Delhi cricket team

Competition history

Delhi have made a strong performance in the Ranji Trophy throughout its history. Three of its five wins came in the 1980s and the remainder were in the late 1970s, a period marked by the dominance of a famous Mumbai team. This formed a golden period for Delhi between 1978 and 1987: it was in the finals for all but one of those years (winning 4, runner-up in 4).

Its six appearances in the Irani Trophy showed mixed results, losing to the Rest of India side four times and winning twice.

They have only two titles in limited overs cricket. They won the Vijay Hazare Trophy in 2012-13 under Rajat Bhatia. They won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy under Pradeep Sangwan.

Honours

• Ranji Trophy
  • Winners (7): 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2007–08
  • Runners-up (8): 1976–77, 1980–81, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1989–90, 1996–97, 2017–18
• Irani Cup
  • Winners: 1980-81, 1989–90
• Wills Trophy
  • Winners (4): 1978-79, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1992-93
  • Runners-up (2): 1982-83, 1985–86, 1989–90
• Vijay Hazare Trophy
  • Winners: 2012-13
  • Runners-up (2): 2015-16, 2018-19
• Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
  • Winners: 2017-18

Notable players

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Players from Delhi who have played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

• Prakash Bhandari (1955)
• Man Sood (1960)
• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (Nawab of Pataudi) (1961)
• Rajinder Pal (1964)
• Ramesh Saxena (1967)
• Ashok Gandotra (1969)
• Madan Lal (1974)
• Surinder Amarnath (1976)
• Kirti Azad (1981)
• Rakesh Shukla (1982)
• Maninder Singh (1982)
• Manoj Prabhakar (1984)
• Raman Lamba (1987)
• Ajay Sharma (1988)
• Sanjeev Sharma (1988)
• Vivek Razdan (1989)
• Atul Wassan (1990)
• Ashish Nehra (1999)
• Robin Singh, Jr. (1999)
• Nikhil Chopra (2000)
• Vijay Dahiya (2000)
• Rahul Sanghvi (2001)
• Virender Sehwag (2001)
• Aakash Chopra (2003)
• Gautam Gambhir (2004)
• Ishant Sharma (2007)
• Virat Kohli (2011)
• Shikhar Dhawan (2013)
• Rishabh Pant (2018)
• Navdeep Saini (2021)
• Harshit Rana (2024)

Players from Delhi who have played ODI but not Test cricket for India, along with year of ODI debut:

• Surinder Khanna (1979)
• Amit Bhandari (2000)
• Nitish Rana (2021)

Players from Delhi who have played T20I but not ODI or Test cricket for India, along with year of T20I debut:

• Parvinder Awana (2012)
• Pawan Negi (2016)
• Mayank Yadav (2023)

Cricketers from other state teams who also played for Delhi, and played Test cricket for India, along with year of Test debut:

• Bishan Singh Bedi (1966)
• Chetan Chauhan (1969)
• Mohinder Amarnath (1969)
• Arun Lal (1982)

Prominent cricketers at the domestic level:

• Rajinder Goel
• Krishnan Bhaskar Pillai
• Arun Khurana
• Mithun Manhas
• Rajat Bhatia
• Unmukt Chand

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

Updated as on 16 November 2025

Coaching staff

• Head coach - Sarandeep Singh
• Bowling Coach - V Aravind
• Batting coach - Bantu Singh
• Manager - Manoj Kapoor
• Under-19s Coach - Virat Kohli
• Physio - Deepak Sury
• Trainers - Nishanta Bordoloi

References

References

1. "Delhi Cricket Team".