India’s premier 50-over domestic tournament is here. The Vijay Hazare Trophy (VHT) 2025/26 will be played from December 24 to January 18 in what will be the 33rd edition of the tournament. It will feature all 38 teams in domestic cricket, with six of them playing in the Plate Group. In the main Elite tournament, 32 teams are divided into four groups of eight sides each. Karnataka, led by Mayank Agarwal.
Unlike in previous tournaments, this season’s Vijay Hazare Trophy will be enlightened by some huge names. Well, the biggest two individuals in the current era, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, will both be playing the first two games. Hence, all those games will attract huge viewership. Kohli has already started training. Meanwhile, the Punjab team has also named Shubman Gill in their squad, while Suryakumar Yadav is also touted to feature.
Groups in Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Plate Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madhya Pradesh | Baroda | Himachal Pradesh | Gujarat | Bihar |
| Karnataka | Bengal | Mumbai | Saurashtra | Meghalaya |
| Tamil Nadu | Chandigarh | Punjab | Services | Mizoram |
| Jharkhand | Hyderabad | Goa | Delhi | Nagaland |
| Pondicherry | Uttar Pradesh | Maharashtra | Odisha | Manipur |
| Tripura | Jammu & Kashmir | Sikkim | Railways | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Kerala | Assam | Uttarakhand | Andhra Pradesh | – |
| Rajasthan | Vidarbha | Chhattisgarh | Haryana | – |
Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26 Squads
Andhra Pradesh: Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Ricky Bhui, Marthala Dhanush, SDNV Prasad, Shaik Rasheed, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Saurabh Kumar, Satyanarayana Raju, Sai Sandeep, Tripurana Vijay, CR Gnaneshwar, M Hemanth Reddy, Kalidindi Raju, Jagarlapudi Ram, Yara Sandeep, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Bodhala Kumar
Arunachal Pradesh: Nabam Tempol, Kamsha Yangfo, Neelam Obi, Ajit Kamra, Dheeraj Antin, Techi Doria, Jainath Mansingh, Penjor Mangal, Mibom Mosu, TNR Mohith, Nabam Josh, Nabam Kama, Nabam Natung, Techi Neri, ND Rakesh Kumar, Techi Sania, Suryansh Singh, Tai Magung, Techi Tiklee, Teshi Tiku
Assam: Sibsankar Roy, Rahul Singh, Sumit Ghadigaonkar (C), Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Avinov Choudhury, Denish Das, Saurav Dihingia, Bhargab Lahkar, Ayushman Malakar, Mukhtar Hussain, Nihar Deka, Swarupam Purkayastha, Ruhinandan Pegu, Pradyun Saikia, Akash Sengupta
Baroda: Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel, Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma, Vishnu Solanki, Krunal Pandya (C), Aryan Chavda, Hardik Pandya, Atit Sheth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Karan Umatt, Nitya Pandya, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Sayan Ghosh, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Ankit Mishra, Vishal Bhati, Chandrahas Dash, Aamir Gani, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Karan Lal, Anustup Majumdar, Ravi Kumar, Sumit Nag
Bihar: Vaibhav Suryavanshi (VC), Piyush Singh, Bipin Saurabh, Sakibul Gani (C), Himanshu Singh, Suraj Kashyap, Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Akash Raj, Kumar Rajnish, Shabbir Khan
Chandigarh: Manan Vohra (C), Sanyam Saini, Sandeep Sharma, Arjun Azad, Arslan Khan, Rohit Dhanda, Hardik Chowdhry, Hartejassvi Kapoor, Jagjit Singh, Vishu Kashyap, Ankit Kaushik, Nikhil Thakur, Nishunk Birla, Taranpreet Singh, Tushar Joshi
Chhattisgarh: Sanjeet Desai, Aayush Pandey, Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Amandeep Khare (C), Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Harsh Sahu, Sourabh Majumdar, Mayank Verma, Mayank Yadav, Mohit Raut, Ravi Kiran, Anuj Tiwary, Vikalp Tiwari, Prateek Yadav, Harsh Yadav
Delhi: Rishabh Pant (C), Ayush Badoni (VC), Anuj Rawat, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Dahiya, Yash Dhull, Virat Kohli, Nitish Rana, Sarthak Ranjan, Rohan Rana, Harshit Rana, Prince Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Ishant Sharma, Hrithik Shokeen, Simarjeet Singh, Ayush Doseja, Harsh Tyagi, Vaibhav Kandpal, Divij Mehra, Arpit Rana
