Ranji Trophy 2026-27 — Teams, fixtures, groups, live streaming info

The Ranji Trophy 2026-27, India’s premier domestic cricket competition, will begin with the first round of fixtures between October 11 and 14.

Jammu Kashmir is the defending champion, while eight-time winner Karnataka is the runner-up. Eighteen teams have won the coveted title, while Mumbai is the most succesful team with 42 titles.

The tournament, which will enter its 92nd edition, will see 38 teams play 138 matches over the course of five months.

The 38 teams have been split into five groups- Group A, Group B, Group C, Group D, and the Plate group. The elite division comprises the first four groups and 32 teams, while the plate group consists of lower-ranked teams.

The winner of the plate group will earn promotion to the elite division for the following season, while the team with the fewest points in the elite division will get relegated.

Last season, Bihar was promoted after winning the plate final against Manipur, while Nagaland got relegated.

Bihar will contest in Group A along with J&K, Baroda, Goa, Madhya Pradesh Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, and Vidarbha. Karnataka is in Group B, while Mumbai is in Group D.

In the opening round, J&K will take on Madhya Pradesh in Srinagar, while Karnataka will begin against Andhra. Heavyweights Mumbai and Tamil Nadu start their campaigns against Chandigarh and Rajasthan respectively.

GROUPS

OPENING ROUND FIXTURES

Group A

• Bihar vs Uttar Pradesh – Rajgir – begins 9:00AM
• Goa vs Baroda – Panaji – begins 9:30AM
• Jammu and Kashmir vs Madhya Pradesh – Srinagar – begins 9:30AM
• Vidarbha vs Puducherry – Nagpur – begins 9:30AM

Group B

• Hyderabad vs Tripura – Securandarabad – begins 9:30AM
• Andhra vs Karnataka – Vijayawada – begins 9:30AM
• Punjab vs Assam – New Chandigarh – begins 9:30AM
• Saurashtra vs Chhattisgarh – Rajkot – begins 9:30AM

Group C

• Jharkhand vs Kerala – Jamshedpur – begins 9:00AM
• Bengal vs Delhi – Kalyani – begins 9:00AM
• Gujarat vs Odisha – Ahmedabad – begins 9:30AM
• Services vs Maharashtra – Delhi – begins 9:30AM

Group D

• Haryana vs Himachal Pradesh – Rohtak – begins 9:30AM
• Railways vs Uttarakhand – Brabourne – begins 9:30AM
• Rajasthan vs Tamil Nadu – Jaipur — begins 9:30AM
• Mumbai vs Chandigarh – Mumbai – begins 9:30AM

Plate

• Sikkim vs Meghalaya – Rangpo – begins 8:15AM
• Mizoram vs Manipur – Nadiad – begins 9:30AM

SQUADS

Baroda: Atit Sheth(c), Mitesh Patel(w), Bhargav Bhatt, Deepak Hooda, Rasikh Salam Dar, Shivalik Sharma, Shashwat Rawat, Mahesh Pithiya, Akshay More, Priyanshu Moliya, Raj Limbani, Lakshit Toksiya, Aryan Chavda

Bihar: Sakibul Gani(c), Bipin Saurabh(w), Mangal Mahrour, Piyush Singh, Amod Yadav, Suraj Kashyap, Akash Raj, Shabbir Khan, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Sakib Hussain, Himanshu Singh, Sraman Nigrodh, Ayush Loharuka, Khalid Alam, Mohammed Salahuddin Izhar, Prithvi Raj, Naman Gaurav

Goa: Abhinav Tejrana(c), Rajashekhar Harikant(w), Darshan Misal, Deepraj Gaonkar, Amulya Pandrekar, Snehal Kauthankar, Vasuki Koushik, Felix Alemao, Suyash Prabhudessai, Lalit Yadav, Mohit Redkar, Manthan Khutkar, Ruthvik Naik, Shubham Tari, Shivendra Bhujbal, Yash Kasvankar

Jammu and Kashmir: Paras Dogra(c), Kanhaiya Wadhawan(w), Shubham Khajuria, Umar Nazir Mir, Shubham Pundir, Rohit Sharma, Auqib Nabi, Qamran Iqbal, Abdul Samad, Abid Mushtaq, Umran Malik, Lone Nasir Muzaffar, Sunil Kumar, Sahil Lotra, Vanshaj Sharma, Waseem Bashir, Yawer Hassan, Kawalpreet Singh

Madhya Pradesh: Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli (wk), Himanshu Mantri (wk), Shubham Sharma (C), Chanchal Rathore, Himanshu Shinde, Atharv Mahajan, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Anubhav Agrawal, Roshan Kewat, Akshay Sharma, Avesh Khan Kuldeep Sen, Ravi Kiran.

