On October 11, 2024, the 90th edition of the Ranji Trophy, India’s top first-class cricket competition, would kick off under a new format intended to improve the game. In an effort to keep things fresh, this season features six teams in the Plate division and 32 teams in the Elite category.
There are four groups of eight teams each comprising 32 teams in the Elite category. Every team will play each other once inside their group, with the top two teams moving on to the quarterfinals. Six teams compete in a round-robin style in the Plate division, with the top four teams moving on to the knockout stages.
Under the new promotion and relegation system, the two Plate finalists will be promoted to the Elite division for the following season, while the two lowest-placing Elite teams from each group will be demoted to the Plate level.
Mumbai, the defending champions, will try to hold onto the championship. The quarterfinals get underway on February 8, 2025, after the group round concludes in early February of 2025. The summit match is scheduled on February 26. Semi-finals begin on February 17.
Ranji Trophy Group stage:
Elite Category Group
| Group A | Baroda, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Mumbai, Odisha, Services, Tripura |
| Group B | Andhra, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Hyderabad, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Vidarbha |
| Group C | Bengal, Bihar, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh |
| Group D | Assam, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Jharkhand, Railways, Saurashtra, Tamil Nadu |
Plate Category Group
Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim
There will be 112 games in the Elite Category Group, and the winners of each group will move on to the quarterfinals. The top four teams in the Plate Category Group will advance to the knockout stages after a total of 15 matches are played.
Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squads:
Baroda
Yet to be announced
Jammu and Kashmir
Paras Dogra (c), Shubham Khajuria (vc), Abdul Samad, Abhinav Puri, Shubham Pundir, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Rasikh Salam, Rohit Sharma, Umran Malik, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Ahmed Banday, Sahil Lotra, Shivansh Sharma
Maharashtra
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Nikhil Naik (wk), Ankeet Bawane, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Murtaza Trunkwalla, Siddhesh Veer, Mukesh Choudhary, Hitesh Walunj, Pradeep Dadhe, Rajnish Gurbani, Harshal Kate, Prashant Solanki, Satyajeet Bachhav, Mandar Bhandari, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Azim Kazi.
Meghalaya
Aryan Borah, Akash Kumar Choudhary, Arpit Bhatewara, Bamanbha Shangpliang, Bijon Dey, Chengkam Sangma, Dippu Sangma, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Kishan Lyngdoh, Ram Gurung, Roshan Warbah, and Swarajeet Das
Mumbai (First two matches)
Ajinkya Rahane (c), Prithvi Shaw, Ayush Mhatre, Shreyas Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Siddhesh Lad, Suryansh Shedge, Hardik Tamore (wk), Sidhaant Addhatrao (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Himanshu Singh, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Avasthi, Mohd. Juned Khan, Royston Dias
Odisha
Govinda Poddar (c), Shantanu Mishra, Anurag Sarangi, Sandeep Pattanaik, Biplab Samantaray, Kartik Biswal, Swastik Samal, Rajesh Dhupar, Aashirwad Swain (wk), Anil Parida, Suryakant Pradhan, Sunil Kumar Roul, Rajesh Mohanty, Debaprata Pradhan, Tarani Sa, Harshit Rathod, Sumit Sharma
Services
Yet to be announced
Tripura
Yet to be announced
Andhra
Ricky Bhui (C), Shaikh Rasheed (vc), KS Bharat (wk), Hanuma Vihari, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Maheep Kumar, Vamsi Krishna (wk), Abishek Reddy, KV Sasikanth, Ashwin Hebbar, CH Stephen, Satyanarayana Raju, A Lalith Mohan, G Manish, T Vijay, M Hemanth Reddy
Gujarat
Priyank Panchal, Arya Desai, Het Patel, Urvil Patel, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Umang Kumar, Siddharth Desai, Manan Hingrajia, Priyajitsinh Jadeja, Tejas Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Rishi Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jayswal
Himachal Pradesh
Yet to be announced
Puducherry
Yet to be announced
Rajasthan
Deepak Hooda (captain), Abhijeet Tomar, Yash Kothari, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Salman Khan, Mahipal Lomror, Kunal Singh Rathore, Bharat Sharma, Ajay Singh Kookna, Manav Suthar, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar (vice-captain), Aniket Chaudhary, Khalil Ahmed, Arafat Khan Reserve players: Mohit Jain, Rajkumar Saini, Samarprit Joshi, Rajesh Bishnoi (Jr), Zuber Ali Khan, Rajveer Singh Rathore & Shubham Garhwal.
Uttarakhand
Yet to be announced
Vidarbha
Yet to be announced
Bengal
Anustup Majumdar (captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudip Gharami, Sudip Chatterjee, Wriddhiman Saha, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abishek Porel, Writtick Chatterjee, Avilin Ghosh, Shuvam Dey, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Jaiswal, Mohd Kaif, Pradipta Pramanik, Aamir Gani, Yudhajit Guha, Rohit Kumar and Rishav Vivek.
