The 2016-17 edition of Ranji Trophy is set to begin in a couple of days’ time as the defending champions Mumbai look to win their record 42nd title. This season’s Ranji Trophy will be challenging as all the matches will be played at neutral venues.
Chattisgarh will be making their Ranji Trophy debut this season as the Mohammad Kaif-led team is set to make an appearance in the tournament for the first time. With the tournament fast approaching, the teams are sweating out in order to taste success.
On paper, Karnataka, Mumbai, Baroda and Uttar Pradesh look strong while Tamil Nadu go into the tournament as the dark horses. Let us take a look at the squad of all the 28 teams taking part in this year’s Ranji Trophy.
Group A
Tamil Nadu
Abhinav Mukund(c), Kaushik Gandhi, Baba Aparajith, Dinesh Karthick, Baba Indrajith, Washington Sundar, J Kousik, Malolan Rangarajan, Aswin Crist, M Mohammad, K Vignesh, T Natarajan, L Suryaprakash, Aushik Srinivas, N Jagadeesan, Rahil Shah.
Gujarat
Parthiv Patel(c), Priyank Panchal, Hardik Patel, Chirag Gandhi, RP Singh, Karan Patel, Mehul Patel, Rujul Bhatt, Dhruv Raval, Bhargav Merai, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel, Rush Kalaria, Samit Gohel, Manpreet Juneja.
Baroda
Irfan Pathan(c), Aditya Waghmode, Kedar Devdhar, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Munaf Patel, Gagandeep Singh, Pinal Shah, M Sagar, Rohan Bhosale, Dhiren Mistry, Vishnu Solanki.
Madhya Pradesh
Devendra Bundela(c), Shubham Sharma, Rameez Khan, Aditya Shrivastava, C Sakure, Ankit Sharma, Mukul Raghav, Ashwin Das, Rajat Patidar, Ankit Dane, Saransh Jain, Gaurav Yadav, Ishwar Pandey, Harpreet Singh, Mihir Hirwani.
Uttar Pradesh
Suresh Raina (c), Sarfaraz Khan, Praveen Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Eklavya Dwivedi, Amit Mishra, Tanmay Srivastava, Imtiaz Ahmed, Deependra Pandey, Saif Mohammad, Samarth Singh, Almas Shaukat, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Israr Azim.
Mumbai
Aditya Tare(c), Kaustubh Pawar, Akhil Herwadkar, Jay Bista, Arman Jaffer, Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Nayar, Balwinder Sandhu, Sufiyan Shaikh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur, Nikhil Patel, Tushar Deshpande, Vijay Gohil, Vishal Dabholkar.
Punjab
Yuvraj Singh (c), Harbhajan Singh, Manan Vohra, Arpit Pannu, Mayank Sidhana, Vinay Choudhary, Shubham Gill, Manpreet Gony, Sandeep Sharma, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Rajwinder Singh, Jiwanjot Singh, Mandeep Singh, G Khera, Siddarth Kaul, Uday Kaul.
Railways
Ranjit Mali, Anureet Singh, Ashish Yadav, Deepak Bansal, V Cheluvaraj, Mrunal Devdhar, Nikhil Doru, Arindam Ghosh, Gaurav Khatri, Manjeet Singh, Akshat Pandey, Mahesh Rawat, Karn Sharma, Shivakant Shukla, Saurabh Wakaskar.
*Bengal squad is yet to be announced.
Group B
Delhi
Unmukt Chand(c), Rishabh Pant, Pawan Suyal, Vikas Tolas, Milind Kumar, Mohit Sharma. Parvinedr Awana, Vaibhav Rawal, Dhruv Shorey, Navdeep Saini, Manan Sharma, Pradeep Sangwan, Nitish Rana, Pulkit Narang, Varun Sood.
Saurashtra
Jaydev Shah(c), Mohsin Dodia, Sheldon Jackson, Amitoze Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Avi Barot, Chirag Jani, Aarpit Vasavada, Sunil Yadav, Vandit Jivrajani, Samarth Vyas, Sagar Jogiyani, Jaydev Undakat, Hardik Rathod, Kushang Patel, Deepak Punia, Cheteshwar Pujara, Saurya Sanandiya.
Assam
Gokul Sharma(c), KB Arun Karthik, Tarjinder Singh, Abu Nechim, J Syed Mohammad, Amit Verma, Kunal Saikia, Arup Das, Sibsankar Roy, Krishna Das, S Purkayastha, Pallavkumar Das, Rahul Hazarika, Dhiraj Goswami, Rishav Kalapkanti Das.
Rajasthan
Pankaj Singh(c), Rajat Bhatia, Pranay Sharma, Nathu Singh, Kukna Ajay Singh, Tanveer-ul-Haq, Rajesh Bishnoi, Vineet Saxena, Chetan Dinesh Bist, Puneet Yadav, Aniket Choudhary,MN Singh, Siddharth Dobal, Ashok Menaria, Mahipal Lomror.
