Duleep Trophy 2026-27 — Full schedule, list of fixtures, squads

The 2026-27 domestic season will kick-off with the Duleep Trophy, which will be played from August 23 to September 10 at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.

The zonal tournament brings together the country’s best First-Class cricketers, including those in the reckoning for a national team call-up. This year’s edition will also see teenage prodigy Vaibhav Sooryavanshi feature for the first time.

Central Zone and South Zone will start their tournament directly from the semifinals, having played the title clash last season.

Here is the complete list of fixtures, venues and the squads for Duleep Trophy 2026-27:

Fixtures

• Match 1: East Zone vs North-East Zone, August 23-26 at 9:30am, COE Ground 2
• Match 2: North Zone vs West Zone, August 23-26 at 9:30am, COE Ground 1
• Semifinal 1: Central Zone vs TBC, August 30-September 2 at 9:30am, COE Ground 1
• Semifinal 2: South Zone vs TBC, August 30-September 2 at 9:30am, COE Ground 2
• Final: TBC vs TBC, September 6-10 at 9:30am, COE Ground 1

Squads

North Zone: TBA

West Zone: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Shams Mulani (vc), Prithvi Shaw, Harvik Desai (wk), Shivalik Sharma, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Jaymeet Patel, Urvil Patel (wk), Siddharth Desai, Tanush Kotian, Shardul Thakur, Atit Seth, Tushar Deshpande and Mukesh Chaudhary.

South Zone: Tilak Varma (c), Ricky Bhui (vc), Abhinav Tejrana, Shaik Rasheed, K. Himateja, R. Smaran, N. Jagadeesan, Karun Nair, Tanay Thyagarajan, Shreyas Gopal, K. Sai Teja, Tripurana Vijay, Vidwath Kaverappa, Aman Khan, M.D. Nideesh.

East Zone: Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudip Gharami, Shahbaz Ahmed, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Kishan (c), Kumar Kushagra (wk), Shikhar Mohan, Anukul Roy, Virat Singh, Subhranshu Senapati, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (vc), Denish Das, Abhijit Sarkar.

Central Zone: Rajat Patidar (c), Rinku Singh (vc), Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Saransh Jain, Aman Mokhade, Kunal Chandela, Zeeshan Ansari, Aryan Pandey, Arshad Khan, Ayush Pandey, Yash Rathod, Harsh Dubey, Kunal Singh Rathod (wk), Yash Thakur and Nachiket Bhute

North-East Zone: Techi Neri, Robin Limboo, Bishworjit Singh Konthoujam, Imliwati Lemtur, Kishan Lyndoh, Joseph Lal Thankhuma, Arpit Subhas, Priyojit K, Ronald Meitei, Akash Kumar Choudhary, Vino G. Zhimomi, Lalrempuia, Jonathan Rongsen, Jotin Singh Pheiroijam, Ashish Thapa.

Published on Aug 02, 2026