Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tushar Deshpande and Kuldeep Sen are among the Rajasthan Royals players named so far in squads for the upcoming Ranji Trophy 2026-27 season.
The 92nd edition of the Ranji Trophy, India’s premier domestic first-class cricket competition, will begin on Sunday.
A total of 38 Ranji Trophy teams will compete across the Elite and Plate divisions. The Elite competition features 32 teams split across four groups of eight, while six teams will contest the Plate division.
The opening phase of the Elite Division will run from October 11 to November 5 before resuming from January 17 to February 4. The knockouts begin on February 9, with the final scheduled to conclude on March 3.
Jaiswal and Deshpande have both been named in Mumbai’s squad for their Elite Group D season opener against Chandigarh at the Wankhede Stadium from October 11 to 14.
Jaiswal enters the season with 4968 runs from 53 first-class matches at an average of 54.00, including 17 centuries and 18 fifties.
The Royals opener could feature in Mumbai’s opening match before linking up with the India A setup later in the month.
Mumbai’s second Ranji Trophy match, against Himachal Pradesh, begins on October 18. However, Jaiswal has also been named in the India A squad for the three multi-day matches in New Zealand, with the first fixture starting in Lincoln on October 24.
Deshpande, meanwhile, has taken 134 wickets in 49 first-class matches at an average of 28.67. His best innings figures stand at 6/70.
The right-arm pacer was recently in action for India A against Australia A in Puducherry and picked up five wickets in the opening multi-day match.
Kuldeep Sen has been named in Madhya Pradesh’s 17-member squad for the start of the Ranji Trophy campaign.
The Royals quick enjoyed an impressive 2025-26 Ranji season, taking 17 wickets. His standout performance came in the quarter-finals against Jammu and Kashmir, where he returned career-best match figures of 9/131, including 5/66 in the first innings.
Madhya Pradesh will open their campaign against defending champions Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar on October 11.
Two other Royals, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Ravi Bishnoi, are currently on India duty for the five-match T20I series against the West Indies and will be unavailable for the opening round of Ranji Trophy matches.
The India vs West Indies T20I series runs until October 17, with the third match scheduled on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy season.
Sooryavanshi has also been named in India’s squad for the five-match T20I series in New Zealand from October 22 to November 1, extending his international commitments through most of the first phase of the Ranji Trophy.
Mumbai remain the most successful team in Ranji Trophy history with 42 titles, while Jammu and Kashmir enter the 2026-27 season as defending champions.
Ranji Trophy 2026 squads
Andhra cricket team: TBD
Arunachal Pradesh cricket team: TBD
Assam cricket team: Denish Das (c), Sibsankar Roy, Rajveer Singh, Nibir Deka, Rishav Das, Swarupam Purkayastha, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Anurag Talukdar, Mohit Thakur, Amlanjyoti Das, Mukhtar Hussain, Sunil Lachit, Dipjyoti Saikia, Roshan Alam, Bishal Newar.
Baroda cricket team: TBD
Bengal cricket team: TBD
Bihar cricket team: Sakibul Gani (c), Himanshu Singh (vc), Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Naman Gaurav, Piyush Singh, Bipin Kumar Saurabh (wk), Shraman Nigrodh (wk), Akash Raj, Prithvi Raj, Khalid Alam, Suraj Kumar Kashyap, Sakib Hussain, Mohammad Izhar, Shabbir Khan, Raghvendra Singh, Amod Yadav.
Chandigarh cricket team: Manan Vohra (c), Shivam Bhambri (vc), Anirudh Kanwar, Arjit Singh, Arjun Azad, Arslan Khan, Jagjit Singh Sandhu, Karthik Sandil, Nehal Pajni, Nishunk Birla, Raj Angad Bawa, Rohit Dhanda, Dipender Kush, Akshit Rana, Vishu Kashyap.
Chhattisgarh cricket team: Anuj Tiwari (c), Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Dev Aditya Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Mayank Verma, Mohammad Sohail, Prateek Yadav, Rahul Pradhan, Rudra Pratap Dehari, Sandeep Warrier, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sanjeet Desai, Sourabh Majumdar, Vasudev Bareth, Vikalp Tiwari.
Delhi cricket team: Ayush Badoni (c), Yash Dhull (vc), Anuj Rawat (wk), Sanat Sangwan, Ayush Doseja, Dev Lakra, Hritik Shokeen, Divij Mehra, Money Grewal, Simarjeet Singh, Navdeep Saini, Pranav Rajvanshi (wk), Sarthak Ranjan, Tejasvi, Dhruv Kaushik, Sumit Mathur.
Goa cricket team: TBD
Gujarat cricket team: TBD
Haryana cricket team: TBD
Himachal Pradesh cricket team: TBD
Hyderabad cricket team: Mohammed Siraj (c), CV Milind (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, M Abhirath Reddy, G Rahul Singh, K Himateja, Rahul Radesh (wk), M Sai Pragnay Reddy (wk), A Varun Goud, Tanay Thyagarajan, G Aniketh Reddy, CTL Rakshann Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud, Mende Ruthik Yadav, P Sai Vikas Reddy.
