The Ranji Trophy is India’s premier domestic first-class competition, run by the BCCI since 1934-35. The 2026-27 edition is the 92nd season and features 38 teams split into an Elite division of 32 sides across four groups and a six-team Plate group. The season runs from 11 October 2026 to early March 2027. Jammu and Kashmir begin as defending champions after their maiden title in 2025-26, while Mumbai remain the most successful side with 42 crowns. This page lists every group and the full confirmed squad for all 38 teams.
Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Groups
The 38 teams are divided into four Elite groups of eight sides each and one Plate group of six. The full group composition is below.
| Elite Group A | Elite Group B | Elite Group C | Elite Group D |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goa | Hyderabad | Jharkhand | Haryana |
| Baroda | Tripura | Kerala | Himachal Pradesh |
| Bihar | Andhra | Gujarat | Railways |
| Uttar Pradesh | Karnataka | Odisha | Uttarakhand |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Punjab | Bengal | Rajasthan |
| Madhya Pradesh | Assam | Delhi | Tamil Nadu |
| Vidarbha | Saurashtra | Services | Mumbai |
| Puducherry | Chhattisgarh | Maharashtra | Chandigarh |
| Plate Group | |
| Mizoram | Manipur |
| Sikkim | Meghalaya |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Nagaland |
The top two teams from each Elite group reach the quarter-finals. The Plate group’s leading sides play off for promotion to the Elite division.
Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Teams
A total of 38 state and institutional teams take part in the 2026-27 Ranji Trophy. The 32 Elite sides carry most of India’s established first-class names, while the six Plate teams come from the country’s smaller and newer cricketing regions. The full confirmed squads for every team are listed below.
Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Elite Squads
Here are the full confirmed Elite squads for the 2026-27 Ranji Trophy, with captains marked (c).
Goa: Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Darshan Misal, Manthan Khutkar, Mohit Redkar, Lalit Yadav, Suyash Prabhudessai, Abhinav Tejrana (c), Yash Kasvankar, Shivendra Bhujbal, Rajashekhar Harikant, Felix Alemao, Vasuki Koushik, Amulya Pandrekar, Ruthvik Naik, Shubham Tari
Baroda: Priyanshu Moliya, Shashwat Rawat, Shivalik Sharma, Deepak Hooda, Atit Sheth (c), Aryan Chavda, Raj Limbani, Mahesh Pithiya, Mitesh Patel, Akshay More, Bhargav Bhatt, Rasikh Salam Dar, Lakshit Toksiya
Bihar: Piyush Singh, Sakibul Gani, Suraj Kashyap, Khalid Alam, Mangal Mahrour, Prithvi Raj, Akash Raj, Shabbir Khan, Amod Yadav, Bipin Saurabh, Ayush Loharuka, Mohammed Salahuddin Izhar, Sakib Hussain, Himanshu Singh, Naman Gaurav, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Sraman Nigrodh
Uttar Pradesh: Rinku Singh, Abhishek Goswami, Aaradhya Yadav, Madhav Kaushik, Priyam Garg, Karan Sharma, Prashant Veer, Aryan Juyal (c), Aaditya Sharma, Siddarth Yadav, Kartik Yadav, Zeeshan Ansari, Yash Dayal, Abhinandan Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Vansh Chaudhary
Jammu & Kashmir: Shubham Khajuria, Yawer Hassan, Qamran Iqbal, Paras Dogra (c), Kawalpreet Singh, Shubham Pundir, Abdul Samad, Lone Nasir Muzaffar, Sahil Lotra, Abid Mushtaq, Kanhaiya Wadhawan, Umran Malik, Sunil Kumar, Umar Nazir Mir, Waseem Bashir, Vanshaj Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Auqib Nabi
Madhya Pradesh: Shubham Sharma (c), Atharv Mahajan, Himanshu Shinde, Saransh Jain, Shivang Kumar, Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawali, Himanshu Mantri, Chanchal Rathore, Kumar Kartikeya, Aryan Pandey, Anubhav Agarwal, Roshan Kewat, Akshay Sharma, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Ravi Kiran
