East Zone cricket team
The East Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents eastern India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of six first-class Indian teams from eastern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Assam, Bihar, Bengal (West Bengal), Jharkhand, Odisha and Tripura.
East Zone has won the Duleep Trophy twice in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, as well as the Deodhar Trophy four times in the 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97 and 2003/04 seasons.
Current squad
[edit]Players with international caps are listed in bold. Updated as on 26 Jul 2023
Name | Domestic team | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Format | Notes |
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Batters | ||||||
Anustup Majumdar | Bengal | 30 April 1984 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | First-class | |
Sudip Gharami | Bengal | 21 March 1999 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | First-class & List A | |
Shantanu Mishra | Odisha | 30 May 1994 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | First-class | |
Abhimanyu Easwaran | Bengal | 6 September 1995 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | First-class & List A | Vice-captain |
Saurabh Tiwary | Jharkhand | 30 December 1989 | Left-handed | Right arm off break | List A | Captain |
Virat Singh | Jharkhand | 8 December 1997 | Left-handed | Right arm off break | List A | |
Subhranshu Senapati | Odisha | 30 December 1996 | Left-handed | Right arm medium-fast | List A | |
Rishav Das | Assam | 16 December 1989 | Right-handed | Right arm off break | List A | |
All-rounders | ||||||
Shahbaz Ahmed | Bengal | 11 December 1994 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | First-class & List A | |
Riyan Parag | Assam | 10 November 2001 | Right-handed | Right arm leg break | First-class & List A | |
Anukul Roy | Jharkhand | 30 November 1998 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | First-class | |
Utkarsh Singh | Jharkhand | 7 May 1998 | Left-handed | Right arm off break | List A | |
Wicket-keepers | ||||||
Abhishek Porel | Bengal | 17 October 2002 | Left-handed | - | First-class & List A | |
Kumar Kushagra | Jharkhand | 23 October 2004 | Right-handed | - | First-class & List A | |
Bipin Saurabh | Bihar | 20 November 1999 | Right-handed | - | First-class | |
Spin Bowler | ||||||
Shahbaz Nadeem | Jharkhand | 12 August 1989 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | First-class | |
Avinov Choudhury | Assam | 1 December 1999 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | List A | |
Pace Bowlers | ||||||
Manisankar Murasingh | Tripura | 1 January 1993 | Left-handed | Right arm medium-fast | First-class & List A | |
Ishan Porel | Bengal | 5 September 1998 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | First-class | |
Akash Deep | Bengal | 15 December 1996 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | First-class & List A | |
Suryakant Pradhan | Odisha | 30 September 1993 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | First-class | |
Mukhtar Hussain | Assam | 11 January 1999 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | List A | |
Abhijeet Saket | Bihar | 3 August 1995 | Right-handed | Right arm medium-fast | List A |
Famous players from East Zone
[edit]- Pankaj Roy
- Sourav Ganguly
- Arun Lal
- Wriddhiman Saha
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Deep Dasgupta
- Rohan Gavaskar
- Devang Gandhi
- Debasis Mohanty
- Shiv Sunder Das
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Manoj Tiwary
- Ashok Dinda
- Mohammed Shami
External links
[edit]- East Zone at CricketArchive