Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26: India's top ODI stars will feature in the initial rounds. (PTI)Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26: Domestic cricket 50-over will be back in the spotlight as India’s top stars descend to their respective teams to featured in the initial rounds of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26 season, starting on Wednesday, December 24.
A host of international stars will be in action as the Indian team management will keep an eye on the squad before the three-match ODI series against New Zealand in January. India stalwarts Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and other key ODI team members are expected to play in the first few rounds.
32 Elite teams are split up into four groups for the competition with eight teams playing seven round-robin games.
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Each of the four groups’ top two teams will advance to the knockout round.
As aforementioned, the teams are divided into five groups, and each group’s matches will be played in a particular venue.
Group A: Kerala, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Tripura
Group B: Vidarbha, Hyderabad, Bengal, Baroda, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, J&K
Group C: Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, Sikkim
Group D: Railways, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Saurashtra, Delhi, Services, Odisha
Kerala: Rohan Kunnummal (C), Sanju Samson, Vishnu Vinod (wk), Mohammad Azharuddeen (wk), Ahammed Imran, Salman Nizar, Abhishek J. Nair, Krishna Prasad, Akhil Scaria, Abhijith Praveen V, Biju Narayanan, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Vignesh Puthur, Nidheesh MD, Asif KM, Abhishek P. Nair, Sharafudheen NM, Edhen Apple Tom
Jharkhand: Ishan Kishan (C), Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar (WK), Bala Krishna, Md Kounain Quraishi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, and Shubham Singh
Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (C), Karun Nair, Harshil Dharmani, Devdutt Padikkal, KL Rahul, BR Sharath, Krishnan Shrijith, Ravichandran Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Abhinav Manohar, Manvanth Kumar, Abhilash Shetty, Shreesha Achar, Prasidh Krishna, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Dhruv Prabhakar
Tamil Nadu: Narayan Jagadeesan (C), Sai Sudharsan, C Andre Siddarth, Baba Indrajith, Boopathi Kumar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Sonu Yadav, Sunny Sandhu, Gurjapneet Singh, Karthick Manikandan, Mohamed Ali, Sachin Rathi, Sai Kishore, CV Achyuth, Athish SR, and Govinth Ganesh.
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Baroda: Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel, Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma, Vishnu Solanki, Krunal Pandya (C), Aryan Chavda, Hardik Pandya, Atit Sheth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Karan Umatt, Nitya Pandya, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, and Lakshit Toksiya
Mumbai: Akash Anand, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rohit Sharma, Hardik Tamore, Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Shardul Thakur (C), Tushar Deshpande, Onkar Tarmale, Sylvester D’Souza, Ishan Mulchandani, Sairaj Patil, and Chinmay Sutar
Punjab: Anmolpreet Singh, Salil Arora, Harnoor Singh, Naman Dhir, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Uday Saharan, Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Sanvir Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa, Gaurav Chaudhary, Jashanpreet Singh, and Krish Bhagat
Andhra: Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Ricky Bhui, Marthala Dhanush, SDNV Prasad, Shaik Rasheed, Nitish Kumar Reddy (C), Saurabh Kumar, Satyanarayana Raju, Sai Sandeep, Tripurana Vijay, CR Gnaneshwar, M Hemanth Reddy, Kalidindi Raju, Jagarlapudi Ram, Yara Sandeep, Cheepurapalli Stephen, and Bodhala Kumar
Delhi: Rishabh Pant (C), Ayush Badoni, Anuj Rawat, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Dahiya, Yash Dhull, Virat Kohli, Nitish Rana, Sarthak Ranjan, Rohan Rana, Harshit Rana, Prince Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Ishant Sharma, Hritik Shokeen, Simarjeet Singh, Ayush Doseja, Harsh Tyagi, Vaibhav Kandpal, Divij Mehra, and Arpit Rana.
Select league stage matches will be live streamed on the JioHotstar app and website and televised live on the Star Sports Khel channel.
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