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

Ranji Trophy

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 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

Gautam Gambhir

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, Suresh Raina, Venugopal Rao

Venugopal Rao

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, Sreesanth, R. P. Singh and Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel

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, 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

Famous players

• Nari Contractor
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  , who also appeared for Gujarat
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• Budhi Kunderan
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  , later moved to Mysore
  Karnataka cricket team
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• Sanjay Bangar
  Sanjay Bangar
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• Murali Kartik
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• Jai Prakash Yadav
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Current squad

• Sanjay Bangar
  Sanjay Bangar
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• Murali Kartik
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  )
• Tejinder Pal Singh
  Tejinder Pal Singh
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• Jai Prakash Yadav
• Yere Goud
• Kulamani Parida
• Karan Sharma
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• Sanjib Sanyal
• Maripuri Suresh
• V Cheluvaraj(wk)
• Mahesh Rawat
  Mahesh Rawat
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• Shalindra Gehlot
• Harshad Rawle
• Prashant Awasthi
• Faiz Fazal
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See also