The 91st edition of India’s premier First-Class competition, the Ranji Trophy, returns on October 15, 2025, marking the full-scale resumption of the domestic red-ball season. A total of 38 teams will compete across the country, with defending champions Vidarbha entering as firm favourites after their recent Irani Cup triumph in Nagpur. Over the next five months, as many as 138 matches will unfold in a packed domestic schedule that intersperses red-ball and white-ball action.
Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Format & Schedule
The tournament will follow a two-phase format, similar to last season. The opening leg runs from October 15 to November 19, followed by a break for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (November 26–December 18) and Vijay Hazare Trophy (December 26–January 18). The Ranji Trophy will then resume with the final two rounds of league matches from January 22 to February 1, 2026, before the knockout stages begin. The final is scheduled for February 28, 2026.
The 32 Elite teams are split into four groups of eight, with each team playing a single round-robin within its group. The top two from each group will advance to the quarter-finals. Meanwhile, six teams in the Plate division will battle in a round-robin format, with the top two playing the Plate final and the rest competing for ranking playoffs.
Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Groups and What’s at Stake
- Elite Group A: Tamil Nadu, Baroda, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra, Nagaland
- Elite Group B: Saurashtra, Chandigarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Goa
- Elite Group C: Gujarat, Haryana, Services, Bengal, Railways, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Assam
- Elite Group D: Mumbai, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Hyderabad, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Puducherry
- Plate Group: Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar
Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Squads of all the teams
| Team | Players |
|---|---|
| Baroda | Mitesh Patel, Shivalik Sharma, Vishnu Solanki, Atit Sheth (c), Bhargav Bhatt (vc), Raj Limbani, Lukman Meriwala, Rasikh Salem, Jyotsnil Singh, Akshay More, Sukirt Pandey, Nitya Pandey, Mahesh Pithya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Paras Dogra (c), Abdul Samad, Shubham Khajuria, Qamran Iqbal, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Umran Malik, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir, Mujtaba Yousuf, Musaif Ajaz, Sahil Lotra, Vanshaj Sharma, Umar Nazir Mir, Kanhaiya Wadhawan, Yawer Hassan |
| Maharashtra | Ankeet Bawane (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Prithvi Shaw, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Saurabh Nawale (wk), Mandar Bhandari (wk), Jalaj Saxena, Vicky Ostwal, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Hitesh Walunj, Siddharth Mhatre, Harshal Kate, Rajneesh Gurbani |
| Meghalaya | Kishan Lyngodh (c), Akash Choudhary (vc), Kush Agarwal, Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Swastic Chettri, Rahul Dalal, Bijon Dey, Ajay Duhan, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Aaron Nongrum, Dippu Sangma, Chengkam Sangma, Arien Sangma, Bamanbha Shangpliang |
| Mumbai | Shardul Thakur (c), Ayush Mhatre, Akash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Siddhesh Lad, Ajinkya Rahane, Sarfaraz Khan, Shivam Dube, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Sylvester D’Souza, Irfan Umair, Musheer Khan, Akhil Herwadkar, Royston Dias |
| Odisha | Subhranshu Senapati (c), Govinda Poddar, Swastik Samal, Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Sambit Baral, Gourav Choudhury, Rajesh Dhuper, Sandeep Pattnaik, Rajesh Mohanty, Sunil Roul, Sumit Sharma, Aashirwad Swain, Tapas Das, Tarani Sa |