Goa: Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Vikash Singh, Kashyap Bakhale, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Shubham Desai, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Azaan Thota
Gujarat: Aarya Desai, Saurav Chauhan, Kshitij Patel, Urvil Patel, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt, Abhishek Desai, Siddharth Desai, Hemang Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Ahaan Poddar, Vishal Jayswal
Haryana: Ankit Kumar, Himanshu Rana, Ashish Siwach, Yashvardhan Dalal, Yuvraj Singh, Samant Jakhar, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Rahul Tewatia, Parth Vats, Ishant Bhardwaj, Anshul Kamboj, Amit Rana, Anuj Thakral, Bhuwan Rohilla, Mayank Shandilya
Himachal Pradesh: Ankush Bains, Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Akash Vasisht, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Mridul Surroch (C), Abhishek Kumar, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Ayush Jamwal, Ankit Kalsi, Kushal Pal, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Pukhraj Mann, Rohit Kumar, Vipin Sharma
Hyderabad: Rahul Buddhi, Tanmay Agarwal, Aman Rao, Rakshan Readdi, Tanay Thyagarajan, Rahul Singh (C), Abhirath Reddy, Arfaz Ahmed, Kartikeya Kak, Nitesh Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Pragnay Reddy, Prateek Reddy, B Punnaiah, Aelgani Varun Goud
Jammu and Kashmir: Abdul Samad, Paras Dogra, Shubham Khajuria, Qamran Iqbal, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Murugan Ashwin, Auqib Nabi, Yudhvir Singh, Kawalpreet Singh, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir, Sahil Lotra, Yawer Hassan
Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (C), Karun Nair, Harshil Dharmani, Devdutt Padikkal, KL Rahul, BR Sharath, Krishnan Shrijith, Ravichandran Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Abhinav Manohar, Manvanth Kumar, Abhilash Shetty, Shreesha Achar, Prasidh Krishna, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Dhruv Prabhakar
Kerala: Ahammed Imran, Rohan Kunnummal (C), Mohammed Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar, Sanju Samson, Vishnu Vinod, Baba Aparajith, Eden Apple Tom, Ankit Sharma, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Vignesh Puthur, Krishna Prasad, Abhishek Nair, Biju Narayanan, Abijith Praveen, Akhil Scaria, Sharafuddeen
Madhya Pradesh: Harpreet Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Saransh Jain, Mangesh Yadav, Shubham Sharma, Madhav Tiwari, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivang Kumar, Rahul Batham, Rishabh Chouhan, Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri, Aryan Pandey, Ritik Tada, Tripuresh Singh
Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ankit Bawne, Sachin Dhas, Nikhil Naik, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tripathi, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Jalaj Saxena, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Satyajeet Bachhav, Pradeep Dadhe, Rajneesh Gurbani, Vicky Ostwal, Prashant Solanki, Siddharth Mhatre, Saurabh Nawale
Manipur: Bishworjit Konthoujam (C), Al Bashid Muhammed, Ayekpam Rakesh, Ngariyan-bam Jameson Singh, Johnson Singh, Langlonyamba Meitan Keishangbam, Khangembam Santosh, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, L Kishan Singha, Homendro Kabrambam, Kangabam Priyojit, Kishan Thokchom, Lamabam Ajay, Pheiroijam Jotin, Karnajit Yumnam
Meghalaya: Kishan Lyngdoh, Dippu Sangma (C), Ram Gurung, Abhishek Kumar, Kush Agarwal, Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Anish Charak, Swastic Chettri, Akash Choudhary, Riboklang Hynniewta, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Arien Sangma, Larry Sangma, Swarajeet Das
Mizoram: Codanda Ajit Karthik, KC Cariappa, Joseph Lalthankhuma (C), Jehu Anderson, Naveen Gurung, Lalhriatrenga, Lalhruaizela, B Lalnunfela, Lalrempuia, Lalroluahpuia Ngente, Sahil Reza, Sahil Sharma, TC Vanlalremruata, Khiangte Vanrotlinga, Zothanzuala
