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 three times in the 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2026/27 seasons, the Deodhar Trophy five times in the 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 2003/04 and 2014/15 seasons, as well as the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy once in the 2016/17 season.
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 Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class Sudip Gharami Bengal Right-handed Right arm off break First-class & List A Shantanu Mishra Odisha Right-handed Right arm off break First-class Abhimanyu Easwaran Bengal Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class & List A Vice-captain Saurabh Tiwary Jharkhand Left-handed Right arm off break List A Captain Virat Singh Jharkhand Left-handed Right arm off break List A Subhranshu Senapati Odisha Left-handed Right arm medium-fast List A Rishav Das Assam Right-handed Right arm off break List A All-rounders Shahbaz Ahmed Bengal Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class & List A Riyan Parag Assam Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class & List A Anukul Roy Jharkhand Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class Utkarsh Singh Jharkhand Left-handed Right arm off break List A Wicket-keepers Abhishek Porel Bengal Left-handed - First-class & List A Kumar Kushagra Jharkhand Right-handed - First-class & List A Bipin Saurabh Bihar Right-handed - First-class Spin Bowler Shahbaz Nadeem Jharkhand Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class Avinov Choudhury Assam Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox List A Pace Bowlers Manisankar Murasingh Tripura Left-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class & List A Ishan Porel Bengal Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class Akash Deep Bengal Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class & List A Suryakant Pradhan Odisha Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class Mukhtar Hussain Assam Right-handed Right arm medium-fast List A Abhijeet Saket Bihar Right-handed Right arm medium-fast List A
Famous players from East Zone
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 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
External links East Zone at CricketArchive