Ranji Trophy 2024-25: Venues, Squads, Format & All you need to know

The most prestigious domestic tournament in India, the Ranji Trophy, will begin on October 11, 2024, and will continue until March 2025. The tournament will feature Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, and other star players.

Ranji Trophy format

Elite Category: This consists of 32 teams divided into four groups of eight. Each team competes against every other team in their group once. The top two teams from each group will progress to the quarter-finals.

Plate Category: This includes six teams, with each team playing against all others once. The top four teams will qualify for the knockout stage of the plate group. This knockout stage features matches to determine the third and fourth positions, while the bottom two teams will compete for fifth and sixth places.

Promotion and Relegation system

Promotion: The two finalists from the Plate group will earn promotion to the Elite category for the season.

Relegation: The bottom two teams across all Elite groups, determined by their points and quotient, will be relegated to the Plate category for the next season.

Ranji Trophy Teams

Elite Category

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

Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim.

When Ranji Trophy 2024-25 start

The tournament will begin from October 11 with final to be held on March 2, 2025.

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Ranji Trophy venue

• Kotambi Stadium, VadodaraSNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore
• Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur
• Government Model Senior Secondary School Ground, Chandigarh
• Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
• Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak
• Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow
• Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
• Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
• Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, KashmirPalam A Stadium, Delhi
• Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala
• Gymkhana Stadium, Hyderabad
• Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala
• Sawai Mansingh Stadium, JaipurEden Gardens, Kolkata
• Dr. Akhilesh Das Stadium, Lucknow
• Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh
• Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, RajkotArun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi
• ADSA Railway Cricket Ground, Ahmedabad
• KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur
• Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
• Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC, Mumbai
• Meghalaya Cricket Association Ground, Shillong
• Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
• Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun
• Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur
• Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna
• Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy International Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
• Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

Ranji Trophy squads

Group A

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

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.

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.

Group B

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

Hyderabad: Tilak Varma (Captain), Rahul Singh G (Vice Captain), CV Milind, Tanmay Agarwal, Rohit Rayudu, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aniketh Reddy, Nitesh Kannala, Abhirath Reddy, Himateja, Rahul Radesh, Rakshann Readdi, Kartikeya Kak, Saranu Nishant, Dheeraj Goud.

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.

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.

Group C

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.

Karnataka (first 2 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 round): 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.

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.

UP: 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

Group D

Tamil Nadu (1st 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.

Delhi (first 2 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.

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.

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.