East Bengal Club
Team information
CityKolkata
ColoursRed and Gold
Home groundEden Gardens
Capacity66,349
History
CAB First Division League wins16[1]
CAB Senior Knockout wins13[1]
Active departments of East Bengal
Football
(Men's)		 Football
(Women's)		 Football
(Reserves
& Academy)
Cricket
(Men's)		 Cricket
(Women's)		 Hockey
(Men's)
Tennis Athletics eSports

The East Bengal Club is an Indian professional cricket club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.[2] It participates in various tournaments of varying age groups conducted by the Cricket Association of Bengal. The team plays its home matches mostly at the Eden Gardens and Jadavpur University Campus Ground.

The club currently participates in the CAB First Division League, CAB Senior Knockout, CAB Super League and JC Mukherjee Trophy. They have so far won 60 major state-level trophies in their history.[1]

History

The East Bengal Club Cricket team has been actively participating in the Cricket Association of Bengal first Division league since the 70s and won their first CAB League title in 1974–75 season jointly with Mohun Bagan.

Many famous names have come and played for the East Bengal Cricket team, including the "Master Blaster" Sachin Tendulkar. He, along with Indian cricket icons Kapil Dev, Ajay Jadeja, Pravin Amre, played for the East Bengal cricket team in the 1994 P. Sen Trophy led by himself which they won defeating Mohun Bagan in the final.[3][4]

Current squad

The Cricket squad of East Bengal Club for the season 2022–2023[5]

As of November 2022
Player(s) with international caps are listed in bold.

Name D.O.B. Batting style Bowling style
Ankur Paul (1997-12-21) 21 December 1997 (age 26)
Diganta Neogi (2000-12-19) 19 December 2000 (age 23)
Sayan Sekhar Mondal (1989-11-10) 10 November 1989 (age 34) Left-handed Right-arm Medium
Soham Ghosh (1986-03-29) 29 March 1986 (age 37) Right-handed Right-arm spin
Sougata Dutta (1984-12-27) 27 December 1984 (age 39) Right-handed
Prasenjit Das (1987-06-11) 11 June 1987 (age 36) Right-handed Leg Break
Avirup Gupta (1990-09-26) 26 September 1990 (age 33) Left-handed Right-arm offbreak
Suvankar Bal (1995-12-03) 3 December 1995 (age 28) Right-handed Wicketkeeper
Akash Ghatak (1996-10-13) 13 October 1996 (age 27)
Akash Pandey Right-handed Right-arm fast
Sachin Kumar Yadav
Ishan Porel (1998-09-05) 5 September 1998 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
Mohammed Arif Ansari Wicketkeeper
Sohaib Latif
Amitoze Singh 14 February 1989 (age 33) Right-handed Right-arm medium
Soumyadeep Mondal
Susanta Das
Roshan Singh
Souvik Ghosh
Adarsh Singh
Sunny Patel 10 April 1987 (age 35) Right-handed Right-arm offbreak
Anuj Singh
Arka Pratim Das
Proloy Banerjee
Idris Sardar
Anik Banerjee

Coaching Staff

Rakesh Krishnan Batting Coach
Sushil Sikaria Bowling Coach
Swaran Bandopadhyay Mentor

Honours

List of all Major Tournaments won by East Bengal Club in Cricket:[1]

Champions (16): 1974-75,[A] 1977-78, 1978-79, 1980-81, 1983-84, 1993-94, 1994-95, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2009-10, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2016-17
Champions (13): 1975-76,[A] 1977-78, 1979-80, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1997-98, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2010-11, 2012-13,[A] 2013-14, 2014-15
Champions (12): 1977-78, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1987- 88, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06,[B] 2009-10, 2016-17[6]
Champions (10): 1976-77,[A] 1978-79, 1993-94, 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2003-04, 2011-12,[A][7] 2013-14, 2016-17
Champions (8): 1992-93, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16
Champions (1): 2016-17[B]
  1. ^ a b c d e Joint Winners with Mohun Bagan
  2. ^ a b Joint winners with Kalighat Club

References

  1. ^ a b c d "CRICKET - HONOURS". East Bengal Club. Archived from the original on 18 October 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  2. ^ "CALCUTTA — CRICKET CLUBS — Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)". calcuttayellowpages.com. Calcutta Yellow Pages Calcutta. Archived from the original on 27 April 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  3. ^ "THROWBACK: When Sachin Tendulkar captained East Bengal in P. Sen Trophy!". BADGEB.com. Archived from the original on 25 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  4. ^ "Javagal turns nostalgic". The Telegraph India. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  5. ^ "EAST BENGAL CLUB - CRICKET SQUAD FOR SEASON 2019-20". East Bengal Club. Archived from the original on 13 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  6. ^ "J.C Mukherjee Trophy: East Bengal wins their second title despite Manoj Tiwary's half century". Xtra Time. 3 June 2017. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  7. ^ "CAB's tournament committee declared East Bengal and Mohun Bagan joint-winners of the P.Sen Trophy tournament. The final between the two arch-rivals on Tuesday had remained inconclusive when they refused to go into a 'bowl out' after a sharp shower forced an abandonment at the Eden Gardens". The Times of India. 21 June 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2020.


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