India's premier domestic first-class competition Ranji Trophy 2024-25 begins Friday, October 11 with a total of 38 teams participating. (More Cricket News)
The tournament is set to be played in two halves to avoid obstruction due cold weather in northern parts of India. First five rounds will take place from October 11 to November 13 before the tournament will resume on January 23 for the remaining rounds and knock-outs.
Mumbai are the defending champions after they defeated Vidarbha in last season's final.
The format of the tournament will be the same as it was last season. The Elite division will have 32 teams while the lower division called Plate group will have six sides. The 32 teams in Elite group will be divided in four groups of eight each. After a round-robin group stage, top two from each group will advance to the quarter-finals. From there on it will become a knockout tournament.
In the Plate group, the top two teams will earn promotion to Elite division next year. On the other hand, the bottom two from all the four Elite division groups combined will be relegated to plate group for next season.
With the first round of the 2024-25 Ranji Trophy tournament set to begin from October 11, teams have already started announcing their squads. Check out the full squads of all eight teams in Group B of Elite division here.
Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group B Teams
Vidarbha
Andhra Pradesh
Rajasthan
Gujarat
Uttarakhand
Pondicherry
Himachal Pradesh
Hyderabad
Ranji Trophy 2024-25 Elite Group B All Squads
Hyderabad Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Tilak Varma (c), Rahul Singh G (vc), CV Milind, Tanmay Agarwal, Rohit Rayudu, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aniketh Reddy, Nitesh Kannala, Abhirath Reddy, Himateja, Rahul Radesh, Rakshann Readdi, Kartikeya Kak, Saranu Nishant, Dheeraj Goud.
Andhra Pradesh Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Ricky Bhui (C), Shaikh Rasheed (vc), KS Bharat (wk), Hanuma Vihari, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Maheep Kumar, Vamsi Krishna (wk), Abishek Reddy, KV Sasikanth, Ashwin Hebbar, CH Stephen, Satyanarayana Raju, A Lalith Mohan, G Manish, T Vijay, M Hemanth Reddy
Gujarat Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Priyank Panchal, Arya Desai, Het Patel, Urvil Patel, Chintan Gaja, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Umang Kumar, Siddharth Desai, Manan Hingrajia, Priyajitsinh Jadeja, Tejas Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Rishi Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jayswal.
Vidarbha Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Akshay Wadkar (c & wk), Aman Mokhade, Karun Nair, Yash Rathod, Atharva Taide (vc), Nachiket Bhute, Harsh Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Aditya Thakare, Akshay Wakhare, Umesh Yadav, Praful Hinge, Yash Kadam, Shubham Kapse, Mandar Mahale, Danish Malewar, Siddhesh Wath
Rajasthan Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Deepak Hooda (c), Kunal Singh Rathore (wk), Abhijeet Tomar, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kukna Ajay Singh, Arafat Khan, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, Aniket Choudhary, Bharat Sharma, Ram Chouhan, Salman Khan, Yash Kothari
Himachal Pradesh Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Ankush Bains (wk), Prashant Chopra, Ekant Sen, Rishi Dhawan, Mayank Dagar, Naveen Kanwar, Vaibhav Arora, Arpit Guleria, Abhishek Kumar, Aman Jainwal, Amit Kumar, Abhinandan Bhardwaj, Divesh Sharma, Ankit Kalsi, Mukul Negi, Rajat Verma, Rohit Thakur, Shubham Arora, Vipin Sharma
Pondicherry Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Arun Karthik (c & wk), Aman Khan, Ankit Sharma (vc), Abin Mathew, Fabid Ahmed, Gaurav Yadav, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Premraj Rajavelu, Ramachandran Ragupathy, Ritesh Gudge, Ajay Rohera, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sagar Udeshi, Saurabh Yadav
Uttarakhand Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squad
Ravikumar Samarth, Aditya Tare (wk), Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Abhay Negi, Deepak Dhapola, Akash Madhwal, Swapnil Singh, Ankit Manori, Avneesh Sudha, Vaibhav Bhatt, Himanshu Bisht, Devendra Singh Bora, Kunal Chandela, Akhil Rawat
