Bengal cricket team

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Bengal Cricket Team
বাংলা ক্রিকেট দল
Captain: Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Coach: Ashok Malhotra
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 stadium, 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, who has played for both Bengal in state level and for India in international crickets

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

Manoj Tiwary

Home Ground

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style
Batsmen
Rohan Banerjee 10 December 1988 Left-handed Right-arm medium
Sudip Chatterjee 11 November 1991 Left-handed Right-arm leg break
Arindam Das 16 October 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium
63 Debabrata Das 22 September 1986 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Subhomoy Das 26 December 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Anustup Majumdar 30 April 1984 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Manoj Tiwary 14 November 1985 Right-handed Right-arm leg break
All-rounders
Sandipan Das 29 November 1992 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Sourashish Lahiri 9 September 1981 Right-handed Right-arm off break
Sayan Mondal 10 November 1989 Left-handed Right-arm medium
Laxmi Ratan Shukla (c) 6 May 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium
Wicket-keepers
63 Shreevats Goswami 18 May 1989 Left-handed
Wriddhiman Saha 24 October 1984 Right-handed
Bowlers
02 Ashok Dinda 25 March 1984 Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Shib Paul 4 November 1981 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Sourav Sarkar 15 December 1984 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Iresh Saxena 14 March 1984 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Mohammed Shami 9 March 1990 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Veer Pratap Singh 3 May 1992 Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast

References

  1. ↑ "EDEN GARDENS, KOLKATA". BCCI. Board of Cricket Control in India. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
  2. ↑ Ranji Trophy Winners
  3. ↑ "Final: Bengal v Mumbai at Delhi, Mar 12, 2012 | Cricket Scorecard". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 2013-06-12.

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