Deep Dasgupta (pronunciationⓘ; born 7 June 1977) 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.
[citation needed] He later joined the Indian Cricket League, where he played for the Royal Bengal Tigers.
His debut series was an eventful one, in which the famous incident involving Mike Denness took place.
Dasgupta was one of the six cricketers along with Sachin Tendulkar, virender Sehwag, Saurav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, and Shiv Sunder Das to be banned by Denness for one Test.
He is only the second captain after Sambaran Banerjee to lead the team to two Ranji Trophy finals in consecutive seasons (06-07).