Ranji Trophy 2024: The 90th Season Begins
The 90th season of the Ranji Trophy begins on Friday, October 11. The opening match pits defending champions Mumbai against Baroda. The match between Mumbai vs Baroda will start at 9:30 AM. The match has been organized at Kotambi Stadium, Baroda. This Ranji Trophy holds a unique significance in the history of domestic cricket competition. How will this competition be held this year? How many total teams are going to participate in this tournament? Also, we are going to know some important aspects of this competition so far.
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Elite Group Teams and Structure
The Ranji Trophy tournament has been organized in 2 phases this year. A total of 38 teams will participate in this tournament. These 38 teams are divided into 2 divisions namely Elite and Plate. Accordingly, there will be 32 teams in the elite group. These 32 teams have been divided into 4 groups at 8-8. The names of these 4 groups are Elite Group A, Elite Group B, Elite Group C, and Elite Group D. There are 6 teams in the plate group.
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mumbai | Vidarbha | Madhya Pradesh | Tamil Nadu |
| Baroda | Andhra Pradesh | Karnataka | Saurashtra |
| Services | Gujarat | Haryana | Railways |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Rajasthan | Bengal | Delhi |
| Tripura | Uttarakhand | Kerala | Jharkhand |
| Maharashtra | Pondicherry | Uttar Pradesh | Chhattisgarh |
| Odisha | Himachal Pradesh | Punjab | Assam |
| Meghalaya | Hyderabad | Bihar | Chandigarh |
Plate Group Teams and Format
Also, both the teams that reach the final round will be included in the elite group in the next season. Also, the last 2 teams in the points table from the elite group will be placed in the plate group. This year Hyderabad and Meghalaya have been promoted to the elite group. Manipur and Goa have been relegated to the plate group.
| Plate Group Teams |
|---|
| Goa |
| Manipur |
| Mizoram |
| Nagaland |
| Sikkim |
| Arunachal Pradesh |
Key Match Schedule
Defending champions Mumbai will face Baroda in the first match of the tournament. Krunal Pandya will lead Baroda and Ajinkya Rahane will lead Mumbai. The match between Mumbai vs Baroda will start at 9:30 AM. The match has been organized at Kotambi Stadium, Baroda. All the matches of this tournament will be televised on Sports 18 Network channels. All the matches can be watched on Jio Cinema app on mobile.
| Stage | Date |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 Start | October 11, 2024 |
| Mid-Season Break | November 13, 2024 |
| Phase 2 Start | January 23, 2025 |
| Semi-Finals | February 8 and 17, 2025 |
| Final (Elite Group) | February 26, 2025 |
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Mumbai’s Dominance and Players to Watch
The first Ranji Trophy match was played on 4 November 1934 between (Madras) Chennai vs (Mysore) Karnataka. Mumbai is the most successful team in the history of the Ranji Trophy tournament. Mumbai have lifted the Ranji Trophy 42 times, the most in the history of the tournament. Wasim Jaffer holds the record of 12 thousand 38 runs in the tournament. While Rajinder Goyan has taken the most wickets with 637
Ranji Trophy All-Team Squads
Mumbai Cricket Team: Ajinkya Rahane (Captain), Shreyas Iyer, Siddesh Lad, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Prithvi Shaw, Hardik Tamore (Wicketkeeper), Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Mohit Awasthi, Shardul Thakur, Siddhant Adhatrao, Royston Dias, Himanshu Singh, Ayush Mhatre, Mohammad Junaid Khan, Suryansh Shedge.
Baroda Cricket Team: Krunal Pandya (Captain), Vishnu Solanki (Vice-Captain), Priyanshu Molia, Mitesh Patel (Wicketkeeper), Shivalik Sharma, Atith Sheth, Akash Singh, Bhargava Bhatt, Raj Limbani, Lukman Meriwala, Jyotsanil Singh, Akshay More, Sukirt Pandey, Mahesh Pithia, Abhimanyusinh Rajput, Ninad Rathwa, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshita Toksiya.
