Team information | |
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City | Kolkata |
Colours | Red and Gold |
Home ground | Eden Gardens |
Capacity | 66,349 |
History | |
CAB First Division League wins | 16 [1] |
CAB Senior Knockout wins | 13 [1] |
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The East Bengal Club is an Indian professional cricket club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. [2] It participates in various tournaments of varying age groups conducted by the Cricket Association of Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the Eden Gardens and Jadavpur University Campus Ground.
The club currently participates in the CAB First Division League, CAB Senior Knockout, CAB Super League and JC Mukherjee Trophy. They have so far won 60 major state-level trophies in their history. [1]
The East Bengal Club Cricket team has been actively participating in the Cricket Association of Bengal first Division league since the 70s and won their first CAB League title in 1974-75 season jointly with Mohun Bagan.
Many famous names have come and played for the East Bengal Cricket team, including the "Master Blaster" Sachin Tendulkar. He, along with Indian cricket icons Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Pravin Amre, played for the East Bengal cricket team in the 1994 P. Sen Trophy led by himself which they won defeating Mohun Bagan in the final. [3] [4]
The Cricket squad of East Bengal Club for the season 2022–2023 [5]
As of November 2022 [update]
Player(s) with international caps are listed in bold.
Name | D.O.B. | Batting style | Bowling style |
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Ankur Paul | 21 December 1997 | ||
Diganta Neogi | 19 December 2000 | ||
Sayan Sekhar Mondal | 10 November 1989 | Left-handed | Right-arm Medium |
Soham Ghosh | 29 March 1986 | Right-handed | Right-arm spin |
Sougata Dutta | 27 December 1984 | Right-handed | |
Prasenjit Das | 11 June 1987 | Right-handed | Leg Break |
Avirup Gupta | 26 September 1990 | Left-handed | Right-arm offbreak |
Suvankar Bal | 3 December 1995 | Right-handed | Wicketkeeper |
Akash Ghatak | 13 October 1996 | ||
Akash Pandey | Right-handed | Right-arm fast | |
Sachin Kumar Yadav | |||
Ishan Porel | 5 September 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium |
Mohammed Arif Ansari | Wicketkeeper | ||
Sohaib Latif | |||
Amitoze Singh | 14 February 1989 (age 33) | Right-handed | Right-arm medium |
Soumyadeep Mondal | |||
Susanta Das | |||
Roshan Singh | |||
Souvik Ghosh | |||
Adarsh Singh | |||
Sunny Patel | 10 April 1987 (age 35) | Right-handed | Right-arm offbreak |
Anuj Singh | |||
Arka Pratim Das | |||
Proloy Banerjee | |||
Idris Sardar | |||
Anik Banerjee |
Rakesh Krishnan | Batting Coach |
Sushil Sikaria | Bowling Coach |
Swaran Bandopadhyay | Mentor |
List of all Major Tournaments won by East Bengal Club in Cricket: [1]
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