3][4]

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The first recorded cricket match in Mumbai took place between a Military XI and an Island XI in 1797. The affluentParsis of Mumbai founded the short-lived Orient Cricket Club in 1848.^[1] In 1850, theYoung Zoroastrian Club, which exists to this day was founded. In 1866, the Bombay Union Hindu Club, a forerunner of theHindu Gymkhana was founded. In 1884,Sir Dorabji Tata formed theParsi Gymkhana and helped an all-Parsi teamtour England in 1886. Despite a cricketing failure, the Parsis organised anothertour of England in 1888.

In 1889-90, an English team managed byGeorge Vernon and captained byLord Hawke played against theBombay Gymkhana and theParsis at the Gymkhana Ground during theirtour ofCeylon andIndia. The Parsis pulled off a famous victory, a first for an Indian team against English opposition.^[5]

TheBombay Tournament, patronised by theGovernor of BombayLord Harris, was played between the Parsis and Europeans, alternately in Bombay andPoona from 1892 to 1906. The 1892 match was the firstFirst-class cricket match to be played in India. In 1906,Hindus played Parsis to create the Bombay Triangular. in 1912, theMuslims of theMohammeden Gymkhana were invited to play and create the famous Bombay Quadrangular. In 1937, a fifth team calledThe Rest, was admitted to the tournament. It comprisedBuddhists,Jews, and Indian Christians. In 1946 that the Pentangular tournament was abandoned by theBoard of Control for Cricket in India and replaced by a zonal competition. TheRanji Trophy, in which regional teams from all over India competed, became the pre-eminent Indian cricket competition.

The Quadrangular Committee, consisting of the four Gymkhanas in Bombay, met to 6 August 1928 to discuss the formation of a single governing entity for cricket in theBombay Presidency outsideSind.^[6] On 6 October 1928, 'The Bombay Presidency (Proper) Cricket Association' was adopted as the name of the governing body and clubs began to be enrolled as members. On 16 August 1934, theGujarat Cricket Association and theMaharashtra Cricket Association approached theBoard of Control for Cricket in India for direct affiliation, separating from The Bombay Presidency (Proper) Cricket Association.^[6] The rump organisation then adopted the nameBombay Cricket Association, with its jurisdiction limited to the 'Greater Bombay and Thana District'.^[6]

Bombay won the first-everRanji Trophy competition in1934–35, withVijay Merchant starring in the final againstNorthern India. They retained title thefollowing season with victory overMadras 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 theRanji Trophy. When playingMaharashtra in a semi-final of the1948–49 season atPune, 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.^[7]

However, it was only after this period of success that their dominance was at its zenith. Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles from1955–56 to1976–77, including 15 consecutive titles from1958–59 to1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach theRanji Trophy 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 from1993–94 to2003–04.

In2006–07, Mumbai won their 37thRanji Trophy with victory overBengal 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 was reduced to 0/5 in the semi-final againstBaroda.

Mumbai's dominance of theRanji Trophy has led to many consecutive appearances in theIrani Trophy with much success including 15 wins from 29 appearances. However, they have failed to beatRest of India since the1997–98 Irani Cup.

TheGovernor of BombayLord Brabourne granted theCricket Club of India land to build a new stadium.^[8] The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brabourne on 22 May 1936.^[9] The first match was played on the incomplete ground in October 1937 between the CCI and the Spencer Cup XI. The ground was opened on 7 December 1937 byRoger Lumley, Governor of Bombay. The Stadium was named after Brabourne at the suggestion of theMaharaja of Patiala.^[10]

The Mumbai cricket team played its home matches at the Brabourne Stadium until 1971, when a dispute between CCI presidentVijay Merchant and theBombay Cricket Association over the allocation of seats forEngland's 1972-73 tour of India prompted the construction of theWankhede Stadium.^[11]

The Mumbai cricket team has played at the Wankhede Stadium since its construction in 1974. In the1984–85 Ranji Trophy match againstBaroda, Mumbai'sRavi Shastri hit six sixes in an over off Tilak Raj, en-route to the fastest double century in first-class cricket at the time.^[12][13]

The Mumbai Cricket Association built the MCA Recreation Centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex Ground in 2007. It houses an indoor cricket school and a cricket ground where Ranji Trophy matches are played.^[14]

• Ranji Trophy
  • Winners (42):1934–35,1935–36,1941–42,1944–45,1948–49,1951–52,1953–54,1955–56,1956–57,1958–59,1959–60,1960–61,1961–62,1962–63,1963–64,1964–65,1965–66,1966–67,1967–68,1968–69,1969–70,1970–71,1971–72,1972–73,1974–75,1975–76,1976–77,1980–81,1983–84,1984–85,1993–94,1994–95,1996–97,1999–00,2002–03,2003–04,2006–07,2008–09,2009–10,2012–13,2015–16,2023–24
  • Runners-up (6):1947–48,1979–80,1982–83,1990–91,2016–17,2021–22
• Irani Cup (15) –1959–60,1962–63,1963–64,1967–68,1969–70,1970–71,1972–73,1975–76,1976–77,1981–82,1985–86,1994–95,1995–96,1997–98,2024–25;(1 shared) –1965–66
• Wills Trophy
  • 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
  • Winners (4):2003–04,2006-07,2018-19,2020-21
  • Runners-up:2011-12
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
  • Winners (2):2022-23,2024-25

The team is known for itsbatting andspin bowling and has produced many of theIndian cricket team's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include:

Players with international caps are listed inbold.

Updated as on 15 November 2025

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Coach and support staff in Mumbai men's cricket team are shown below:

• Coach – Omkar Salvi^[15]
• Batting coach – Vinit Indulkar^[15][16]
• Fielding coach – Omkar Gurav^[15][16]
• Team manager – Arman Mallick
• Video analyst – Ganesh Tyagi
• Trainer – Amogh Pandit^[17]
• Assistant coach –Wilkin Mota
• Physio – Abhishek Sawant^[17]
• Masseur – Sunil Rajguru
• Selectors -

1.Raju Kulkarni – Chairman2. Sanjay Patil3. Ravindra Thaker4. Jeetendra Thackeray 5.Kiran Powar^[18]

Coach and support staff in Mumbai women's cricket team are shown below:

• Coach –Sunetra Paranjpe^[19]
• Assistant Coach – Sarvesh Damle^[19]

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