North Zone cricket team

The North Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents northern India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from northern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Services. North Zone has the strongest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 17 times, with the next best team, West Zone having won 16 times. They hold the record for the most consecutive titles, five, from 1990-91 through to 1994-95.

Current squad

Name	Domestic team	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
Unmukt Chand	Delhi	(1993-03-26) 26 March 1993	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Prashant Chopra	Himachal Pradesh	(1992-10-07) 7 October 1992	Left-handed	Right arm leg break
Gautam Gambhir	Delhi	(1981-10-14) 14 October 1981	Left-handed	Right arm leg break
Nikhil Gangta	Himachal Pradesh	(1992-09-01) 1 September 1992	Right-handed	Right arm medium
Milind Kumar	Delhi	(1991-02-15) 15 February 1991	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Rajat Paliwal	Services	(1991-09-24) 24 September 1991	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Vaibhav Rawal	Delhi	(1991-11-09) 9 November 1991	Left-handed	Right arm leg break
Virender Sehwag	Delhi	(1978-10-20) 20 October 1978	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Gurkeerat Singh	Punjab	(1990-06-29) 29 June 1990	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Ian Dev Singh	J&K	(1989-03-01) 1 March 1989	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Jiwanjot Singh	punjab	(1990-11-06) 6 November 1990	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Mandeep Singh	Punjab	(1991-12-18) 18 December 1991	Right-handed	Right arm medium
All-rounders
Rishi Dhawan	Himachal Pradesh	(1990-02-19) 19 February 1990	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Parvez Rasool	J&K	(1989-02-13) 13 February 1989	Right-handed	Right arm off break
Wicket-keepers
Nitin Saini	Haryana	(1988-10-28) 28 October 1988	Right-handed	-
Bowlers
Parvinder Awana	Delhi	(1986-07-19) 19 July 1986	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
Siddarth Kaul	Punjab	(1990-05-19) 19 May 1990	Right-handed	Left arm medium-fast
Sarabjit Ladda	Punjab	(1986-07-10) 10 July 1986	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
Vikas Mishra	Delhi	(1992-12-27) 27 December 1992	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
Ashish Nehra	Delhi	(1979-04-29) 29 April 1979	Right-handed	Left arm medium-fast
Ishant Sharma	Delhi	(1988-09-02) 2 September 1988	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
Mohit Sharma	Haryana	(1988-09-18) 18 September 1988	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Sandeep Sharma	Punjab	(1993-05-18) 18 May 1993	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
Harbhajan Singh	Punjab	(1980-07-03) 3 July 1980	Right-handed	Right arm off break	Captain
Suraj Yadav	Services	(1987-10-26) 26 October 1987	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast

Famous players from North Zone

• Akash Chopra
• Kapil Dev
• Gautam Gambhir
• Dinesh Mongia
• Virender Sehwag
• Ishant Sharma
• Navjot Singh Sidhu
• Harbhajan Singh
• Yuvraj Singh
• Lala Amarnath
• Surinder Amarnath
• Mohinder Amarnath
• Virat Kohli
• Bishen Singh Bedi
• jiwanjot singh chouhan

North Zone also had the services of some very famous Indian cricketers before partition, such as

• Dr Jehangir Khan
• Dilawar Hussain
• Gul Mohammad
• Nazar Mohammad
• A H Kardar
• Fazal Mahmood
• Imtiaz Ahmed

External links

• Lists of matches played by North Zone at Cricket Archive