The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26, the domestic 50-over tournament, is set to kick off on December 24. The audience is looking forward to this edition of the tournament, as it will see the return of two big names, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, to domestic cricket after a long time. So, here is everything about the upcoming VHT that you should know.

Last year, both the former Indian captains participated in a Ranji Trophy match for their teams, Delhi and Mumbai, respectively. The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 will see Kohli returning to the tournament after 15 years, whereas Rohit will also be a part of the Mumbai team after being a part of the 2018 edition. On the other hand, Rishabh Pant will be the captain of Delhi’s VHT team, while Shardul Thakur will continue leading Mumbai.

After the BCCI ordered that all players not involved in International cricket must participate in the domestic competitions, many Indian stars will be seen in their respective State’s VHT jerseys.

A total of 38 teams, split into four elite groups and a plate group, will compete for 127 league-stage matches before moving on to the knockouts. All VHT matches are scheduled to start at 9:00 AM IST. The plate group final will be held on January 6, while the elite group will finish with the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 final on January 18.

VIJAY HAZARE TROPHY 2025–26

ALL SQUADS (EVERY TEAM)

Andhra Pradesh

Nitish Kumar Reddy (C), Ricky Bhui, KS Bharat (WK), Ashwin Hebbar, Shaikh Rasheed, Hemanth Reddy, SDNV Prasad, Y. Sandeep, M. Dhanush, Saurabh Kumar, B. Vinay Kumar, T. Vinay, C. H. Stephen, P. V. Satyanarayana Raju, KSN Raju, J. Saketh Ram, C. R. Gnaneshwar, C. H. Sandeep

Arunachal Pradesh

Kamsha Yangfo (C, WK), Neelam Obi (VC), Nabam Tempol, Ajit Kamra, Dheeraj Antin, Techi Doria, Jainath Mansingh, Penjor Mangal, Mibom Mosu, TNR Mohith, Nabam Josh, Nabam Kama, Nabam Natung, Techi Neri, ND Rakesh Kumar, Techi Sania, Suryansh Singh, Tai Magung, Techi Tiklee, Teshi Tiku

Assam

Sumit Ghadigaonkar (C, WK), Denish Das, Nihar Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Sibsankar Roy, Saurav Mousam Dihingia, Sarupam Purkayastha, Avinav Choudhury, Rahul Singh, Akash Sengupta, Ayushman Malakar, Muktar Hussain, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar, Ruhinandan Pegu (WK), Abdul Ajij Kuraishi

Baroda

Krunal Pandya (C), Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel (WK), Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma (WK), Vishnu Solanki, Aryan Chavda, Hardik Pandya, Atit Seth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Karan Umatt, Nitya Pandya, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya

Bengal

Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel (WK), Sudip Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Sumit Nag (WK), Chandrahas Dash, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karan Lal, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Sayan Ghosh, Ravi Kumar, Aamir Gani, Vishal Bhati, Ankit Mishra

Bihar

Sakibul Gani (C), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (VC), Piyush Singh, Bipin Saurabh (WK), Himanshu Singh, Suraj Kashyap, Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Akash Raj, Kumar Rajnish, Shabbir Khan

Chandigarh

Manan Vohra (C), Jagjeet S Sandhu, Arslan Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Ankit Kaushik, Arjun Azad, Tushar Joshi, Taranpreet Singh, Nikhil Thakur, Hartejassvi Kapoor, Nishunk Birla, Vishu Kashyap, Hardik Choudhary, Sanyam Saini, Rohit Dhanda

Chhattisgarh

Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare (C), Anuj Tiwari, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Harsh Sahu (WK), Harsh Yadav, M Ravi Kiran, Mayank Verma (WK), Mayank Yadav, Aditya Sarvate, Prateek Yadav, Sanjeet Desai, Shubham Agrawal, Sourabh Majumdar, Mohit Raut, Vikalp Tiwari

Delhi

Rishabh Pant (C), Virat Kohli, Ayush Badoni, Arpit Rana, Yash Dhull, Sarthak Ranjan, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Singh Dahiya (WK), Nitish Rana, Hrithik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Prince Yadav, Divij Mehra, Ayush Doseja, Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Anuj Rawat (standby WK)

Goa

Deepraj Gaonkar (C), Snehal Kauthankar (VC), Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Vikash Singh, Kashyap Bakhale, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Shubham Desai, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Azaan Thota

Gujarat

Aarya Desai, Saurav Chauhan, Kshitij Patel, Urvil Patel (WK), Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt, Abhishek Desai, Siddharth Desai, Hemang Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Ahaan Poddar, Vishal Jayswal

