Ranji Trophy Elite 2025-26 Schedule, Squad

Ranji Trophy Elite 2025-26 Schedule: The 91st edition of the Ranji Trophy is the premier first-class cricket tournament in India, which is scheduled to be played between October 15, 2025 and February 28, 2026.

Vidarbha are the defending champions, beating Kerala in the finals of the 2024-25 season.

Ranji Trophy Elite 2025-26 Format

The teams are divided into two categories – Elite and Plate Category. The Elite Category teams play each other once, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the quarter-finals.

In the Plate Group also teams play each other once, but the top four teams qualify for the plate group knockouts, with the bottom two teams playing for the fifth and sixth positions.

Ranji Trophy Elite 2025-26 Schedule

As per the Ranji Trophy Elite 2025-26 schedule, the first game will be played between October 15 and 18

Also Read: Ranji Trophy Winners List Since 1934 With Records List – Updated

Ranji Trophy Elite 2025-26 Squad

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

Andhra

Y Prithvi Raj, PVSN Raju, KV Sasikanth, Narayan Jagadeesan (c), Pradosh Ranjan Paul, CV Achyuth, Ajitesh Guruswamy, Chengalpet Gnaneshwar, Shaik Rasheed, Ashwin Hebbar, Ricky Bhui, Saurabh Kumar, Manish Golamaru, Mudi Prajith, Karan Shinde

Hyderabad

Tilak Varma (c), 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)

Standby: P. Nitish Reddy, Sai Pragnay Reddy, Rakshann Reddy, Nitesh Kanala, Mikhil Jaiswal

Delhi

Ayush Badoni (c), Yash Dhull, Anuj Rawat, Arpit Rana, Sanat Sangwan, Sumit Mathur, Shivam Sharma, Rounak Waghela, Navdeep Saini, Simarjeet Singh, Money Grewal, Siddhant Sharma, Dhruv Kaushik, Pranav Rajvanshi, Nitish Rana, Himmat Singh, Ayush Doseja, Rahul Dagar, Hrithik Shokeen, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Dahiya, Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Aryan Rana

Rajasthan 

Sumit Godara, Kartik Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore, 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

Chhattisgarh

Sanjeet Desai, Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Arafat Khan, Amandeep Khare (c), Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Shashank Chandrakar, Ashish Chouhan, Sourabh Majumdar, Ravi Kiran, Sahban Khan, Anuj Tiwary, Vashudev Bareth, Prateek Yadav

Jammu and 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

Mumbai

Shardul Thakur (c), Ayush M, Musheer K, Angkrish R, Akhil H, A Rahane, Sarfaraz K, Siddhesh Lad, Suved Parkar, Suryansh S, Akash P, Tushar D, Sylvester D’Souza, Irfan Umair, Roystan D, Pratik M, Akash A (wk), Hardik T (wk), Prasad P (wk), Shams M, Tanush Kotian, Himanshu Singh, Atharva A, Ishan M.

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

Himachal Pradesh

Vaibhav Arora, Aryaman Singh, Ankush Bains, Innesh Mahajan, Akash Vasisht, Mayank Dagar, Arpit Guleria, Divesh Sharma, Nikhil Gangta, Sidhant Purohit, Ravi Thakur, Mukul Negi, Vipin Sharma, Ekant Sen, Ankit Kalsi, Pukhraj Mann

Railways 

Pratham Singh (c), Suraj Ahuja, Vivek Singh, Upendra Yadav, Karn Sharma, Ayan Chaudhari, Shivam Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Bhargav Merai, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Himanshu Sangwan, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali

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

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

Uttarakhand

Prashant Chopra, Bhupen Lalwani, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Abhay Negi, Rajan Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kunal Chandela, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Harsh Patwal, Sagar Rawat, Saurabh Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi

Gujarat 

Aarya Desai, Kshitij 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

Assam

Riyan Parag, Sibsankar Roy, Rahul Singh, Denish Das (c), Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Avinov Choudhury, Bhargab Lahkar, Ayushman Malakar, Mukhtar Hussain, Parvej Musaraf, Swarupam Purkayastha, Darshan Rajbongshi, Pradyun Saikia, Akash Sengupta, Abhishek Thakuri

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, 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

Saurashtra

Jaydev Unadkat (c), Harvik Desai, Tarang Gohel, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Ansh Gosai, Jay Gohil, Kevin Jivrajani, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar

Karnataka

Mayank Agarwal (c), Karun Nair, R Smaran, KL Shrijith (wk), Shreyas Gopal, Vyshak Vijayakumar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Abhilash Shetty, M Venkatesh, Nikin Jose, Abhinav Manohar, Kruthik Krishna (wk), KV Aneesh, Mohsin Khan, Shikhar Shetty

Tamil Nadu

Narayan Jagadeesan, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Guruswamy Ajitesh, C Andre Siddarth, Baba Indrajith, M Shahrukh Khan, Vimal Khumar, RS Ambrish, DT Chandrasekar, Gurjapneet Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Trilok Nag, CV Achyuth, Jeganathan Hemchudeshan, P Vidyuth

Jharkhand

Ishan Kishan (c), Virat Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Rishav Raj, Anukul Roy, Sushant Mishra, Manishi, Shikhar Mohan, Jatin Pandey, Sahil Raj, Aryaman Sen, Shubham Singh, Aditya Singh, Kumar Suraj, Vikas Kumar, Vikash Singh

Odisha

Subhranshu Senapati, 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

Baroda

Jyotsnil Singh, Nitya Pandya, Shashwat Rawat, Shivalik Sharma, Atit Sheth (c), Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Sukirt Pandey, Vishnu Solanki, Akshay More, Mitesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Lukman Meriwala, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam

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

Vidarbha

Akshay Wadkar (c), Yash Rathod, Danish Malewar, Aman Mokhade, Ravikumar Samarth, Dhruv Shorey, Nachiket Bhute, Harsh Dubey, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Praful Hinge, Akshay Karnewar, Darshan Nalkande, Aditya Thakare, Yash Thakur, Shivam Deshmukh, Yash Kadam

Kerala 

Mohammed Azharuddeen (C), Baba Aparajith (VC), Sanju Samson, Rohan S Kunnummal, Vathsal Govind Sharma, Akshay Chandran, Sachin Baby, Salman Nizar, Ankit Sharma, Nidheesh MD, Basil NP, Edhen Apple Tom, Ahammed Imran, Shoun Roger, Abhishek P Nair

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

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

Chandigarh

Manan Vohra (c), Shivam Bhambri, Arjun Azad, Ankit Kaushik, Rajangad Bawa, Bhagmender Lather, Kual Mahajan, Raman Bishnoi, Nikhil Thakur, Vishu Kashyap, Nishunk Birla, Jagjit Sandhu, Abhishek Saini, Mohit Soni, Mayank Sidhu

Madhya Pradesh

Rajat Patidar (c), Harpreet Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Saransh Jain, Shubham Sharma, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen, Adheer Pratap Singh, Anubhav Agarwal, Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri, Aryan Pandey, Sagar Solanki

Punjab

Anmolpreet Singh, Harnoor Singh, Naman Dhir, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Uday Saharan, Nehal Wadhera, Gurnoor Brar, Raghu Sharma, Salil Arora, Ayush Goyal, Harjas Singh, Prerit Dutta, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Krish Bhagat

Ranji Trophy Winners List

The first edition of the tournament was won by Bombay (now known as Mumbai). Mumbai/Bombay has played in 46 finals and has won a total of 41 Ranji Trophy champions, the most by any team on the Ranji winners list.