Assam cricket team

Assam cricket team
Captain: Dheeraj Jadhav
Coach: Sanath Kumar and Subhadeep Ghosh
Owner: Assam Cricket Association
Founded: 1960
Home ground:

Barsapara Cricket Stadium
(Capacity:60,000)

Nehru Stadium
(Capacity:30,000)
Ranji Trophy wins: 0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: 0

The Assam cricket team is a Ranji Trophy team based in the Indian state of Assam, run by the Assam Cricket Association. Until the 2002–03 season, when the zonal system was abandoned, it used to form a part of Eastern Zone. It has not seen much success in the Ranji Trophy circuit but won their plate group in 2006/07 before losing the semi-final to Orissa, despite having not won a first-class match in the previous two seasons. In 2009–10 season Assam entered into eltite group of the Ranji Trophy. In 2009-10 Ranji Trophy season Assam topped the plate group and subsequently progressed to the Super League. However, in the 2010–11 season, it ended at the bottom of its group in the Super League and face relegation to Plate League for the next season.[1] In the 2012-13 edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy Assam played extremely well and finished runners up.

Home grounds

Since Assam played its first home match in 1948, it has also played first-class home matches in (in chronological order) Shillong, Jorhat, Nowgong, Dibrugarh, Karimganj, Hailakandi, Mangaldoi and Tinsukia.[2]

Famous players

Current squad

Players with an IPL contract are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Dheeraj Jadhav 16 September 1979 Left-handed Right-arm off break Captain
Pallav Das 17 January 1990 Left-handed Right-arm off break
Parviz Aziz 8 December 1987 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Sibsankar Roy 10 October 1990 Left-handed Right-arm off break
Tarjinder Singh 22 December 1987 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Amit Sinha 26 November 1988 Right-handed Leg break
Pritam Debnath 25 July 1987 Right-handed Right-arm off break
All-rounders
Gokul Sharma 20 November 1987
Dhiraj Goswami 1 May 1985 Right-handed Right arm medium
Syed Mohammed 3 June 1983 Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Wicket-keepers
Arun Karthik 15 February 1986 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Rajdeep Das 11 March 1990 Right-handed
Kunal Saikia 19 June 1988 Right-handed
Bowlers
Abu Nechim Ahmed 5 November 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Vice captain
Arup Das 27 July 1991 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Pritam Das 16 October 1988 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Arlen Konwar 1 January 1981 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Deepak Gohain 11 December 1992 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Krishna Das 12 October 1990 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Sujay Tarafdar 6 December 1989 Right-handed Right-arm medium

Head Coaches - Sanath Kumar and Subhadeep Ghosh

See also

References

  1. ↑ from cricinfo.com.
  2. ↑ "First-class matches played by Assam". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.

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