The 2026-27 Ranji Trophy season is scheduled to start from October 11, bringing the focus back to red-ball cricket across India. The opening round will feature 19 matches at venues across the country.

A total of 38 teams will compete for the prestigious domestic title, with defending champions Jammu & Kashmir beginning their campaign against Madhya Pradesh in Srinagar. The match comes just a week after Jammu & Kashmir suffered a defeat against Rest of India in the Irani Cup.

The tournament will feature 138 matches in total and will be played in two phases. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy will take place between the two Ranji Trophy phases as teams switch between red-ball and white-ball cricket.

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Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Groups

Group A Group B Group C Group D Plate Group
Bihar Karnataka Bengal Mumbai Mizoram
Baroda Andhra Delhi Rajasthan Manipur
Goa Saurashtra Gujarat Haryana Nagaland
Jammu & Kashmir Chhattisgarh Jharkhand Tamil Nadu Sikkim
Madhya Pradesh Hyderabad Kerala Himachal Pradesh Meghalaya
Pondicherry Tripura Maharashtra Uttarakhand
Arunachal Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh Punjab Services Railways  
Vidarbha Assam Odisha Chandigarh  

Ranji Trophy 2026-27: Schedule – First Round

October 11-14, 2026

Sikkim vs Meghalaya – Rangpo [Plate]
Andhra vs Karnataka – Mulapadu
Arunachal Pradesh vs Nagaland – Ahmedabad [Plate]
Bengal vs Delhi – Kalyani
Bihar vs Uttar Pradesh – Rajgir
Goa vs Baroda – Panaji
Gujarat vs Odisha – Ahmedabad
Haryana vs Himachal Pradesh – Rohtak
Hyderabad vs Tripura – Hyderabad
Jammu and Kashmir vs Madhya Pradesh – Srinagar
Jharkhand vs Kerala – Jamshedpur
Mizoram vs Manipur – Nadiad [Plate]
Mumbai vs Chandigarh – Mumbai
Punjab vs Assam – Mullanpur
Railways vs Uttarakhand – CCI, Mumbai
Rajasthan vs Tamil Nadu – Jaipur
Saurashtra vs Chhattisgarh – Rajkot
Services vs Maharashtra – New Delhi
Vidarbha vs Pondicherry – Nagpur

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Squads

Group A

Madhya Pradesh: Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli (wk), Himanshu Mantri (wk), Shubham Sharma (C), Chanchal Rathore, Himanshu Shinde, Atharv Mahajan, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Anubhav Agrawal, Roshan Kewat, Akshay Sharma, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Ravi Kiran.

Group B

Karnataka: Mayank Agarawal, Rahul KL, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karun Nair, Smaran R, Aneesh KV, Shreyas Gopal, Kruthik Krishna, Shikhar Shetty, Prasidh M Krishna, Abhilash Shetty, Manvanth Kumar L, Kumar LR, Ritesh Bhatkal, Shrijith KL


Andhra: Ricky Bhui (C), Abhishek Reddy, M Hemanth Reddy, Sk Rasheed, SV Rahul, K Karan Shinde, K Revanth Reddy (wk), T Vijay, KV Sasikanth, Saurabh Kumar, PVSN Raju, K Sai Teja, A Lalit Mohan, CH Stephen, UMS Girinath (wk)

Hyderabad: Mohammed Siraj (Capt.), C.V. Milind (Vice-Capt.), Tanmay Agarwal, M. Abhirath Reddy, Rahul Singh, K. Hima Teja, Rahul Radesh (wk), Sai Pragnay Reddy (wk), Varun Goud, Tanay Thyagrajan, Aniketh Reddy, Clt. Rakshann Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud, Ruthik Yadav Mende, Sai Vikas Reddy.

Group C

Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (capt.), Sudip Gharami (vice-capt.), Sudip Chatterjee, Abishek Porel (wk), Shakir Gandhi (wk), Ankur Paul, Sumanta Gupta, Ankit Shukla, Subham Chetterjee, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Jaiswal, Pradipta Pramanik, Aamir Gani, Mohammed Kaif and Soummyadeep Mandal.

Kerala: Vishnu Vinod (c/wk), Rohan Kunnummal, Abhishek J. Nair, Abhishek P. Nair, Sachin Baby, Ahammed Imran, Md Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar, Varun Nayanar, Jalaj Saxena, Vaisakh Chandran, Aditya Sarvate, Anuraj JS, Abhijith Praveen, MD Nidheesh, Eden Tom, Pavan Raj, Basil N.P.

Maharashtra: Prithvi Shaw (c), Sachin Dhas, Digvijay Patil, Ankeet Bawane, Harshal Kate, Siddhesh Veer, Saurabh Navale (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Tanay Sanghvi, Vaibhav Darkunde, Hitesh Walunj, Rishikesh Sonawane and Atharva Dharmadhikar

Group D

Mumbai: Siddhesh Lad (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ayush Mhatre (Vice-capt.), Divyaansh Saxena, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Aakash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Atharva Ankolekar, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester Dsouza, Onkar Tarmale.

Tamil Nadu: R Sai Kishore (C), Andre Siddarth (VC), Ajitesh G, Ajith Ram S, Athish S R, Deepesh D, Govinth G, Hemchudeshan J, Baba Indrajith, N Jagadeesan, Nidhish S Rajagopal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Pranav Ragavendra R D, Saravana Kumar P, Sonu Yadav R, Vimal Khumar R, Washington Sundar.