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Capacity:
  
66,349

Irani Trophy wins:
  
0

Captain
  
Manoj Tiwary

Coach
  
Sairaj Bahutule

Location
  
Home ground:
  
Ranji Trophy wins:
  
2

Vijay Hazare Trophy wins:
  
1

League
  
Arena/Stadium
  
Date founded
  
1908

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Bengal cricket team (Bengali: বাংলা ক্রিকেট দল) is a cricket team that 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 had two Ranji Trophy victories and has been runner-up a total of 11 times.

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Bengal are the champions of the 2012 Vijay Hazare Trophy, also known as the (Ranji One Day Trophy). They beat Mumbai in the finals which was held at the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi on 12 March 2012, under the captaincy of Sourav Ganguly.

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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.

They 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.

Famous players

Players who represented India

Home Ground

  • Eden Gardens, Kolkata - The second largest stadium in the world and also the home ground of Kolkata Knight Riders
  • Jadavpur University Campus Ground, Jadavpur- It has been leased out to the Cricket Association of Bengal and it often plays host to inter- and intra state cricket matches.
  • Bengal Cricket Academy, Kalyani
  • Deshbandu Park, North Kolkata - hosted matches of Vinoo Mankad Trophy, Cooch Behar Trophy, Vijay Merchant Trophy and Polly Umrigar Trophy
  • Current squad

    Players with international caps are listed in bold.

    References

    Bengal cricket team Wikipedia


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