Vidarbha: Danish Malewar, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Ravikumar Samarth, Dhruv Shorey, Atharva Taide, Ganesh Bhosle, Nachiket Bhute, Yash Kadam, Harsh Dubey, Darshan Nalkande, Satyam Bhoyar, Akshay Wadkar, Shivam Deshmukh, Parth Rekhade, Rajneesh Gurbani, Praful Hinge
Puducherry: Mohit Kale, Nikhil Gangta, Neyan Shyam Kangayan (c), Logesh Prabagaran, Tahir Bhat, Karan Kannan, Thamaraikannan Parandaman, Aman Khan, Prasad Pawar, Ankit Sharma, Gaurav Yadav, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi, Vijai Raja, Sivamurugan Murugaiyan
Hyderabad: Tanmay Agarwal, Abhirath Reddy, Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Kodimela Himateja, Pragnay Reddy, Aelgani Varun Goud, Aniketh Reddy, Sai Vikas Reddy, Ruthik Yadav Mende, Tanay Thyagarajan, Rahul Radesh, Mohammed Siraj (c), Chama V Milind, Chinntla Rakshan Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud
Tripura: Bikramkumar Das, Rajat Dey, Amit Ali, Mandeep Singh, Sridam Paul, Parvez Sultan, Hrituraj Roy, Arkaprabha Sinha, Hanuma Vihari, Bikramjit Debnath, Sandip Sarkar, Manisankar Murasingh, Abhijit K Sarkar, Sentu Sarkar, Ajay Sarkar, Swapnil Singh
Andhra: Ricky Bhui (c), Shaik Rasheed, Uppara Girinath, Kirdant Karan Shinde, Abhishek Reddy, Maramreddy Hemanth Reddy, Saurabh Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Revanth Reddy, Satyanarayana Raju, Kavuri Saiteja, KV Sasikanth, Lalith Mohan, Seeram Venkata Rahul, Cheepurapalli Stephen
Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Smaran Ravichandran (c), Aneesh KV, Devdutt Padikkal, Aneeshwar Gautam, Manvanth Kumar L, KL Rahul, Krishnan Shrijith, Kruthik Krishna, Shreyas Gopal, Ritesh Bhatkal, Shikhar Shetty, Abhilash Shetty, Prasidh Krishna, LR Kumar
Punjab: Harnoor Singh, Anshul Chaudhary, Gursimran Singh, Harjas Singh Tandon, Jashanpreet Singh, Uday Saharan (c), Ramandeep Singh, Vihaan Malhotra, Sanvir Singh, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Salil Arora, Anmol Malhotra, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Umesh Yadav
Assam: Rishav Das, Sunil Lachit, Rajveer Singh, Sibsankar Roy, Mohit Thakur, Bishal Newar, Nihar Deka, Swarupam Purkayastha, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Anurag Talukdar, Denish Das (c), Amlanjyoti Paresh Das, Mukhtar Hussain, Dipjyoti Saikia, Roshan Alam
Saurashtra: Arpit Vasavada, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Hetvik Kotak, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Arth Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Harvik Desai, Tarang Gohel, Jaydev Unadkat (c), Chetan Sakariya, Neel Pandya, Ankur Panwar
Chhattisgarh: Amandeep Khare, Ashutosh Singh, Aayush Pandey, Prateek Yadav, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sanjeet Desai, Sourabh Majumdar, Vashudev Bareth, Anuj Tiwary (c), Vikalp Tiwari, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Rudra Pratap Dehari, Mayank Verma, Rahul Pradhan, Dev Aditya Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Mohammad Sohail, Sandeep Warrier
Jharkhand: Virat Singh (c), Sahil Raj, Aryaman Sen, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Shresht Sagar, Aditya Chandresh Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Md Kounain Quraishi, Robin Minz, Amit Kumar, Sushant Mishra, Manishi, Jatin Pandey, Saurabh Shekhar
Kerala: Rohan Kunnummal, Abhishek Nair, Sachin Baby, Salman Nizar, Varun Nayanar, Abhijith Praveen V, Abhishek P Nair, Jalaj Saxena, Anuraj J S, Nedumankuzhy Basil, Ahammed Imran, Vaisakh Chandran, Vishnu Vinod (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen, Aditya Sarwate, MD Nidheesh, Eden Apple Tom, Pavan Raj
Gujarat: Vishal Jayswal, Manan Hingrajia, Amit Desai, Kshitij Patel, Aarya Desai, Priyajitsing Jadeja, Siddharth Desai, Vedant Trivedi, Jaymeet Patel, Saral Prajapati, Priyesh Patel, Abhishek Desai, Urvil Patel (c), Arzan Nagwaswalla, Chintan Gaja, Harshal Patel
