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
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
