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Ranji Trophy teams and squads 2025-26 (X.com/@sportstarweb)
The Ranji Trophy is one of the premier domestic leagues in world cricket. Played at the start of India’s domestic season, the tournament features 38 teams, at least one team from each of the 28 states of India, four of the eight union territories, further including the Services and the Indian Railways. Notably, the 91st edition of the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 begins on 15th October 2025, with 32 teams playing in the Plate category and 6 in the Elite.
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.
Check out the full list of Ranji Trophy 2025-26 teams and squads.
Ranji Trophy 2025-26 squads
| 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 | TBA |
| 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 | TBA |
| 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 | TBA |
| 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 | TBA |
| 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 |
FAQs: Ranji Trophy Squads 2025-26
Q.1. Do Ranji players get a salary?
Ans. Yes, Ranji Trophy players receive payment based on match fees, which vary according to their experience and whether they are in the playing XI or are reserves.
Q.2. Will Virat Kohli play the Ranji Trophy?
Ans. Although, Virat Kohli played one match in the previous Ranji Trophy edition, as of now, he has not been included in Delhi’s squad.
Q.3. What do you mean by Ranji Trophy?
Ans. The Ranji Trophy is India's premier domestic first-class cricket tournament, played annually between teams representing state and regional cricket associations.
Q.4. Is Arjun Tendulkar in Ranji?
Ans. On 13 December 2022, Sachin Tendulkar’s son Arjun made his first-class debut playing the Ranji Trophy for Goa.
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