| Services | Rajat Paliwal, Amarjeet Singh, Jayant Goyat, Irfan Khan, Mohit Jangra, Aditya Kumar, Devender Lochab, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Ravi Chauhan, Arjun Sharma, Amit Shukla, Vikas Yadav |
| Tripura | Bikramkumar Das, Rajat Dey, Manisankar Murasingh (c), Sridam Paul (vc), Vijay Shankar, Hanuma Vihari, Parvez Sultan, Sankar Paul, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Swapnil Singh, Arjun Debnath, Bikramjit Debnath, Babul Dey, Subham Ghosh, Viki Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Nirupam Sen |
| Andhra | Ricky Bhui (c), SK Rasheed, Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Saurabh Kumar, Prithvi Raj, Satyanarayana Raju, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Siraparapu Ashish, Karan Shinde, Abhishek Reddy, Revanth Reddy, Kavuri Salteja, Yara Sandeep, Cheepurapalli Stephen |
| Gujarat | Arya Desai, Kshtij Patel, Urvil Patel, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Ravi Bishnoi, Manan Hingrajia (c), Siddharth Desai, Abhishek Desai, Umang Kumar, Hemang Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Priyesh Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jayswal |
| Himachal Pradesh | Ankush Bains, Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Nikhil Gangta, Akash Vashisht, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Arpit Guleria, Aryaman Singh, Divesh Sharma, Ankit Kalsi, Mukul Negi, Pukhraj Mann, Sidhant Purohit, Ravi Thakur, Vipin Sharma |
| Hyderabad | Tilak Varma, Rahul Singh, C.V. Milind, Tanmay Agarwal, M. Abhirath Reddy, Himateja, Varun Goud, Tanay Thyagarajan, Rohit Rayudu, Saranu Nishant, Punnaiah, Aniketh Reddy, Kartikeya Kak, Ali Kachi Diamond (wk), Rahul Radesh (wk). Standbys: P. Nitish Reddy, Sai Pragnay Reddy, Rakshann Reddy, Nitesh Kanala, Mikhil Jaiswal |
| Puducherry | Sagar Udeshi (c), Ganga Sridhar Raju, Mohit Kale, Aman Khan, Jayant Yadav, Abin Mathew, Siddhant Addhatrao, A Aravinddaraj, Anand Bais, Vedant Bhardwaj, Puneet Datey, Gaurav Yadav, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Krishna Pandey, Ajay Rohera, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sidak Singh, Murugaiyan Sivamurugan, Parandaman Thamaraikannan |
| Rajasthan | Sumit Godara, Kartik Sharma (wk), Kunal Singh Rathore (wk), Abhijeet Tomar, Mahipal Lomror (c), Deepak Hooda, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kukna Ajay Singh, Akash Singh, Ashok Sharma, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Ankit Chaudhary, Mukul Choudhary |
| Uttarakhand | Prashant Chopra, Bhupen Lalwani, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Abhay Negi, Rajan Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kunal Chandela (c), Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Harsh Patwal, Sagar Rawat, Saurabh Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi |
| Vidarbha | Akshay Wadkar (c) (wk), Yash Rathod (vc), Danish Malewar, Aman Mokhade, R. Samarth, Dhruv Shorey, Nachiket Bhute, Harsh Dubey, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Praful Hinge, Akshay Karnewar, Darshan Nalkande, Aditya Thakare, Yash Thakur, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Yash Kadam |
| Bengal | Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Abishek Porel (vc) (wk), Sudip Kumar Gharami, Anustup Majumdar, Sudip Chatterjee, Sumanta Gupta, Saurabh Kumar Singh, Vishal Bhati, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Shakir Habib Gandhi (wk), Ishan Porel, Kazi Junaid Saifi, Rahul Prasad, Sumit Mohanta, Vikash Singh |
| Bihar | Piyush Kumar Singh, Bhashkar Dubey, Sakibul Gani (c), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (vc), Arnav Kishor, Ayush Loharuka, Bipin Saurabh, Amod Yadav, Nawaz Khan, Sakib Hussain, Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Sachin Kumar Singh, Himanshu Singh, Khalid Alam, Sachin Kumar |
