Assam Cricket Association (ACA) is the governing body of

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activities in the

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

state of

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. It is affiliated to the

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. The headquarters of ACA is at the Assam Cricket Association Stadium, Barsapara,

Guwahati Guwahati () the largest city of the Indian state of Assam, and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam. Th ...

. It administers

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and its junior state teams.

History

Since Assam played its first home match in 1948, it has also played first-class home matches in chronological order

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, Nowgong,

Dibrugarh Dibrugarh () is a city in the Indian state of Assam, located 435 kms east of the state capital Dispur. It serves as the headquarters of the Dibrugarh district in Upper Assam. Dibrugarh also serves as the headquarters of the Sonowal Kach ...

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Hailakandi Hailakandi (pron:ˈhaɪləˌkʌndi) is a town and the district headquarters of Hailakandi district in the Indian state of Assam. Hailakandi is located at . Demography Bengali and Meitei ( Manipuri) are the official languages of this place. ...

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and

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. Until the 2002–03 season, when the zonal system was abandoned, Assam formed part of Eastern Zone. It has not seen much success in the Ranji Trophy circuit but won their plate group in 2006/07 before losing the semi-final to

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, despite having not won a first-class match in the previous two seasons. In 2009–10 season Assam entered into elite group of the Ranji Trophy. In 2009-10 Ranji Trophy season Assam topped the plate group and subsequently progressed to the Super League. However, in the 2010–11 season, it ended at the bottom of its group in the Super League and face relegation to Plate League for the next season. In the 2012-13 edition of

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Assam played extremely well and finished runners up. In 2014-15 Ranji season Assam again promoted to Group A level. The foundation stone of the Barsapara Cricket Stadium was laid by

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in June 2004 and he again laid the foundation stone of the club house and stand of the stadium in July 2007 in the presence of then

secretary Niranjan Shah. It was inaugurated for international cricket in 2017.

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became the president of the Assam Cricket Association in June 2016 when his party man Pradip Buragohain became the secretary. Dr Sarma was also longest serving vice president of the association serving from 2002 to 2016. Anjan Dutta was longest serving President of Assam Cricket Association. In January 2019, Romen Dutta has been elected as the president and Ex-Ranji player

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was named as the secretary of Assam Cricket Association in the Annual General Meeting.

Tournaments

Assam Cricket Association conducts various district, club and university level tournaments for juniors, seniors and women. Those are: Nuruddin Ahmed Trophy Senior Inter-District Cricket Tournament, Assam Premier Club Championship, Assam T20 Challengers Trophy, Nilay Dutta Inter-University Cricket Tournament, ACA Inter-Institution Cricket Tournament, JK Barooah U-19 Inter-District Cricket Tournament, RG Baruah U-16 Inter-District Cricket Tournament, Amarjit Sarma U-15 Inter-District Boys Cricket Tournament, Pulin Das Trophy U-14 Inter-District Boys Cricket Tournament, Umananda Bora U-13 Inter-District Boys Cricket Tournament, Kanaklata Baruah Inter-Zonal State Women's Cricket Championship and Kanaklata Baruah Inter-District Women's Cricket Championship.

Home grounds

* Assam Cricket Association Stadium,

- hosted 2 ODIs, 2

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Nehru Stadium, Guwahati Nehru Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Guwahati, Assam, India. In 1962, Radha Govinda Baruah supervised and built the stadium. He named it after the first prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru. It can host 25,000 spectators. The stadiu ...

- hosted 14 ODIs. * Amingaon Cricket Ground, Amingaon *

Northeast Frontier Railway Stadium North-East Frontier Railway Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium at Maligaon in Guwahati, Assam. It is mainly used for organizing matches of football and cricket. The stadium has hosted 33 first-class matches in 1976 when Assam cricket team pla ...

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* Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium,

* Jalan Nagar Outdoor Stadium, Dibrugarh

Affiliated district associations

The affiliated district associations of Assam Cricket Association are: North-East Frontier Railway Sports Association (NFRSA), Tezpur DSA, Guwahati SA, Dibrugarh DSA, DSA Silchar, Nowgong SA, Barpeta DSA, Jorhat DSA, Bongaigaon DSA, Sivasagar DSA, Charaideo DSA, Golaghat DSA, Tinsukia DSA, Nazira DSA, Morigaon DSA, Goalpara DSA, DSA Dhubri, Biswanath Chariali DSA, DSA Karimganj, Hailakandi DSA, Karbi Anglong DSA, Dima Hasao DSA, Kaliabor DSA, Titabor DSA, Margherita DSA, Bokakhat DSA, Rangia DSA, Udalguri DSA, Kokrajhar DSA, Lakhimpur DSA, Hojai DSA, Bajali DSA, North Salmara DSA, Bilasipara DSA, Nalbari DSA, Mangaldai SA, Dhemaji DSA, Naharkatia SA and Majuli DSA.

References

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