BENGAL CRICKET TEAM

'Bengal cricket team' is considered Eastern India's strongest cricket team, it is the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy and were runners-up twice consecutively in the 2005-06 and the 2006-07 season. Their ranks are occasionally 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 11 times.

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Competition history

Famous players

2006/07 squad

External links

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, its 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 its 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

★ Sourav Ganguly

★ Pankaj Roy

★ Gopal Bose

★ Rohan Gavaskar

2006/07 squad

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Arindam Das	RHB	RM
Amitava Chakraborty	RHB	LS
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala	RHB	OS
Manoj Tiwary	RHB	LS
'Rohan Gavaskar'	LHB	SLA
'Sourav Ganguly'	LHB	RM
Subhomoy Das	RHB	OS
Rana Chowdhary	LHB	LM
Arindam Ghosh	RHB	RM
Anustup Majumdar	RHB	LS
All-rounders
Kamal Hasan Mondal	RHB	OS
'Laxmi Shukla'	RHB	RM
Wicket-keepers
'Deep Dasgupta'	RHB		Captain
Wriddaman Saha	RHB
Subhojit Paul	RHB
Bowlers
Ashok Dinda	RHB	RMF
Ranadeb Bose	RHB	RMF
Saurasish Lahiri	RHB	OS
Sourav Sarkar	RHB	RM
Shibsagar Singh	RHB	SLA
Eklak Ahmid	LHB	LMF
Shib Paul	RHB	RM
Priyankar Mukherjee	LHB	OS

External links

★ Cricinfo's Complete History of the Indian Domestic Competitions

★ Ranji Trophy 2006/7 Batting Averages

★ Ranji Trophy One Day 2006/7 Batting Averages

★ Inter State Twenty20 Tournament 2006/7 Batting Averages