Playing for Himachal Pradesh in this season’s Ranji Trophy, Rashmi Parida has now appeared for five teams in his Ranji Trophy career. Bharath Seervi lists the other players who played for five or more Ranji Trophy teams.
A player playing for multiple teams in Ranji Trophy is common in India. There have been numerous players to have done the same. However, there have been some who have represented a as many as five, or even more teams. Rashmi Parida is one of them; he has played Ranji Trophy for Orissa, Assam, Rajasthan and Vidarbha in his the past since he made his debut in the 1994-95 season before turning up for Himachal Pradesh this season.
Parida is the 22nd player to have played Ranji Trophy for five or more teams. CS Nayudu and Vinoo Mankad lead the list with seven each. The table below lists all those players who played for five or more teams in Ranji Trophy.
Players who have represented five or more teams in Ranji Trophy
The teams are listed in the order of which the player represented it.
Batsman
Career Span
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Team 7
Prithviraj
1934/35 – 1953/54
Southern Punjab
Western India
Gujarat
Delhi
Eastern Punjab
Mushtaq Ali
1934/35 – 1957/58
Central India
Gujarat
Holkar/Madhya Bharat
Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
CS Nayudu
1934/35 – 1960/61
Central India
Baroda
Holkar
Bengal
Andhra
Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Lala Amarnath
1934/35 – 1960/61
Southern Punjab
Patiala/PEPSU
Gujarat
Uttar Pradesh
Railways
Vinoo Mankad
1935/36 – 1961/62
Western India
Nawanagar/Saurashtra
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Bengal
Bombay
Rajasthan
Chandu Sarwate
1936/37 – 1968/69
CPB
Maharashtra
Bombay
Holkar/Madhya Bharat
Madhya Pradesh
Vidarbha
Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
1939/40 – 1963/64
Baroda
Maharashtra
Holkar/Madhya Bharat
Rajasthan
Railways
Surjuram Girdhari
1940/41 – 1957/58
Sind
Western India
Kathiawar
Bengal
Assam
Jagdish Lal
1940/41 – 1958/59
Northern India
Hyderabad
United Provinces
Services
Patiala
Railways
Gogumal Kishenchand
1940/41 – 1969/70
Sind
Maharashtra
Western India
Kathiawar
Gujarat
Baroda
Vijay Rajindernath
1943/44 – 1953/54
Northern India
United Provinces
Southern Punjab
Bihar
Eastern Punjab
Inderjit Barhoke
1943/44 – 1955/56
Southern Punjab
Northern India
Mysore
United Provinces
Services
Kamraj Kesari
1943/44 – 1958/59
CPB
Gujarat
Kathiawar
Madhya Pradesh
Vidarbha
Vijay Manjrekar
1949/50 – 1969/70
Bombay
Bengal
Andhra
Uttar Pradesh
Rajasthan
Maharashtra
Balaji Rao
1955/56 – 1971/72
Delhi
Uttar Pradesh
Services
Madras
Andhra
Surinder Amarnath
1964/65 – 1985/86
Northern Punjab
Punjab
Delhi
Baroda
Gujarat
Sulakshan Kulkarni
1985/86 – 2001/02
Railways
Bombay/Mumbai
Assam
Vidarbha
Madhya Pradesh
Pravin Amre
1986/87 – 2000/01
Bombay/Mumbai
Railways
Rajasthan
Bengal
Goa
Manoj Joglekar
1992/93 – 2008/09
Bombay/Mumbai
Assam
Jharkhand
Goa
Jammu and Kashmir
Sridharan Sriram
1993/94 – 2011/12
Tamil Nadu
Maharashtra
Goa
Assam
Himachal Pradesh
Sairaj Bahutule
1996/97 – 2012/13
Mumbai
Maharashtra
Assam
Andhra
Vidarbha
Rashmi Parida
1994/95 – present
Assam
Orissa
Rajasthan
Vidarbha
Himachal Pradesh
Nayudu played for seven teams in his Ranji Trophy career. He played Ranji Trophy since the inaugural season (1934-35) to 1960-61 for Central India, Baroda, Holkar, Bengal, Andhra, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The other player to play for seven teams is Mankad, for Western India, Nawanagar/Saurashtra, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bengal, Bombay and Rajasthan from 1935-36 to 1961-62.
The last player (before Rashmi Parida) in the list was Sairaj Bahutule. He played for Mumbai from 1996-97 to 2008-09 and then for Maharashtra, Assam, Andhra and Vidarbha till 2012-13.
Among the above players, Jagdish Lal (father of Arun Lal) played the least number of Ranji Trophy matches. He played only 13 matches but represented six teams.
(Bharath Seervi is a cricket statistician who is obsessed with digging numbers, facts and records related to the game. An active member of Society of Cricket Statisticians of India, he blogs at www.cricketseervistats.blogspot.com. He can be followed on Twitter at www.twitter.com/SeerviBharath and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SeerviCricket)
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