Karnataka: Mayank Agarawal, Rahul KL, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karun Nair, Smaran R, Aneesh KV, Shreyas Gopal, Kruthik Krishna, Shikhar Shetty, Prasidh M Krishna, Abhilash Shetty, Manvanth Kumar L, Kumar LR, Ritesh Bhatkal, Shrijith KL

Andhra: Ricky Bhui(c), Revanth Reddy(w), Lalith Mohan, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Saurabh Kumar, Abhishek Reddy, KV Sasikanth, Kirdant Karan Shinde, Uppara Girinath, Kavuri Saiteja, Tripurana Vijay, Shaik Rasheed, Maramreddy Hemanth Reddy, Satyanarayana Raju, Seeram Venkata Rahul

Uttar Pradesh: Aryan Juyal(w/c), Priyam Garg, Siddarth Yadav, Aaditya Sharma, Rinku Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Abhishek Goswami, Kartik Tyagi, Yash Dayal, Madhav Kaushik, Karan Sharma, Aaradhya Yadav, Prashant Veer, Abhinandan Singh, Kartik Yadav, Vansh Chaudhary

Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran(c), Abishek Porel(w), Sudip Chatterjee, Anustup Majumdar, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Mohammed Shami, Vishal Bhatia, Vikash Singh, Ishan Porel, Saurabh Singh, Akash Deep, Sumanta Gupta, Rahul Prasad, Kazi Saifi, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Sumit Mohanta

Delhi: Ayush Badoni(c), Yash Dhull, Anuj Rawat(w), Sarthak Ranjan, Simarjeet Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Dev Lakra, Divij Mehra, Money Grewal, Sumit Mathur, Navdeep Saini, Sanat Sangwan, Tejasvi Dahiya, Pranav Rajvanshi, Dhruv Kaushik, Ayush Doseja

Jharkhand: Virat Singh(c), Robin Minz(w), Aryaman Sen, Aditya Chandresh Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Jatin Pandey, Amit Kumar, Md Kounain Quraishi, Shresht Sagar, Sahil Raj, Sushant Mishra, Manishi, Utkarsh Singh

Kerala: Vishnu Vinod(w/c), Jalaj Saxena, Sachin Baby, MD Nidheesh, Salman Nizar, Aditya Sarwate, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Rohan Kunnummal, Varun Nayanar, Nedumankuzhy Basil, Eden Apple Tom, Vaisakh Chandran, Abhijith Praveen V, Abhishek Nair, Ahammed Imran, Abhishek P Nair, Anuraj J S, Pavan Raj

Mumbai: Siddhesh Lad(c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Hardik Tamore(w), Akash Anand, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Avasthi, Suved Parkar, Divyansh joshi, Sylvester DSouza, Onkar Tarmale, Atharva Ankolekar

Chandigarh: Manan Vohra(c), Arjit Pannu(w), Shivam Bhambri, Arjun Azad, Anirudh Kanwar, Arslan Khan, Nehal Pajni, Jagjit Singh, Raj Bawa, Akshit Rana, Rohit Dhanda, Nishunk Birla, Karthik Sandil, Dipender Kush

Rajasthan: Manav Suthar(c), Mahipal Lomror, Mukul Choudhary(w), Kukna Ajay Singh, Akash Maharaj Singh, Karan Lamba, Sumit Godara, Sachin Yadav, Kartik Sharma, Chetan Sharma, D Bhambhu, Darshan Jain, Hemanth Choudhary

Tamil Nadu: Andre Siddarth C, Narayan Jagadeesan(w), Athish SR, Vimal Khumar, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Ajitesh Guruswamy, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore(c), S Ajith Ram, Nidhish Rajagopal, Sonu Yadav, P Saravana Kumar, Pranav Raghavendra, Deepesh Devendran, Jeganathan Hemchudeshan, Govinth Ganesh

Railways: Bhargav Merai(c), Suraj Ahuja(w), Vivek Singh, Mohammad Saif, Himanshu Sangwan, Kush Marathe, Kunal Yadav, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali khan, Raj Choudhary, Sahab Yuvraj, Ravi Singh, Eshaan Goyal, Pradhyumn Parikh, Toufik Uddin Mondal

Uttarakhand: Kunal Chandela(c), Saurabh Rawat(w), Dega Nischal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Agnivesh Ayachi, Deepak Dhapola, Mayank Mishra, Avneesh Sudha, Vaibhav Kandpal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Devendra Singh Bora, Aditya Rawat, Sanskar Rawat, Harsh Patwal, Aarav Mahajan, Janmejay Joshi, Lakshya Rajesh Raichandani

Haryana: Ankit Rajesh Kumar(c), Yashvardhan Dalal(w), Himanshu Rana, Ajit Chahal, Aman Kumar, Anshul Kamboj, Kapil Hooda, Vaibhav Arora, Dheeru Singh, Anuj Thakral, Kanishk Chouhan, Nikhil Kashyap, Samant Jakhar

Himachal Pradesh: Pukhraj Mann(c), Innesh Mahajan(w), Akash Vasisht, Shubham Arora, Nehal Wadhera, Arpit Guleria, Nitin Sharma, Mukul Negi, Hritik Kalia, Divesh Sharma, Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal, Amanpreet Singh, Harshit Sandal, Jitender Rana, Vaibhav Kalta

