Assam Cricket Association

Assam Cricket Association

Sport	Cricket
Jurisdiction	Assam
Abbreviation	ACA
Founded	1947 (1947)
Affiliation	Board of Control for Cricket in India
Affiliation date	1960 (1960)
Regional affiliation	East
Headquarters	Barsapara Cricket Stadium
Location	Guwahati
President	Himanta Biswa Sarma
Secretary	Pradip Buragohain
Coach	Sunil Joshi

Assam Cricket Association is the governing body of the Cricket activities in the Assam state of India and the Assam cricket team. It is affiliated to the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

The current office of the Assam Cricket Association is at the ACA Stadium, Guwahati. Himanta Biswa Sarma became the president of the Assam Cricket Association in June 2016.

History

Since Assam played its first home match in 1948, it has also played first-class home matches in chronological order Shillong, Jorhat, Nowgong, Dibrugarh, Karimganj, Hailakandi, Mangaldoi and Tinsukia.^[1]

Until the 2002–03 season, when the zonal system was abandoned, Assam formed part of Eastern Zone. It has not seen much success in the Ranji Trophy circuit but won their plate group in 2006/07 before losing the semi-final to Orissa, despite having not won a first-class match in the previous two seasons.

In 2009–10 season Assam entered into eltite group of the Ranji Trophy. In 2009-10 Ranji Trophy season Assam topped the plate group and subsequently progressed to the Super League. However, in the 2010–11 season, it ended at the bottom of its group in the Super League and face relegation to Plate League for the next season. In the 2012-13 edition of Vijay Hazare Trophy Assam played extremely well and finished runners up.^[2] In 2014-15 Ranji season Assam again promoted to Group A level.^[3]

The foundation stone of the Barsapara Cricket Stadium was laid by Chief Minister of Assam Tarun Gogoi in June 2004 and he again laid the foundation stone of the club house and stand of the stadium in July 2007 in the presence of then Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Niranjan Shah.

In 2010, Assam Cricket Association change the Barsapara Cricket Stadium’s name in memory of the late Dr. Bhupen Hazarika.

On November 4, 2012, the East Zone Senior Women's Interstate One-day Championship match between Assam women's cricket team and Odisha women's cricket team became the first match to be played at the ground.^[4][5] In the 2013-14 Ranji Trophy season, the ground hosted four matches. Assam against Kerala was the first first-class match.

Himanta Biswa Sarma became the president of the Assam Cricket Association in June 2016 when his party man Pradip Buragohain became the secretary.^[6][7][8][9] Dr Sarma was also longest serving vice president of the association serving from 2002 to 2016. Anjan Dutta was longest serving President of Assam Cricket Association.^[10][11]

Tournaments

Assam Cricket Association conducts various district level tournaments for different age groups. Those are:

• Assam Challenger League
• Nuruddin Ahmed Trophy (Senior Inter-district)
• Nurul Amin Trophy (Senior One Day)
• J.K. Baruah Trophy (Under 19)
• R.G. Barooah Trophy (Under 16)
• Amarjit Sarma Trophy (Under 15)
• Umananda Bora Trophy (under 13)

Home Grounds

• Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
• Nehru Stadium, Guwahati, hosted 14 ODIs.
• Northeast Frontier Railway Stadium, Maligaon
• Satindra Mohan Dev Stadium, Silchar

Affiliated Members

Affiliated members of Assam Cricket Association are: North-East Frontier Railway Sports Association, Tezpur, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Nowgong, Barpeta, Jorhat, Bongaigaon, Sivasagar, Charaideo, Golaghat, Tinsukia, Nazira, Morigaon, Goalpara, Dhubri, Biswanath Chariali, Karimganj, Hailakandi, Karbi Anglong, Dima Hasao, Kaliabor, Titabor, Margherita, Bokakhat, Rangiya, Udalguri, Kokrajhar, Lakhimpur, Hojai, Bajali, North Salmara, Bilasipara, Nalbari, Mangaldoi and Dhemaji.

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