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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 | edit source]

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 42)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	First-class
Sudip Gharami	Bengal	(1999-03-21) 21 March 1999 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	First-class & List A
Shantanu Mishra	Odisha	(1994-05-30) 30 May 1994 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	First-class
Abhimanyu Easwaran	Bengal	(1995-09-06) 6 September 1995 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	First-class & List A	Vice-captain
Saurabh Tiwary	Jharkhand	(1989-12-30) 30 December 1989 (age 36)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A	Captain
Virat Singh	Jharkhand	(1997-12-08) 8 December 1997 (age 28)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A
Subhranshu Senapati	Odisha	(1996-12-30) 30 December 1996 (age 29)	Left-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A
Rishav Das	Assam	(1989-12-16) 16 December 1989 (age 36)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	List A
All-rounders
Shahbaz Ahmed	Bengal	(1994-12-11) 11 December 1994 (age 31)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class & List A
Riyan Parag	Assam	(2001-11-10) 10 November 2001 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	First-class & List A
Anukul Roy	Jharkhand	(1998-11-30) 30 November 1998 (age 27)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class
Utkarsh Singh	Jharkhand	(1998-05-07) 7 May 1998 (age 28)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A
Wicket-keepers
Abhishek Porel	Bengal	(2002-10-17) 17 October 2002 (age 23)	Left-handed	-	First-class & List A
Kumar Kushagra	Jharkhand	(2004-10-23) 23 October 2004 (age 21)	Right-handed	-	First-class & List A
Bipin Saurabh	Bihar	(1999-11-20) 20 November 1999 (age 26)	Right-handed	-	First-class
Spin Bowler
Shahbaz Nadeem	Jharkhand	(1989-08-12) 12 August 1989 (age 37)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class
Avinov Choudhury	Assam	(1999-12-01) 1 December 1999 (age 26)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	List A
Pace Bowlers
Manisankar Murasingh	Tripura	(1993-01-01) 1 January 1993 (age 33)	Left-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class & List A
Ishan Porel	Bengal	(1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class
Akash Deep	Bengal	(1996-12-15) 15 December 1996 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class & List A
Suryakant Pradhan	Odisha	(1993-09-30) 30 September 1993 (age 32)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class
Mukhtar Hussain	Assam	(1999-01-11) 11 January 1999 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A
Abhijeet Saket	Bihar	(1995-08-03) 3 August 1995 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A

Famous players from East Zone[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

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 The '''East Zone cricket team''' is a [[first class cricket|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 cricket team|Assam]], [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]], [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal (West Bengal)]], [[Jharkhand cricket team|Jharkhand]], [[Odisha cricket team|Odisha]] and [[Tripura cricket team|Tripura]].
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