North Zone cricket team

The North Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents northern India in the Duleep Trophy. It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from northern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: 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 the 1994-95.

Famous players from North Zone

• Bishen Singh Bedi
• Akash Chopra
• Kapil Dev
• Gautam Gambhir
• Dinesh Mongia
• Virender Sehwag
• Ishant Sharma
• Navjot Singh Sidhu
• Harbhajan Singh
• Yuvraj Singh
• Lala Amarnath

North Zone also had the services of some very famous indian cricketers before partition such as

• Dr Jehangir Khan
• Dilawar Hussain
• Gul Muhammad
• Nazar Muhammad
• A H Kardar
• Fazal Mahmood
• Imtiaz Ahmed

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