Maharashtra Cricket Team: Rituraj Gaikwad (Captain), Nikhil Naik (Vice-Captain & Wicketkeeper), Ankit Bawne, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Rajnish Gurbani, Mukesh Chaudhary, Prashant Solanki, Satyajit Bachav, Mandar Bhandari, Pradeep Dadhe, Ramkrishna Ghosh, Harshal Kate, Azim Qaji, Murtaja Trunkwala, Siddesh Veer, Hitesh Walunj.
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Vidarbha Cricket Team: Akshay Wadkar (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Aman Mokhde, Karun Nair, Yash Rathod, Atharva Tayde (Vice-Captain), Nachiket Bhute, Harsh Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Aditya Thackeray, Akshay Wakhre, Umesh Yadav, Praful Hinge, Yash Kadam, Shubham Kapse, Mandar Mahale, Danish Malewar, Siddhesh Vath.
Andhra Cricket Team: Ricky Bhui (Captain), Sheikh Rashid (Vice-Captain), Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat (Wicketkeeper), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Hanuma Vihari, Mairam Reddy Reddy, Lalit Mohan, Maheep Kumar, Manish Golamaru, Mohammad Rafi, Satyanarayana Raju, Abhishek Reddy, Chipurapalli Stephen, Vamsi Krishna, Tripurana Vijay.
Assam Cricket Team: Danish Das (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Sibsankar Roy, Rahul Singh, Siddharth Sarmah, Bhargava Dutta, Rishav Das, Mrunmay Dutta, Sumit Ghadigonkar, Rahul Hazarika, Mukhtar Hussain, Pervez Musharraf, Ruhinandan Pegu, Kunal Sarma, Akash Sengupta, Abhishek Thakuri.
Bengal Cricket Team: Anustup Majumdar (Captain), Abhishek Porel (Wicketkeeper), Sudeep Chatterjee, Abhimanyu Iswaran, Wriddhiman Saha (Wicketkeeper), Hrithik Chatterjee, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Aamir Ghani, Sudeep Kumar Gharami, Evelyn Ghosh, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammad Kaif, Mukesh Kumar, Pradeepta Pramanik, Rishav Vivek, Rohit Kumar, Shuvam Dey, Yudhajit Guha.
Bihar Cricket Team: Veer Pratap Singh (Captain), Sakibul Ghani (Vice-Captain), Babul Kumar, Rishav Raj, Sachin Kumar, Saqib Hussain, Abhijeet Saket, Mayank Chaudhary, Himanshu Singh, Rishi Raj, Ayush Loharuka, Sharman Nigrodh, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Anuj Raj, Shabbir Khan, Harsh Singh, Jitin Yadav, Yashpal Yadav.
Chandigarh Cricket Team: Manan Vohra (Captain), Raj Bawa, Gurinder Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Ayush Sikka, Arijit Pannu, Arsalan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Rohit Dhanda, Gaurav Puri, Jagjit Singh, Vishu Kashyap, Ankit Kaushik, Nishank Bidla, Nkamay Sidhu.
Chhattisgarh Cricket Team: Eknath Kerkar (Wicketkeeper), Bhupen Lalwani, Ajay Mandal, Shashank Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Jivesh Butte, Ashish Chauhan, Sanjeet Desai, Amandeep Khare, Ravi Kiran, Rishabh Tiwary, Anuj Tiwari, Vasudev Good, Faithful Malik.
Delhi Cricket Team: Himmat Singh (Captain), Anuj Rawat (Wicketkeeper), Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhul, Kshitij Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Hrithik Shoukin, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Shivank Vashisht, Himanshu Chauhan, Dhruv Kaushik, Mani Grewal, Jonty Sidhu, Mayank Rawat, Divij Mehra, Sumit Mathur, Pranav Rajuvanshi, Sanat Sangwan.
Gujarat Cricket Team: Chintan Gaja (Captain), Arya Desai, Priyank Panchal, Het Patel, Urvil Patel (Wicketkeeper), Arjan Nagwaswala, Umang Kumar (Vice-Captain), Siddharth Desai, Manan Hingrajiya, Priyajit Singh Jadeja, Tejas Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Rishi Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jaiswal.
