North Zone defeated West Zone by 52 runs on Wednesday to secure its place in the semifinals of Duleep Trophy 2026, joining East Zone, which qualified after beating North East Zone by an innings and 210 runs.
Central Zone and South Zone had already secured their last-four berth by virtue of playing the final in the previous edition.
The semifinals will be played at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru from August 30 September 2.
Duleep Trophy 2026 semifinals
- 1. Central Zone vs East Zone – CoE Ground 1 – August 30-September 2, 9:30am IST
- 2. South Zone vs North Zone – CoE Ground 2 – August 30-September 2, 9:30am IST
Squads
North Zone: Kanhaiya Wadhawan (c/wk) (Jammu & Kashmir), Ayush Badoni (vc) (Delhi), Sanat Sangwan (Delhi), Yash Dhull (Delhi), Ayush Doseja (Delhi), Nishant Sindhu (Haryana), Anshul Kamboj (Haryana), Nikhil Kashyap (Haryana), Qamran Iqbal (Jammu & Kashmir), Abdul Samad (Jammu & Kashmir), Abid Mushtaq (Jammu & Kashmir), Sunil Kumar (Jammu & Kashmir), Sahil Lotra (Jammu & Kashmir), Arshdeep Singh (Punjab), and Arjun Sharma (Services).
South Zone: Tilak Varma (c) (Hyderabad), Ricky Bhui (vc/wk) (Andhra), SK Rasheed (Andhra), K Sai Teja (Andhra), T Vijay (Andhra), Abhinav Tejrana (Goa), K Himateja (Hyderabad), T Thyagarajan (Hyderabad), R Smaran (Karnataka), Karun Nair (Karnataka), Shreyas Gopal (Karnataka), V Kaverappa (Karnataka), MD Nidheesh (Kerala), N Jagadeesan (Wicketkeeper) (Tamil Nadu), and Aman Khan (Pondicherry).
Central Zone: Rajat Patidar (c) (Madhya Pradesh), Rinku Singh (vc) (Uttar Pradesh), Ayush Pandey (Chhattisgarh), Saransh Jain (Madhya Pradesh), Aryan Pandey (Madhya Pradesh), Arshad Khan (Madhya Pradesh), Kunal Singh Rathod (Wicketkeeper) (Rajasthan), Aryan Juyal (Wicketkeeper) (Uttar Pradesh), Zeeshan Ansari (Uttar Pradesh), Kunal Chandela (Uttarakhand), Aman Mokhade (Vidarbha), Yash Rathod (Vidarbha), Harsh Dubey (Vidarbha), Yash Thakur (Vidarbha), and Nachiket Bhute (Vidarbha).
East Zone: Ishan Kishan (c/wk) (Jharkhand), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (vc) (Bihar), Denish Das (Assam), Abhimanyu Easwaran (Bengal), Sudip Kumar Gharami (Bengal), Shahbaz Ahmed (Bengal), Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal (Bengal), Mohd Shami (Bengal), Mukesh Kumar (Bengal), Kumar Kushagra (Wicketkeeper) (Jharkhand), Shikhar Mohan (Jharkhand), Anukul Roy (Jharkhand), Virat Singh (Jharkhand), Subhranshu Senapati (Odisha), and Abhijit Sarkar (Tripura).
Published on Aug 26, 2026
