Sandeep Sharma and Avesh Khan will headline the Rajasthan Royals cricketers who will be in action for the initial rounds of the upcoming Ranji Trophy 2024-25 campaign.
The 90th edition of Ranji Trophy, the premier domestic first-class tournament in India, will kickstart on Friday with the first-round matches scheduled from October 11 to October 14.
The Ranji Trophy 2024-25 will run till March 2025 with 38 teams, 32 in Elite Group and six in Plate league, fighting it out over a course of 135 matches for the prestigious title.
Sandeep Sharma will headline the Chandigarh bowling attack in the Elite Group D matches while Avesh Khan will spearhead former champions Madhya Pradesh’s pace battery.
Tanush Kotian, Prasidh Krishna, Navdeep Saini, Kunal Singh Rathore and Abid Mushtaq are the other Royals players who will be in action in the multi-day red-ball tournament. They will represent Mumbai, Karnataka, Delhi, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir respectively.
Ranji Trophy 2024-25 squads
Andhra cricket team: Ricky Bhui (c), Shaik Rasheed (vc), Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Hanuma Vihari, Maramreddy Reddy, Lalith Mohan, Maheep Kumar, Manish Golamaru, Mohammad Rafi, Satyanarayana Raju, Abhishek Reddy, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Vamsi Krishna, Tripurana Vijay
Assam cricket team: Denish Das (c & wk), Sibsankar Roy, Rahul Singh, Sidharth Sarmah, Bhargav Dutta, Rishav Das,Mrinmoy Dutta, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Rahul Hazarika, Mukhtar Hussain, Parvej Musaraf, Ruhinandan Pegu, Kunal Sarma, Akash Sengupta, Abhishek Thakuri
Baroda cricket team: Krunal Pandya (c),Vishnu Solanki (vc), Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel (wk), Shivalik Sharma, Atit Sheth, Akash Singh, Bhargav Bhatt, Raj Limbani, Lukman Meriwala, Jyotsnil Singh, Akshay More, Sukirt Pandey, Mahesh Pithiya, Abhimanyusingh Rajput, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya
Bengal cricket team: Anustup Majumdar (c),Abishek Porel (wk), Sudip Chatterjee, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Writtick Chatterjee, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Aamir Gani, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Avilin Ghosh, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Kaif, Mukesh Kumar, Pradipta Pramanik, Rishav Vivek, Rohit Kumar, Shuvam Dey, Yudhajit Guha
Bihar cricket team: Veer Pratap Singh (c), Sakibul Gani (vc), Babul Kumar, Rishav Raj, Sachin Kumar, Sakib Hussain, Abhijeet Saket, Mayank Choudhary, Himanshu Singh, Hrishi Raj, Ayush Loharuka, Sharman Nigrodh, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Anuj Raj, Shabbir Khan, Harsh Singh, Jitin Yadav, Yashpal Yadav
Chandigarh cricket team: Manan Vohra (c), Raj Bawa, Gurinder Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Aayush Sikka, Arjit Pannu, Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Rohit Dhanda, Gaurav Puri, Jagjit Singh, Vishu Kashyap, Ankit Kaushik, Nishunk Birla, Mayank Sidhu
Chhattisgarh cricket team: Eknath Kerkar (wk), Bhupen Lalwani, Ajay Mandal, Shashank Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Jivesh Butte, Ashish Chouhan, Sanjeet Desai, Amandeep Khare, Ravi Kiran, Rishabh Tiwari, Anuj Tiwary, Vashudev Bareth, Vishvas Malik
Delhi cricket team: Himmat Singh (c), Anuj Rawat (wk), Ayush Badoni, Yash Dhull, Kshitiz Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Hrithik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Shivank Vashisht, Himanshu Chauhan, Dhruv Kaushik, Money Grewal, Jonty Sidhu, Mayank Rawat, Divij Mehra, Sumit Mathur, Pranav Rajuvanshi, Sanat Sangwan
