2024-25 ranji trophywhich marks the 90th edition of India’s premier first-class Cricket The tournament began on October 10 and will continue till March 2025. This season features a reorganized format intended to increase competition and provide more opportunities for teams to advance between divisions.
The teams are divided into two categories:
1. elite class, It consists of 32 teams, divided into four groups of eight each. Each team plays the other teams in its group once. The top two teams from each group will advance to the quarter-finals.
2. plate range, In which six teams are included. Teams play each other once, with the top four qualifying for the plate group knockouts. The knockout consists of matches for third and fourth place, while the bottom two teams play for fifth and sixth place.
promotion and demotion system
An important feature of this season is the promotion and demotion system:
- Promotion: The two finalists from the Plate Group will earn promotion to the elite category for the 2025–26 season.
- Relegation: The bottom two teams in all elite groups, determined based on their points and quotient, will be relegated to the Plate category for the next season.
elite 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 group – Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim
Ranji Trophy full team
Group A squad
Meghalaya: Aryan Bora, Akash Kumar Chaudhary, Arpit Bhatewara, Bamanbha Shangpliang, Bijon Dey, Chengkam Sangma, Dippu Sangma, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Kishan Lyngdoh, Ram Gurung, Roshan Warbah and Swarajjit Das.
Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Nikhil Naik (wicketkeeper), Ankit Bawne, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Murtaza Trunkwala, Siddhesh Veer, Mukesh Chaudhary, Hitesh Walunj, Pradeep Dadhe, Rajneesh Gurbani, Harshal Kate, Prashant Solanki, Satyajit Bachhav. Mandar Bhandari, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Azim Kazi.
Odisha: Govinda Poddar (captain), Shantanu Mishra, Anurag Sarangi, Sandeep Patnaik, Biplab Samantrai, Karthik Biswal, Swastik Samal, Rajesh Dhupar, Ashirwad Swain (wicketkeeper), Anil Parida, Suryakant Pradhan, Sunil Kumar Raul, Rajesh Mohanty, Debprata Pradhan. , Tarani Sa, Harshit Rathod, Sumit Sharma.
Group B squad
Andhra: Ricky Bhui (captain), Sheikh Rashid (vice-captain), KS Bharat (wk), Hanuma Vihari, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Maheep Kumar, Vamsi Krishna (wk), Abhishek Reddy, KV Shashikant, Ashwin Hebbar, CH Stephen, Satyanarayana Raju. , A Lalit Mohan, G Manish, T Vijay, M Hemanth Reddy
Hyderabad: Tilak Verma (captain), Rahul Singh G (vice-captain), CV Milind, Tanmay Agarwal, Rohit Rayudu, Tanay Thiagarajan, Aniket Reddy, Nitish Kannala, Abhirath Reddy, Himateja, Rahul Radesh, Rakshan Reddy, Karthikeya Kak, Sarnu Nishant. ,Dheeraj Gaur.
Gujarat: Priyank Panchal, Arya Desai, Het Patel, Urvil Patel, Chintan Gaja, Arjan Nagwaswala, Umang Kumar, Siddharth Desai, Manan Hingrajiya, Priyajitsinh Jadeja, Tejas Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Rishi Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jaiswal.
Rajasthan Team: Deepak Hooda (Captain), Abhijeet Tomar, Yash Kothari, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Salman Khan, Mahipal Lomror, Kunal Singh Rathore, Bharat Sharma, Ajay Singh Kukna, Manav Suthar, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar (Vice-Captain), Aniket Chaudhary, Khalil Ahmed, Arafat Khan
Reserve players: Mohit Jain, Rajkumar Saini, Samarpreet Joshi, Rajesh Bishnoi (Junior), Zuber Ali Khan, Rajveer Singh Rathore and Shubham Garhwal.
group c squad
Madhya Pradesh: Shubham Sharma (captain), Yash Dubey, Himanshu Mantri, Shubhranshu Senapati, Rajat Patidar, Harpreet Bhatia, Venkatesh Iyer, Harsh Gawali, Kumar Karthikeya, Saransh Jain, Sagar Solanki, Avesh Khan, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anubhav Agarwal, Aryan Pandey. .
Karnataka (First 2 rounds): Mayank Agarwal (captain), Nikin Jos, Devdutt Padikkal, R Smaran, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Gopal, Sujay Sateri, Hardik Raj, Vishak Vijaykumar, Prasidh Krishna, Vasuki Kaushik, Lavneeth Sisodia, Mohsin Khan, Vidyadhar. Patil, Kishan Bedare, Abhilash Shetty.
Kerala (1st round): Sachin Baby (captain), Rohan Kunnummal, Krishna Prasad, Baba Aparajith, Akshay Chandran, Mohammad Azharuddin (wk), Salman Nizar, Vathsal Govind, Vishnu Vinod, Jalaj Saxena, Aditya Sarvate, Basil Thampi, Nidish MD. , KM Asif, Fanoos F.
Bengal: Anustup Majumdar (captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudeep Gharami, Sudeep Chatterjee, Wriddhiman Saha, Shahbaz Ahmed, Abhishek Porel, Hrithik Chatterjee, Evelyn Ghosh, Shuvam Dey, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Jaiswal, Mohammad Kaif, Pradeep Pramanik. Aamir Ghani, Yudhajit Guha, Rohit Kumar and Rishav Vivek.
UP Team: Aryan Juyal (captain, wicketkeeper), Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Akshdeep Nath, Nitish Rana, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajput, Aaqib Khan, Vipraj Nigam, Yash Dayal, Shivam Sharma, Siddharth Yadav, Madhav Kaushik, Vijay Kumar. Aditya Sharma (wicketkeeper), Kritagya Singh; Standby: Atal Bihari Rai, Prince Yadav, Abhishek Goswami, Vineet Panwar, Vaibhav Choudhary and Karthikeya Jaiswal.
Group D squad
Tamil Nadu (First Round): R. Sai Kishore (Captain), N. Jagadeesan (Vice-Captain), B. Indrajit, B. Sai Sudarshan, Vijay Shankar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, M. Shahrukh Khan, Boopati Vaishan Kumar, S. Mohammed Ali, C. Andre Siddharth, S. Ajit Ram, S. Lokeshwar, S. Lakshya Jain, Sandeep Warrier, Gurjapaneet 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, Kshitij Sharma, Pranav Rajuvanshi (WK), Sumit Mathur, Navdeep. Saini, Himanshu Chauhan, Simarjeet Singh*/Divij Mehra, Hrithik Shaukeen, Harsh Tyagi, Mani Grewal, Shivank Vashishtha.
Saurashtra: Jaydev Unadkat (captain), Cheteshwar Pujara, Harvik Desai (wicketkeeper), Sheldon Jackson, Tarang Gohail, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Singh Dodiya, D Jadeja, Parth Bhutt, Vishwaraj Jadeja, Hiten Kambi, Navneet Vohra. Parshvaraj Rana.
Chhattisgarh: Amandeep Khare, Shashank Singh, Bhupen Lalwani, Eknath Kerkar, Ajay Mandal, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Jeevesh Butte, Ashish Chauhan, Sanjeet Desai, Ravi Kiran, Rishabh Tiwari, Anuj Tiwari, Vasudev Bareth, Vishwas Malik.
