The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26 is India’s top List A (50-over) domestic cricket tournament and is currently underway, having started on 24 December 2025. The competition runs until 18 January 2026 and features 38 teams playing across multiple venues in India. The tournament offers a strong platform for both established players and emerging talent to perform in the 50-over format.
This season, teams are divided into four Elite groups (A, B, C, and D) with eight teams in each group, along with a Plate group of six teams. The group structure is based on performances from the previous domestic season to maintain competitive balance.
This article explains the allocation of the Elite and Plate groups, along with the squads for each team, providing a complete overview of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26 teams.
Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 – Overview
The 33rd edition of India’s domestic limited-overs tournament began on 24 December 2025 and will conclude on 18 January 2026.
| Tournament | Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| Organiser | BCCI |
| Format | List A cricket |
| Tournament format | Round-robin and knockout |
| Number of teams | 38 |
| Number of matches | 135 |
| Defending champions | Karnataka |
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) are organizing the tournament, with all teams aiming to lift the trophy.
Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 – Groups and Teams
Teams in the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 are split into Elite and Plate categories based on their performance in previous seasons.
The Elite category has 32 teams divided into four groups, with stronger sides placed based on points, wins and net run rate from past results. The Plate group includes six teams ranked lowest, offering developing teams competitive play, with promotion and relegation between the tiers.
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Plate Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karnataka | Vidarbha | Maharashtra | Haryana | Nagaland |
| Rajasthan | Baroda | Punjab | Gujarat | Bihar |
| Tamil Nadu | Bengal | Mumbai | Railways | Mizoram |
| Jharkhand | Hyderabad | Himachal Pradesh | Andhra | Meghalaya |
| Madhya Pradesh | Uttar Pradesh | Uttarakhand | Saurashtra | Manipur |
| Pondicherry | Assam | Goa | Delhi | Arunachal Pradesh |
| Kerala | Chandigarh | Chhattisgarh | Odisha | – |
| Tripura | Jammu & Kashmir | Sikkim | Services | – |
The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025 has gained major attention with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli returning to domestic cricket. Rohit has been named in Mumbai’s squad, while Kohli is part of Delhi’s team. Their presence brings experience, star power, and competitiveness to the tournament.
Below are the squads announced so far for the upcoming season.
Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26 Squads
Tamil Nadu: N. Jagadeesan (C), B. Sai Sudharsan (Vice-capt), B. Indrajith, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, C. Andre Siddarth, M. Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, S. Mohamed Ali, S.R. Athish, R. Sai Kishore, Sachin Rathi, Gurjapneet Singh, C.V. Achyuth, G. Govinth, R. Sonu Yadav, Sunny Sandhu, V.S. Karthick Manikandan.
Madhya Pradesh: Venkatesh Iyer (c), Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri (WK), Yash Dubey, Shubham Sharma, Harpreet Singh, Rishabh Chauhan, Ritik Tada, Kumar Kartikeya, Saransh Jain, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Rahul Batham, Tripuresh Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Madhav Tiwari.
Rajasthan: Manav Suthar (c), Manendra Singh, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Sumit Godara, Mahipal Lomror, Deepak Hooda, Karan Lamba, Mukul Chaudhary, Ajay Singh Kukna, Khaleel Ahmed, Aniket Choudhary (vc), Ashok Sharma, Aditya Singh Rathore, Samarpit Joshi, Akash Singh, Rahul Chahar.
Jharkhand: Ishan Kishan (c), Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk) (vc), Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar (wk), Bala Krishna, Mohammad Kounain Qureshi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, Shubham Singh.
Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (c), Karun Nair (vc), Devdutt Padikkal, R. Smaran, KL Shrijith, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, V. Vyshak, Manvanth Kumar, Shreesha Achar, Abhilash Shetty, B.R. Sharath, Harshil Dharmani, Dhruv Prabhakar, KL Rahul, Prasidh Krishna.
Kerala: Rohan Kunnummal (c), Sanju Samson (wk), Vishnu Vinod (wk), Mohammad Azharuddeen (Wicketkeeper), Ahammed Imran, Salman Nizar, Abhishek J. Nair, Krishna Prasad, Akhil Scaria, Abhijith Praveen V, Biju Narayanan, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Vignesh Puthur, Nidheesh MD, Asif KM, Abhishek P. Nair, Sharafudeen NM, Eden Apple Tom.
Tripura: Manisankar Murasingh (c), Udiyan Bose, Rajat Dey, 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.
Chandigarh: Manan Vohra (c), Jagjeet S Sandhu, Arslan Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Ankit Kaushik, Arjun Azad, Tushar Joshi, Taranpreet Singh, Nikhil Thakur, Hartejassvi Kapoor, Nishunk Birla, Vishu Kashyap, Hardik Choudhary, Sanyam Saini, Rohit Dhanda.