| Haryana | Ankit Kumar, Yuvraj Singh, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Parth Vats, Anshul Kamboj, Anuj Thakral, Lakshay Dalal, Dheeru Singh, Kapil Hooda, Aman Kumar, Nikhil Kashyap, Bhuwan Rohilla, Mayank Shandilya, Yashvardhan Dalal |
| Karnataka | Mayank Agarwal (c), Karun Nair, R. Smaran, K.L. Shrijith (wk), K.V. Aneesh, Abhinav Manohar, Nikin Jose, V. Vyshak, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shreyas Gopal, Kruthik Krishna (wk), Shikhar Shetty, Mohsin Khan, Abhilash Shetty, M. Venkatesh |
| Kerala | Mohammed Azharuddeen (c), Ahammed Imran, Akshay Chandran, Rohan Kunnummal, Sachin Baby, Salman Nizar, Sanju Samson, Baba Aparajith, Eden Apple Tom, Ankit Sharma, Nedumankuzhy Basil, MD Nidheesh, Vathsal Govind, Shoun Roger |
| Madhya Pradesh | Rajat Patidar (c), Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Shubham Sharma, Himanshu Mantri, Harpreet Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Sagar Solanki, Kumar Kartikey, Saransh Jain, Adhir Pratap, Aryan Pandey, Arshad Khan, Anubhav Agarwal, Kuldeep Sen |
| Punjab | Naman Dhir (c), Anmolpreet Singh, Harnoor Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Uday Saharan, Nehal Wadhera, Gurnoor Brar, Raghu Sharma, Salil Arora, Ayush Goyal, Prerit Dutta, Harjas Singh, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Krish Bhagat |
| Uttar Pradesh | Aryan Juyal (vc), Abhishek Goswami, Priyam Garg, Madhav Kaushik, Rinku Singh, Karan Sharma (c), Aaqib Khan, Vipraj Nigam, Shivam Mavi, Aaditya Sharma, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kunal Tyagi, Shivam Sharma, Siddarth Yadav, Prashant Veer, Vijay Kumar |
| Assam | Denish Das (c), Riyan Parag, Sibsankar Roy, Rahul Singh, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Avinov Choudhury, Bhargab Lahkar, Ayushman Malakar, Mukhtar Hussain, Parvej Musaraf, Swarupam Purkayastha, Darshan Rajbongshi, Pradyun Saikia, Akash Sengupta, Abhishek Thakuri |
| Chandigarh | Manan Vohra (c), Raj Bawa, Bhagmender Lather, Abhishek Saini, Arjun Azad, Shivam Bhambri, Raman Bishnoi, Jagjit Singh, Vishu Kashyap, Ankit Kaushik, Kunal Mahajan, Mohit Soni, Nikhil Thakur, Nishunk Birla, Mayank Sidhu |
| Chhattisgarh | Sanjeet Desai, Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Arafat Khan, Amandeep Khare, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Shashank Chandrakar, Ashish Chouhan, Sourabh Majumdar, Ravi Kiran, Sahban Khan, Anuj Tiwary, Vashudev Bareth, Prateek Yadav |
| Delhi | Ayush Badoni (c), Yash Dhull (vc), Arpit Rana, Sanat Sangwan, Anuj Rawat (wk), Sumit Mathur, Shivam Sharma, Rounak Waghela, Navdeep Saini, Simarjeet Singh, Money Grewal, Siddhant Sharma, Dhruv Kaushik, Pranav Rajvanshi (wk), Nitish Rana, Himmat Singh, Ayush Doseja, Rahul Dagar, Hrithik Shokeen, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi (wk), Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Aryan Rana (subject to fitness) |
| Jharkhand | Ishan Kishan (c) (wk), Virat Singh (vc), Kumar Kushagra (wk), Rishav Raj, Anukul Roy, Sushant Mishra, Manishi, Shikhar Mohan, Jatin Pandey, Sahil Raj, Aryaman Sen, Sharandeep Singh, Shubham Singh, Aditya Singh, Kumar Suraj, Vikas Kumar, Vikash Singh |
| Railways | Pratham Singh (c), Suraj Ahuja, Vivek Singh, Upendra Yadav, Karn Sharma, Aryan Chaudhuri, Shivam Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Bhargav Merai, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Himanshu Sangwan, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali |
