The Central Zone cricket team is a
first-class cricket
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team that represents central
India in the
Duleep Trophy and
Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from central India competing in the
Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy (also known as Mastercard Ranji Trophy for sponsorship reasons) is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between multiple teams representing regional and state cricket associations. Board of Control for Cr ...
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Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
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Madhya Pradesh,
Railways,
Rajasthan,
Uttar Pradesh and
Vidarbha
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. Central Zone has the fourth strongest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 5 times, with the best team,
North Zone having won 17 times.
Current squad
Famous players from Central Zone
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Pravin Amre
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Murali Kartik
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Mohammad Kaif
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Amay Khurasiya
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Suresh Raina
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R. P. Singh
Rudra Pratap Singh (born 17 December 2007) is an Indian former cricketer, who played for the India national cricket team in Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International cricket as a left arm fast-medium bowler. In September 2018, he ...
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Praveen Kumar
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Piyush Chawla
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Umesh Yadav
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Naman Ojha
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Bhuvneshwar Kumar
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Ishwar Pandey
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Pankaj Singh
References
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Indian first-class cricket teams