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Team: Ankush Bains (Wicketkeeper), Prashant Chopra, Ekant Sen, Rishi Dhawan, Mayank Dagar, Naveen Kanwar, Vaibhav Arora, Arpit Guleria, Abhishek Kumar, Aman Jaiswal, Amit Kumar, Abhinandan Bhardwaj, Divesh Sharma, Ankit Kalsi, Mukul Negi, Rajat Verma, Rohit Thakur, Shubham Arora, Vipin Sharma.
Hyderabad Cricket Team: Tilak Verma (Captain), Tanmay Aggarwal, Tanay Thiagarajan, Chama Milind, Rakshana Reddy, Rahul Singh (Vice-Captain), Abhirath Reddy, Aniketreddy, Dheeraj Gaur, Karthikeya Kak, Saranu Nishant, Nitesh Reddy, Rahul Radesh, Rohit Rayudu, Kodimella Himateja.
Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Team: Paras Dogra (Captain), Shubham Khajuria (Vice-Captain), Abdul Samad, Umran Malik, Abhinav Puri, Shubham Pundir, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Rasikh Salam, Rohit Sharma, Yudhveer Singh, Aukib Nabi, Ahmed Bande, Sahil Lotra, Shivansh Sharma.
Jharkhand Cricket Team: Ishan Kishan (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Virat Singh (Vice-Captain), Kumar Kushagra (Wicketkeeper), Utkarsh Singh, Supriyo Chakraborty, Manishi, Najim Siddiqui, Pankaj Raunak, Ravi Kumar Yadav, Saurabh Shekhar, Aryaman Sen, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Suraj, Vivekananda Tiwari, Vikas Kumar.
Karnataka Cricket Team: Mayank Agarwal (Captain), Manish Pandey (Vice-Captain), Famous Krishna, Vijaykumar Vaishya, Nikin Jose, Devdutt Padikkal, Sujay Sateri (Wicketkeeper), Lavnith Sisodia (Wicketkeeper), R. Samar, Shreyas Gopal, Abhilash Shetty, Vasuki Kaushik, Vidyadhar Patil, Kishan Bedare, Hardik Raj, Mohsin Khan.
Kerala Cricket Team: Sachin Baby (Captain), Mohammad Azharuddin (Wicketkeeper), Vishnu Vinod (Wicketkeeper), KM Asif, Basil Thampi, Baba Aparajith, Jalaj Saxena, Aditya Sarwate, MD Nidish, Akshay Chandran, Fazil Phanus, Vathsal Govind, Krishna Prasad, Rohan Kunnumal, Salman Nijar.
Madhya Pradesh Cricket Team: Shubham Sharma (Captain), Harpreet Singh, Rajat Patidar, Subhranshu Senapati, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anubhav Agarwal, Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Saransh Jain, Himanshu Mantri, Aryan Pandey and Sagar Solanki.
Meghalaya Cricket Team: Kishan Lyngdoh (Captain), Balachander Anirudh, Sumit Kumar (Wicketkeeper), Dipu Sangma (Co-Captain), Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Akash Choudhary, Bijon Dey, Ram Gurung, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Chengkam Sangma, Bamanbha Shangpliang, Swarajjit Das, Roshan Warbah, Shemblang Pingropey and Ajay Duhan.
Odisha Cricket Team: Govinda Poddar (Captain), Biplab Samantray, Suryakant Pradhan, Anil Parida, Kartik Biswal, Rajesh Dhupar, Sandip Patnaik, Debabrata Pradhan, Rajesh Mohanty, Harshit Rathod, Sunil Raul, Swastik Samal, Anurag Sarangi, Shantanu Mishra, Sumit Sharma, Ashirvad Swain and Tarani Sa.
