The new season of India’s most prestigious First-Class tournament, the Ranji Trophy, is set to begin from October 15.
The tournament will be held in two phases. While the first phase will begin from October 15 and consist of five rounds, ending on November 19. The second phase will commence from January 22 next year and conclude on February 26.
In between, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 tournament and the Vijay Hazare Trophy 50-over event will be held.
A total of 38 teams will take part in the Ranji Trophy, with 32 sides featuring in the Elite Division and six in the Plate league.
While defending champion Vidarbha will open its season against Nagaland, heavyweight Mumbai will face Jammu & Kashmir, and last season’s runner-up Kerala will take on Maharashtra.
RANJI TROPHY SQUADS 2025-26
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 – N.A
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). Standbyes: P. Nitish Reddy, Sai Pragnay Reddy, Rakshann Reddy, Nitesh Kanala, Mikhil Jaiswal.
Puducherry – N.A
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 – N.A
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, and 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 – N.A
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
