Bengal cricket team


The Bengal cricket team represents the Indian state of West Bengal in domestic first-class cricket. It is considered Eastern India's strongest cricket team. The team plays its home matches at the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Bengal has won two Ranji Trophy victories and has been runner-up a total of 11 times.
Bengal won the Vijay Hazare Trophy, also known as the Ranji One Day Trophy, in 2012. Under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly, it beat Mumbai in the finals at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi on 12 March 2012.

Competition history

Bengal's first success came in the third Ranji Trophy season, 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, although it had been runner-up 11 times, it did not regain the title until it beat a strong Delhi team in the 1990 final.
The team was runner-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.
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Best performances in Ranji Trophy

Best performances in Vijay Hazare Trophy

Best performances in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy

Famous Players

;Players who represented India
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NameTestODIT20
Ambar Roy40
Arun Lal1613
Ashok Dinda0139
Deep Dasgupta85
Devang Gandhi43
Dilip Doshi3315
Pankaj Roy430
Sourav Ganguly113311
Gopal Bose01
Laxmi Ratan Shukla03
Manoj Tiwary0123
Mohammed Shami497711
Montu Banerjee10
Nirode Chowdhury20
Pranab Roy20
Prashant Vaidya04
Probir Sen140
Rohan Gavaskar011
Saba Karim134
Saradindu Mukherjee03
Subrata Guha40
Wriddhiman Saha379
Utpal Chatterjee03

Home Ground

Players with international caps are listed in bold.