Railways cricket team

The Railways Cricket Team (also known as the Indian Railways) has been very successful in the Ranji Trophy in recent years, although much of their history has been spent in unsuccessful endeavours to win the tournament.

Competition History

For most of its history, the Indian Railways has met little success in the Ranji Trophy and has largely been forgotten by Ranji Trophy enthusiasts. However, in recent years, they have been a steadily emerging team, having won the trophy twice and become runners-up once since the year 2000. They have been extremely successful in the Irani Trophy, backing up their two Ranji wins with two Irani victories, their most recent being against the likes of Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Venugopal Rao, Sreesanth, R. P. Singh and Parthiv Patel, all of whom have played international cricket for India. [http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/2005-06/IND_LOCAL/IRANI/I-RLYS_R-O-I_IRANI_01-05OCT2005.html] Railways have tremendous young players in the form of Karan Sharma(Railways India),Rakesh Mishra(Railways Under-22),Shrey Sharma(DLW),Irfan Khan(Under-22)

Famous Players

*Nari Contractor, who also appeared for Gujarat
*Budhi Kunderan, later moved to Mysore
*Sanjay Bangar
*Murali Kartik
*Jai Prakash Yadav

Current Squad

*Sanjay Bangar
*Murali Kartik
*Mohammad Kaif
*Amit Pagnis
*Tejinder Pal Singh
*Jai Prakash Yadav
*Raja Ali
*Yere Goud
*Sudhir Wankhede
*Madan Yadav
*Harvinder Singh
*Kulamani Parida
*Santosh Saxena
*Vineet Saxena
*Milind Tamhane
*G Shankara Rao
*Shreyas Khanolkar
*Rahul Deb
*Karan Sharma

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