Assam cricket team

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Assam Cricket Team
Captain: Gokul Sharma
Coach: Sanath Kumar and Subhadeep Ghosh
Owner: Assam Cricket Association
Founded: 1960
Home ground: Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium
(Capacity:60,000) Nehru Stadium
(Capacity:30,000)
Ranji Trophy wins: 0
Vijay Hazare Trophy wins: 0

The Assam cricket team is a domestic cricket team based in the Indian state of Assam, run by the Assam Cricket Association. They compete and represent the state annually in the first-class Ranji Trophy tournament, limited-overs Vijay Hazare Trophy tournament and the Twenty 20 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

History

Until the 2002–03 season, when the zonal system was abandoned, Assam formed part of Eastern Zone. It has not seen much success in the Ranji Trophy circuit but won their plate group in 2006/07 before losing the semi-final to Orissa, despite having not won a first-class match in the previous two seasons. In 2009–10 season Assam entered into eltite group of the Ranji Trophy. In 2009-10 Ranji Trophy season Assam topped the plate group and subsequently progressed to the Super League. However, in the 2010–11 season, it ended at the bottom of its group in the Super League and face relegation to Plate League for the next season. In the 2012-13 edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy Assam played extremely well and finished runners up.[1] In 2014-15 Ranji season Assam again promoted to Group A level.[2]

Home grounds

Since Assam played its first home match in 1948, it has also played first-class home matches in (in chronological order) Shillong, Jorhat, Nowgong, Dibrugarh, Karimganj, Hailakandi, Mangaldoi and Tinsukia.[3]

Famous players

  • Abu Nechim Ahmed
  • Anup Ghatak
  • Arlen Konwar
  • Gautam Dutta
  • Hemanga Baruah
  • Javed Zaman
  • Krishna Das
  • Parag Das
  • Pritam Das
  • Rajesh Borah
  • Subhrajit Saikia
  • Syed Zakaria Zuffri
  • Zahir Alam

Current squad

Players with an IPL contract are listed in bold.

No. Name Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
Pallavkumar Das (1990-01-17) 17 January 1990 (age 34) Left-handed Right-arm medium
Rahul Hazarika (1993-05-31) 31 May 1993 (age 31) Left-handed Right-arm off break
Sibsankar Roy (1990-10-10) 10 October 1990 (age 33) Left-handed Right-arm off break
Tarjinder Singh (1987-12-22) 22 December 1987 (age 36) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Amit Sinha (1988-11-26) 26 November 1988 (age 35) Right-handed Leg break
Pritam Debnath (1987-07-25) 25 July 1987 (age 36) Right-handed Right-arm off break
All-rounders
Gokul Sharma (1987-11-20) 20 November 1987 (age 36) Right-handed Right-arm off break Captain
Swarupam Purkayastha (1989-09-15) 15 September 1989 (age 34) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Dhiraj Goswami (1985-05-01) 1 May 1985 (age 39) Right-handed Right arm medium
Jamaluddin Syed Mohammed (1983-06-03) 3 June 1983 (age 41) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Amit Verma (1987-06-30) 30 June 1987 (age 36) Left-handed Right-arm leg break FC 100s : 10
Wicket-keepers
Arun Karthik (1986-02-15) 15 February 1986 (age 38) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
Wasiqur Rahman (1994-12-29) 29 December 1994 (age 29) Right-handed
Kunal Saikia (1988-06-19) 19 June 1988 (age 36) Right-handed
Bowlers
Abu Nechim Ahmed (1988-11-05) 5 November 1988 (age 35) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Vice captain. LA Wkts : 40+
Arup Das (1991-07-27) 27 July 1991 (age 32) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Krishna Das (1990-10-12) 12 October 1990 (age 33) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Pritam Das (1988-10-16) 16 October 1988 (age 35) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
Arlen Konwar (1981-01-01) 1 January 1981 (age 43) Right-handed Right-arm off break
Deepak Gohain (1992-12-11) 11 December 1992 (age 31) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Sujay Tarafdar (1989-12-06) 6 December 1989 (age 34) Right-handed Right-arm medium

Head Coaches - Sanath Kumar and Subhadeep Ghosh

See also

References

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