The Mumbai cricket team is a

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team which represents

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in Indian domestic cricket. It is governed by Mumbai Cricket Association. Its home ground is Wankhede Stadium in Churchgate. The team also plays its home matches at Bandra Kurla Complex Ground and Brabourne Stadium. The team comes under the West Zone designation. It was formerly known as the Bombay cricket team, but changed its name when the city was renamed from Bombay to Mumbai. Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of

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's premier domestic cricket competition, with 42 titles. Its most recent title was in 2023–24. It also has won 14 (and 1 shared) Irani Cups. Mumbai has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers of all time, such as

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, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, Vijay Merchant, Polly Umrigar, and Dilip Vengsarkar.

History

The first recorded cricket match in Mumbai took place between a Military XI and an Island XI in 1797. The affluent

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of Mumbai founded the short-lived Orient Cricket Club in 1848. In 1850, the Young Zoroastrian Club, which exists to this day was founded. In 1866, the Bombay Union Hindu Club, a forerunner of the Hindu Gymkhana was founded. In 1884, Sir Dorabji Tata formed the Parsi Gymkhana and helped an all-Parsi team tour England in 1886. Despite a cricketing failure, the Parsis organised another tour of England in 1888. In 1889-90, an English team managed by George Vernon and captained by Lord Hawke played against the

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and the

at the Gymkhana Ground during their tour of

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and

. The Parsis pulled off a famous victory, a first for an Indian team against English opposition. The Bombay Tournament, patronised by the Governor of Bombay Lord Harris, was played between the Parsis and Europeans, alternately in Bombay and

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from 1892 to 1906. The 1892 match was the first

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match to be played in India. In 1906,

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played Parsis to create the Bombay Triangular. in 1912, the

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of the Mohammeden Gymkhana were invited to play and create the famous Bombay Quadrangular. In 1937, a fifth team called The Rest, was admitted to the tournament. It comprised

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s, and Indian Christians. In 1946 that the Pentangular tournament was abandoned by the

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and replaced by a zonal competition. The

, 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 the Bombay Presidency outside Sind. 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, the Gujarat Cricket Association and the Maharashtra Cricket Association approached the

for direct affiliation, separating from The Bombay Presidency (Proper) Cricket Association. The rump organisation then adopted the name Bombay Cricket Association, with its jurisdiction limited to the ' Greater Bombay and Thana District'.

Ranji Trophy

Early success

Bombay won the first-ever

competition in 1934–35, with Vijay Merchant starring in the final against

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. They retained title the following season with victory over

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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

. When playing

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in a semi-final of the 1948–49 season at

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, 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.

1950s-1970s dominance

However, it was only after this period of success that their dominance was at its zenith. Bombay won 20 out of 22 titles from 1955–56 to 1976–77, including 15 consecutive titles from 1958–59 to 1972–73. Bombay continued to regularly reach the

final up to the mid-1980s.

1980s struggles

The latter half of the 1980s was Bombay's least successful period with no final appearances in 5 consecutive seasons.

1990s resurgence

However, they were able to regain some of their former glory from the 1990s onwards winning an additional 6 Ranji Trophies from 1993–94 to 2003–04.

21st century

In 2006–07, Mumbai won their 37th

with victory over

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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 against Baroda. Mumbai's dominance of the

has led to many consecutive appearances in the Irani Trophy with much success including 15 wins from 29 appearances. However, they have failed to beat Rest of India since the 1997–98 Irani Cup.

Grounds

Brabourne Stadium

The Governor of Bombay Lord Brabourne granted the Cricket Club of India land to build a new stadium. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brabourne on 22 May 1936. 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 by Roger Lumley, Governor of Bombay. The Stadium was named after Brabourne at the suggestion of the Maharaja of Patiala. The Mumbai cricket team played its home matches at the Brabourne Stadium until 1971, when a dispute between CCI president Vijay Merchant and the Bombay Cricket Association over the allocation of seats for England's 1972-73 tour of India prompted the construction of the Wankhede Stadium.

Wankhede Stadium

The Mumbai cricket team has played at the Wankhede Stadium since its construction in 1974. In the 1984–85 Ranji Trophy match against Baroda, Mumbai's Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in an over off Tilak Raj, en-route to the fastest double century in first-class cricket at the time.

Bandra Kurla Complex Ground

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.

Statistics and honours

** 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

Notable players

The team is known for its batting and

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and has produced many of the Indian cricket team's top batsmen over the years. Players who have appeared in the national team include: * Aavishkar Salvi * Abey Kuruvilla * Abhishek Nayar * Ajinkya Rahane * Ajit Agarkar * Ajit Pai * Ajit Wadekar * Amol Muzumdar * Arvind Apte * Ashok Mankad * Baloo Gupte * Balwinder Sandhu * Bapu Nadkarni * Chandrakant Pandit * Chandrakant Patankar * Chandu Borde * Dattaram Hindlekar * Dattu Phadkar * Dilip Sardesai * Dilip Vengsarkar * Dhawal Kulkarni * Eknath Solkar * Farokh Engineer * Ghulam Parkar * Gulabrai Ramchand * Gundibail Sunderam * Jatin Paranjpe * Karsan Ghavri * KC Ibrahim * Keki Tarapore * Khandu Rangnekar * Khershed Meherhomji * Lalchand Rajput * Laxmidas Jai * Madhav Apte * Madhav Mantri * Manohar Hardikar * Naren Tamhane * Nilesh Kulkarni * Paras Mhambrey * Phiroze Palia * Polly Umrigar * Pravin Amre * Prithvi Shaw * Raju Kulkarni * Ramakant Desai * Ramesh Powar * Ramnath Kenny * Ramnath Parkar * Ravi Shastri * Rohit Sharma * Rusi Modi * Rustomji Jamshedji *

* Sadu Shinde * Sairaj Bahutule * Salil Ankola * Sameer Dighe * Sandeep Patil * Sanjay Manjrekar *

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* Shardul Thakur * Shivam Dube * Shreyas Iyer * Sorabji Colah * Subhash Gupte * Sudhir Naik *

* Suru Nayak * Suryakumar Yadav * Tushar Deshpande * Umesh Kulkarni * Vijay Manjrekar * Vijay Merchant * Vinod Kambli * Wasim Jaffer * Yashasvi Jaiswal * Zaheer Khan

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold. ''Updated as on 21 April 2025''

Support staff

Men's cricket team

Coach and support staff in Mumbai men's cricket team are shown below: * Coach – Omkar Salvi * Batting coach – Vinit Indulkar * Fielding coach – Omkar Gurav * Team manager – Arman Mallick * Video analyst – Ganesh Tyagi * Trainer – Amogh Pandit * Assistant coach – Wilkin Mota * Physio – Abhishek Sawant * Masseur – Sunil Rajguru * Selectors - 1. Raju Kulkarni – Chairman 2. Sanjay Patil 3. Ravindra Thaker 4. Jeetendra Thackeray 5. Kiran Powar

Women's cricket team

Coach and support staff in Mumbai women's cricket team are shown below: * Coach – Sunetra Paranjpe * Assistant Coach – Sarvesh Damle

Notes

References

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