Duleep Trophy 2025: Full squads, match schedule, date and venue

The Duleep Trophy in late August will mark the start of the fantastic Indian home cricket season for 2025–2026. After a break from the four-team format last year, when the squads were directly chosen by the senior national selectors rather than going through the hassle of zonal selections, the Duleep Trophy, which is primarily played as a warm-up for India’s home long home Test season, will resume its previous zonal format system.

The tournament will start with the quarterfinal matches between the Central Zone and North East Zone and the North Zone and East Zone, even though there were no knockout matches the previous season. South Zone and West Zone, the finalists of the most recent zonal edition in 2023, have secured their spots in the tournament’s semi-finals.

Dates and Locations for the 2025–2026 Duleep Trophy

The BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru will serve as the primary location for the 2018 Duleep Trophy. The competition will take place between August 28 and September 15.

Schedule for the 2025 Duleep Trophy

Quarter-finals August 28-31, 2025: North Zone vs East Zone – Venue: BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru August 28-31, 2025: Central Zone vs North East Zone – Venue: BCCI COE Ground 2, Bengaluru

Semi-finals: South Zone vs. Winner QF1 (BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru) September 4–7, 2025 North Zone vs. Winner QF2 on September 4–7, 2025, at BCCI COE Ground 2, Bengaluru

Final: BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru, September 11–15, 2025

Teams for the 2025 Duleep Trophy

Salman Nizar, Narayan Jagadeesan, Tripurana Vijay, R Sai Kishore, Tanay Thyagarajan, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Nidheesh MD, Ricky Bhui, Basil NP, Gurjapneet Singh, Snehal Kauthankar, Mohammed Azharuddeen (vc), Tilak Varma (c), and Tanmay Agarwal are the members of the South Zone squad.

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, and Ishan Kishan (captain) make up the East Zone squad.

West Zone squad: Shardul Thakur (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aarya Desai, Harvik Desai (wicket-keeper), Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Jaymeet Patel, Manan Hingrajia, Saurabh Nawale (wicket-keeper), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Dharmandrasinh Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arzan Nagwaswala

Ankit Kumar (vc), Shubman Gill (c), Shubham Khajuria, Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Ankit Kalsi, Nishant Sandhu, Sahil Lotra, Mayank Dagar, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, and Kanhaiya Wadhawan comprise the North Zone squad.

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

Team for the North East Zone: Unknown