Mumbai: Shardul Thakur (C), Rohit Sharma (2 matches), Ishan Mulchandani, Musheer Khan, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Chinmay Sutar, Akash Anand (WK), Hardik Tamore (WK), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Onkar Tarmale, Sylvester DSouza, Sairaj Patil, Suryansh Shedge
Nagaland: Chetan Bist, Joshua Ozukum, Rongsen Jonathan, Imliwati Lemtur, Ronit More, Tahmeed Rahman, Dip Borah, Hem Chetri, Nchumbemo Humtsoe, Saurav Kumar, Nagaho Chishi, Dega Nischal, Sedezhalie Rupero, Akavi Yeptho, Yugandhar Singh
Odisha: Biplab Samantray, Govinda Poddar, Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Sambit Baral, Soumya Lenka, Dinesh Majhi, Om T Munde, Sandeep Pattnaik, Debabrata Pradhan, Prayash Singh, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Shantanu Mishra, Aashirwad Swain
Punjab: Anmolpreet Singh, Salil Arora, Harnoor Singh, Naman Dhir, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Uday Saharan, Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Sanvir Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa, Gaurav Chaudhary, Jashanpreet Singh, Krish Bhagat
Railways: Suraj Ahuja, Kush Marathe, Pratham Singh, Ravi Singh, Upendra Yadav, Ashutosh Sharma, Karn Sharma (C), Ansh Yadav, Raj Choudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Sahab Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali
Rajasthan: Mukul Choudhary, Sumit Godara, Deepak Hooda, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar, Aniket Choudhary, Khaleel Ahmed, Kukna Ajay Singh, Akash Singh, Ashok Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Manender Singh (C), Ram Chouhan, Karan Lamba, Aditya Rathore, Samarpit Joshi
Saurashtra: Harvik Desai, Tarang Gohel, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Ansh Gosai, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Hiten Kanbi, Pranav Karia, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana
Services: Rajat Paliwal, Vikas Hathwala, Irfan Ali, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Raj Bahadur, Ravi Chauhan, Sagar Dahiya, Arjun Sharma, Amit Shukla, Nitin Tanwar
Sikkim: Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Kumar, Amar Iqbal Bhutia, Amit Rajera, Abishek Kumar, Lee Yong Lepcha, Robin Limboo, Md Saptulla, Rahul Kumar, K Sai Satwik, Anwesh Sharma, Siddharth Prasad, Palzor Tamang, Ashish Thapa
Tamil Nadu: Narayan Jagadeesan, Sai Sudharsan, Andre Siddarth, Baba Indrajith, Boopathi Kumar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Sonu Yadav, Sunny Sandhu, Gurjapneet Singh, Karthick Manikandan, Mohamed Ali, Sachin Rathi, Sai Kishore, CV Achyuth, Athish SR, Govinth Ganesh
Uttar Pradesh: Abhishek Goswami, Adarsh Singh, Priyam Garg, Dhruv Jurel, Aryan Juyal, Sameer Rizvi, Rinku Singh, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Vipraj Nigam, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kartik Yadav, Kunal Tyagi, Vineet Panwar, Rituraj Sharma
Tripura: Udiyan Bose, Rajat Dey, Manisankar Murasingh, Sridam Paul, Vijay Shankar, Hanuma Vihari, Parvez Sultan, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Swapnil Singh, Saurabh Das, Bikramjit Debnath, Arjun Debnath, Subham Ghosh, Saruk Hossain, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Riaz Uddin, Viki Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Nirupam Sen, Sentu Sarkar, Arkaprabha Sinha, Debaprasad Sinha
Uttrakhand: Deepesh Nailwal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kunal Chandela, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Harshit Paliwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Nikhil Harsh, Saurabh Rawat, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi
Vidarbha: Shubham Dubey, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Ravikumar Samarth, Dhruv Shorey, Akshay Wadkar, Harsh Dubey, Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Yash Thakur, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Ganesh Bhosle, Shivam Deshmukh, Yash Kadam, Dipesh Parwani
