Bengal cricket team

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Bengal Cricket Team
বাংলা ক্রিকেট দল
Cricket Association of Bengal Logo
Captain: Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Coach: Sairaj Bahutule
Owner: Cricket Association of Bengal
Founded: 1908
Home ground: Eden Gardens
Capacity: 66,349[1]
Ranji Trophy wins: 2
Irani Trophy wins: 0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: 1
Official website: CAB

Bengal cricket team (Bengali: বাংলা ক্রিকেট দল) is a cricket team that 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 had two Ranji Trophy victories and has been runner-up a total of 11 times.[2]

Bengal are the champions of the 2012 Vijay Hazare Trophy, also known as the (Ranji One Day Trophy). They beat Mumbai in the finals which was held at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi on 12 March 2012, under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly.[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 it did not manage to hold the Trophy again, until it beat a strong Delhi in the 1990 final. In this time, the Bengal cricket team had come runner-up a total of 11 times, its most recent win being in 1989.

They were runners-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 Position
2006-07 Runner-up
2005-06 Runner-up
1993-94 Runner-up
1989-90 Winner
1988-89 Runner-up
1971-72 Runner-up
1968-69 Runner-up
1958-59 Runner-up
1955-56 Runner-up
1952-53 Runner-up
1943-44 Runner-up
1938-39 Winner
1936-37 Runner-up

Best performances in Vijay Hazare Trophy

Year Position
2007-08 Runner-up
2008-09 Runner-up
2009-10 Runner-up
2011-12 Winner

Best performances in Irani Trophy

Year Position
1990-91 Runner-up

Famous players who represented India

Manoj Tiwary
Name Test ODI
Ambar Roy 4 0
Arun Lal 16 13
Ashok Dinda 0 13
Ashok Malhotra 7 20
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
Montu Banerjee 1 0
Pranab Roy 2 0
Pragyan Ojha 24 18
Prashant Vaidya 0 4
Probir Sen 14 0
Rakesh Shukla 1 0
Rohan Gavaskar 0 11
Saba Karim 1 34
Saradindu Mukherjee 0 3
Mohammed Shami 12 47
Shute Banerjee 1 0
Subrata Guha 4 0
Subroto Banerjee 1 6
Wriddhiman Saha 11 9
Utpal Chatterjee 0 3

Home Ground

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Note
FC Captain & Batsmen
90 Manoj Tiwary (1985-11-14) 14 November 1985 (age 38) Right-handed Right-arm leg break FC 100s : 20; LA 100/50 : 3/29;
Batsmen
Sudip Chatterjee (1991-11-11) 11 November 1991 (age 32) Left-handed Right-arm leg break FC 100s : 5; Most hundreds(4) for Ranji Trophy, 2015/16
Abhimanyu Easwaran (1995-09-06) 6 September 1995 (age 28) Right-handed leg break googly FC 50s : 9
63 Debabrata Das (1986-09-22) 22 September 1986 (age 37) Right-handed Right-arm leg break LA, T20
Rohan Banerjee (1988-12-10) 10 December 1988 (age 35) Left-handed Right-arm medium
Rookie Batsmen
Pramod Chandila (1993-07-18) 18 July 1993 (age 30) Right-handed Right-arm offbreak
Pankaj Shaw (1988-02-12) 12 February 1988 (age 36) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Abhishek Das (1990-09-04) 4 September 1990 (age 33) Right-handed Right-arm off break Opening Batsmen
Pacer All-rounders
Sandipan Das (1992-11-29) 29 November 1992 (age 31) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Sayan Mondal (1989-11-10) 10 November 1989 (age 34) Left-handed Right-arm medium
Spinner All-rounders
Sourashish Lahiri (1981-09-09) 9 September 1981 (age 42) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Aamir Gani (1996-08-27) 27 August 1996 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm off break T20
Wicket-keepers
24 Wriddhiman Saha (1984-10-24) 24 October 1984 (age 39) Right-handed FC 100s : 9; LA 100/50 : 2/19; T20 100/50 : 1/10
63 Shreevats Goswami (1989-05-18) 18 May 1989 (age 34) Left-handed LA 100/50 : 5/10
Pace Bowlers
02 Ashok Dinda (1984-03-25) 25 March 1984 (age 39) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium FC Wkts : 300+; LA Wkts : 100+; T20 Wkts : 100+
11 Mohammed Shami (1990-03-09) 9 March 1990 (age 34) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Sourav Sarkar (1984-12-15) 15 December 1984 (age 39) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast FC Wkts : 100+
Veer Pratap Singh (1992-05-03) 3 May 1992 (age 31) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Amit Kuila (1995-07-09) 9 July 1995 (age 28) Right-handed Right-arm medium T20
Kanishk Seth (1997-11-04) 4 November 1997 (age 26) Right-handed Left-arm medium T20
Spin Bowlers
30 Pragyan Ojha (1986-09-05) 5 September 1986 (age 37) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox FC Wkts : 375+; LA Wkts : 100+
Iresh Saxena (1984-03-14) 14 March 1984 (age 40) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Anurag Tiwari (1995-11-15) 15 November 1995 (age 28) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox

References

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  2. Ranji Trophy Winners
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