The 2019â20 Ranji Trophy is about to commence from December 2019 and will continue till March 2020. This season will be the 86th season of the Ranji Trophy. As we all know, Ranji Trophy is the premier first-class cricket tournament. It is a First-class Domestic tournament organised by the BCCI.
The major teams and squads of Ranji Trophy are listed below -
Batsmen |
KS Devaiah |
Karun Nair (C) |
Devdutt Padikkal |
Dega Nischal |
Ravikumar Samarth |
David Mathias |
Mayank Agarwal |
All-Rounders |
Pavan Deshpande |
Wicket-Keeper |
BR Sharath |
Srinivas Sharath |
Spin Bowlers |
Shreyas Gopal (VC) |
Krishnappa Gowtham |
Jagadeesha Suchith |
Pace Bowlers |
Ronit More |
V Koushik |
Batsmen |
Abhinav Mukund |
Aparajith B (VC) |
Shahrukh Khan |
Murali Vijay |
K Mukunth |
All-rounders |
Vijay Shankar (C) |
Wicket-keepers |
Jagadeesan N |
Dinesh Karthik |
Spin Bowlers |
R Sai Kishore |
Ashwin M |
Ravichandran Ashwin |
Manimaran Siddharth |
Pace Bowlers |
T Natarajan |
Vignesh K |
Abhishek Tanwar |
Batsmen |
Faiz Fazal |
Ganesh Satish |
Wasim Jaffer (C) |
Rushabh Rathod |
Sanjay Raghunath |
Apoorv Wankhade |
All-Rounders |
Atharva Taide |
Wicket-keepers |
Akshay Wadkar |
Jitesh Sharma |
Spin Bowlers |
Akshay Wakhare |
Aditya Sarwate |
Akshay Karnewar |
Fast-Bowler |
Yash Thakur |
Darshan Nalkande |
Shrikant Wagh |
Umesh Yadav |
Batsmen |
Suryakumar Yadav (C) |
Jay Bista |
Prithvi Shaw |
Ajinkya Rahane |
Sarfaraz Khan |
All-Rounders |
Shubham Ranjane |
Vinayak Bhoir |
Akash Parkar |
Wicket-keepers |
Aditya Tare (VC) |
Eknath Kerkar |
Spin Bowlers |
Shams Mulani |
Shashank Attarde |
Pace Bowlers |
Dhawal Kulkarni |
Tushar Deshpande |
Shardul Thakur |
Batsmen |
Prasanth Kumar |
Ricky Bhui |
Bodapati Sumanth |
Karan Shinde |
Jyothi Sai Krishna |
CR Gnaneshwar |
All-Rounder |
Girinath Reddy |
Naren Reddy |
Hanuma Vihari (C) |
Wicket-keepers |
K. S. Bharat |
Spin Bowlers |
Manish Golamaru |
Pace Bowlers |
KV Sasikanth |
Bandaru Ayyappa |
Prithvi Raj |
Cheepurapalli Stephen |
Paidikalva Vijaykumar |
Also see - Ranji Points Table
The 38 participating teams would be battling for a total of 169 matches to win the title. The tournament's format is going to be round robin. The teams are divided into 4 groups with Groups A and B comprising of nine teams and Groups C and Plate group with ten teams each. The top two teams from Group C and the top team in the Plate Group will progress to the quarter-finals of the tournament.
While five teams from Groups A and B will proceed to the quarter-final stages. Here are the tentative Squads and Teams for Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Vidarbha, Mumbai and Andhra Pradesh for Ranji Trophy 2019-2020. This season will be the first time when Chandigarh will compete in the Ranji Trophy. The defending champions are Vidarbha.