Services: Rajat Paliwal(c), Mohit Ahlawat(w), Devender Lohchab, Pulkit Narang, Amit Pachhara, Ravi Chauhan, Arjun Sharma, Pal Raj Bahadur, Rahul Singh, Nitin Tanwar, Nakul Sharma, Varun Choudhary, Vineet Dhankhar, Jayant Goyat

Maharashtra: Prithvi Shaw(c), Saurabh Nawale(w), Ankit Bawne, Pradeep Dadhe, Mukesh Choudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Hitesh Walunj, Siddhesh Veer, Vicky Ostwal, Digvijay Patil, Sachin Dhas, Harshal Kate, Atharva Dharmadhikari, Rushikesh Sonawane, Vaibhav Darkunde, Tanay Sanghvi

Gujarat: Urvil Patel(w/c), Harshal Patel, Chintan Gaja, Siddharth Desai, Kshitij Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Priyesh Patel, Manan Hingrajia, Vishal Jayswal, Aarya Desai, Priyajitsing Jadeja, Jaymeet Patel, Abhishek Desai, Vedant Trivedi, Amit Desai, Saral Prajapati

Odisha: Subhranshu Senapati(c), Dinesh Majhi(w), Sandeep Pattnaik, Lalit M Yadav, Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Shantanu Mishra, Prasanta Rana, Aasirwad Swain, Gourav Choudhary, Om T Munde, Badal Biswal, Soumya Ranjan Lenka, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Shreyansh Bhardwaj, Sambit Beja

Saurashtra: Harvik Desai(w), Jaydev Unadkat(c), Ravindra Jadeja, Chirag Jani, Arpit Vasavada, Prerak Mankad, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Parth Bhut, Tarang Gohel, Hetvik Kotak, Jay Gohil, Sammar Gajjar, Ankur Panwar, Neel Pandya, Arth Yadav

Chattisgarh: Anuj Tiwary(c), Mayank Verma(w), Rahul Pradhan, Jayant Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Amandeep Khare, Ashutosh Singh, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sanjeet Desai, Sourabh Majumdar, Prateek Yadav, Aayush Pandey, Vashudev Bareth, Mohammad Sohail, Vikalp Tiwari, Dev Aditya Singh, Rudra Pratap Dehari

Punjab: Uday Saharan(c), Salil Arora(w), Anmol Malhotra, Ramandeep Singh, Sanvir Singh, Harpreet Brar, Gurnoor Brar, Umesh Yadav, Harnoor Singh, Vihaan Malhotra, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Jashanpreet Singh, Gursimran Singh, Anshul Chaudhary, Harjas Singh Tandon

Assam: Denish Das(c), Anurag Talukdar(w), Sibsankar Roy, Rishav Das, Swarupam Purkayastha, Mukhtar Hussain, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Roshan Alam, Amlanjyoti Paresh Das, Sunil Lachit, Nihar Deka, Dipjyoti Saikia, Bishal Newar, Mohit Thakur, Rajveer Singh

Hyderabad: Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Radesh(w), Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Kodimela Himateja, Abhirath Reddy, Tanay Thyagarajan, Ajay Dev Goud, Aniketh Reddy, Mohammed Siraj(c), Pragnay Reddy, Chinntla Rakshan Readdi, Aelgani Varun Goud, Sai Vikas Reddy, Ruthik Yadav Mende, Chama V Milind

Tripura: Manisankar Murasingh(c), Sentu Sarkar(w), Hanuma Vihari, Mandeep Singh, Swapnil Singh, Abhijit K Sarkar, Bikramkumar Das, Ajay Sarkar, Rajat Dey, Bikramjit Debnath, Arkaprabha Sinha, Parvez Sultan, Amit Ali, Sridam Paul, Sandip Sarkar, Hrituraj Roy

Vidarbha: Akshay Wadkar(w/c), Dhruv Shorey, Ravikumar Samarth, Rajneesh Gurbani, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Rathod, Atharva Taide, Harsh Dubey, Parth Rekhade, Nachiket Bhute, Ganesh Bhosle, Aman Mokhade, Yash Kadam, Danish Malewar, Praful Hinge, Shivam Deshmukh, Satyam Bhoyar

Puducherry: Neyan Shyam Kangayan(c), Prasad Pawar(w), Sagar Udeshi, Aman Khan, Logesh Prabagaran, Vijai Raja, Tahir Bhat, Karan Kannan, Sivamurugan Murugaiyan, Thamaraikannan Parandaman, Mohit Kale, Sagar Trivedi, Nikhil Gangta, Gaurav Yadav, Ankit Sharma

Madhya Pradesh: Shubham Sharma(c), Himanshu Mantri(w), Ravi Kiran, Avesh Khan, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya, Yash Dubey, Kuldeep Sen, Anubhav Agarwal, Harsh Gawali, Chanchal Rathore, Aryan Pandey, Himanshu Shinde, Shivang Kumar, Roshan Kewat, Atharv Mahajan, Akshay Sharma

LIVE STREAMING INFO

Select fixtures from the Ranji Trophy 2026-27 season will be streamed live on the JioHotstar app and website and televised live on the Star Sports Network.