East Zone cricket team

For the Pakistani team, see East Zone cricket team (Pakistan). For the Bangladeshi team, see East Zone cricket team (Bangladesh).

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

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 41)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	First-class
Sudip Gharami	Bengal	(1999-03-21) 21 March 1999 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	First-class & List A
Shantanu Mishra	Odisha	(1994-05-30) 30 May 1994 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	First-class
Abhimanyu Easwaran	Bengal	(1995-09-06) 6 September 1995 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	First-class & List A	Vice-captain
Saurabh Tiwary	Jharkhand	(1989-12-30) 30 December 1989 (age 35)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A	Captain
Virat Singh	Jharkhand	(1997-12-08) 8 December 1997 (age 27)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A
Subhranshu Senapati	Odisha	(1996-12-30) 30 December 1996 (age 28)	Left-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A
Rishav Das	Assam	(1989-12-16) 16 December 1989 (age 35)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	List A
All-rounders
Shahbaz Ahmed	Bengal	(1994-12-11) 11 December 1994 (age 30)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class & List A
Riyan Parag	Assam	(2001-11-10) 10 November 2001 (age 23)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	First-class & List A
Anukul Roy	Jharkhand	(1998-11-30) 30 November 1998 (age 26)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class
Utkarsh Singh	Jharkhand	(1998-05-07) 7 May 1998 (age 27)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A
Wicket-keepers
Abhishek Porel	Bengal	(2002-10-17) 17 October 2002 (age 22)	Left-handed	-	First-class & List A
Kumar Kushagra	Jharkhand	(2004-10-23) 23 October 2004 (age 20)	Right-handed	-	First-class & List A
Bipin Saurabh	Bihar	(1999-11-20) 20 November 1999 (age 25)	Right-handed	-	First-class
Spin Bowler
Shahbaz Nadeem	Jharkhand	(1989-08-12) 12 August 1989 (age 36)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class
Avinov Choudhury	Assam	(1999-12-01) 1 December 1999 (age 25)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	List A
Pace Bowlers
Manisankar Murasingh	Tripura	(1993-01-01) 1 January 1993 (age 32)	Left-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class & List A
Ishan Porel	Bengal	(1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class
Akash Deep	Bengal	(1996-12-15) 15 December 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class & List A
Suryakant Pradhan	Odisha	(1993-09-30) 30 September 1993 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class
Mukhtar Hussain	Assam	(1999-01-11) 11 January 1999 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A
Abhijeet Saket	Bihar	(1995-08-03) 3 August 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A

Famous players from East Zone

Main article: List of East Zone cricketers

• Pankaj Roy
• Sourav Ganguly
• Arun Lal
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Deep Dasgupta
• Rohan Gavaskar
• Devang Gandhi
• Debasis Mohanty
• Shiv Sunder Das
• Saurabh Tiwary
• Manoj Tiwary
• Ashok Dinda
• Mohammed Shami
• Ishan Kishan

External links

• East Zone at CricketArchive