Bihar
Veer Pratap Singh (capt), Shakibul Gani (vice-capt), Bipin Sourabh, Akash Raj, Shraman Nigrodh (wk), Babul Kumar, Ayush Loharuka (wk), Raghwendra Pratap Singh, Mayank Choudhary, Himanshu Singh, Sachin Kumar Singh, Abhijeet Saket, Anuj Raj, Shakib Hussain, Shabbir Khan, Rishav Raj, Harsh Vikram Singh, Jitin Kumar Yadav, Yashpal Yadav, Rishi Raj
Haryana
Yet to be announced
Karnataka (First two rounds)
Mayank Agarwal (captain), Nikin Jose, Devdutt Padikkal, R Smaran, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Gopal, Sujay Sateri, Hardik Raj, Vyshak Vijayakumar, Prasidh Krishna, Vasuki Koushik, Luvnith Sisodia, Mohsin Khan, Vidyadhar Patil, Kishan Bedare, Abhilash Shetty.
Kerala (First two rounds)
Sachin Baby (c), Rohan Kunnummal, Krishna Prasad, Baba Aparajith, Akshay Chandran, Mohammed Azharuddeen (wk), Salman Nizar, Vathsal Govind, Vishnu Vinod, Jalaj Saxena, Aditya Sarvate, Basil Thampi, Nidheesh MD, KM Asif, Fanoos F
Madhya Pradesh
Shubham Sharma (c), Yash Dubey, Himanshu Mantri, Shubranshu Senapati, Rajat Patidar, Harpreet Bhatia, Venkatesh Iyer, Harsh Gawali, Kumar Kartikeya, Saransh Jain, Sagar Solanki, Avesh Khan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anubhav Agarwal, Aryan Pandey.
Punjab
Yet to be announced
Uttar Pradesh
Aryan Juyal (captain, Wk), Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Akshdeep Nath, Nitish Rana, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Aaqib Khan, Vipraj Nigam, Yash Dayal, Shivam Sharma, Siddhartha Yadav, Madhav Kaushik, Vijay Kumar, Aaditya Sharma (Wk), Kritagya Singh; Standby: Atal Bihari Rai, Prince Yadav, Abhishek Goswami, Vineet Panwar, Vaibhav Chaudhary and Kartikey Jaiswal
Assam
Yet to be announced
Chandigarh
Yet to be announced
Chhattisgarh
Amandeep Khare, Shashank Singh, Bhupen Lalwani, Eknath Kerkar, Ajay Mandal, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Jivesh Butte, Ashish Chouhan, Sanjeet Desai, Ravi Kiran, Rishabh Tiwari, Anuj Tiwary, Vasudev Bareth, Vishvas Malik
Delhi (First two rounds)
Himmat Singh (captain), Ayush Badoni, Anuj Rawat (wk), Sanat Sangwan, Dhruv Kaushik, Yash Dhull, Jonty Sidhu, Mayank Rawat, Kshitiz Sharma, Pranav Rajuvanshi (wk), Sumit Mathur, Navdeep Saini, Himanshu Chauhan, Simarjeet Singh*/Divij Mehra, Hrithik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Money Grewal, Shivank Vashisth.
Jharkhand
Ishan Kishan (capt), Virat Singh (vice-capt), Kumar Kushagra (wk), Nazim Siddique, Aryaman Sen, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Suraj, Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Supriyo Chakraborty, Saurabh Shekhar, Vikas Kumar, Vivekanand Tiwary, Manish, Ravi Kumar Yadav, Raunak Kumar
Railways
Pratham Singh (c), Suraj Ahuja, Vivek Singh, Upendra Yadav, Ashutosh Sharma (vc), Yuvraj Singh, Karn Sharma, Ayan Chaudhari, Shivam Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Bhargav Merai, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Himanshu Sangwan, Adarsh Singh
Saurashtra
Jaydev Unadkat (c), Cheteshwar Pujara, Harvik Desai (wk), Sheldon Jackson, Tarang Gohel, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya, D Jadeja, Parth Bhut, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Hiten Kanbi, Navneet Vora, Parswaraj Rana.
Tamil Nadu (First round)
R. Sai Kishore (Captain), N. Jagadeesan (Vice Captain), B. Indrajith, B. Sai Sudharsan, Vijay Shankar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, M. Shahrukh Khan, Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, S. Mohamed Ali, C. Andre Siddarth, S. Ajith Ram, S. Lokeshwar, S. Lakshay Jain, Sandeep Warrier, Gurjapneet Singh, M. Mohammed, R. Sonu Yadav, M. Siddharth.
Also Read: Ranji Trophy 2024-25: Ishan Kishan named captain of Jharkhand’s 16-man team
Live Streaming and Broadcasting details:
All the matches will be broadcast live on the Sports 18 Networks. Fans and cricket enthusiasts can also watch the game on the Jio Cinema app and website in India.
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