Odisha: Aasirwad Swain, Shantanu Mishra, Swastik Samal, Prasanta Rana, Sandeep Pattnaik, Om T Munde, Gourav Choudhary, Subhranshu Senapati (c), Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Soumya Ranjan Lenka, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Shreyansh Bhardwaj, Sambit Beja, Dinesh Majhi, Rajesh Mohanty, Lalit M Yadav, Badal Biswal
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sudip Chatterjee, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Rahul Prasad, Kazi Saifi, Saurabh Singh, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Anustup Majumdar, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Abishek Porel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Shami, Vikash Singh, Ishan Porel, Vishal Bhatia, Sumit Mohanta
Delhi: Yash Dhull, Ayush Doseja, Sarthak Ranjan, Sanat Sangwan, Ayush Badoni (c), Sumit Mathur, Hrithik Shokeen, Dev Lakra, Dhruv Kaushik, Anuj Rawat, Tejasvi Dahiya, Pranav Rajvanshi, Navdeep Saini, Simarjeet Singh, Divij Mehra, Money Grewal
Services: Devender Lohchab, Nakul Sharma, Amit Pachhara, Ravi Chauhan, Nitin Tanwar, Rajat Paliwal, Mohit Ahlawat, Arjun Sharma, Rahul Singh, Varun Choudhary, Vineet Dhankhar, Jayant Goyat, Pulkit Narang, Pal Raj Bahadur
Maharashtra: Prithvi Shaw (c), Ankit Bawne, Sachin Dhas, Atharva Dharmadhikari, Digvijay Patil, Tanay Sanghvi, Rushikesh Sonawane, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Vaibhav Darkunde, Saurabh Nawale, Siddhesh Veer, Pradeep Dadhe, Mukesh Choudhary, Vicky Ostwal, Harshal Kate, Hitesh Walunj
Haryana: Ankit Rajesh Kumar (c), Himanshu Rana, Samant Jakhar, Aman Kumar, Rishant Kohli, Kanishk Chouhan, Anshul Kamboj, Yashvardhan Dalal, Kapil Hooda, Vaibhav Arora, Nikhil Kashyap, Anuj Thakral, Ajit Chahal, Kunal Singh, Dheeru Singh
Himachal Pradesh: Nehal Wadhera, Pukhraj Mann, Shubham Arora, Amanpreet Singh, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal, Innesh Mahajan, Vaibhav Kalta, Akash Vasisht, Arpit Guleria, Divesh Sharma, Hritik Kalia, Harshit Sandal, Jitender Rana
Railways: Vivek Singh, Bhargav Merai (c), Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Eshaan Goyal, Himanshu Sangwan, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali khan, Raj Choudhary, Pradhyumn Parikh, Toufik Uddin Mondal, Suraj Ahuja, Ravi Singh, Sahab Yuvraj, Kush Marathe
Uttarakhand: Lakshya Rajesh Raichandani, Avneesh Sudha, Aarav Mahajan, Vaibhav Kandpal, Dega Nischal, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi, Kunal Chandela, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Deepak Dhapola, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Saurabh Rawat, Sanskar Rawat, Agnivesh Ayachi, Janmejay Joshi, Aditya Rawat, Jagadeesha Suchith, Devendra Singh Bora, Harsh Patwal
Rajasthan: Sumit Godara, Karan Lamba, Darshan Jain, Sachin Yadav, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar (c), Mukul Choudhary, Kartik Sharma, Kukna Ajay Singh, Chetan Sharma, D Bhambhu, Hemant Kumar, Akash Maharaj Singh
Tamil Nadu: Andre Siddarth C, Athish SR, Vimal Khumar, Nidhish Rajagopal, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore (c), Sonu Yadav, Ajitesh Guruswamy, Narayan Jagadeesan, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, S Ajith Ram, Deepesh Devendran, Govinth Ganesh, Jeganathan Hemchudeshan, P Saravana Kumar, Pranav Raghavendra
Mumbai: Siddhesh Lad (c), Ayush Mhatre, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Shams Mulani, Musheer Khan, Divyansh Joshi, Atharva Ankolekar, Tanush Kotian, Sylvester DSouza, Akash Anand, Hardik Tamore, Mohit Avasthi, Tushar Deshpande, Onkar Tarmale
Chandigarh: Manan Vohra, Akshit Rana, Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Rohit Dhanda, Jagjit Singh, Raj Bawa, Arjun Azad, Anirudh Kanwar, Nehal Pajni, Karthik Sandil, Nishunk Birla, Arjit Pannu, Dipender Kush
Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Plate Squads
Here are the full confirmed Plate group squads for the 2026-27 Ranji Trophy, with captains marked (c).
