Assam cricket team

Assam Cricket Team
Captain:	Arun Karthik
Coach:	Sunil Joshi
Colours:	Dark green Electric green
Owner:	Assam Cricket Association
Founded:	1947
Home ground:	ACA Stadium (Capacity:60,000); Nehru Stadium (Capacity:15,000)
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]

In July 2016, Sunil Joshi was named as head coach of Assam cricket team next two Ranji Trophy season. He replace his state mate Sanath Kumar as head coach of Assam cricket team.

Home grounds

ACA Stadium, Guwahati
Nehru Stadium, Guwahati, Hosted 14 ODIs.
Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium, Silchar

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

Main article: List of Assam cricketers

Current squad

Players with an IPL contract are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Captain and Batsman
	Arun Karthik	(1986-02-15) 15 February 1986	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	FC 100/50 : 8/14
Batsmen
	Rishav Das	(1989-12-16) 16 December 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Pallavkumar Das	(1990-01-17) 17 January 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm medium
	Rahul Hazarika	(1993-05-31) 31 May 1993	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	Sibsankar Roy	(1990-10-10) 10 October 1990	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
	Amit Verma	(1987-06-30) 30 June 1987	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	FC 100/50 : 10/13
	Tarjinder Singh	(1987-12-22) 22 December 1987	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Amit Sinha	(1988-11-26) 26 November 1988	Right-handed	Leg break
	Gokul Sharma	(1985-12-25) 25 December 1985	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
All-rounders
	Jamaluddin Syed Mohammed	(1983-06-03) 3 June 1983	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	FC 100/50 : 2/8 ; FC Wkts : 90+
	Swarupam Purkayastha	(1994-05-18) 18 May 1994	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Wicket-keepers
	Kunal Saikia	(1988-06-19) 19 June 1988	Right-handed
Bowlers
	Dhiraj Goswami	(1985-05-01) 1 May 1985	Right-handed	Right arm medium
	Abu Nechim Ahmed	(1988-11-05) 5 November 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	Vice captain. LA Wkts : 40+
	Krishna Das	(1990-10-12) 12 October 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	FC Wkts : 110+
	Arup Das	(1991-07-27) 27 July 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	FC Wkts : 100
	Pritam Das	(1988-10-16) 16 October 1988	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast
	Arlen Konwar	(1981-01-01) 1 January 1981	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
	Deepak Gohain	(1992-12-11) 11 December 1992	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
	Sujay Tarafdar	(1989-12-06) 6 December 1989	Right-handed	Right-arm medium

Head Coaches - Sunil Joshi and Subhrajit Saikia

Records

For more details on this topic, see List of Assam first-class cricket records, List of Assam List A cricket records, List of Assam Twenty20 cricket records.

References

↑ "Assam reach first Vijay Hazare final". espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
↑ "Team unity behind Assam's remarkable season". cricbuzz.com. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
↑ "First-class matches played by Assam". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 January 2015.

External links

Ranji Trophy

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Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

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