Gujarat cricket team: Chintan Gaja (c), Aarya Desai, Priyank Panchal, Het Patel, Urvil Patel (wk), Arzan Nagwaswalla, Umang Kumar (vc), Siddharth Desai, Manan Hingrajia, Priyajitsing Jadeja, Tejas Patel, Jaymeet Patel, Rishi Patel, Rinkesh Vaghela, Vishal Jayswal
Himachal Pradesh cricket team: Ankush Bains (wk), Prashant Chopra, Ekant Sen, Rishi Dhawan, Mayank Dagar, Naveen Kanwar, Vaibhav Arora, Arpit Guleria, Abhishek Kumar, Aman Jainwal, Amit Kumar, Abhinandan Bhardwaj, Divesh Sharma, Ankit Kalsi, Mukul Negi, Rajat Verma, Rohit Thakur, Shubham Arora, Vipin Sharma
Hyderabad cricket team: Tilak Varma (c),Tanmay Agarwal, Tanay Thyagarajan, Chama Milind, Rakshan Readdi, Rahul Singh (vc), Abhirath Reddy, Anikethreddy, Dheeraj Goud, Kartikeya Kak, Saranu Nishanth, Nitesh Reddy, Rahul Radesh, Rohit Rayudu, Kodimela Himateja
Jammu & Kashmir cricket team: Paras Dogra (c), Shubham Khajuria (vc), Abdul Samad, Umran Malik, Abhinav Puri, Shubham Pundir, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Rasikh Salam, Rohit Sharma, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Ahmed Banday, Sahil Lotra, Shivansh Sharma
Jharkhand cricket team: Ishan Kishan (c & wk), Virat Singh (vc), Kumar Kushagra (wk), Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Supriyo Chakraborty, Manishi, Nazim Siddiquie, Pankaj Raunak, Ravi Kumar Yadav, Saurabh Shekhar, Aryaman Sen, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Suraj, Vivekanand Tiwari, Vikas Kumar
Karnataka cricket team: Mayank Agarwal (c), Manish Pandey (vc), Prasidh Krishna, Vijaykumar Vyshak Nikin Jose, Devdutt Padikkal, Sujay Sateri (wk), Luvnith Sisodia (wk), R Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Abhilash Shetty, Vasuki Koushik, Vidyadhar Patil, Kishan Bedare, Hardik Raj, Mohsin Khan
Kerala cricket team: Sachin Baby (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen (wk), Vishnu Vinod (wk), KM Asif, Basil Thampi, Baba Aparajith, Jalaj Saxena, Aditya Sarwate, MD Nidheesh, Akshay Chandran, Fazil Fanoos, Vathsal Govind, Krishna Prasad, Rohan Kunnummal, Salman Nizar
Madhya Pradesh cricket team: Shubham Sharma (c), Harpreet Singh, Rajat Patidar, Subhranshu Senapati, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kulwant Khejroliya, Anubhav Agarwal, Yash Dubey, Harsh Gawli, Saransh Jain, Himanshu Mantri, Aryan Pandey, Sagar Solanki
Maharashtra cricket team: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Nikhil Naik (vc & wk), Ankit Bawne, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Rajneesh Gurbani, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Satyajeet Bachhav, Mandar Bhandari, Pradeep Dadhe, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Harshal Kate, Azim Kazi, Murtaza Trunkwala, Siddhesh Veer, Hitesh Walunj
Meghalaya cricket team: Kishan Lyngdoh (c), Balchander Anirudh, Sumit Kumar (wk), Dippu Sangma (vc), Arpit Bhatewara, Aryan Bora, Akash Choudhary, Bijon Dey, Ram Gurung, Jaskirat Singh Sachdeva, Chengkam Sangma, Bamanbha Shangpliang, Swarajeet Das, Roshan Warbah, Shembalang Pyngrope, Ajay Duhan
Mumbai cricket team: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Shreyas Iyer, Siddhesh Lad, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Prithvi Shaw, Hardik Tamore (wk), Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Mohit Avasthi, Shardul Thakur, Siddhant Addhatrao, Royston Dias, Himanshu Singh, Ayush Mhatre, Mohammad Juned Khan, Suryansh Shedge
Odisha cricket team: Govinda Poddar (c), Biplab Samantray, Suryakant Pradhan, Anil Parida, Kartik Biswal, Rajesh Dhuper, Sandeep Pattnaik, Debabrata Pradhan, Rajesh Mohanty, Harshit Rathod, Sunil Roul, Swastik Samal, Anurag Sarangi, Shantanu Mishra, Sumit Sharma, Aasirwad Swain, Tarani Sa
