Ranji Trophy: Players who represented most teams
Players who represented most Ranji teams
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 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)