As Indian cricket’s calendar continues to stay packed, the Vijay Hazare Trophy is ready to return with another season that promises runs, rivalries and rising stars. Often described as the backbone of India’s domestic one-day structure, the tournament once again offers players a chance to shine in the 50-over format — a format that continues to play a vital role in shaping India’s future ODI prospects.
Named after Indian cricket legend legendary cricketer Vijay Hazare, the tournament brings together teams from across the country, ranging from traditional powerhouses to emerging domestic units eager to make a statement. Over the years, the Vijay Hazare Trophy has been a launchpad for several international careers, and the upcoming edition is expected to be no different.
One of the biggest attractions of the tournament is, one reckons, the sense of competitive brilliance it lends its pursuers.
What do you reckon?
With teams divided into groups, every match carries weight, and a single poor performance can change the course of a campaign. This format often leads to closely fought contests, surprise upsets and intense knockout matches — a combination that keeps fans and selectors equally invested.
What to expect in the forthcoming edition?
The next edition is also expected to feature a healthy mix of experienced campaigners and young talent. Senior players returning to domestic cricket add star value and leadership, while youngsters see it as a golden opportunity to test themselves against high-quality opposition. For many uncapped players, strong performances here can open doors to India A selection or even national call-ups.
Batters, in particular, find the Vijay Hazare Trophy a perfect stage to showcase their skills. The tournament has witnessed record-breaking centuries, high-scoring encounters and aggressive stroke-play in recent seasons. At the same time, bowlers — especially those who can control the middle overs and execute yorkers at the death — often grab attention with match-winning spells.
How many teams are going to be there?
A total of 38 teams will be in action, divided into four Elite groups of eight teams each, along with a Plate group consisting of six sides. Following the league stage, the top two teams from every Elite group qualify for the quarter-finals, leading into the semi-finals and the final.
Beyond individual brilliance, the tournament also highlights the team depth and planning
Squads with strong bench strength, flexible combinations and disciplined fielding units usually go deep into the competition. Captains and coaches are constantly tested, making the Vijay Hazare Trophy as much a tactical challenge as a cricketing one.
For fans, the tournament is a reminder that Indian cricket’s strength doesn’t rest only on the international stage. Packed stadiums, live broadcasts and growing digital coverage ensure that domestic cricket continues to get
Vijay Hazare Trophy teams
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.
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.
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).
Which players, already part of Indian national cricket team- whether current or recent are playing in the Vijay Hazare Trophy upcoming edition?
Nitish Kumar Reddy – Andhra Pradesh (captain)
Hardik Pandya – Baroda
Jitesh Sharma – Baroda
Mohammed Shami – Bengal
Akash Deep – Bengal
Shahbaz Ahmed – Bengal
Virat Kohli – Delhi
Rishabh Pant – Delhi
Harshit Rana – Delhi
Ishan Kishan – Jharkhand
KL Rahul – Karnataka
Prasidh Krishna – Karnataka
Sanju Samson – Kerala
Ruturaj Gaikwad – Maharashtra (captain)
Rohit Sharma – Mumbai
Yashasvi Jaiswal – Mumbai
Suryakumar Yadav – Mumbai
Shivam Dube – Mumbai
Shubman Gill – Punjab
Abhishek Sharma – Punjab
Arshdeep Singh – Punjab
B Sai Sudharsan – Tamil Nadu
Dhruv Jurel – Uttar Pradesh
Rinku Singh – Uttar Pradesh
