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 seven first-class Indian teams from northern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Chandigarh, 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
Players with international caps are listed in bold. Updated as on 24 Jul 2023
Name Domestic team Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Format Notes Batsmen Manan Vohra Chandigarh Right-handed Right arm medium First-class Dhruv Shorey Delhi Right-handed Right arm off break First-class Prashant Chopra Himachal Pradesh Right-handed Right arm leg break First-class Ankit Kalsi Himachal Pradesh Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class Ankit Kumar Haryana Right-handed Right arm off break First-class Nehal Wadhera Punjab Left-handed Right arm leg break First-class Mandeep Singh Punjab Right-handed Right arm medium List A Shubham Khajuria Jammu & Kashmir Right-handed Right arm off break List A Vivrant Sharma Jammu & Kashmir Left-handed Right arm leg break List A Himanshu Rana Haryana Right-handed Right arm medium-fast List A Shubham Rohilla Services Left-handed Right arm leg break List A All-rounders Nishant Sindhu Haryana Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class & List A Rishi Dhawan Himachal Pradesh Right-handed Right arm medium-fast List A Nitish Rana Delhi Right-handed Right arm off break List A List A Captain Abhishek Sharma Punjab Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox List A Wicket-keepers Prabhsimran Singh Punjab Right-handed - First-class & List A Shubham Arora Himachal Pradesh Left-handed - List A Spin Bowlers Jayant Yadav Haryana Right-handed Right arm off break First-class First-class Captain Pulkit Narang Services Right-handed Right arm off break First-class Abid Mushtaq Jammu & Kashmir Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox First-class Mayank Markande Punjab Right-handed Right arm leg break List A Mayank Dagar Himachal Pradesh Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox List A Pace Bowlers Siddarth Kaul Punjab Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast First-class Baltej Dhanda Punjab Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class Harshit Rana Delhi Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class & List A Vaibhav Arora Himachal Pradesh Right-handed Right arm medium-fast First-class & List A Sandeep Sharma Chandigarh Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast List A Mayank Yadav Delhi Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast List A
Notable players from North Zone
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 Aakash Chopra
North Zone also had the services of some very famous Pakistani cricketers before partition, such as Dr Jehangir Khan Dilawar Hussain Gul Mohammad Nazar Mohammad A H Kardar Fazal Mahmood Imtiaz Ahmed Akshay Patel
References
External links Lists of matches played by North Zone at CricketArchive