Puducherry cricket team: Arun Karthik (c & wk), Aman Khan, Ankit Sharma (vc), Abin Mathew, Fabid Ahmed, Gaurav Yadav, Akash Kargave, Marimuthu Vikneshwaran, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Premraj Rajavelu, Ramachandran Ragupathy, Ritesh Gudge, Ajay Rohera, Paras Ratnaparkhe, Sagar Udeshi, Saurabh Yadav
Punjab cricket team: Prabhsimran Singh (c &wk), Naman Dhir (vc), Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Sanvir Singh, Baltej Singh, Gurnoor Brar, Siddarth Kaul, Mayank Markhande, Salil Arora, Abhay Choudhary, Sahaj Dhawan, Prerit Dutta, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Jassinder Singh, Kovid Gujjar, Krish Bhagat, Prabjot Singh, Pukhraj Mann, Sukhwinder Singh
Railways cricket team: Pratham Singh (c), Suraj Ahuja (wk), Vivek Singh, Upendra Yadav (wk), Ashutosh Sharma (vc), Yuvraj Singh, Karn Sharma, Ayan Chaudhari, Shivam Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Bhargav Merai, Mohammad Saif, Rajat Nirwal, Akash Pandey, Himanshu Sangwan, Adarsh Singh
Rajasthan cricket team: Deepak Hooda (c), Kunal Singh Rathore (wk), Abhijeet Tomar, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed, Kukna Ajay Singh, Arafat Khan, Rahul Chahar, Deepak Chahar, Aniket Choudhary, Bharat Sharma, Ram Chouhan, Salman Khan, Yash Kothari
Saurashtra cricket team: Jaydev Unadkat (c), Harvik Desai (wk), Sheldon Jackson (wk), Cheteshwar Pujara, Tarang Gohel (wk), Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvrajsinh Dodiya, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Parth Bhut, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Hiten Kanbi, Navneet Vora, Parswaraj Rana
Services cricket team: Rajat Paliwal, Amit Shukla, Arun Kumar, Varun Choudhary, Jayant Goyat, Lovekesh Bansal, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Ravi Chauhan, Shubham Rohilla, Arjun Sharma, Nitin Tanwar, Suraj Vashisht
Tamil Nadu cricket team: Sai Kishore (c), Narayan Jagadeesan (vc & wk), C Andre Siddarth, Baba Indrajith, Boopathi Kumar, M Shahrukh Khan, Sai Sudharsan, Suresh Lokeshwar (wk), Pradosh Ranjan Paul (wk), Lakshay Jain, Vijay Shankar, Sonu Yadav,, Ajith Ram, Gurjapneet Singh, Mohamed Ali, Mohammed Mohammed, Sandeep Warrier, Manimaran Siddharth
Tripura cricket team: Mandeep Singh (c), Bikramkumar Das, Rajat Dey, Srinivas Sharath (wk), Manisankar Muraingh (vc), Sridam Paul, Parvez Sultan, Sankar Paul, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Joydeep Banik, Saurabh Das, Bikramjith Debnath, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Jiwanjot Singh, Sandip Sarkar
Uttar Pradesh cricket team: Aryan Juyal (c & wk), Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Madhav Kaushik, Akshdeep Nath, Nitish Rana, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Yash Dayal, Aaditya Sharma, Aaqib Khan, Kritagya Singh, Vipraj Nigam, Shivam Sharma, Siddharth Yadav, Vijay Kumar
Uttarakhand cricket team: Ravikumar Samarth, Aditya Tare (wk), Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Abhay Negi, Deepak Dhapola, Akash Madhwal, Swapnil Singh, Ankit Manori, Avneesh Sudha, Vaibhav Bhatt, Himanshu Bisht, Devendra Singh Bora, Kunal Chandela, Akhil Rawat
Vidarbha cricket team: Akshay Wadkar (c & wk), Aman Mokhade, Karun Nair, Yash Rathod, Atharva Taide (vc), Nachiket Bhute, Harsh Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Aditya Thakare, Akshay Wakhare, Umesh Yadav, Praful Hinge, Yash Kadam, Shubham Kapse, Mandar Mahale, Danish Malewar, Siddhesh Wath
