All You Need to Know About Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Full Fixtures, Squads, Venues, and Timings for First-Class Tournament of India

India’s premier domestic red-ball tournament, the Ranji Trophy, will kick off its 2025-26 season on October 15. Vidarbha will enter the season as the reigning champions after defeating Kerala in the previous edition to lift their third Ranji title.

A total of 38 teams will clash across 138 fixtures till February 2026, in the 91st edition of India’s prestigious First-Class league. Six of these teams will compete in the Plate league, including Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Sikkim. The remaining 32 sides will participate in the Elite league, which has been divided into four groups with eight teams each.

All teams will play seven matches in a round-robin format, and the top two teams from each Elite group will advance to the quarter-finals.

Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Full Squads

Jammu & Kashmir: Paras Dogra (C), Shubham Khajuria, Rohit Sharma, Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Qamran Iqbal, Kawalpreet Singh, Sahil Lotra, Abid Mushtaq, Vanshaj Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Musaif Aijaz, Sunil Kumar, Umran Malik, Umar Nazir, Kanhaiya Wadhawan, Yudhvir Singh, Mujtaba Yousuf, Lone Nasir Muzaffar, Auqib Nabi.

Delhi: Ayush Badoni (C), Yash Dhull, 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 Dahiya (WK), Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Aryan Rana.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Mumbai: Shardul Thakur (C), Ayush Mhatre, Musheer Khan, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Akhil Herwadkar, Ajinkya Rahane, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Suved Parkar, Suryansh Shedge, Akash Parkar, Tushar Deshpande, Sylvester Dsouza, Irfan Umair, Roystan Dias, Pratik Mishra, Akash Anand (WK), Hardik Tamore (WK), Prasad Pawar (WK), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Himanshu Singh, Atharva Ankolekar, Ishan Mulchandani.

Gujarat: Manan Hingrajia (C), Aarya Desai, Kshitij Patel, Urvil Patel, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Ravi Bishnoi, Siddharth Desai, Abhishek Desai, Umang Kumar, Hemang Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Priyesh Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jayswal.

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

Rajasthan: Mahipal Lomror (C), Sumit Godara, Kartik Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore, Abhijeet Tomar, Deepak Hooda, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kukna Ajay Singh, Akash Singh, Ashok Sharma, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Ankit Chaudhary, Mukul Choudhary.

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.

Tamil Nadu: Narayan Jagadeesan (C), Pradosh Ranjan Paul, B. Indrajith, M. Shahrukh Khan, R. Vimal Khumar, B. Sachin, C. Andre Siddarth, RS Ambrish, P. Vidyuth, DT Chandrasekar, Sandeep Warrier, Gurjapneet Singh, CV Achyuth, H. Trilok Nag, J. Hemchudesan, G. Ajitesh (WK).

Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (C), Karun Nair, R. Smaran, KL Shrijith (WK), KV Aneesh, Abhinav Manohar, Nikin Jose, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Vidwath Kaverappa, Shreyas Gopal, Kruthik Krishna (WK), Shikar Shetty, Mohsin Khan, Abhilash Shetty, M. Venkatesh.

Kerala: Mohammed Azharuddeen (C), Baba Aparajith, 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.

West Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Abishek Porel (WK), Sudip 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.

Odisha: Subhranshu Senapati (C), Swastik Samal, Gourav Choudhary, Sandeep Pattanaik, Govinda Poddar, Aashirwad Swain (WK), Rajesh Dhupar (WK), Anil Parida, Sambit Baral, Sumit Sharma, Badal Biswal, Sunil Roul, Rajesh Mohanty, Tarani Sa, Tapas Das.

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.

Uttar Pradesh: Karan Sharma (C), Aryan Juyal, Abhishek Goswami, Priyam Garg, Madhav Kaushik, Rinku Singh, Aaqib Khan, Vipraj Nigam, Shivam Mavi, Aaditya Sharma, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kunal Tyagi, Shivam Sharma, Siddarth Yadav, Prashant Veer, Vijay Kumar.

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

Madhya Pradesh: Rajat Patidar (C), Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Shubham Sharma, Himanshu Mantri, Harpreet Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Sagar Solanki, Kumar Kartikey, Saransh Jain, Adheer Pratap, Aryan Pandey.

Chhattisgarh: Amandeep Khare (C), Ayush Pandey, Aditya Sarwate, Ajay Mandal, Anuj Tiwari, Arafat Khan, Ashish Chouhan, Ashutosh Singh, Prateek Yadav, M Ravi Kiran, Sahban Khan, Sanjeet Desai, Shashank Chandrakar (WK), Shashank Singh, Shubham Agrawal, Sourabh Majumdar, Vasudev Bareth.

Hyderabad: Tilak Varma (C), Rahul Singh, CV 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).

Jharkhand: Ishan Kishan (C), Virat Singh, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Kumar Kushagra (WK), Kumar Suraj, Anukul Roy, Manishi, Vikas Kumar, Jatin Kumar Pandey, Vikash Singh, Aditya Singh, Sahil Raj, Shubham Singh, Aryaman Sen, Rishav Raj.

Bihar: Sakibul Gani (C), Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Piyush Kumar Singh, Bhashkar Dubey, Arnav Kishor, Ayush Loharuka, Bipin Saurabh, Amod Yadav, Nawaz Khan, Sakib Hussain, Raghvendra Pratap Singh, Sachin Kumar Singh, Himanshu Singh, Khalid Alam, Sachin Kumar.

Nagaland: Sedezhalie Rupreo, Nzanthung Mozhui, Hem Bahadur Chetri, Jonathan Rongsen, Tohuka Zhimo, Imiwati Lemtur, Yugandhar Singh, Odilemba Kichu, Dip Borah, Saurav Kumar, Vino G Zhimo, Tahmeed Rahman, and guest players Nischal Dega, Chetan Bisht, Ronit More.

Arunachal Pradesh: Neelam Obi (C), Abhinav Singh, Siddharth 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.

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.

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.

Meghalaya: Kishan Lyngdoh (C), Akash Choudhary, 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.

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.

Tripura: Manisankar Murasingh (C), Bikramkumar Das, Rajat Dey, 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.

Sikkim: Lee Yong Lepcha (C), Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Kumar, Amit Rajera, Pranesh Chettri, Arun Chettri, Nilesh Lamichaney, Robin Limboo, Bhim Luitel, Bijay Prasad, K. Sai Satwik, Anwesh Sharma, Palzor Tamang, Ashish Thapa.

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.

Ranji Trophy 2025-26: Full Schedule

Ranji Trophy 2025-26 Plate Group Schedule

Ranji Trophy 2025-26 Elite Group Schedule

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Quarter-Finals

Semi-Finals

Final

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