The East Zone cricket team is a first-class

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team that represents eastern

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in the

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and

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. It is a composite team of six first-class Indian teams from eastern India competing in the

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, Bengal (West Bengal),

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. East Zone has won the Duleep Trophy twice in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons, as well as the Deodhar Trophy four times in the 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97 and 2003/04 seasons.

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold. ''Updated as on 26 Jul 2023''

Famous players from East Zone

Pankaj Roy Pankaj Roy (; 31 May 1928 – 4 February 2001) was an Indian cricketer who played in 43 test matches, including once as captain. He was a right-handed opening batsman, perhaps best known for establishing the world record opening partnership in ...

Sourav Ganguly Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), also known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali language, Bengali), is an Indian cricket commentator and former cricketer. He is popularly called the ...

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Deep Dasgupta Deep Dasgupta (; born 7 June 1977) is a former Indian cricketer who played in eight Test matches and five One Day Internationals between 2001 and 2006 as the national wicketkeeper and was later replaced by Ajay Ratra. He is now a Hindi and Eng ...

Rohan Gavaskar Rohan Sunil Gavaskar (born 20 February 1976) is a former Indian cricketer. He played in 11 One Day Internationals. He was a middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler. Rohan is the son of great Indian c ...

Devang Gandhi Devang Jayant Gandhi (born 6 September 1971) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and a very occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played for Bengal, Hadleigh and Thundersley Cricket Club, Essex. Despite th ...

Debasis Mohanty Debasish (or Debasis) Sarbeswar Mohanty (born 20 July 1976) is a former Indian cricketer who played in two Test matches and 45 One Day Internationals between 1997 and 2001. He was a right-arm medium-fast bowler who coupled pace to his natural ...

Shiv Sunder Das Shiv Sunder Das (born 5 November 1977) is an Indian cricket coach and former cricketer. He is currently part of the senior men's national cricket team Selection Committee. He is the third player from Odisha to represent India. He is a right-ha ...

Saurabh Tiwary Saurabh Tiwary (born 30 December 1989) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a left-handed middle order batsman. He was one of the key batsmen in the Indian team that won the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. He was a part of the Ind ...

* Manoj Tiwary *

Ashok Dinda Ashok Dinda (born 25 March 1984) is a former Indian cricketer and politician from West Bengal. He is a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly representing the Bharatiya Janata Party from the Moyna Assembly constituency. He played cricke ...

Mohammed Shami Mohammed Shami (; born 3 September 1990) is an Indian international cricketer who plays as a right-arm fast bowling, fast-bowler, for the India national cricket team and for the Bengal cricket team, Bengal in domestic cricket and for the Sunrise ...

Ishan Kishan Ishan Kishan (born 18 July 1998) is an Indian international cricketer who plays for the Indian national cricket team as a wicket-keeper batsman. He made his international debut in March 2021 against England cricket team, England. He plays for Jh ...

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