Mumbai cricket team
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| Captain: | Aditya Tare |
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| Coach: | Chandrakant Pandit |
| Founded: | 1930 |
| Home ground: |
Wankhede Stadium (capacity 45,000); |
| Ranji Trophy wins: | 41 |
| Irani Cup wins: | 14 (1 shared) |
| Nissar Trophy wins: | 1 |
| Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: | 2 |
| Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins: | 0 |
| Official website: | www.mumbaicricket.com |
Wankhede Stadium (capacity 45,000);
The Mumbai cricket team is a cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in Indian domestic cricket. The team's primary home ground is the Wankhede Stadium in South Mumbai. Secondary home venues include the MCA ground in Bandra Kurla Complex and Brabourne Stadium. 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 Ranji Trophy, India's premier domestic cricket competition, with 41 titles, the most recent being in 2015–16. It also has 14 Irani Cup titles to its name, also the most by any team. Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time such as Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Polly Umrigar and Dilip Vengsarkar.
Mumbai is one of three teams located in the state of Maharashtra (the others being the Maharashtra cricket team and the Vidarbha cricket team), 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 Ranji Trophy competition in 1934–35 with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against Northern India. The title was retained the following season with a victory over Madras 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 Ranji Trophy. When playing Maharashtra in a semi-final of the 1948-49 season at Pune, 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.
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