The Ranji Trophy for the 2026-27 season will begin on Sunday, October 11, featuring a total of 38 teams competing in India’s top domestic red-ball cricket tournament. Among these, 32 teams have been organized into four groups of eight, participating in the Elite Group, while six other teams will join the Plate Group.

Several prominent Indian Test cricket players, including KL Rahul, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Mohammed Siraj, Devdutt Padikkal, Ravindra Jadeja, and Manav Suthar, are expected to represent their domestic teams during the initial group-stage matches, scheduled from October 11 to 14.

The defending champions, Jammu and Kashmir, are placed in Elite Group A alongside former titleholders Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Vidarbha. Mumbai, boasting 42 titles, has been assigned to Elite Group D, where they will compete against Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, and four additional teams.

In Elite Group C, Bengal will face Delhi, Gujarat, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra, while Karnataka, Punjab, and Saurashtra will be part of Elite Group B.

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Groups

Match Schedule for the First League Stage

Squads for Initial Group Matches

Elite Group A

• Bihar: Sakibul Gani (C), Bipin Saurabh (WK), 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
• Uttar Pradesh: Aryan Juyal (C & WK), 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
• Goa: Abhinav Tejrana (C), Rajashekhar Harikant (WK), 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
• Baroda: Atit Sheth (C), Mitesh Patel (WK), Bhargav Bhatt, Deepak Hooda, Rasikh Salam Dar, Shivalik Sharma, Shashwat Rawat, Mahesh Pithiya, Akshay More, Priyanshu Moliya, Raj Limbani, Lakshit Toksiya, Aryan Chavda
• Vidarbha: Akshay Wadkar (C & WK), 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 (WK), 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
• Jammu and Kashmir: Paras Dogra (C), Kanhaiya Wadhawan (WK), 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: Shubham Sharma (C), Himanshu Mantri (WK), 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

Elite Group B

• Saurashtra: Harvik Desai (WK), 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
• Chhattisgarh: Anuj Tiwary (C), Mayank Verma (WK), 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 (WK), 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 (WK), 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
• Andhra Pradesh: Ricky Bhui (C), Revanth Reddy (WK), 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
• Karnataka: Smaran Ravichandran (C), Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul (WK), Devdutt Padikkal, Karun Nair, Aneesh KV, Aneeshwar Gautam, Manvanth Kumar L, Shreyas Gopal, Prasidh Krishna, Abhilash Shetty, LR Kumar, Shikhar Shetty, Kruthik Krishna, Krishnan Shrijith, Ritesh Bhatkal
• Hyderabad: Mohammed Siraj (C), Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Radesh (WK), Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Kodimela Himateja, Abhirath Reddy, Tanay Thyagarajan, Ajay Dev Goud, Aniketh Reddy, Pragnay Reddy, Chinntla Rakshan Readdi, Aelgani Varun Goud, Sai Vikas Reddy, Ruthik Yadav Mende, Chama V Milind
• Tripura: Manisankar Murasingh (C), Sentu Sarkar (WK), 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

Elite Group C

• Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Abishek Porel (WK), 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 (WK), 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 (WK), 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 (C & WK), 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
• Services: Rajat Paliwal (C), Mohit Ahlawat (WK), 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 (WK), 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 (C & WK), 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 (WK), Sandeep Pattnaik, Lalit M Yadav, Ninad Ashvinkumar Rathva, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Shantanu Mishra, Prasanta Rana, Aasirwad Swain, Gourav Choudhary, Om