The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26, India's premier domestic List A tournament, kicks off on December 24, 2025, and culminates in the final on January 18, 2026.
Featuring 38 teams divided into four Elite groups of eight and one Plate group of six, the format includes round-robin league stages, with the top two from each Elite group advancing to quarter-finals, followed by semis and final.
Defending champions Karnataka, who claimed their fifth title in 2024-25 by beating Vidarbha, start as strong contenders with a balanced squad.
The spotlight shines on international stars returning per BCCI mandate. Virat Kohli (Delhi), Rohit Sharma (Mumbai), Shubman Gill, and others are set to feature in the competition, thus creating a heightened buzz.
Andhra Pradesh
Nitish Kumar
Reddy (c), KS Bharat (wk), Ricky Bhui, Hemanth Reddy, Shaikh Rasheed, Ashwin Hebbar, SDNV Prasad, Y Sandeep, Saurabh Kumar, B Vinay Kumar, T Vinay, J Saketh Ram, CR Gnaneshwar, CH Sandeep, M Dhanush, CH Stephen, PV Satyanarayana Raju, KSN Raju.
Assam
Sumit Ghadigaonkar (c) (wk), Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Avinav Choudhury, Ayushman Malakar, Denish Das, Muktar Hussain, Nihar Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Rahul Singh, Ruhinandan Pegu (wk), Sarupam Purkayastha, Saurav Mousam Dihingia, Sibsankar Roy, Akash Sengupta, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar.
Baroda
Krunal Pandya (c), Amit Pasi, Aryan Chavda, Atit Seth, Bhanu Pania, Hardik Pandya, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Karan Umatt, Lakshit Toksiya, Mahesh Pithiya, Mitesh Patel (wk), Ninad Rathva, Nitya Pandya, Priyanshu Moliya, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Shashwat Rawat, Shivalik Sharma, Vishnu Solanki.
Bengal
Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Aamir Gani, Abishek Porel (wk), Akash Deep, Ankit Mishra, Anustup Majumdar, Chandrahas Dash, Karan Lal, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Ravi Kumar, Sayan Ghosh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sudip Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Sumit Nag (wk), Vishal Bhati.
Chandigarh
Manan Vohra (c), Ankit Kaushik, Arjun Azad, Arslan Khan, Hardik Choudhary, Hartejassvi Kapoor, Jagjeet S Sandhu, Nikhil Thakur, Nishunk Birla, Rohit Dhanda, Sandeep Sharma, Sanyam Saini, Taranpreet Singh, Tushar Joshi, Vishu Kashyap.
Chhattisgarh
Amandeep Khare (c), Aditya Sarvate, Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare, Anuj Tiwari, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Harsh Sahu (wk), Harsh Yadav, M Ravi Kiran, Mayank Verma (wk), Mayank Yadav, Mohit Raut, Prateek Yadav, Sanjeet Desai, Shubham Agrawal, Sourabh Majumdar, Vikalp Tiwari.
Delhi
Rishabh Pant (c), Anuj Rawat (stand-by), Arpit Rana, Ayush Badoni (vc), Ayush Doseja, Divij Mehra, Harsh Tyagi, Hrithik Shokeen, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Nitish Rana, Priyansh Arya, Prince Yadav, Rohan Rana, Sarthak Ranjan, Simarjeet Singh, Tejasvi Dahiya (wk), Vaibhav Kandpal, Virat Kohli, Yash Dhull.
Goa
Deepraj Gaonkar (c), Abhinav Tejrana, Amulya Pandrekar, Arjun Tendulkar, Azaan Thota, Darshan Misal, Kashyap Bakhale, Lalit Yadav, Rajashekhar Harikant, Shubham Desai, Shubham Tari, Snehal Kauthankar (vc), Suyash Prabhudessai, Vasuki Koushik, Vikash Singh.
Gujarat
Chintan Gaja (c), Aarya Desai, Ahaan Poddar, Amit Desai, Arzan Nagaswalla, Japagnya Bhatt, Jaymeet Patel, Kshitij Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Saurav Chauhan, Siddharth Desai, Urvil Patel (vc), Vishal Jayswal, Abhisek Desai, Hemang Patel.
