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 five first-class Indian teams from eastern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Assam, Bengal (West Bengal), Jharkhand, Orissa and Tripura.

Duleep Trophy Performance

East Zone has won the Duleep Trophy twice in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons.

Deodhar Trophy Performance

East Zone has won the Deodhar Trophy four times in the 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97 and 2003/04 seasons.

Current squad

Name	Domestic team	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Parvez Aziz	Assam	(1987-12-08) 8 December 1987	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Natraj Behera	Orissa	(1988-05-28) 28 May 1988	Right-handed
Pallavkumar Das	Assam	(1990-01-17) 17 January 1990	Left-handed	Right arm off break
Kumar Deobrat	Jharkhand	(1992-10-24) 24 October 1992	Right-handed	-
Ishank Jaggi	Jharkhand	(1989-01-27) 27 January 1989	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Anustup Majumdar	Bengal	(1984-04-30) 30 April 1984	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Rameez Nemat	Jharkhand	(1986-11-14) 14 November 1986	Right-handed
Govind Podder	Orissa	(1991-09-09) 9 September 1991	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Sibsankar Roy	Assam	(1990-10-10) 10 October 1990	Left-handed	Right arm leg break
Subhrajit Roy	Tripura	(1987-07-16) 16 July 1987	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Manoj Tiwary	Bengal	(1985-11-14) 14 November 1985	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Saurabh Tiwary	Jharkhand	(1989-12-30) 30 December 1989	Left-handed	-
All-rounders
Manisankar Murasingh	Tripura	(1993-01-01) 1 January 1993	Left-handed	Right arm medium
Biplab Samantray	Orissa	(1988-12-14) 14 December 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	Bengal	(1981-05-06) 6 May 1981	Right-handed	Right arm medium	LA captain
Tarjinder Singh	Assam	(1987-12-22) 22 December 1987	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Wicket-keepers
Shreevats Goswami	Bengal	(1989-05-18) 18 May 1989	Left-handed	-
Wriddhiman Saha	Bengal	(1984-10-24) 24 October 1984	Right-handed	-	FC captain
Bowlers
Deepak Behera	Orissa	(1985-01-15) 15 January 1985	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Ashok Dinda	Bengal	(1984-03-25) 25 March 1984	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
Sunny Gupta	Jharkhand	(1988-09-27) 27 September 1988	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Basant Mohanty	Orissa	(1986-11-24) 24 November 1986	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Shahbaz Nadeem	Jharkhand	(1989-08-12) 12 August 1989	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Abu Nechim	Assam	(1988-11-05) 5 November 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Samar Quadri	Jharkhand	(1989-07-27) 27 July 1989	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Rahul Shukla	Jharkhand	(1990-08-28) 28 August 1990	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
Ajay Yadav	Jharkhand	(1986-12-18) 18 December 1986	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast

International cricketers from East Zone

• Ashok Dinda
• Pankaj Roy
• Sourav Ganguly
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Deep Dasgupta
• Rohan Gavaskar
• Devang Gandhi
• Debashish Mohanty
• Shiv Sunder Das
• Manoj Tiwary
• Sanjay Raul
• Arun Lal
• Many more......