Jammu and Kashmir cricket team: TBD
Jharkhand cricket team: TBD
Karnataka cricket team: Smaran Ravichandran (c), Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karun Nair, Aneesh KV, Shreyas Gopal, Krutik Krishna (wk), Shrikhar Shetty, Prasidh Krishna, Abhilash Shetty, Manvanth Kumar, LR Kumar, Ritesh Bhatkal, KL Shrijith (wk).
Kerala cricket team: Vishnu Vinod (c, wk), Rohan S Kunnummal, Abhishek J Nair, Abhishek P Nair, Sachin Baby, Ahammed Imran, Mohammed Azharuddeen (wk), Salman Nizar, Varun Nayanar (wk), Jalaj Saxena, Vaisakh Chandran, Aditya Anand Sarwate, Anuraj JS, Abhijith Praveen V, Nidheesh MD, Eden Apple Tom, Pavan Raj, Basil NP.
Madhya Pradesh cricket team: Shubham Sharma (c), Harsh Gawli (wk), Himanshu Mantri (wk), Yash Dubey, Chanchal Rathore, Himanshu Shinde, Atharva Mahajan, Saransh Jain, Kumar Karthikeya, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Anubhav Agarwal, Roshan Kewat, Akshay Sharma, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Ravi Kiran.
Maharashtra cricket team: Prithvi Shaw (c), Sachin Dhas, Digvijay Patil, Ankeet Bawane, Harshal Kate, Siddhesh Veer, Saurabh Navale (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Tanay Sanghvi, Vaibhav Darkunde, Hitesh Walunj, Rishikesh Sonawane, Atharva Dharmadhikari.
Manipur cricket team: TBD
Meghalaya cricket team: TBD
Mizoram cricket team: Joseph Lalthankhuma (c), Jehu Anderson (vc), Bobby Zothansanga, K Vanrotlinga, Lalhruaizela, Lalrempuia, Nasib Rai, R Lalnuntluanga, Remruatdika Ralte, Sahil Reza, Sahil Sharma, Vikash Kumar, Kuldip Yadav, Manendra Singh, Chinmay Sutar.
Mumbai cricket team: Siddhesh Lad (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ayush Mhatre (vc), Divyaansh Saxena, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Aakash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Atharva Ankolekar, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester Dsouza, Onkar Tarmale.
Nagaland cricket team: Hokaito Zhimomi (c), Jonathan Rongsen (vc), Sedezhalie Rupreo, Imliwati Lemtur, Hem Bahadur Chetri, Joshua Ben Ozukum, Chetan Bisht, Anil Gupta, Yugandhar Singh, Neizekho Rupreo, Odilemba Kichu, Nagaho Chishi, Hopongkyu Sangtam, Saurav Kumar, Vino G Zhimomi, Aloto Sumi.
Odisha cricket team: Swastik Samal, Subhranshu Senapati (c), Om T Munde, Gourav Choudhary, Shreyansh Bhardwaj, Sandeep Pattnaik, Shantanu Mishra, Aashirwad Swain (wk), Dinesh Majhi (wk), Ninad Rathva, Lalit Yadav, Rajesh Mohanty, Prashant Rana, Soumya Lenka, Sambit Beja, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Badal Biswal.
Pondicherry cricket team: TBD
Punjab cricket team: TBD
Railways cricket team: TBD
Rajasthan cricket team: Manav Suthar (c), Mahipal Lomror (vc), Rohan Rajbar, Sachin Yadav, Sumit Godara, Kartik Sharma, Karan Lamba, Anshul Gadhwal, Mukul Choudhary (wk), Ajay Kookna, Aakash Singh, Chetan Sharma, Hemant Choudhary, Danish Bhamboo, Darshan Jain (wk).
Saurashtra cricket team: TBD
Services cricket team: TBD
Sikkim cricket team: TBD
Tamil Nadu cricket team: R Sai Kishore (c), G Ajitesh, S Ajith Ram, C Andre Siddarth (vc), SR Athish, D Deepesh, G Govinth, J Hemchudeshan, B Indrajith, N Jagadeesan, S Nidhish Rajagopal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, RD Pranav Ragavendra, P Saravana Kumar, R Sonu Yadav, R Vimal Khumar.
Tripura cricket team: Bikram Kumar Das, Hrituraj Ghosh Roy, Subham Sutradhar, Sridam Paul, Arindam Barman, Rajat Dey, Hanuma Vihari, Mandeep Singh, Mani Sankar Mura Singh (c), Bikram Debnath, Swapnil Singh, Abhijit Sarkar (vc), Ajay Sarkar, Sentu Sarkar (wk), Arkaprabha Sinha (wk), Sandip Sarkar, Parvez Sultan, Amit Ali.
Uttar Pradesh cricket team: Aryan Juyal (c, wk), Rinku Singh, Abhishek Goswami, Aradhya Yadav, Karan Sharma, Madhav Kaushik, Aditya Sharma, Siddharth Yadav, Prashant Veer, Kartik Yadav, Zeeshan Ansari, Vansh Choudhary, Yash Dayal, Priyam Garg, Abhinandan Singh, Kartik Tyagi.
Uttarakhand cricket team: TBD
Vidarbha cricket team: Akshay Wadkar (c, wk), Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod (vc), Danish Malewar, Atharva Taide, Satyam Bhoyar, Yash Kadam, Harsh Dubey, Parth Rekhade, Ganesh Bhosale, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Nachiket Bhute, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Rajneesh Gurbani, Dhruv Shorey, R Samarth.