Haryana
Ankit Kumar (c), Himanshu Rana, Ashish Siwach, Yashvardhan Dalal, Yuvraj Singh, Samant Jakhar, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Rahul Tewatia, Parth Vats, Ishant Bhardwaj, Anshul Kamboj, Amit Rana, Anuj Thakral, Bhuwan Rohilla, Mayank Shandilya
Himachal Pradesh
Mridul Surroch (c), Abhishek Kumar, Akash Vasisht, Amanpreet Singh, Ankit Kalsi, Ankush Bains (wk), Aryaman Singh, Ayush Jamwal, Ekant Sen, Innesh Mahajan (wk), Kushal Pal, Mayank Dagar, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Pukhraj Mann, Rohit Kumar, Vaibhav Arora, Vipin Sharma.
Hyderabad
Rahul Singh (c), Abhirath Reddy, Aman Rao, A Varun Goud, Ilyaan Sathani, Kartikeya Kak, Md Arfaz, Nitin Sai Yadav, Nitesh Reddy, Pragnay Reddy, Prateek Reddy, Rahul Buddhi (vc), Rakshann Readdi, Rahul Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Tanmay Agarwal.
Jammu & Kashmir
Paras Dogra (c), Abdul Samad, Abid Mushtaq, Ashwin Murugan, Auqib Nabi, Kawalpreet Singh, Lone Nasir Muzaffar, Qamran Iqbal, Rydham Sharma (wk), Sahil Lotra, Shubham Khajuria (vc), Sunil Kumar, Vivrant Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Yudhvir Singh.
Jharkhand
Ishan Kishan (c), Abhinav Sharan, Amit Kumar, Anukul Roy, Bala Krishna, Kumar Kushagra (wk) (vc), Manishi, Mohammad Kounain Qureshi, Pankaj Kumar (wk), Rajandeep Singh, Robin Minz, Saurabh Shekhar, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Shubh Sharma, Shubham Singh, Sushant Mishra, Utkarsh Singh, Vikash Singh, Virat Singh.
Karnataka
Mayank Agarwal (c), Abhilash Shetty, Abhinav Manohar, B.R. Sharath, Devdutt Padikkal, Dhruv Prabhakar, Harshil Dharmani, Karun Nair (vc), KL Rahul, KL Shrijith, Manvanth Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, R. Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Shreesha Achar, V. Vyshak.
Kerala
Rohan Kunnummal (c), Ahammed Imran, Abhijith Praveen V, Abhishek J. Nair, Abhishek P. Nair, Akhil Scaria, Ankit Sharma, Asif KM, Baba Aparajith, Biju Narayanan, Edhen Apple Tom, Krishna Prasad, Mohammad Azharuddeen, Nidheesh MD, Rohan Kunnummal, Salman Nizar, Sanju Samson (wk), Sharafudeen NM, Vignesh Puthur, Vishnu Vinod (wk).
Madhya Pradesh
Venkatesh Iyer (c), Aryan Pandey, Harpreet Singh, Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri (WK), Kumar Kartikeya, Madhav Tiwari, Mangesh Yadav, Rahul Batham, Rishabh Chauhan, Ritik Tada, Saransh Jain, Shivang Kumar, Shubham Sharma, Tripuresh Singh, Yash Dubey.
Maharashtra
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ankeet Bawane, Arshin Kulkarni, Jalaj Saxena, Nikhil Naik (wk), Pradeep Dadhe, Prashant Solanki, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tripathi, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sachin Dhas, Satyajeet Bacchav, Saurabh Navale (wk), Siddhesh Veer, Siddharth Mhatre, Vicky Ostwal.
Mumbai
Shardul Thakur (c), Akash Anand (wk), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Chinmay Sutar, Hardik Tamore (wk), Ishan Mulchandani, Musheer Khan, Onkar Tarmale, Rohit Sharma (two games), Sairaj Patil, Sarfaraz Khan, Shams Mulani, Siddhesh Lad, Suryansh Shedge, Sylvester D'Souza, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande.
Odisha
Shantanu Mishra, Aashirwad Swain (wk), Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Biplab Samantray (c), Debabrata Pradhan, Dinesh Kumar Majhi (wk), Govinda Poddar, Om T. Munde, Prayash Kumar Singh, Rajesh Mohanty (vc), Sambit Baral, Sandeep Pattanaik, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Shantanu Mishra, Soumya R Lenka, Swastik Samal.
