Bengal cricket team

Bengal cricket team

Cricket Association of Bengal Logo
Personnel
Captain	Manoj Tiwary
Coach	Woorkeri Raman
Owner	Cricket Association of Bengal
Team information
Founded	1908
Home ground	Eden Gardens
Capacity	90,000

Bengal cricket team (Template:Lang-bn) 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.

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 11 times, its most recent win being in 1989.

Saurav Ganguly

Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Year	Position
2006-07	Runner-up
2005-06	Runner-up
1993-94	Runner-up
1989-90	Winner
1988-89	Runner-up
1971-72	Runner-up
1968-69	Runner-up
1958-59	Runner-up
1955-56	Runner-up
1952-53	Runner-up
1943-44	Runner-up
1938-39	Winner
1936-37	Runner-up

Tiwary about to catch a ball at fielding practice.

Famous Players

Sourav Ganguly
Pankaj Roy
Gopal Bose
Arun Lal
Jagaddipendra Narayan
Manoj Tiwary
Ashok Dinda
Wriddhiman Saha
Ranadeb Bose
Shreevats Goswami
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
Shami Ahmed
Laxmi Shukla

Ranji Trophy Super League, 2011/12 Squad

Wriddhiman Saha.

Old Squad (2008/09 )

Batsmen

Name	Playing Role	Batting	Bowling
Manoj Tiwari	Batsman	Right-hand bat	Legbreak googly
Wriddhiman Saha (vc)	Wicketkeeper	Right-hand bat
Saurav Ganguly	Allrounder	Left-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Ranadeb Bose		Right-hand bat	Right-arm fast-medium
Abhishek Chowdhury		Left-hand bat	Legbreak
Ashok Dinda	Bowler	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium-fast
Arindam Das	Batsman	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Arindam Ghosh	Batsman	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Shreevats Goswami	Wicketkeeper	Left-hand bat
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala	Batsman	Right-hand bat	Right-arm offbreak
Saurasish Lahiri		Right-hand bat	Right-arm offbreak
Anustup Majumdar		Right-hand bat	Legbreak googly
Iresh Saxena		Right-hand bat	Slow left-arm orthodox
Shami Ahmed	Bowler	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Laxmi Shukla	Allrounder	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium
Shibsagar Singh		Right-hand bat	Slow left-arm orthodox
Unmesh Joshi		left-hand bat	Right-arm offbreak
Iqbal Momin	Bowler	Right-hand bat	Right-arm medium-fast

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Arindam Das	Right Hand	Fast Bowling
Amitava Chakraborty	Right Hand	Leg Spin
Manoj Tiwary	Right Hand	Leg Spin
Sourav Ganguly	Left Hand	Fast Bowling
Subhomoy Das	Right Hand	Off Spin
Rana Chowdhary	Left Hand	Fast Bowling
Arindam Ghosh	Right Hand	Fast Bowling
Anustup Majumdar	Right Hand	Leg Spin

All-Rounders

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Kamal Hasan Mondal	Right Hand	Off Spin
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	Right Hand	Fast Bowling

Wicket-Keepers

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Wriddhiman Saha	Right Hand
Subhojit Paul	Right Hand

Bowlers

Name	Batting Style	Bowling Style
Ashok Dinda	Right Hand	Fast Bowling
Ranadeb Bose	Right Hand	Fast Bowling
Saurasish Lahiri	Right Hand	Off Spin
Sourav Sarkar	Right Hand	Fast Bowling
Shibsagar Singh	Right Hand	Orthodox Spin
Eklak Ahmid	Left Hand	Fast Bowling
Shib Paul	Right Hand	Fast Bowling
Priyankar Mukherjee	Left Hand	Off Spin

External Links

http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/NATIONAL/IND/RANJI_WINNERS.html
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/indiandomestic2009/engine/records/index.html?id=2009%2F10;team=1623;type=season

http://tvc2.com/news/saurav-ganguly-made-135-runs-vs-haryana-in-ranji-trophy-201112-video-191.html