14 Facts About Deep Dasgupta

Deep Dasgupta is a former Indian cricketer who played in eight Test matches and five One Day Internationals between 2001 and 2006 as the national wicketkeeper and was later replaced by Ajay Ratra.

An aggressive opening batsman, Dasgupta played for Bengal, where he took over as captain following the resignation of Sourav Ganguly, and was the reserve wicketkeeper for East Zone behind the national wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Deep Dasgupta later joined the Indian Cricket League, where he played for the Royal Bengal Tigers.

Deep Dasgupta studied at the Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi and gradually started doing very good as wicket keeper - batsman for his school team.

Deep Dasgupta was in the special care of his school team coach always for his promising performance and hard works.

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Deep Dasgupta later shifted to Kolkata and joined the Hindu College to complete his graduation.

Deep Dasgupta was coached by Sunita Sharma, the first woman to coach a Test cricketer in India.

Deep Dasgupta started his career as an opening batsman - wicket keeper and showed the class in him in the first match itself, scoring a century on debut in Ranji Trophy against Baroda.

Deep Dasgupta was included in India's squad to South Africa in 2001.

Deep Dasgupta scored 34 and 4 in that game and had a useful partnership with Sehwag in the first innings.

Deep Dasgupta's debut series was an eventful one, in which the famous incident involving Mike Denness took place.

Deep Dasgupta has been one of the successful captains the Bengal Ranji team has ever had.

Deep Dasgupta is only the second captain after Sambaran Banerjee to lead the team to two Ranji Trophy finals in consecutive seasons.

Deep Dasgupta is currently a commentator in India and can be seen doing that very often during the Indian Premier League and was the part of commentary team during the ICC World T20 2016 in India.