Puducherry
Puazhendi Akash, Aman Khan, Jayant Yadav, Siddhant Addhatrao, Adil Ayub Tunda, Vedant Bhardwaj, Gaurav Yadav, Neyan Shyam Kangayan, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Premraj Rajavelu, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sidak Singh, Murugaiyan Sivamurugan, Thivagar Gopal, Sagar Udeshi
Punjab
Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Harnoor Pannu, Anmolpreet Singh, Uday Saharan, Naman Dhir, Salil Arora (wk), Sanvir Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Krish Bhagat, Gourav Choudhary, Sukhdeep Bajwa.
Rajasthan
Manav Suthar (c), Aditya Singh Rathore, Ajay Singh Kukna, Akash Singh, Aniket Choudhary (vc), Ashok Sharma, Deepak Hooda, Karan Lamba, Khaleel Ahmed, Mahipal Lomror, Manendra Singh, Mukul Chaudhary, Rahul Chahar, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Samarpit Joshi, Sumit Godara.
Railways
Karn Sharma (c), Adarsh Singh, Akash Pandey, Ansh Yadav, Ashutosh Sharma (vc), Kush Marathe, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Pratham Singh, Raj Choudhary, Rahul Sharma, Ravi Singh, Sahab Yuvraj Singh, Suraj Ahuja (wk), Upendra Yadav (wk), Zubair Ali.
Saurashtra
Harvik Desai (wk), Ankur Panwar, Ansh Gosai, Chetan Sakariya, Chirag Jani, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Harvik Desai, Hetvik Kotak, Hiten Kanbi, Jay Gohil, Parswaraj Rana, Pranav Karia, Prerak Mankad, Ruchit Ahir, Sammar Gajjar, Tarang Gohel, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Yuvraj Chudasama.
Services
Rajat Paliwal, Amit Shukla, Arjun Sharma, Irfan Ali, Mohit Ahlawat, Mohit Jangra, Nakul Sharma, Nitin Tanwar, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Pulkit Narang, Raj Bahadur, Ravi Chauhan, Sagar Dahiya, Vikas Hathwala.
Sikkim
Leeyong Lepcha, Aamir Iqbal Bhutia, Amit Rajera, Ankur Malik, Anwesh Karan Sharma, Ashish Thapa, Gurinder Singh, K Sai Satwik, M Kranti Kumar, MD Saptulla, Palzor Tamang, Rahul Kumar, Robin Limboo, Siddharth Prasad, Abhishek Kr Shah.
Tamil Nadu
N. Jagadeesan (C), B. Indrajith, B. Sai Sudharsan (Vice-capt), C. Andre Siddarth, C.V. Achyuth, G. Govinth, Gurjapneet Singh, M. Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, R. Sai Kishore, R. Sonu Yadav, S. Mohamed Ali, S.R. Athish, Sachin Rathi, Sunny Sandhu, V.S. Karthick Manikandan.
Tripura
Manisankar Murasingh (c), Abhijit Sarkar, Ajay Sarkar, Arjun Debnath, Arkaprabha Sinha, Bikramjit Debnath, Debaprasad Sinha, Hanuma Vihari, Nirupam Sen, Parvez Sultan, Rajat Dey, Rana Dutta, Riaz Uddin, Saurabh Das, Sentu Sarkar, Sridam Paul, Subham Ghosh, Swapnil Singh, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Udiyan Bose, Vijay Shankar, Viki Saha.
Uttar Pradesh
Abhishek Goswami, Aaradhya Yadav, Adarsh Singh, Aryan Juyal (wk), Dhruv Jurel (wk), Kartik Tyagi, Kartik Yadav, Kunal Tyagi, Priyam Garg, Prashant Veer, Rinku Singh, Rituraj Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Vineet Panwar, Vipraj Nigam, Zeeshan Ansari.
Uttarakhand
Kunal Chandela (c), Aanjaneya Suryavanshi, Aarav Mahajan, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Avneesh Sudha, Deepesh Nailwal, Devendra Singh Bora, Harshit Paliwal, Jagdish Nagarkoti, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Mayank Mishra, Naveen Kumar Singh, Nikhil Harsh, Sanskar Rawat, Saurabh Rawat, Shashwat Dangwal, Yuvraj Chaudhary.
Vidarbha
Harsh Dubey (c), Akshay Wadkar, Aman Mokhade, Atharva Taide, Darshan Nalkande, Dipesh Parwani, Dhruv Shorey, Ganesh Bhosle, Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Praful Hinge, R. Samarth, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Shubham Dubey, Yash Rathod, Yash Thakur (vc).
