Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025: Final Squads, Schedule, Key Players and Key Matches

Udaipur, Dec 24, 2025: The Vijay Hazare Trophy begins today, on December 24, with fans eagerly waiting for the return of star players Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in India’s top domestic 50-over tournament.

Almost all current Indian players will take part in the competition after the BCCI directed them to feature in the tournament. This decision comes as the Indian team has a break of nearly three weeks between their home series against South Africa and New Zealand.

The tournament will also mark the return of two senior players after a long gap. Virat Kohli last played in the Vijay Hazare Trophy during the 2009–10 season, when he led Delhi. Rohit Sharma last featured in the tournament in 2018, playing for Mumbai in the quarterfinal and semifinal matches. The comeback of these two stars has become the biggest highlight of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Ahead of the tournament’s start, here is everything you need to know.

Vijay Hazare Trophy: Start and End Dates, Format

The Vijay Hazare Trophy will begin on December 24, with all 32 teams taking part. Each team will play seven matches in the league stage. The top two teams from each group will qualify for the quarterfinals. After that, the semifinals and the final will be played.

The league stage will end on January 8. The knockout matches will start from January 12, and the final will be played on January 18.

Key First-Round Matches to Watch

There are several important matches in the opening round. Virat Kohli’s Delhi will face Andhra in their first match, while Rohit Sharma’s Mumbai will play against Sikkim. India Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill’s Punjab will take on Ruturaj Gaikwad’s Maharashtra, a team that also includes Prithvi Shaw.

All Squads Announced

Tamil Nadu: N. Jagadeesan (C), B. Sai Sudharsan (Vice-capt), B. Indrajith, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, C. Andre Siddarth, M. Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, S. Mohamed Ali, S.R. Athish, R. Sai Kishore, Sachin Rathi, Gurjapneet Singh, C.V. Achyuth, G. Govinth, R. Sonu Yadav, Sunny Sandhu, V.S. Karthick Manikandan.

Madhya Pradesh: Venkatesh Iyer (c), Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri (WK), Yash Dubey, Shubham Sharma, Harpreet Singh, Rishabh Chauhan, Ritik Tada, Kumar Kartikeya, Saransh Jain, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Rahul Batham, Tripuresh Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Madhav Tiwari

Rajasthan: Manav Suthar (c), Manendra Singh, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Sumit Godara, Mahipal Lomror, Deepak Hooda, Karan Lamba, Mukul Chaudhary, Ajay Singh Kukna, Khaleel Ahmed, Aniket Choudhary (vc), Ashok Sharma, Aditya Singh Rathore, Samarpit Joshi, Akash Singh, Rahul Chahar.

Jharkhand: Ishan Kishan (c), Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk) (vc), Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar (wk), Bala Krishna, Mohammad Kounain Qureshi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, Shubham Singh.

Karnataka: Mayank Agarwal (c), Karun Nair (vc), Devdutt Padikkal, R. Smaran, KL Shrijith, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, V. Vyshak, Manvanth Kumar, Shreesha Achar, Abhilash Shetty, B.R. Sharath, Harshil Dharmani, Dhruv Prabhakar, KL Rahul, Prasidh Krishna.

Kerala: Rohan Kunnummal (c), Sanju Samson (wk), Vishnu Vinod (wk), Mohammad Azharuddeen (Wicketkeeper), Ahammed Imran, Salman Nizar, Abhishek J. Nair, Krishna Prasad, Akhil Scaria, Abhijith Praveen V, Biju Narayanan, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Vignesh Puthur, Nidheesh MD, Asif KM, Abhishek P. Nair, Sharafudeen NM, Eden Apple Tom.

Tripura: Manisankar Murasingh (c), Udiyan Bose, Rajat Dey, Sridam Paul, Vijay Shankar, Hanuma Vihari, Parvez Sultan, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Swapnil Singh, Saurabh Das, Bikramjit Debnath, Arjun Debnath, Subham Ghosh, Saruk Hossain, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Riaz Uddin, Viki Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Nirupam Sen, Sentu Sarkar, Arkaprabha Sinha, Debaprasad Sinha.

Chandigarh: Manan Vohra (c), Jagjeet S Sandhu, Arslan Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Ankit Kaushik, Arjun Azad, Tushar Joshi, Taranpreet Singh, Nikhil Thakur, Hartejassvi Kapoor, Nishunk Birla, Vishu Kashyap, Hardik Choudhary, Sanyam Saini, Rohit Dhanda.

Jammu & Kashmir: Paras Dogra (c), Shubham Khajuria (vc), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Kawalpreet Singh, Rydham Sharma (wk), Abid Mushtaq, Ashwin Murugan, Sahil Lotra, Auqib Nabi, Yudhvir Singh, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir Muzaffar.

Assam: Sumit Ghadigaonkar (c) (wk), Denish Das, Nihar Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Sibsankar Roy, Saurav Mousam Dihingia, Sarupam Purkayastha, Avinav Choudhury, Rahul Singh, Akash Sengupta, Ayushman Malakar, Muktar Hussain, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar, Ruhinandan Pegu (wk), Abdul Ajij Kuraishi.

Baroda: Krunal Pandya (c), Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel (wk), Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Vishnu Solanki, Aryan Chavda, Hardik Pandya, Atit Seth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Karan Umatt, Nitya Pandya, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya.

Hyderabad: Rahul Singh (c), Rahul Buddhi (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aman Rao, Abhirath Reddy, Nitesh Reddy, A Varun Goud, Pragnay Reddy, Prateek Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Rakshann Readdi, Kartikeya Kak, Ilyaan Sathani, Md Arfaz.

Uttar Pradesh: Abhishek Goswami, Adarsh Singh, Priyam Garg, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Aryan Juyal (wk), Sameer Rizvi, Rinku Singh, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Vipraj Nigam, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kartik Yadav, Kunal Tyagi, Vineet Panwar, Rituraj Sharma.

Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel (wk), Sudip Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Sumit Nag (wk), Chandrahas Dash, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karan Lal, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Sayan Ghosh, Ravi Kumar, Aamir Gani, Vishal Bhati, Ankit Mishra.

Vidarbha: Harsh Dubey (c), Yash Thakur (vc), Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Akshay Wadkar, Nachiket Bhute, Darshan Nalkande, R. Samarth, Parth Rekhade, Dipesh Parwani, Praful Hinge, Shubham Dubey, Ganesh Bhosle.

Mumbai: Shardul Thakur (c), Rohit Sharma (two games), Ishan Mulchandani, Musheer Khan, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Chinmay Sutar, Akash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Onkar Tarmale, Sylvester D'Souza, Sairaj Patil, Suryansh Shedge.

Sikkim: Leeyong Lepcha, Gurinder Singh, K Sai Satwik, M Kranti Kumar, Anwesh Karan Sharma, Amit Rajera, Rahul Kumar, Ankur Malik, Ashish Thapa, Aamir Iqbal Bhutia, Abhishek Kr Shah, Siddharth Prasad, Palzor Tamang, MD Saptulla, Robin Limboo.

Himachal Pradesh: Mridul Surroch (c), Ankush Bains (wk), Innesh Mahajan (wk), Ekant Sen, Akash Vasisht, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Abhishek Kumar, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Ayush Jamwal, Ankit Kalsi, Kushal Pal, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Pukhraj Mann, Rohit Kumar, Vipin Sharma.

Uttarakhand: Kunal Chandela (c), Deepesh Nailwal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Harshit Paliwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Nikhil Harsh, Saurabh Rawat, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi.

Chhattisgarh: Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare (c), Anuj Tiwari, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Harsh Sahu (wk), Harsh Yadav, M Ravi Kiran, Mayank Verma (wk), Mayank Yadav, Aditya Sarvate, Prateek Yadav, Sanjeet Desai, Shubham Agrawal, Sourabh Majumdar, Mohit Raut, Vikalp Tiwari.

Goa: Deepraj Gaonkar (c), Snehal Kauthankar (vc), Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Vikash Singh, Kashyap Bakhale, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Shubham Desai, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Azaan Thota.

Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Prithvi Shaw, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Ankeet Bawane, Rahul Tripathi, Saurabh Navale (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Jalaj Saxena, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Prashant Solanki, Nikhil Naik (wk), Pradeep Dadhe, Siddharth Mhatre, Sachin Dhas, Satyajeet Bacchav.

Punjab: Shubman Gill, Abhishek Sharma, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Harnoor Pannu, Anmolpreet Singh, Uday Saharan, Naman Dhir, Salil Arora (wk), Sanvir Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Jashanpreet Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Krish Bhagat, Gourav Choudhary, Sukhdeep Bajwa

Odisha: Shantanu Mishra, Swastik Samal, Om T. Munde, Dinesh Kumar Majhi (wk), Aashirwad Swain (wk), Biplab Samantray (c), Prayash Kumar Singh, Sambit Baral, Rajesh Mohanty (vc), Debabrata Pradhan, Soumya R Lenka, Anil Parida, Sandeep Pattanaik, Badal Biswal, Govinda Poddar, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad.

Saurashtra: Harvik Desai (wk), Tarang Gohel, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Ansh Gosai, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Hiten Kanbi, Pranav Karia, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana.

Railways: Karn Sharma (c), Ashutosh Sharma (vc), Suraj Ahuja (wk), Kush Marathe, Pratham Singh, Ravi Singh, Upendra Yadav (wk), Ansh Yadav, Raj Choudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Sahab Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali.

Andhra: Nitish Kumar Reddy (c), Ricky Bhui, KS Bharat (wk), Ashwin Hebbar, Shaikh Rasheed, Hemanth Reddy, SDNV Prasad, Y Sandeep, M Dhanush, Saurabh Kumar, B Vinay Kumar, T Vinay, CH Stephen, PV Satyanarayana Raju, KSN Raju, J Saketh Ram, CR Gnaneshwar, CH Sandeep.

Delhi: Rishabh Pant (c), Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Ayush Badoni (vc), Arpit Rana, Yash Dhull, Sarthak Ranjan, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Dahiya (wk), Nitish Rana, Hrithik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Prince Yadav, Divij Mehra, Ayush Doseja, Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana, Anuj Rawat (stand-by).

Gujarat: Chintan Gaja (c), Urvil Patel (vc), Aarya Desai, Abhisek Desai, Jaymeet Patel, Kshitij Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Ahaan Poddar, Hemang Patel, Siddharth Desai, Ravi Bishnoi, Vishal Jayswal, Arzan Nagaswalla, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt.

Services: Rajat Paliwal, Vikas Hathwala, Irfan Ali, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Raj Bahadur, Ravi Chauhan, Sagar Dahiya, Arjun Sharma, Amit Shukla, Nitin Tanwar.

Puducherry: Puazhendi Akash, Aman Khan, Jayant Yadav, Siddhant Addhatrao, Adil Ayub Tunda, Vedant Bhardwaj, Gaurav Yadav, Neyan Shyam Kangayan, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Premraj Rajavelu, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sidak Singh, Murugaiyan Sivamurugan, Thivagar Gopal, Sagar Udeshi

Haryana: Ankit Kumar (c), Himanshu Rana, Ashish Siwach, Yashvardhan Dalal, Yuvraj Singh, Samant Jakhar, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Rahul Tewatia, Parth Vats, Ishant Bhardwaj, Anshul Kamboj, Amit Rana, Anuj Thakral, Bhuwan Rohilla, Mayank Shandilya