Bengal cricket team
Personnel | |
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Captain | Sudip Chatterjee |
Coach | Arun Lal |
Owner | Cricket Association of Bengal |
Team information | |
Colours | Dark Blue Yellow |
Founded | 1908 |
Home ground | Eden Gardens |
Capacity | 66,349[1] |
History | |
Ranji Trophy wins | 2 |
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins | 1 |
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins | 1 |
Official website | CAB |
The Bengal cricket team represents the Indian state of West Bengal in domestic first-class cricket. It is considered Eastern India's strongest cricket team. The team plays its home matches at the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Bengal has won two Ranji Trophy victories and has been runner-up a total of 12 times.[2]
Bengal won the Vijay Hazare Trophy, also known as the Ranji One Day Trophy, in 2012. Under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly, it beat Mumbai in the finals at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi on 12 March 2012.[3]
Competition history[]
Bengal's first success came in the third Ranji Trophy season (1936/37), in which it came runners-up to Nawanagar. Two years later it beat Southern Punjab in the final of the Ranji Trophy to become the 4th team to hold the title. For the next 51 years, although it had been runner-up 11 times (including the year before), it did not regain the title until it beat a strong Delhi team in the 1990 final.
The team was runner-up twice consecutively in the 2005–06 and the 2006–07 season. Their ranks are occasionally bolstered by the return of Sourav Ganguly to the domestic competition.
Best performances in Ranji Trophy[]
Year | Result |
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2019–20 | Runners' Up |
2006–07 | Runners' Up |
2005–06 | Runners' Up |
1993–94 | Runners' Up |
1989–90 | Winners |
1988–89 | Runners' Up |
1971–72 | Runners' Up |
1968–69 | Runners' Up |
1958–59 | Runners' Up |
1955–56 | Runners' Up |
1952–53 | Runners' Up |
1943–44 | Runners' Up |
1938–39 | Winners |
1936–37 | Runners' Up |
Best performances in Vijay Hazare Trophy[]
Year | Position |
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2016–17 | Runners'-up |
2011–12 | Winners |
2009–10 | Runners'-up |
2008–09 | Runners'-up |
2007–08 | Runners'-up |
Best performances in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy[]
Year | Position |
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2010–11 | Winners |
Famous players[]
- Players who represented India
Name | Test | ODI | T20 |
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Ambar Roy | 4 | 0 | |
Arun Lal | 16 | 13 | |
Ashok Dinda | 0 | 13 | 9 |
Deep Dasgupta | 8 | 5 | |
Devang Gandhi | 4 | 3 | |
Dilip Doshi | 33 | 15 | |
Pankaj Roy | 43 | 0 | |
Sourav Ganguly | 113 | 311 | |
Gopal Bose | 0 | 1 | |
Laxmi Ratan Shukla | 0 | 3 | |
Manoj Tiwary | 0 | 12 | 3 |
Mohammed Shami | 55 | 79 | 17 |
Montu Banerjee | 1 | 0 | |
Nirode Chowdhury | 2 | 0 | |
Pranab Roy | 2 | 0 | |
Prashant Vaidya | 0 | 4 | |
Probir Sen | 14 | 0 | |
Rohan Gavaskar | 0 | 11 | |
Saba Karim | 1 | 34 | |
Saradindu Mukherjee | 0 | 3 | |
Subrata Guha | 4 | 0 | |
Wriddhiman Saha | 40 | 9 | |
Utpal Chatterjee | 0 | 3 |
Home ground[]
- Eden Gardens, Kolkata – The second largest stadium in the world and also the home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders
- Jadavpur University Campus Ground, Jadavpur- It has been leased out to the Cricket Association of Bengal and it often plays host to inter- and intra state cricket matches.
- Bengal Cricket Academy, Kalyani
- Deshbandu Park, North Kolkata – hosted matches of Vinoo Mankad Trophy, Cooch Behar Trophy, Vijay Merchant Trophy and Polly Umrigar Trophy
Current squad[]
Players with international caps are listed in bold.
Name | Birth date | Batting Style | Bowling Style | Note |
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Batsmen | ||||
Sudip Chatterjee | 11 November 1991 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | Captain |
Ritwik Roy Chowdhury | 20 November 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
Abhimanyu Easwaran | 6 September 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
Manoj Tiwary | 14 November 1985 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
Anustup Majumdar | 30 April 1984 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
Abhishek Raman | 6 September 1993 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Abhishek Das | 4 September 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Kaif Ahmed | 5 May 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
Koushik Ghosh | 22 October 1992 | Left-handed | Right-arm medium | |
Sumanta Gupta | 9 February 1991 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
All-rounders | ||||
Writtick Chatterjee | 28 September 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Arnab Nandi | 11 July 1987 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Wicket-keepers | ||||
Shreevats Goswami | 18 May 1989 | Left-handed | ||
Wriddhiman Saha | 24 October 1984 | Right-handed | ||
Suvankar Bal | 3 November 1995 | Right-handed | ||
Spin Bowlers | ||||
Sahabaz Ahmed | 12 December 1994 | Left-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
Pradipta Pramanik | 8 October 1998 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
Ranjot Khaira | 14 October 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
Karan Lal | 19 October 2000 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Pace Bowlers | ||||
Mukesh Kumar | 12 October 1993 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
Akash Deep | 15 December 1996 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium-fast | |
Ishan Porel | 5 September 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
Nilkantha Das | 12 April 1988 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
Mohammed Shami | 9 March 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast |
See also[]
- Cricket Association of Bengal
- List of Cricket Association of Bengal Presidents
References[]
- ^ "EDEN GARDENS, KOLKATA". BCCI. Board of Cricket Control in India. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ Ranji Trophy Winners
- ^ "Final: Bengal v Mumbai at Delhi, Mar 12, 2012 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
External links[]
- Indian first-class cricket teams
- Cricket in West Bengal
- 1908 establishments in India
- Cricket clubs established in 1908