Puducherry Cricket Team: Arun Karthik (Captain and Wicketkeeper), Aman Khan, Ankit Sharma (Co-Captain), Abin Mathew, Fabid Ahmed, Gaurav Yadav, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Parameswaran Sivaraman, Premraj Rajavelu, Ramachandran Raghupati, Ritesh Gudge, Ajay Rohera, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sagar Udeshi and Saurabh Yadav.
Punjab Cricket Team: Prabhsimran Singh (Captain and Wicketkeeper), Naman Dhir (Side-Captain), Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Sanvir Singh, Baltej Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Siddarth Kaul, Mayank Markande, Salil Arora, Abhay Chaudhary, Sahaj Dhawan, Preet Dutta, Imanjot Singh Chahal, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Jasinder Singh, Kovid Gujjar, Krish Bhagat, Prabhjot Singh, Pukhraj Mann and Sukhwinder Singh.
Railway Cricket Team: Pratham Singh (Captain), Suraj Ahuja (Wicketkeeper), Vivek Singh, Upendra Yadav (Wicketkeeper), Ashutosh Sharma (Side-Captain), Yuvraj Singh, Karn Sharma, Ayan Chaudhary, Shivam Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Bhargav Merai, Mohammad Saif, Rajat Nirwal, Akash Pandey, Himanshu Sangwan and Adarsh Singh.
Rajasthan Cricket Team: Deepak Hooda (Captain), Kunal Singh Rathod (Wicketkeeper), Abhijeet Tomar, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kukna Ajay Singh, Arafat Khan, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, Aniket Chaudhary, Bharat Sharma, Ram Chauhan, Salman Khan and Yash Kothari.
Saurashtra Cricket Team: Jaydev Unadkat (Captain), Harvik Desai (Wicketkeeper), Sheldon Jackson (Wicketkeeper), Cheteshwar Pujara, Tarang Gohel (Wicketkeeper), Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Singh Dodiya, Dharmendra Singh Jadeja, Parth Bhut, Vishwaraj Jadeja, Hiten Kanbi, Navneet Vora and Parshwaraj Rana.
Services Cricket Team: Rajat Paliwal, Amit Shukla, Arun Kumar, Varun Chaudhary, Jayant Goyat, Lavkesh Bansal, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Ravi Chauhan, Shubham Rohilla, Arjun Sharma, Nitin Tanwar and Suraj Vashisht
Tamil Nadu Cricket Team: Sai Kishore (Captain), Narayan Jagadeesan (Co-Captain and Wicketkeeper), C Andre Siddharth, Baba Indrajith, Boopathi Kumar, M Shahrukh Khan, Sai Sudarshan, Suresh Lokeshwar (Wicketkeeper), Pradosh Ranjan Paul (Wicketkeeper), Lakshya Jain, Vijay Shankar, Sonu Yadav, Ajit Ram, Gurjapaneet Singh, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Mohammad, Sandeep Warrier and Manimaran Siddharth.
Tripura Cricket Team: Mandeep Singh (Captain), Bikramkumar Das, Rajat Dey, Srinivas Sharath (Wicketkeeper), Mani Shankar Murang (Co-Captain), Sridam Paul, Parvez Sultan, Shankar Paul, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Joydeep Banik, Saurabh Das, Bikramjit Debnath, Tejaswi Jaiswal, Jivanjot Singh and Sandeep Sarkar.
Uttar Pradesh Cricket Team: Aryan Juyal (Captain and Wicketkeeper), Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Madhav Kaushik, Akshdeep Nath, Nitish Rana, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajput, Yash Dayal, Aditya Sharma, Aqib Khan, Kritagya Singh, Vipraj Nigam, Shivam Sharma, Siddharth Yadav and Vijay Kumar.
Uttarakhand Cricket Team: Ravikumar Samarth, Aditya Tare (wicketkeeper), Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Abhay Negi, Deepak Dhapola, Akash Madhwal, Swapnil Singh, Ankit Manori, Avnish Sudha, Vaibhav Bhatt, Himanshu Bisht, Devendra Singh Bora, Kunal Chandela and Akhil Rawat.
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