Tripura cricket team

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Tripura cricket team
Personnel
Captain Wriddhiman Saha
Owner Tripura Cricket Association
Team information
Founded1985
Home ground Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala
Capacity30,000
History
First-class debut Bengal
in 1985
at  Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Ranji Trophy  wins0
Vijay Hazare Trophy  wins0
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy  wins0
Official website www.tcalive.com

The Tripura cricket team is a domestic cricket team representing the Indian state of Tripura.

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History

Cricket developed later in Tripura than in most other parts of India with competitions first organized in the early 1960s, and the Tripura Cricket Association forming in 1968. [1]

Tripura entered the Ranji Trophy, along with Goa and Himachal Pradesh, when the competition was expanded for the 1985–86 season. [2] They have always been one of the weaker sides in the competition. Up to the end of the 2022–23 season, they had played 193 first-class matches resulting in nine wins, 120 losses and 64 draws. [3] In List A cricket they had played 138 matches resulting in 26 wins, 111 losses and one no-result. [4]

In 1985–86, fielding a team with no previous first-class experience, [5] Tripura lost all four matches, the first three by an innings. [6] In 1986–87 they drew their first match and lost the next three, two of them by an innings. [7] The pattern continued. In 2001–02, their last season playing only against their East Zone neighbours – Assam, Bengal, Bihar and Orissa – Tripura lost two matches by an innings and drew the other two. [8]

The Ranji Trophy was restructured for the 2002–03 season, and the lower-ranked teams from around India began to play each other. Tripura's fortunes improved only slightly at first. They registered two losses by an innings and three draws in 2002–03. [9] In 2003–04 they drew all five matches, gaining a first-innings lead in two of them. [10] In 2004–05 they lost three and drew two. [11]

Tripura's first-class victories

Tripura won their first first-class victory in the 2005–06 season. Until then they had played 87 matches for 65 losses and 22 draws. [12] In their last match of the season, after two draws and two losses, they played Himachal Pradesh at Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium in Agartala, Tripura's main home ground. Their captain, Rajib Dutta, scored 32 and 71 not out in a low-scoring match in which no one else reached 50, and Tripura won by 130 runs. Vineet Jain, Tripura's opening bowler, took 2 for 20 and 7 for 29. [13]

Since then Tripura have registered a victory in most seasons. In 2006–07, again at Agartala and captained by Dutta, they beat Jammu and Kashmir by 132 runs, Jain taking 4 for 40 and 5 for 40. [14] In 2007–08, once again at Agartala and now captained by Rajesh Banik, they beat Kerala by four wickets. Dutta top-scored with 47 to give Tripura a narrow first-innings lead, and Jain took 4 for 42 and 2 for 53. [15] In 2008–09, captained by Tushar Saha, they had their first away victory when they beat Services by 54 runs at the Palam A Stadium in New Delhi. [16] In 2009–10, once again at Agartala and captained by Dutta, they beat Rajasthan, who later went on to win the Ranji Trophy in 2010–11 and 2011–12, by one wicket. [17] In 2010–11, captained again by Dutta, they beat Goa by seven wickets at Porvorim, Timir Chanda taking 4 for 35 and 7 for 116. [18]

After a season without a victory Tripura, captained by Ajay Ratra, beat Himachal Pradesh at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium in Nadaun in 2012–13 by 169 runs, Subhrajit Roy scoring 111 in the first innings. Manisankar Murasingh made 29 and 63 and took 4 for 86 and 1 for 34. [19] Tripura's next victory came nearly four years later, when, in their most overwhelming victory to date, they beat Services by 219 runs in 2016–17 at Guwahati after declaring at 340 for 3 in their second innings. Udiyan Bose scored 165 and Smit Patel 127 not out, and the captain, Manisankar Murasingh, scored 22 in each innings and took three wickets in each innings. [20]

In December 2018, during the sixth round of the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy, they beat Goa by 10 wickets. It was the first time that Tripura had won a match by 10 wickets and the first time they had earned a bonus point in the Ranji Trophy. [21] Up to and including that fixture, they had played 171 first-class matches, winning only nine of them. [21] [22] However, in the following month, they were dismissed for 35 runs in their first innings against Rajasthan. It was their lowest total in first-class cricket. [23]

Individual records

Tripura's highest first-class score is 212 by Yogesh Takawale against Hyderabad in 2013–14. [24] The best bowling figures are 8 for 133 by Timir Chanda against Himachal Pradesh in 2011–12. [25] In October 2016 Rana Dutta became the first bowler to take a hat-trick for Tripura. [26]

Rajib Dutta played in Tripura's first five victories, captaining the side in four of them.

Home grounds

Players

Squad

NameBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleNote
Batters
Ganesh Satish 15 March 1988 (age 35)Right-handed
Bikramkumar Das 15 November 1999 (age 24)Left-handedRight-arm off break
Sudip Chatterjee 11 November 1991 (age 32)Left-handedRight-arm leg break
Rajat Dey 31 December 1996 (age 27)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Sridam Paul1 February 2002 (age 22)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Bishal Ghosh 27 April 1996 (age 27)Right-handed
Babul Dey27 April 1996 (age 27)Right-handed
All-rounders
Bikramjit Debnath 26 December 1998 (age 25)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Subham Ghosh 7 October 1998 (age 25)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Pallab Das 31 August 1998 (age 25)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Wicket-keeper
Wriddhiman Saha 24 October 1984 (age 39)Right-handedCaptain
Plays for Gujarat Lions in IPL
Spin Bowlers
Parvez Sultan 18 July 2003 (age 20)Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
Sankar Paul 15 November 2000 (age 23)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Joydeb Deb24 October 2005 (age 18)Right-handedRight-arm leg break
Amit Ali 26 October 2002 (age 21)Right-handedRight-arm leg break
Viki Saha 31 December 1997 (age 26)Right-handedRight-arm off break
Pace Bowlers
Manisankar Murasingh 1 January 1993 (age 31)Left-handedRight-arm medium Vice-captain
Abhijit Sarkar 20 December 1996 (age 27)Right-handedRight-arm medium
Rana Dutta 15 May 1989 (age 34)Left-handedRight-arm medium
Ajoy Sarkar 10 May 1997 (age 26)Right-handedRight-arm medium

Updated as on 19 February 2024

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References

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  2. ↑ Wisden 1987, p. 1138.
  3. ↑ "Tripura's first-class playing record". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
  4. ↑ "Tripura's List A playing record". CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
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  7. ↑ Wisden 1988, p. 1100.
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  9. ↑ Wisden 2004, pp. 1384–85.
  10. ↑ Wisden 2005, pp. 1461–62.
  11. ↑ Wisden 2006, pp. 1345–46.
  12. ↑ Wisden 2007, p. 1383.
  13. ↑ "Tripura v Himachal Pradesh 2005–06". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "Tripura v Jammu and Kashmir 2006–07". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  15. ↑ "Tripura v Kerala 2007–08". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
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  17. ↑ "Tripura v Rajasthan 2009–10". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  18. ↑ "Goa v Tripura 2010–11". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  19. ↑ "Himachal Pradesh v Tripura 2012–13". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  20. ↑ "Services v Tripura 2016–17". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  21. 1 2 "Race for quarter-finals hots up, Tripura make history". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
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  23. ↑ "Ranji Trophy: Rajasthan skittle Tripura for 35, their lowest total ever". Cricket Country. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  24. ↑ Hyderabad v Tripura 2013–14
  25. ↑ Tripura v Himachal Pradesh 2011–12
  26. ↑ "Group C: Himachal Pradesh v Tripura at Kalyani, Oct 20–23, 2016". Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

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