Bengal cricket team
Bengal is considered India's strongest Eastern cricket team, it is the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy and were runners-up in the 2005-06 season. Their ranks have recently been bolstered by the return of Sourav Ganguly to the domestic competition. Bengal has had two Ranji Trophy victories in its years and has been runners-up a total of 10 times.
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 7 times, it's most recent being in 1989, where it lost to Delhi. The years of the finals losses were quite evenly scattered and the Bengal cricket team never truly was considered a cricketing power of the likes of Delhi and Punjab.
In it's single Irani Trophy appearance, it drew with the Rest of India side but was considered the loser after conceding a first innings deficit. In any case, a loss was imminent after the Rest of India scored a remarkable 7-737 and got Bengal out for 262. See Scorecard
Famous Players
Current Squad
- Deep Dasgupta (Captain and wicketkeeper)
- Sourav Ganguly
- Arindam Das
- Devang Gandhi
- Rohan Gavaskar
- Laxmi Ratan Shukla
- Sanjib Sanyal
- Saurasish Lahiri
- Murtaza Lodhgar
- Shib Sankar Paul
- Ranadeb Bose
- Manoj Tewari
- Sib Sagar Sing
- Subhomoy Das
- Ashok Jinda
- Wriddhiman Saha
See also
| Indian first class cricket teams in the Ranji Trophy |
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