The West Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket

Cricket

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 team that represents western India in the Duleep Trophy

Duleep Trophy

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. It is a composite team of players from five first-class Indian teams from western India competing in the Ranji Trophy

Ranji Trophy

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: Baroda

Baroda cricket team

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, Gujarat

Gujarat cricket team

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, Maharashtra

Maharashtra cricket team

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, Mumbai

Mumbai cricket team

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 and Saurashtra

Saurashtra cricket team

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. West Zone has the second strongest track record of all the zones in the Duleep Trophy, as they have won the Trophy 16 times, one behind the most successful team, North Zone

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...

. This included four consecutive titles from 1961-62 through to the 1964-65 season , although the third of these were shared with South Zone

South Zone cricket team

The South Zone cricket team is a first-class cricket team that represents southern India in the Duleep Trophy. It is a composite team of players from six first-class Indian teams from southern India competing in the Ranji Trophy: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu...

. They last won the Duleep Trophy in 2005/06.

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• Sairaj Bahutule
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• Sunil Gavaskar
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• Vijay Hazare
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• Wasim Jaffer
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• Vinod Kambli
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• Hrishikesh Kanitkar
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• Vinoo Mankad
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• Nayan Mongia
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• Parthiv Patel
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• Irfan Pathan
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• Yusuf Pathan
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• Rohit Sharma
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• Sachin Tendulkar
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• Zaheer Khan
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