Another Bengali in the Indian Team

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Shib Sankar Paul has been selected for the Indian team of 14 as a medium pacer. He comes from a very remote place called TufanGanj of Coochbihar Dist, West Bengal . TufanGanj is just across the Rangpur border where a lot of Bangladeshi enclaves "ChitMahals" are and it is famous for Singer AbbasUddin. If not told where you are - you can easily confuse this place with any remote sub-division town of northern Bangladesh. It amazes me that you can find a 6'4'' strong-built pacer in a remote north bengal village but they are so hard to find in the cities.

Best wishes for Shib.

ShibSankar Paul

2 other benglais, ss das and deep dasgupta have played for ind earlier and have been dropped.

[AsifTheManRahman]

was debashish mohanty also bengali?

[AsifTheManRahman]

oh arun lal...?

[AsifTheManRahman]

oh arun lal...?

[mahbubH]

Arunlal actually from Delhi and he plays some matches for Delhi in his early carrer but he moved in Kolkata in early 80's I guess. Now he is bengali!!

Mohanti is from Orissa but not sure whether he is bengali or not.

[cricketfan]

Debashish Mohanti and S.S. Das are from Orissa. Bengalis who played for India in the past include Pranob Roy( now national selector from East Zone), Ambar Roy, Dilip Doshi,Subroto Bannerji( He is a Bengali but played for Bihar in Ranji Trophy).

ArunLal originally played for Delhi. He shifted to West Bengal,played for West Bengal and settled down in Bengal and ever married a Bengali girl. So he is a Bengali by now. Ashok Malhotra is another who shifted to Bengal after playing for Punjab earlier.

Edited on, November 2, 2004, 10:53 AM GMT, by cricketfan.

[reinausagi]

Pranab Roy opened as Gavaskar's partner in 81-82 for a couple of tests is from Bengal. Currently he is a test selector for India.

[reverse_swing]

What about Pankaj Roy(1960-61 )? I think he was the most famous bengali cricketer before Ganguli era.

Edited on, November 2, 2004, 5:05 PM GMT, by reverse_swing.

[BushidoTiger]

Originally posted by cricketfan
Debashish Mohanti and S.S. Das are from Orissa.
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Orissa, as well as Bihar (and Assam) have significant number of Bengalis. These two names seem to be ethnically Bengali.

[nihi]

Originally posted by reverse_swing
What about Pankaj Roy(1960-61 )? I think he was the most famous bengali cricketer before Ganguli era.

Edited on, November 2, 2004, 5:05 PM GMT, by reverse_swing.

Pankaj Roy happened to be Pranab's father.

[Nasif]

The thread was split after this point as the discussion suggested a new topic. It can be found under Forget Cricket forum, Rabindranath & Bengali

Edited on, November 5, 2004, 5:22 AM GMT, by nasif.

[TigerFan]

Who cares if bengalis plays for indians or not. Only thing we have similar with west Bengalis is our food and language, thats it.