Haryana

Ankit Kumar (C), Himanshu Rana, Ashish Siwach, Yashvardhan Dalal (WK), 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), Ankush Bains (WK), Innesh Mahajan (WK), Ekant Sen, Akash Vasisht, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Abhishek Kumar, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Ayush Jamwal, Ankit Kalsi, Kushal Pal, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Pukhraj Mann, Rohit Kumar, Vipin Sharma

Hyderabad

Rahul Singh (C), Rahul Buddhi (VC), Tanmay Agarwal, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aman Rao, Abhirath Reddy, Nitesh Reddy, A Varun Goud, Pragnay Reddy, Prateek Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Rakshann Readdi, Kartikeya Kak, Ilyaan Sathani, Md Arfaz

Jammu & Kashmir

Paras Dogra (C), Shubham Khajuria (VC), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Kawalpreet Singh, Rydham Sharma (WK), Abid Mushtaq, Ashwin Murugan, Sahil Lotra, Auqib Nabi, Yudhvir Singh, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir Muzaffar

Jharkhand

Ishan Kishan (C), Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Kushagra (VC, WK), Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar (WK), Bala Krishna, Mohammad Kounain Qureshi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, Shubham Singh

Karnataka

Mayank Agarwal (C), Devdutt Padikkal, Karun Nair (VC), Smaran Ravichandran, KL Shrijith, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, V Vyshak, Manvanth Kumar L, Shreesha S Achar, Abhilash Shetty, Sharath BR, Harshil Dharmani, Dhruv Prabhakar, KL Rahul, Prasidh Krishna

Kerala

Rohan Kunnummal (C), Sanju Samson (WK), 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, Sharafudeen NM, Eden Apple Tom

Madhya Pradesh

Venkatesh Iyer (C), Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri (WK), Yash Dubey, Shubham Sharma, Harpreet Singh, Rishabh Chauhan, Ritik Tada, Kumar Kartikeya, Saransh Jain, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Rahul Batham, Tripuresh Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Madhav Tiwari

Maharashtra

Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Prithvi Shaw, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Ankeet Bawane, Rahul Tripathi, Saurabh Navale (WK), Vicky Ostwal, Jalaj Saxena, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Prashant Solanki, Nikhil Naik (WK), Pradeep Dadhe, Siddharth Mhatre, Sachin Dhas, Satyajeet Bacchav

Manipur

Bishworjit Konthoujam (C), Al Bashid Muhammed, Ayekpam Rakesh, Ngariyanbam Jameson Singh, Johnson Singh, Langlonyamba Meitan Keishangbam, Khangembam Santosh, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, L Kishan Singha, Homendro Kabrambam, Kangabam Priyojit, Kishan Thokchom, Lamabam Ajay, Pheiroijam Jotin, Karnajit Yumnam

Meghalaya

Dippu Sangma (C), Kishan Lyngdoh, Ram Gurung (VC), Abhishek Kumar, Kush Agarwal, Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Anish Charak, Swastic Chettri, Akash Choudhary, Riboklang Hynniewta, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Arien Sangma, Larry Sangma, Swarajeet Das

Mizoram

Joseph Lalthankhuma (C), Codanda Ajit Karthik, KC Cariappa, Jehu Anderson (VC, WK), Naveen Gurung, Lalhriatrenga, Lalhruaizela, B Lalnunfela, Lalrempuia, Lalroluahpuia Ngente, Sahil Reza, Sahil Sharma, TC Vanlalremruata, Khiangte Vanrotlinga, Zothanzuala

Mumbai

Shardul Thakur (C), Rohit Sharma (two games), Hardik Tamore (WK), Ishan Mulchandani, Shams Mulani, Musheer Khan, Tanush Kotian, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Tushar Deshpande, Sarfaraz Khan, Onkar Tarmale, Siddesh Lad, Sylvester Dsouza, Chinmay Sutarm, Sairaj Patil, Akash Anand (WK), Suryanash Shedge

Nagaland

Chetan Bist (WK), Joshua Ozukum, Rongsen Jonathan, Imliwati Lemtur, Ronit More, Tahmeed Rahman, Dip Borah, Hem Chetri, Nchumbemo Humtsoe, Saurav Kumar, Nagaho Chishi, Dega Nischal, Sedezhalie Rupero, Akavi Yeptho, Yugandhar Singh

Odisha

Biplab Samantray (C), Shantanu Mishra, Swastik Samal, Om T Munde, Dinesh Kumar Majhi (WK), Aashirwad Swain (WK), Prayash Kumar Singh, Sambit Baral, Rajesh Mohanty (VC), Debabrata Pradhan, Soumya R Lenka, Anil Parida, Sandeep Pattanaik, Badal Biswal, Govinda Poddar, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad

