The East Bengal cricket team is an Indian professional cricket team based in Kolkata, West Bengal. 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 East Bengal Club Cricket team has been operative since the formation of the club in 1920 and has been actively participating in the Cricket Association of Bengal first Division league since the 50s and won their first Cricket Association of Bengal First Division League title in 1974–75 season jointly with Mohun Bagan. The team has won the CAB First Division League sixteen times, with the latest league title in the 2016–17 season. The team has also won the CAB Senior Knockout tournament thirteen times, the J.
C. Mukherjee Trophy twelve times, the P. Sen Memorial Invitation Trophy ten times, the A.
N. Ghosh Memorial Trophy eight times. 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. East Bengal appointed coach Abdul Monayem in 2023.
The club also appointed former cricketer Sambaran Banerjee as the mentor of the team.
From the Wikipedia article "East Bengal cricket team", available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
