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| Personnel | |
|---|---|
| Captain | Sandeep Pattnaik (FC & LA) Govinda Poddar (T20) |
| Coach | Dinesh Mongia[1] |
| Owner | Odisha Cricket Association |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Home ground | Barabati Stadium |
| Capacity | 48,000 |
| Secondary home ground | DRIEMS Ground |
| History | |
| First-class debut | Bihar in 1949 at Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur |
| Ranji Trophy wins | 0 |
| Vijay Hazare Trophy wins | 0 |
| Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins | 0 |
| Official website | OCA |
TheOdisha cricket team (known asOrissa until 2011) is a domesticcricket team based in theIndian state ofOdisha. It is in the elite group of theRanji Trophy.
Its main home ground isBarabati Stadium inCuttack. Home matches are also played atDRIEMS Ground inCuttack,East Coast Railway Stadium and KIIT Cricket Stadium inBhubaneswar, andVeer Surendra Sai Stadium inSambalpur. The Odisha cricket team is selected and governed by theOdisha Cricket Association (OCA).
Odisha first competed at first-class level in the 1949–50 Ranji Trophy, when they lost toBihar by 356 runs.[2] Their first victory came in 1952–53, when they defeatedAssam by an innings and 139 runs.[3] They played only against other East Zone teams (Bihar, Assam andBengal) until 1983–84, when they progressed to the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals for the first time.[4]
Odisha's best performance in the Ranji Trophy came in the2000–01 season, when they made their only semi-final appearance till date. The match was drawn butBaroda won on first innings.[5]
The team's recent best performance in the Ranji Trophy was managing to advance to the quarter-final stage in both the 2016–17 and 2019–20 seasons. They lost there to the eventual championsGujarat andBengal respectively, under the captaincy ofGovinda Poddar in 2016-17 andSubhranshu Senapati 2019–20.[6]
At the completion of the2022–23 season, Odisha had played 325 Ranji Trophy matches. They had won 74, lost 115 and drawn 136 matches with 1 match abandoned.[7]
Players capped for Odisha who have played International Cricket, along with year of debut:
Prominent players at the domestic level:
Players with international caps are listed inbold.
| Name | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batsmen | ||||
| Sandeep Pattnaik | (1998-05-17)17 May 1998 (age 27) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | List A Captain |
| Kartik Biswal | (1997-06-30)30 June 1997 (age 28) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | |
| Swastik Samal | (2000-07-27)27 July 2000 (age 25) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm leg break | |
| Gourav Choudhury | (1999-06-21)21 June 1999 (age 26) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Rakesh Pattnaik | (1992-06-30)30 June 1992 (age 33) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | |
| Subhranshu Senapati | (1996-12-30)30 December 1996 (age 28) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | First-class Captain |
| All-rounders | ||||
| Govinda Poddar | (1991-09-09)9 September 1991 (age 34) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm off break | Twenty20 Captain |
| Abhishek Raut | (1987-03-03)3 March 1987 (age 38) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm leg break | |
| Abhishek Yadav | (1995-06-08)8 June 1995 (age 30) | Left-hand bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Sambit Baral | (2002-09-04)4 September 2002 (age 23) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Wicketkeepers | ||||
| Aasirwad Swain | (2005-03-03)3 March 2005 (age 20) | Right-hand bat | ||
| Rajesh Dhuper | (1999-12-02)2 December 1999 (age 25) | Right-hand bat | ||
| Sourav Gouda | (1998-09-21)21 September 1998 (age 27) | Right-hand bat | ||
| Spin bowlers | ||||
| Sumit Sharma | (1995-09-08)8 September 1995 (age 30) | Left-hand bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Jamala Mohapatra | (1990-11-22)22 November 1990 (age 34) | Right-hand bat | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| Pace bowlers | ||||
| Rajesh Mohanty | (2000-05-20)20 May 2000 (age 25) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Debabrata Pradhan | (1996-10-10)10 October 1996 (age 29) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Sunil Roul | (1998-10-14)14 October 1998 (age 27) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Tapas Das | (1996-12-12)12 December 1996 (age 28) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Tarani Sa | (1996-09-14)14 September 1996 (age 29) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Prayash Singh | (1994-02-02)2 February 1994 (age 31) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Pradeep Pradhan | (1994-06-30)30 June 1994 (age 31) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
| Badal Biswal | (2004-08-02)2 August 2004 (age 21) | Right-hand bat | Right-arm medium | |
Updated as on 4 November 2025
Coaches in Odisha cricket team are listed below:
For more details on this topic, seeList of Odisha first-class cricket records,List of Odisha List A cricket records,List of Odisha Twenty20 cricket records.
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