Central Zone cricket team

For the women's cricket team, see Central Zone women's cricket team. For the similarly named Pakistani team, see Central Zone cricket team (Pakistan). For the similarly named Bangladeshi team, see Central Zone cricket team (Bangladesh).

The Central Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents central India in the Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. It is a composite team of players from seven first-class Indian teams from central India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Vidarbha. 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.^[1]

Current squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold. Updated as on 30 Jul 2023

Name	Domestic team	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Format	Notes
Batters
Rinku Singh	Uttar Pradesh	(1997-10-12) 12 October 1997 (age 27)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	First-class & List A
Shubham Sharma	Madhya Pradesh	(1993-12-24) 24 December 1993 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	First-class
Vivek Singh	Railways	(1993-11-01) 1 November 1993 (age 31)	Left-handed	Right arm medium	First-class
Kunal Chandela	Uttarakhand	(1994-07-07) 7 July 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right arm medium	First-class
Amandeep Khare	Chhattisgarh	(1997-08-05) 5 August 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right arm medium	First-class
Shivam Chaudhary	Railways	(1997-04-04) 4 April 1997 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	List A
Madhav Kaushik	Uttar Pradesh	(1998-01-03) 3 January 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right arm off break	List A
Yash Dubey	Madhya Pradesh	(1998-12-23) 23 December 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	List A
Yash Kothari	Rajasthan	(1995-10-06) 6 October 1995 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	List A
Pratham Singh	Railways	(1992-08-31) 31 August 1992 (age 32)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	List A
All-rounder
Venkatesh Iyer	Madhya Pradesh	(1994-12-25) 25 December 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right arm medium	List A	Captain
Wicket-keepers
Himanshu Mantri	Madhya Pradesh	(1994-02-09) 9 February 1994 (age 31)	Left-handed	-	First-class
Akshay Wadkar	Vidarbha	(1994-07-09) 9 July 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	-	First-class
Upendra Yadav	Railways	(1996-10-08) 8 October 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	-	First-class & List A
Dhruv Jurel	Uttar Pradesh	(2001-01-21) 21 January 2001 (age 24)	Right-handed	-	First-class
Aryan Juyal	Uttar Pradesh	(2001-11-11) 11 November 2001 (age 23)	Right-handed	-	List A
Spin Bowlers
Saurabh Kumar	Uttar Pradesh	(1993-05-01) 1 May 1993 (age 32)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class
Saransh Jain	Madhya Pradesh	(1993-03-31) 31 March 1993 (age 32)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	First-class & List A
Manav Suthar	Rajasthan	(2002-08-03) 3 August 2002 (age 22)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	First-class
Karn Sharma	Railways	(1987-10-23) 23 October 1987 (age 37)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break	List A
Aditya Sarwate	Vidarbha	(1989-12-10) 10 December 1989 (age 35)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	List A
Pace Bowlers
Avesh Khan	Madhya Pradesh	(1996-12-13) 13 December 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class
Shivam Mavi	Uttar Pradesh	(1998-11-26) 26 November 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	First-class & List A	Vice-captain
Yash Thakur	Vidarbha	(1998-12-28) 28 December 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	First-class & List A
Aniket Choudhary	Rajasthan	(1990-01-28) 28 January 1990 (age 35)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	List A
Akash Madhwal	Uttarakhand	(1993-11-25) 25 November 1993 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast	List A

Famous players from Central Zone

Main article: List of Central Zone cricketers

• Pravin Amre^[2]
• Murali Kartik
• Mohammad Kaif
• Amay Khurasiya
• Suresh Raina
• R. P. Singh
• Praveen Kumar
• Piyush Chawla
• Umesh Yadav
• Naman Ojha
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar
• Ishwar Pandey
• Pankaj Singh