Jammu & Kashmir: Paras Dogra (c), Shubham Khajuria (vc), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Kawalpreet Singh, Rydham Sharma (wk), Abid Mushtaq, Ashwin Murugan, Sahil Lotra, Auqib Nabi, Yudhvir Singh, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir Muzaffar.
Assam: Sumit Ghadigaonkar (c) (wk), Denish Das, Nihar Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Sibsankar Roy, Saurav Mousam Dihingia, Sarupam Purkayastha, Avinav Choudhury, Rahul Singh, Akash Sengupta, Ayushman Malakar, Muktar Hussain, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar, Ruhinandan Pegu (wk), Abdul Ajij Kuraishi.
Baroda: Krunal Pandya (c), Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel (wk), Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Vishnu Solanki, Aryan Chavda, Hardik Pandya, Atit Seth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Karan Umatt, Nitya Pandya, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya.
Hyderabad: Rahul Singh (c), Rahul Buddhi (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aman Rao, Abhirath Reddy, Nitesh Reddy, A Varun Goud, Pragnay Reddy, Prateek Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Rakshann Readdi, Kartikeya Kak, Ilyaan Sathani, Md Arfaz.
Uttar Pradesh: Abhishek Goswami, Adarsh Singh, Priyam Garg, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Aryan Juyal (wk), Sameer Rizvi, Rinku Singh, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Vipraj Nigam, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kartik Yadav, Kunal Tyagi, Vineet Panwar, Rituraj Sharma.
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel (wk), Sudip Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Sumit Nag (wk), Chandrahas Dash, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karan Lal, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Sayan Ghosh, Ravi Kumar, Aamir Gani, Vishal Bhati, Ankit Mishra.
Vidarbha: Harsh Dubey (c), Yash Thakur (vc), Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Akshay Wadkar, Nachiket Bhute, Darshan Nalkande, R. Samarth, Parth Rekhade, Dipesh Parwani, Praful Hinge, Shubham Dubey, Ganesh Bhosle.
Mumbai: Shardul Thakur (c), Rohit Sharma (two games), 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 D’Souza, Sairaj Patil, Suryansh Shedge.
Andhra Pradesh: Nitish Kumar Reddy (c), Ricky Bhui, KS Bharat (wk), Ashwin Hebbar, Shaikh Rasheed, Hemanth Reddy, SDNV Prasad, Y Sandeep, M Dhanush, Saurabh Kumar, B Vinay Kumar, T Vinay, CH Stephen, PV Satyanarayana Raju, KSN Raju, J Saketh Ram, CR Gnaneshwar, CH Sandeep.
Goa: Deepraj Gaonkar (c), Abhinav Tejrana, Amulya Pandrekar, Arjun Tendulkar, Azaan Thota, Darshan Misal, Kashyap Bakhale, Lalit Yadav, Rajashekhar Harikant, Shubham Desai, Shubham Tari, Snehal Kauthankar (vc), Suyash Prabhudessai, Vasuki Koushik, Vikash Singh.
Punjab: Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Harnoor Pannu, Anmolpreet Singh, Uday Saharan, Naman Dhir, Salil Arora (wk), Sanvir Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Krish Bhagat, Gourav Choudhary, Sukhdeep Bajwa
Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Prithvi Shaw, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Anket Bawane, Rahul Tripathi, Saurabh Nawale (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Jalaj Saxena, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Prashant Solanki, Nikhil Naik (wk), Pradeep Dadhe, Siddharth Mhatre, Sachin Dhas, Satyajeet Bachhav.
Delhi: Rishabh Pant, Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Ayush Badoni, Arpit Rana, Yash Dhull, Sarthak Ranjan, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Dahiya, Nitish Rana, Hrithik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Prince Yadav, Divij Mehra, Ayush Doseja, Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Anuj Rawat.
Gujarat: Chintan Gaja, Urvil Patel, Aarya Desai, Abhisek Desai, Jaymeet Patel, Kshitij Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Ahaan Poddar, Hemang Patel, Siddharth Desai, Ravi Bishnoi, Vishal Jayswal, Arzan Nagaswalla, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt.
Chhattisgarh: Aayush Pandey, Amandeep Khare, Anuj Tiwary, Mayank Verma, Mayank Yadav, Mohit Raut, Prateek Yadav, Sanjeet Desai, Shashank Singh, Aditya Sarwate, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Vikalp Tiwari, Harsh Sahu, Harsh Yadav, Ravi Kiran, Sourabh Majumda.
