Duleep Trophy 2025-26: Schedule, squads, teams, format, venues, timings, live streaming details and all you need to know

Six teams will battle for the title in Duleep Trophy 2025-26.

The Indian Cricket’s domestic season is all set to commence with Duleep Trophy 2025-26. The tournament will begin on August 28 and will witness exciting four-day games.

A total of five games will be played during the tournament – two quarter-finals, two semi-finals, and the final. All the matches will be knockout games, therefore, the losing team will be eliminated from the tournament.

Six teams will fight for the title in Duleep Trophy 2025-26. They are – North Zone, South Zone, West Zone, East Zone, Central Zone, and North East Zone. Notably, the tournament has returned to a zonal format this year. Last year, it was played between four teams – India A, B, C, and D.

South Zone are the defending champions of the tournament. In the 2023-24 edition, they crushed West Zone in the final by 75 runs to lift the title. Both finalists of the last zonal-format tournament will directly play in the semi-finals this season.

Shubman Gill and Tilak Varma are the captains of North Zone and South Zone respectively. However, some reports have claimed that Gill is going to miss the tournament due to illness and vice-captain Ankit Kumar will lead the side.

Shardul Thakur and Abhimanyu Easwaran will lead West Zone and East Zone respectively. Central Zone will be led by Dhruv Jurel, while North East Zone will be captained by Jonathan Rongsen. Notably, players part of Asia Cup 2025 squad will only play in the opening games and will be replaced later.

Duleep Trophy 2025-26 Schedule

Duleep Trophy 2025-26 Teams

Six teams are part of the tournament. They are North Zone, South Zone, East Zone, West Zone, Central Zone, and North East Zone.

Duleep Trophy 2025-26 format

The tournament will witness two quarter-finals, two semi-finals, and the final. The finalists of the last zonal-format edition, South Zone and West Zone, will directly play in the semi-finals.

North Zone and East Zone will clash in 1st quarter-final, while Central Zone and North East Zone will face each other in 2nd quarter-final.

The winners of the quarter-finals will clash with South Zone and West Zone in the semi-finals. The winners of the semis will book a berth in the final.

Duleep Trophy 2025-26 Squads

Central Zone: Dhruv Jurel (captain, wk), Rajat Patidar, Aryan Juyal, Danish Malewar, Sanchit Desai, Kuldeep Yadav, Aditya Thakare, Deepak Chahar, Saransh Jain, Ayush Pandey, Shubham Sharma, Yash Rathod, Harsh Dubey, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed.

East Zone: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Sandeep Patnaik, Virat Singh, Denish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra, Riyan Parag, Utkarsh Singh, Manishi, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Shami, Aasirwad Swain.

North East Zone: Rongsen Jonathan (captain), Ankur Malik, Jehu Anderson, Aryan Bora, Techi Doria, Ashish Thapa, Sedezhalie Rupero, Karnajit Yumnam, Hem Chetri, Palzor Tamang, Arpit Subash Bhatewara (wk), Akash Choudhary, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Pheiroijam Jotin, Ajay Lamabam Singh.

North Zone: Shubman Gill (captain), Shubham Khajuria, Ankit Kumar (vice-captain), Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Ankit Kalsi, Nishant Sindhu, Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (wk).

South Zone: Tilak Varma (captain), Mohammed Azharuddeen (vice-captain, wk), Tanmay Agarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, N Jagadeesan (wk), T Vijay, R Sai Kishore, Tanay Thyagarajan, Vyshak Vijaykumar, MD Nidheesh, Ricky Bhui, Basil NP, Gurjapneet Singh, Snehal Kauthankar.

West Zone: Shardul Thakur (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aarya Desai, Harvik Desai (wk), Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Jaymeet Patel, Manan Hingrajia, Saurabh Nawale (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arzan Nagwaswala.

Duleep Trophy 2025-26 Live Streaming Details

The live streaming of Duleep Trophy 2025-26 will be available on Jio Hotstar app and website. Hence, fans can enjoy the games on this app.

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