| Tamil Nadu | N. Jagadeesan (wk) (c), Pradosh Ranjan Paul (v-c), B. Indrajith, M. Shahrukh Khan, R. Vimal Khumar, B. Sachin, C. Andre Siddarth, R.S. Ambrish, P. Vidyuth, D.T. Chandrasekar, Sandeep Warrier, Gurjapneet Singh, C.V. Achyuth, H. Trilok Nag, J. Hemchudesan, G. Ajitesh (wk) |
| Saurashtra | Harvik Desai, Tarang Gohel, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Jaydev Unadkat (c), Yuvrajsinh Dodiya, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Ansh Gosai, Jay Gohil, Kevin Jivrajani, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Neelam Obi (c), Abhinav Singh, Siddarth Balodi, Biki Kumar, Limar Dabi, Darge Bagra, Techi Doria, Licha Jhon, Penjor Mangal, TNR Mohith, Nabam Dol, Nabam Natung, Techi Neri, Yorjum Sera, Nabam Tatang, Yab Niya, Kamsha Yangfo |
| Nagaland | Chetan Bist, Nzanthung Mozhui, Rongsen Jonathan, Imliwati Lemtur, Ronit More, Tahmeed Rahman, Dip Borah, Hem Chetri, Dega Nischal, Sedezhalie Rupero, Yugandhar Singh, Vino Zhimomi |
| Goa | Deepraj Gaonkar (c), Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Arjun Tendulkar, Kashyap Bakhale, Samar Dubhashi, Ishaan Gadekar, Rajashekhar Harikant, Manthan Khutkar, Heramb Parab, Vijesh Prabhudessai, Mohit Redkar, Vikas Singh |
| Manipur | Al Bashid Muhammed, Johnson Singh, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, L Kishan Singha, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Ronald Longjam, Mohammed Mustaque, Naesh Hussain, Amom Singh, Kishan Thokchom, Lamabam Singh, Rex Rajkumar, Kangabam Priyojit, Pheiroijam Jotin, Karnajit Yumnam |
| Mizoram | Codanda Ajit Karthik, KC Cariappa, Jehu Anderson, G Lalbiakvela, Lalhruaizela, F Lalmuanzuala, Lalrempuia, Marty Lalrinhlua, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Lalhruai Ralte, Sahil Reza, Sumit Lama, Khiangte Vanrotlinga, Bobby Zothansanga |
| Sikkim | Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Singh, Lee Yong Lepcha (c), Amit Rajera, Pranesh Chettri, Arun Chettri, Nilesh Lamichaney, Robin Limboo, Bhim Luitel, Bijay Prasad, K Sai Satwik, Anwesh Sharma, Palzor Tamang, Ashish Thapa |
Ranji Trophy Round 1 Fixtures (Plate Group)
| Date | Match Details | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, Wed – Oct 18, Sat | Bihar vs Arunachal Pradesh, Plate | 9:30 AM LOCAL |
| Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna | ||
| Oct 15, Wed – Oct 18, Sat | Sikkim vs Manipur, Plate | 9:30 AM LOCAL |
| SICA ground, Rangpo | ||
| Oct 15, Wed – Oct 18, Sat | Meghalaya vs Mizoram, Plate | 9:30 AM LOCAL |
| Meghalaya Cricket Association Cricket Ground, Shillong |
Ranji Trophy Round 1 Fixtures (Elite Group)
| Fixture | Stadium | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh vs Andhra | Green Park | Kanpur |
| Hyderabad vs Delhi | NexGen Cricket Ground | Hyderabad |
| Rajasthan vs Chhattisgarh | Madan Paliwal Miraj Sports Centre | Rajsamand, Rajasthan |
| Jammu and Kashmir vs Mumbai | Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium | Srinagar |
| Puducherry vs Himachal Pradesh | Cricket Association Puducherry Siechem Ground | Puducherry |
| Railways vs Haryana | Pithwala Stadium | Bhimpore, Surat |
| Bengal vs Uttarakhand | Eden Gardens | Kolkata |
| Gujarat vs Assam | Narendra Modi Stadium A Ground | Ahmedabad |
| Services vs Tripura | Palam A Stadium | Delhi |
| Saurashtra vs Karnataka | Niranjan Shah Stadium | Khandheri, Rajkot |
| Tamil Nadu vs Jharkhand | Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Science Ground | Coimbatore |
| Odisha vs Baroda | Barabati Stadium | Cuttack |
| Nagaland vs Vidarbha | BCCI Centre of Excellence Ground 1 | Bengaluru |
| Kerala vs Maharashtra | Greenfield International Stadium | Thiruvananthapuram |
| Goa vs Chandigarh | Goa Cricket Association Academy Ground | Porvorim |
| Madhya Pradesh vs Punjab | Emerald High School Ground | Indore |
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