Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Schedule: Round 1 Fixtures, Groups, Squads & Venues

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 will begin on October 11.

The new season of the Ranji Trophy is set to begin on October 11, 2026. Like previous years, India’s premier domestic red-ball tournament will give experienced players and young cricketers a stage to perform and help their teams compete for the title.

A total of 38 teams will take part in the 2026-27 edition. These teams are divided into four Elite groups and one Plate group. The tournament will feature 138 matches and will be played in two phases because of the domestic white-ball tournaments scheduled in between.

Jammu and Kashmir will enter the competition as the defending champions after winning their first Ranji Trophy title last season. They will look to continue their good run, while teams such as Mumbai, Karnataka and Bengal will also aim to make a strong start.

The first round will run from October 11 to 14, with 19 matches scheduled across different venues. Jammu and Kashmir will face Madhya Pradesh in Srinagar, while Karnataka will take on Andhra and Bengal will meet Delhi.

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Groups

Elite Group A	Elite Group B	Elite Group C	Elite Group D	Plate Group
Bihar	Andhra	Bengal	Chandigarh	Arunachal Pradesh
Baroda	Assam	Delhi	Haryana	Manipur
Goa	Chhattisgarh	Gujarat	Himachal Pradesh	Meghalaya
Jammu & Kashmir	Hyderabad	Jharkhand	Mumbai	Mizoram
Madhya Pradesh	Karnataka	Kerala	Railways	Nagaland
Puducherry	Punjab	Maharashtra	Rajasthan	Sikkim
Uttar Pradesh	Saurashtra	Odisha	Tamil Nadu
Vidarbha	Tripura	Services	Uttarakhand

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 format

The 38 teams have been divided into four Elite groups, with eight teams in each group, and a Plate group featuring six teams.

The tournament will be played in two phases. The first phase begins on October 11 and runs until November 5. The schedule will then make way for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy before the remaining Ranji Trophy 2026-27 matches resume in January 2027.

The top two teams from each Elite group will qualify for the quarter-finals. In the Plate group, the top four teams will progress to the semi-finals, with the two finalists earning promotion.

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Round 1 fixtures and Venues

The opening round of Ranji Trophy 2026-27 will feature matches across the Elite and Plate groups. Here is the complete list of fixtures scheduled from October 11 to 14.

Date	Group	Match	Venue
October 11–14, 2026	Plate	Sikkim vs Meghalaya	Rangpo
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group B	Andhra vs Karnataka	Mulapadu
October 11–14, 2026	Plate	Arunachal Pradesh vs Nagaland	Ahmedabad
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group C	Bengal vs Delhi	Kalyani
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group A	Bihar vs Uttar Pradesh	Rajgir
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group A	Goa vs Baroda	Panaji
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group C	Gujarat vs Odisha	Ahmedabad
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group D	Haryana vs Himachal Pradesh	Rohtak
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group B	Hyderabad vs Tripura	Hyderabad
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group A	Jammu & Kashmir vs Madhya Pradesh	Srinagar
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group C	Jharkhand vs Kerala	Jamshedpur
October 11–14, 2026	Plate	Mizoram vs Manipur	Nadiad
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group D	Mumbai vs Chandigarh	Mumbai
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group B	Punjab vs Assam	Mullanpur
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group D	Railways vs Uttarakhand	CCI, Mumbai
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group D	Rajasthan vs Tamil Nadu	Jaipur
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group B	Saurashtra vs Chhattisgarh	Rajkot
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group C	Services vs Maharashtra	New Delhi
October 11–14, 2026	Elite Group A	Vidarbha vs Puducherry	Nagpur

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Key squads

Group A

Madhya Pradesh: Shubham Sharma (C), Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri, 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.

Group B

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), Abhishek Reddy, M Hemanth Reddy, Sk Rasheed, SV Rahul, K Karan Shinde, K Revanth Reddy, T Vijay, KV Sasikanth, Saurabh Kumar, PVSN Raju, K Sai Teja, A Lalit Mohan, CH Stephen, UMS Girinath

Hyderabad: Mohammed Siraj (C), C.V. Milind, Tanmay Agarwal, M. Abhirath Reddy, Rahul Singh, K. Hima Teja, Rahul Radesh, Sai Pragnay Reddy, Varun Goud, Tanay Thyagrajan, Aniketh Reddy, Clt. Rakshann Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud, Ruthik Yadav Mende, Sai Vikas Reddy.

Group C

Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Sudip Gharami, Sudip Chatterjee, Abishek Porel, Shakir Gandhi, Ankur Paul, Sumanta Gupta, Ankit Shukla, Subham Chetterjee, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Jaiswal, Pradipta Pramanik, Aamir Gani, Mohammed Kaif and Soummyadeep Mandal.

Kerala: Vishnu Vinod (C), Rohan Kunnummal, Abhishek J. Nair, Abhishek P. Nair, Sachin Baby, Ahammed Imran, Md Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar, Varun Nayanar, Jalaj Saxena, Vaisakh Chandran, Aditya Sarvate, Anuraj JS, Abhijith Praveen, MD Nidheesh, Eden Tom, Pavan Raj, Basil N.P.

Maharashtra: Prithvi Shaw (C), Sachin Dhas, Digvijay Patil, Ankeet Bawane, Harshal Kate, Siddhesh Veer, Saurabh Navale, Vicky Ostwal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Tanay Sanghvi, Vaibhav Darkunde, Hitesh Walunj, Rishikesh Sonawane and Atharva Dharmadhikar

Group D

Mumbai: Siddhesh Lad (C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ayush Mhatre, Divyaansh Saxena, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Aakash Anand, Hardik Tamore, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Atharva Ankolekar, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester Dsouza, Onkar Tarmale.

Tamil Nadu: R Sai Kishore (C), Andre Siddarth, Ajitesh G, Ajith Ram S, Athish S R, Deepesh D, Govinth G, Hemchudeshan J, Baba Indrajith, N Jagadeesan, Nidhish S Rajagopal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Pranav Ragavendra R D, Saravana Kumar P, Sonu Yadav R, Vimal Khumar R, Washington Sundar.

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