East Zone cricket team

The East Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents eastern India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of six first-class Indian teams from eastern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Assam, Bihar, Bengal (West Bengal), Jharkhand, Odisha and Tripura.

East Zone has won the Duleep Trophy twice in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, as well as the Deodhar Trophy four times in the 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97 and 2003/04 seasons.

Current squad[edit]

Players with international caps are listed in bold. Updated as on 26 Jul 2023

Name Domestic team Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Format Notes
Batters
Anustup Majumdar Bengal (1984-04-30) 30 April 1984 (age 39) Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class
Sudip Gharami Bengal (1999-03-21) 21 March 1999 (age 25) Right-handed Right arm off break First-class & List A
Shantanu Mishra Odisha (1994-05-30) 30 May 1994 (age 29) Right-handed Right arm off break First-class
Abhimanyu Easwaran Bengal (1995-09-06) 6 September 1995 (age 28) Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class & List A Vice-captain
Saurabh Tiwary Jharkhand (1989-12-30) 30 December 1989 (age 34) Left-handed Right arm off break List A Captain
Virat Singh Jharkhand (1997-12-08) 8 December 1997 (age 26) Left-handed Right arm off break List A
Subhranshu Senapati Odisha (1996-12-30) 30 December 1996 (age 27) Left-handed Right arm medium-fast List A
Rishav Das Assam (1989-12-16) 16 December 1989 (age 34) Right-handed Right arm off break List A
All-rounders
Shahbaz Ahmed Bengal (1994-12-11) 11 December 1994 (age 29) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class & List A
Riyan Parag Assam (2001-11-10) 10 November 2001 (age 22) Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class & List A
Anukul Roy Jharkhand (1998-11-30) 30 November 1998 (age 25) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class
Utkarsh Singh Jharkhand (1998-05-07) 7 May 1998 (age 25) Left-handed Right arm off break List A
Wicket-keepers
Abishek Porel Bengal (2002-10-17) 17 October 2002 (age 21) Left-handed - First-class & List A
Kumar Kushagra Jharkhand (2004-10-23) 23 October 2004 (age 19) Right-handed - First-class & List A
Bipin Saurabh Bihar (1999-11-20) 20 November 1999 (age 24) Right-handed - First-class
Spin Bowler
Shahbaz Nadeem Jharkhand (1989-08-12) 12 August 1989 (age 34) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class
Avinov Choudhury Assam (1999-12-01) 1 December 1999 (age 24) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox List A
Pace Bowlers
Manisankar Murasingh Tripura (1993-01-01) 1 January 1993 (age 31) Left-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class & List A
Ishan Porel Bengal (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 25) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class
Akash Deep Bengal (1996-12-15) 15 December 1996 (age 27) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class & List A
Suryakant Pradhan Odisha (1993-09-30) 30 September 1993 (age 30) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class
Mukhtar Hussain Assam (1999-01-11) 11 January 1999 (age 25) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast List A
Abhijeet Saket Bihar (1995-08-03) 3 August 1995 (age 28) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast List A

Famous players from East Zone[edit]

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