Puducherry

TBA

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

Railways

Karn Sharma (C), Ashutosh Sharma (VC), Suraj Ahuja (WK), Kush Marathe, Pratham Singh, Ravi Singh, Upendra Yadav (WK), Ansh Yadav, Raj Choudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Sahab Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali

Rajasthan

Manav Suthar (C), Manendra Singh, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Sumit Godara, Mahipal Lomror, Deepak Hooda, Karan Lamba, Mukul Chaudhary, Ajay Singh Kukna, Khaleel Ahmed, Aniket Choudhary (VC), Ashok Sharma, Aditya Singh Rathore, Samarpit Joshi, Akash Singh, Rahul Chahar

Saurashtra

Harvik Desai (WK), Tarang Gohel, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Ansh Gosai, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Hiten Kanbi, Pranav Karia, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana

Services

Rajat Paliwal, Vikas Hathwala, Irfan Ali, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Raj Bahadur, Ravi Chauhan, Sagar Dahiya, Arjun Sharma, Amit Shukla, Nitin Tanwar

Sikkim

Leeyong Lepcha, Gurinder Singh, K Sai Satwik, M Kranti Kumar, Anwesh Karan Sharma, Amit Rajera, Rahul Kumar, Ankur Malik, Ashish Thapa, Aamir Iqbal Bhutia, Abhishek Kr Shah, Siddharth Prasad, Palzor Tamang, MD Saptulla, Robin Limboo

Tamil Nadu

N Jagadeesan (C), B Sai Sudharsan (VC), B Indrajith, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, C Andre Siddarth, M Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, S Mohamed Ali, SR Athish, R Sai Kishore, Sachin Rathi, Gurjapneet Singh, CV Achyuth, G Govinth, R Sonu Yadav, Sunny Sandhu, VS Karthick Manikandan

Tripura

Manisankar Murasingh (C), Udiyan Bose, Rajat Dey, Sridam Paul, Vijay Shankar, Hanuma Vihari, Parvez Sultan, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Swapnil Singh, Saurabh Das, Bikramjit Debnath, Arjun Debnath, Subham Ghosh, Saruk Hossain, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Riaz Uddin, Viki Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Nirupam Sen, Sentu Sarkar, Arkaprabha Sinha, Debaprasad Sinha

Uttar Pradesh

Abhishek Goswami, Adarsh Singh, Priyam Garg, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Aryan Juyal (WK), Sameer Rizvi, Rinku Singh, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Vipraj Nigam, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kartik Yadav, Kunal Tyagi, Vineet Panwar, Rituraj Sharma

Uttarakhand

Kunal Chandela (C), Deepesh Nailwal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Harshit Paliwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Nikhil Harsh, Saurabh Rawat, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi

Vidarbha

Harsh Dubey (C), Yash Thakur, Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Shivam Deshmukh (WK), Akshay Wadkar, Nachiket Bhute, Darshan Nalkande, R Samarth, Parth Rekhade, Dipesh Parwani, Praful Hinge, Shubham Dubey, Ganesh Bhosle

FULL SCHEDULE (EVERY MATCH)

Plate Group – Ranchi

Dec 24:

Arunachal Pradesh vs Bihar

Manipur vs Nagaland

Meghalaya vs Mizoram

Dec 26:

Bihar vs Manipur

Meghalaya vs Nagaland

Arunachal Pradesh vs Mizoram

Dec 29:

Bihar vs Meghalaya

Arunachal Pradesh vs Manipur

Mizoram vs Nagaland

Dec 31:

Bihar vs Nagaland

Manipur vs Mizoram

Arunachal Pradesh vs Meghalaya

Jan 3:

Bihar vs Mizoram

Manipur vs Meghalaya

Arunachal Pradesh vs Nagaland

Jan 6:

Plate Group Final

Elite Groups (Dec 24 – Jan 8)

All matches start at 9:00 AM IST

December 24

• Puducherry vs Tamil Nadu – Ahmedabad (A)
• Madhya Pradesh vs Rajasthan – Ahmedabad (A)
• Jharkhand vs Karnataka – Ahmedabad (A)
• Kerala vs Tripura – Ahmedabad (A)
• Chandigarh vs J&K – Rajkot (B)
• Assam vs Baroda – Saurashtra (B)
• Hyderabad vs UP – Rajkot (B)
• Bengal vs Vidarbha – Rajkot (B)
• Mumbai vs Sikkim – Jaipur (C)
• Himachal vs Uttarakhand – Jaipur (C)
• Chhattisgarh vs Goa – Jaipur (C)
• Maharashtra vs Punjab – Jaipur (C)
• Odisha vs Saurashtra – Alur (D)
• Haryana vs Railways – Alur (D)
• Andhra vs Delhi – Bengaluru (D)
• Gujarat vs Services – Alur (D)

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