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Ranji Trophy: Players who represented most teams

Parida is the 22nd player to have played Ranji Trophy for five or more teams.

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Rashmi Parida is the 22nd player to have played Ranji Trophy for five or more teams © Getty Images (Representational photo)

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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