The 2025–26 Duleep Trophy was the 62nd edition of the Duleep Trophy, a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India. It took place from 28 August to 15 September 2025. The tournament returned to a zonal format, featuring six teams: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, North East Zone, South Zone, and West Zone. All squads were picked by national selectors. It formed part of the 2025 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the BCCI in June 2025.
Squads Central Zone East Zone North Zone North East Zone South Zone West ZoneRajat Patidar (c) Dhruv Jurel (c, wk) Akshay Wadkar (wk) Aryan Juyal (wk) Upendra Yadav (wk) Danish Malewar Sanjeet Desai Khaleel Ahmed Deepak Chahar Kuldeep Yadav Harsh Dubey Saransh Jain Yash Rathod Shubham Sharma Aditya Thakare Ayush Pandey Manav Suthar Yash Thakur Kumar Kartikeya Kuldeep Sen Nachiket Bhute Kukna Ajay SinghAbhimanyu Easwaran (c) Riyan Parag (c) Ishan Kishan (c)(wk) Aasirwad Swain (wk) Sandeep Pattnaik Virat Singh Denish Das Sridam Paul Sarandeep Singh Kumar Kushagra (wk) Utkarsh Singh Manishi Suraj Jaiswal Mukesh Kumar Akash Deep Mukhtar Hussain Mohammed ShamiAnkit Kumar (c) Shubman Gill (c) Shubham Rohilla Shubham Khajuria Ayush Badoni Yash Dhull Ankit Kalsi Nishant Sindhu Kanhaiya Wadhawan (wk) Sahil Lotra Mayank Dagar Yudhvir Singh Arshdeep Singh Harshit Rana Anshul Kamboj Auqib Nabi Gurnoor Brar Anuj ThakralRongsen Jonathan (c) Akash Choudhary (vc) Sedezhalie Rupero Karnajit Yumnam Hem Chetri Jehu Anderson (wk) Arpit Bhatewara (wk) Pheiroijam Jotin Palzor Tamang Techi Doria Ankur Malik Ashish Thapa Bishworjit Konthoujam Aryan Bora Ajay LamabamMohammed Azharuddeen (wk,c) Narayan Jagadeesan (wk, vc) Andre Siddarth Tilak Varma (c) Shaik Rasheed Tanmay Agarwal Devdutt Padikkal Ravichandran Smaran Mohit Kale V Koushik Salman Nizar Tripurana Vijay R. Sai Kishore Ankit Sharma Tanay Thyagarajan Vijaykumar Vyshak M. D. Nidheesh Ricky Bhui Nedumankuzhy Basil Gurjapneet SinghShardul Thakur (c) Yashasvi Jaiswal Aarya Desai Harvik Desai (wk) Shreyas Iyer Sarfaraz Khan Shivalik Sharma Ruturaj Gaikwad Jaymeet Patel Manan Hingrajia Saurabh Nawale (wk) Shams Mulani Tanush Kotian Dharmendrasinh Jadeja Tushar Deshpande Arzan Nagwaswalla
Format The tournament featured six teams playing in a single-elimination bracket. South Zone and West Zone pre-qualified to the semifinals, with the four remaining zonal teams required to play a quarterfinal match to start the competition.
Fixtures Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Statistics +Highest Run GettersRankPlayerTeamRuns100s50s1Rajat PatidarCentral Zone538276.40125222Yash RathodCentral Zone5374124.66194123Danish MalewarCentral Zone535270.40203124Ayush BadoniNorth Zone3307153.50204*115Shubham SharmaCentral Zone526653.2012211
+Leading Wicket TakersRankPlayerTeamWickets1Saransh JainCentral Zone4165/4924.003.29–22Gurjapneet SinghSouth Zone3104/9624.104.142–3Harsh Dubey Central Zone 4 103/9628.73.08––4Kumar KartikeyaCentral Zone2 84/5320.372.712–5Auqib NabiNorth Zone365/2820.332.96–1
References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo