Debu Mitra (born 7 August 1948) is a former Indian first-class

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er who played for

Bengal cricket team The Bengal cricket team represents the Indian state of West Bengal in domestic first-class cricket. It is considered Eastern India's strongest cricket team. The team plays its home matches at the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Bengal has wo ...

from 1968/69 to 1973/74. He became a cricket coach in the 1990s and works as the head coach of

Saurashtra cricket team Saurashtra cricket team is one of the three first-class cricket teams based in Gujarat (the others being Baroda and Gujarat) that compete in the first-class tournament Ranji Trophy and limited-overs Vijay Hazare Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trop ...

Career

Mitra played as a right-hand batsman and occasional right-arm

off break Off spin is a type of finger spin bowling in cricket. A bowler who uses this technique is called an off spinner. Off spinners are right-handed spin bowlers who use their fingers to spin the ball. Their normal delivery is an off break, which spi ...

bowler, representing

. He appeared in 14 first-class matches between the 1968/69 and 1973/74 seasons. After having coached Bengal as well as India under-19s, Mitra became the coach of

in the 2004/05 season when the team was in the Plate division of 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 ...

. Being regarded as minnows, Saurashtra became the Plate division champions in 2005/06 and were promoted to the Elite division of the Ranji Trophy. Saurashtra reached the Ranji semifinals for the first time in 2007/08 and also became the champions of the 2007–08

Vijay Hazare Trophy The Vijay Hazare Trophy, (officially known as Mastercard Vijay Hazare trophy for sponsorship reasons) also known as the Ranji One-Day Trophy, is an annual limited-overs cricket domestic competition involving state teams from the Ranji Trophy pl ...

(Ranji One-day Trophy). Saurashtra reached the Ranji semifinals for a second consecutive time in the following season, and became runners-up of

2012–13 Ranji Trophy The 2012–13 Ranji Trophy was the 79th season of the Ranji Trophy. It was contested by 27 teams divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B proceeded to the quarterfinals along with the top two teams fr ...

, under Mitra's mentorship. Mitra is the childhood coach of Indian cricketers like

Sourav Ganguly Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (; natively spelled as Gangopadhyay; born 8 July 1972), affectionately known as Dada (meaning ''"elder brother"'' in Bengali), is an Indian cricket administrator, commentator and former national cricket team captain w ...

and

Ravindra Jadeja Ravindrasinh Anirudhsinh Jadeja (born 6 December 1988), commonly known as Ravindra Jadeja, is an Indian international cricketer. He is an all-rounder, who bats left-handed and bowls left-arm orthodox spin. He was the captain of the Chennai Sup ...

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