The East Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 team that represents eastern India

India

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 in the Duleep Trophy

Duleep Trophy

The Duleep Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India between teams representing geographical zones of India. The competition is named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji .-History:...

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

Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia...

: Assam

Assam cricket team

The Assam cricket team is a Ranji Trophy plate group team based in Assam. Up until the 2002–03 season, when the zonal system was abandoned, it used to form a part of Eastern Zone....

, Bengal

Bengal cricket team

Bengal cricket team is considered Eastern India's strongest cricket team, it is the Elite Group of the Ranji Trophy and 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...

, Jharkand

Jharkand cricket team

The Jharkand Cricket Team is a Ranji Trophy Plate team based in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The team was formerly known as the Bihar cricket team...

, Orissa

Orissa cricket team

The Orissa cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Orissa. It is in the elite group of the Ranji Trophy.Its Home ground is Barabati stadium at Cuttack, Orissa, India.The Orissa Cricket team is selected by the Orissa Cricket Association .-References:**...

 and Tripura

Tripura cricket team

The Tripura cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Tripura. It is in the Plate Group of the Ranji Trophy.-2009 squad:*Vineet Jain*Ritesh Jaiswal*Subal Chowdhury*Chetan Sachdev*Timir Chanda*+Rasudeb Dutta*Sandip Banerjee...

. East Zone has the weakest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they are the only Zone to have never won the title, with the next worst team, Central Zone

Central Zone cricket team

The Central Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents central India in the Duleep Trophy. It is a composite team of players from five first-class Indian teams from central India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Vidarbha...

 having won five times. East Zone have been runners-up five times.

International cricketers from East Zone

• Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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• Sourav Ganguly
  Sourav Ganguly
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• Deep Dasgupta
  Deep Dasgupta
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• Rohan Gavaskar
  Rohan Gavaskar
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• Devang Gandhi
  Devang Gandhi
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• Debashish Mohanty
  Debashish Mohanty
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• Shiv Sundar Das
  Shiv Sundar Das
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