Mizoram: Vikash Kumar, Joseph Lalthankhuma (c), Remruatdika Ralte, Lalhruaizela, Lalnun Tluanga, Lalrempuia, Nasib Rai, Bobby Zothansanga, Chinmay Sutar, Sahil Reza, Jehu Anderson, Manender Narender Singh, Sahil Sharma, Khiangte Vanrotlinga
Manipur: Kangabam Priyojit Singh, Al Bashid Muhammed, Johnson Singh, Langlonyamba Keishangbam, Ronald Longjam, Karnajit Yumnam, Basir Rahman, Soubam Rohit Kiran Singh, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, Pheiroijam Jotin, Bishworjit Konthoujam, L Kishan Singha, Ajay Lamabam Singh, Rex Rajkumar
Sikkim: Pranesh Chettri, Ashish Thapa, Anwesh Sharma, Ankur Malik, Nilesh Lamichaney, Amit Rajera, Lee Yong Lepcha (c), Gurinder Singh, Robin Limboo, Palzor Tamang, Bijay Prasad, K Sai Satwik, Arun Chettri, Kranthi Kumar, Bhim Luitel
Meghalaya: Kishan Lyngdoh, Aryan Bora, Rahul Dalal, Ram Gurung, Jaskirat Singh, Joydeepan Deb, Bipin Ray, Arpit Subash Bhatewara, Ajay Duhan, Abhishek Kumar, Swastic Chettri, Mewada Shylla, PM Santhosh
Arunachal Pradesh: Neelam Obi (c), Nabam Hachang, Nabam Natung, Nazeeb Saiyed, Techi Neri, Myendung Singpho, Techi Sonam, Licha Jhon, Nabam Tatang, Techi Doria, Penjor Mangal, Anurag Yadav, Subhajit Paul, Amit Yadav, Biki Kumar, Kamsha Yangfo, Yab Niya, Tadakamalla Mohith, Limar Dabi, Siddharth Balodi, Harsh Saini
Nagaland: Joshua Ozukum, Hokaito Zhimomi, Rongsen Jonathan, Sedezhalie Rupero, Yugandhar Singh, Vino Zhimomi, Akamu Sumi, Imliwati Lemtur, Saurav Kumar, Bikram Chetri, Chetan Bist, Chopise Hopongkyu, Odilemba Kichu, Anil Gupta, Nagaho Chishi
Verdict: Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Teams & Squads Have Been Confirmed
All 38 teams and their squads for the 2026-27 Ranji Trophy are now confirmed, with the Elite groups headlined by heavyweights such as Mumbai, Karnataka, Bengal and defending champions Jammu and Kashmir. The Elite division runs across four groups of eight, feeding an eight-team knockout, while the Plate group gives India’s emerging sides their own route to promotion. With big names like Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Prithvi Shaw turning out for their states, the season promises a strong contest from the opening round on 11 October through to the final in early March 2027.
