Bengal cricket team

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Bengal Cricket Team
Personnel
CaptainSudip Chatterjee
CoachArun Lal
OwnerCricket Association of Bengal
Team information
Colours  Dark Blue   Yellow
Founded1908
Home groundEden Gardens
Capacity66,349[1]
History
Ranji Trophy wins2
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins1
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy wins1
Official websiteCAB

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.

A middle-aged man stands to wear a white long-sleeved shirt and white trousers, while he has sunglasses resting on a cap that is on his head. Green grass and a boundary line are in the background.
Sourav Ganguly has played both for Bengal in state level and for India in international matches, and also captained India for five years.

Best performances in Ranji Trophy[]

Year Result
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
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
2010–11 Winners

Famous players[]

Main article: List of Bengal cricketers
Players who represented India
Manoj Tiwary
Name Test ODI T20
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
Batsmen
Sudip Chatterjee (1991-11-11) 11 November 1991 (age 30) Left-handed Right-arm leg break Captain
Ritwik Roy Chowdhury (1995-11-20) 20 November 1995 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Abhimanyu Easwaran (1995-09-06) 6 September 1995 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Manoj Tiwary (1985-11-14) 14 November 1985 (age 36) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Anustup Majumdar (1984-04-30) 30 April 1984 (age 37) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Abhishek Raman (1993-09-06) 6 September 1993 (age 28) Left-handed Right-arm off break
Abhishek Das (1990-09-04) 4 September 1990 (age 31) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Kaif Ahmed (1997-05-05) 5 May 1997 (age 24) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Koushik Ghosh (1992-10-22) 22 October 1992 (age 29) Left-handed Right-arm medium
Sumanta Gupta (1991-02-09) 9 February 1991 (age 30) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
Writtick Chatterjee (1992-09-28) 28 September 1992 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Arnab Nandi (1987-07-11) 11 July 1987 (age 34) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Wicket-keepers
Shreevats Goswami (1989-05-18) 18 May 1989 (age 32) Left-handed
Wriddhiman Saha (1984-10-24) 24 October 1984 (age 37) Right-handed
Suvankar Bal (1995-11-03) 3 November 1995 (age 26) Right-handed
Spin Bowlers
Sahabaz Ahmed (1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 27) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Pradipta Pramanik (1998-10-08) 8 October 1998 (age 23) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Ranjot Khaira (1998-10-14) 14 October 1998 (age 23) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Karan Lal (2000-10-19) 19 October 2000 (age 21) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Pace Bowlers
Mukesh Kumar (1993-10-12) 12 October 1993 (age 28) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Akash Deep (1996-12-15) 15 December 1996 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Ishan Porel (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 23) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Nilkantha Das (1988-04-12) 12 April 1988 (age 33) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Mohammed Shami (1990-03-09) 9 March 1990 (age 31) Right-handed Right-arm fast

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "EDEN GARDENS, KOLKATA". BCCI. Board of Cricket Control in India. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  2. ^ Ranji Trophy Winners
  3. ^ "Final: Bengal v Mumbai at Delhi, Mar 12, 2012 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 12 June 2013.

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