Haryana: Ankit Kumar, Himanshu Rana, Ishant Bhardwaj, Samant Jakhar, Yuvraj Singh, Mayank Shandilya, Nishant Sindhu, Parth Vats, Rahul Tewatia, Sumit Kumar, Ashish Siwach, Yashvardhan Dalal, Mayank Dagar, Vaibhav Arora, Vipin Sharma
Odisha: Anil Parida, Om Munde, Sandeep Pattnaik, Shantanu Mishra, Swastik Samal, Biplab Samantray, Debabrata Pradhan, Govinda Poddar, Prayash Singh, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Soumya Lenka, Aashirwad Swain, Dinesh Majhi, Badal Biswal, Rajesh Mohanty, Sambit Baral
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 Kadambi, Pranav Karia, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana
Sikkim: Amit Rajera, Anwesh Sharma, Lee Yong Lepcha, Amar Iqbal Bhutia, Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Kumar, Palzor Tamang, Robin Limboo, Siddharth Prasad, Ashish Thapa, K Sai Satwik, Md Saptulla, Rahul Kumar
Nagaland: Akavi Yeptho, Dega Nischal, Hem Chetri, Joshua Ozukum, Sedezhalie Rupero, Dip Borah, Imliwati Lemtur, Nagaho Chishi, Rongsen Jonathan, Chetan Bist, Nchumbemo Humtsoe, Yugandhar Singh, Ronit More, Saurav Kumar, Tahmeed Rahman
Puducherry: P Akash, Aman Khan, Jayant Yadav, Siddhant Addhatrao, Adil Ayub Tunda, Vedant Bhardwaj, Gaurav Yadav, NS Kangayan, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, P Sivaraman, Premraj Rajavelu, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sidak Singh, M Sivamurugan, T Gopal, Sagar Udeshi
Bihar: Akash Raj, Badal Kanaujiya, Mangal Mahrour, Piyush Singh, Sakibul Gani, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Himanshu Tiwari, Honey Singh, Kumar Rajnish, Ayush Loharuka, Bipin Saurabh, Himanshu Singh, Sabir Khan, Shabbir Khan, Suraj Kashyap
Manipur: Ayekpam Rakesh, Johnson Singh, Karnajit Yumnam, Khangembam Santosh, L Kishan Singha, Ngariyan‑bam Jameson Singh, Kangabam Priyojit, Kishan Thokchom, Langlonyamba Meitan Keishangbam, Pheiroijam Jotin Singh, Al Bashid Muhammed, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Homendro Kabrambam, Lamabam Ajay
Himachal Pradesh: Ankush Bains, Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Akash Vasisht, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Mridul Surroch, Abhishek Kumar, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Ayush Jamwal, Ankit Kalsi, Kushal Pal, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Pukhraj Mann, Rohit Kumar, Vipin Sharma
Jharkhand: Ishan Kishan, Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar, Bala Krishna, Mohammad Kounain Qureshi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, Shubham Singh
Uttarakhand: 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
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, Nitin Tanwar, Amit Shukla
Railways: Suraj Ahuja, Kush Marathe, Pratham Singh, Ravi Singh, Upendra Yadav, Ashutosh Sharma, Ansh Yadav, Raj Choudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Sahab Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh
Meghalaya: Kishan Lyngdoh, Dippu Sangma, Ram Gurung, Abhishek Kumar, Kush Agarwal, Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Anish Charak, Swastik Chettri, Akash Choudhary, Riboklang Hynniewta, Arien Sangma, Larry Sangma, Swarajeet Das
Mizoram: CA Karthik, KC Cariappa, Joseph Lalthankhuma (Captain), Jehu Anderson, Naveen Gurung, Lalhriatrenga, Lalhruaizela, B Lalnunfela, Lalrempuia, Lalroluahpuia Ngente, Sahil Reza, Sahil Sharma, TC Vanlalremruata, Khiangte Vanrotlinga, Zothanzuala
Vijay Hazare Trophy – Past 5 Winners
Karnataka are the defending champions, and the last five editions of the Vijay Hazare Trophy have seen five different winners, as listed below:
| Edition | Winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Karnataka | Vidarbha |
| 2023-24 | Haryana | Rajasthan |
| 2022-23 | Saurashtra | Maharashtra |
| 2021-22 | Himachal Pradesh | Tamil Nadu |
| 2020-21 | Mumbai | Uttar Pradesh |
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Conclusion: The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26 Features 38 Teams Across Elite and Plate Groups
With matches already in progress, the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26 is delivering competitive Indian domestic cricket across its Elite and Plate groups. All 38 teams are in action, showcasing a blend of experienced players and promising young talent.
The return of senior players like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli has added extra quality and attention to the tournament, while emerging cricketers continue to make strong impressions as the season unfolds.
As the group-stage matches continue, teams are battling for qualification spots and momentum heading into the knockout rounds. The ongoing season is set to produce exciting contests and memorable performances before the final in January 2026.
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