Jharkhand
Varun Aaron(c), Saurabh Tiwary, Virat Singh, Anand Singh, Ajay Yadav, Ashish Kumar, Vikas Singh, Shiv Gautam, Samar Quadri, Sunny Gupta, Pratyush Singh, Ishan Kishan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ishank Jaggi, Kaushal Singh.
Vidarbha
Faiz Fazal(c), Shrikant Wagh, Ravi Jangid, Akshay Wakhare, Aditya Shanware, Ganesh Satish, Ravikumar Thakur, Rajneesh Gurbani, Jitesh Sharma, Akshay Karnewar, Akshay Kolhar, Shalabh Srivastava, Sanjay Ramaswamy, Aditya Sarwate.
Odisha
Govinda Poddar(c), AC Sahoo, Basant Mohanty, S Senapati, Deepak Behera, Abinash Saha, Biplab Samantray, Halhadar Das, Pratik Das, Anurag Sarangi, Dhiraj Singh, Sandeep Pattnaik, Rashmi Sahoo, Suryakant Pradhan, Ranjit Singh.
*Karnataka and Maharashtra are yet to announce their squad.
Group C
Haryana
Mohit Sharma(c), Shivam Chauhan, Nitin Saini, Ashok Sandhu, Yuzvendra Chahal, RP Sharma, Ashish Hooda, Shubham Rohilla, Mohit Hooda, Harshal Patel, Joginder Sharma, Sanjay Pahal, Rajat Paliwal.
Andhra
Hanuma Vihari(c), Srikar Bharat, Murumulla Sriram, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Bhargav Bhatt, Karthik Raman, AG Pradeep, Prasanth Kumar, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Bukkapatnam Siddharth, Duvvarapu Siva Kumar, Koripalli Sreekanth, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Vamsi Krishna, Paidikalva Vijaykumar
Hyderabad
S Badrinath(c), B Anirudh Sitaram, K Sumanth, Habeeb Ahmed, Benjamin Thomas, Vishal Sharma, Akshath Reddy, Himalay Agarwal, B Sandeep, Tanmay Agarwal, Ravi Kiran, Akash Bhandari, Chama Milind, Mehdi Hasan, Mohammad Siraj, Mohammad Muddassir.
Kerala
Rohan Prem(c), Sachin Baby, U Manukrishnan, Jalaj Saxena, Basil Thampi, Vinod Kumar, Robert Fernandez, Bhavin Thakkar, Iqbal Abdulla, VA Jagadeesh, N Surendran, K Monish, Sandeep Warrior, MD Nidheesh, Sanju Samson.
Tripura
M Murasingh(c), Udiyan Bose, Samrat Singha, Saurabh Das, NS Chowdhary, Abhijit Dey, Yashpal Singh, Rajat Dey, Bishal Ghosh, Ajoy Sarkar, Gurinder Singh, Aniruddha Saha, Sanjay Majumder, Abhijit Sarkar, Samit Patel, Bunti Roy, Chiranjit Paul, Rana Dutta.
Services
Soumik Chatterjee(c), Azaruddin Bloch, Anshul Gupta, Vikas Hathwala, Irfan Khan, Lakhan Singh, Muzzaffaruddin Khalid, Amit Pachhara, Diwesh Pathania, Poonam Poonia, Rahul Singh, Raushan Raj, Ravi Chauhan, Nakul Verma.
Himachal Pradesh
Rishi Dhawan(c), Sumeet Verma, Bipul Sharma, Kanwar Abhinay Singh, Amit Kumar, Robin Bist, Ankush Bains, Akshay Chauhan, V Malik, Prashant Chopra, Shresth Nirmohi, Mayank Dagar, Paras Dogra, Pankaj Jaiswal, Nikhil Gangta, Gurvinder Singh.
Jammu and Kashmir
Mithun Manhas(c), Parvez Rasool, Ian Dev Singh, Zahoor Sofi, Amir Sofi, Umar Nazir, Aamir Aziz, Adil Reshi, Rohit Sharma, Bandeep Singh, Samiullah Beigh, Pranav Gupta, Puneet Bisht, MM Hussain, Ram Dayal, Shubham Khajuria.
Goa
Sagun Kamat(c), Shadab Jakati, Darshan Misal, HH Gadekar, Felix Alemao, Amit Yadav, Rituraj Singh, Sumiran Amonkar, Keenan Vaz, Swapnil Asnodkar, Amulya Pandrekar, Saurabh Bandekar, Amogh Sunil Desai, Snekal K, SS Dubhashi.
Chhattisgarh
Mohammad Kaif(c), Pankaj Kumar Rao, Ashutosh Singh, Abhimanyu Chauhan, Sahil Gupta, Kant Singh, Amandeep Khare, Ajay Mandal, Manoj Singh, Vivek Naidu, Rishabh Tiwari, Sumit Ruikar, Shakeeb Ahmed, Shivendra Singh, Pratik Sinha, Abhishek Tamrakar
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