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2025–26 Duleep Trophy

Dates
Board of Control for Cricket in India
First-class
Knockout
India
Central Zone (7th title)
South Zone
6
5
Saransh Jain (Central Zone)
Rajat Patidar (Central Zone) (382)
Saransh Jain (Central Zone) (16)
Duleep Trophy

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.

Central Zone	East Zone	North Zone	North East Zone	South Zone	West Zone
Rajat 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 Singh	Abhimanyu 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 Shami	Ankit 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 Thakral	Rongsen 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 Lamabam	Mohammed 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 Singh	Shardul 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

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.


Scorecard	405 (93.2 overs)Kanhaiya Wadhawan 76 (152)Manishi 6/111 (22.2 overs)	230 (56.1 overs)Virat Singh 69 (102)Auqib Nabi 5/28 (10.1 overs)	BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru, BengaluruUmpires: Bhavesh Patel and Vinod Seshan Player of the match: Auqib Nabi (North Zone)
658/4d (146.2 overs)Ayush Badoni 204* (223)Riyan Parag 1/78 (22 overs)
East Zone won the toss and elected to field.
North Zone advanced to semi finals
Auqib Nabi (North Zone) became the first player in Duleep Trophy history to take four wickets in four balls.


Scorecard	532/4d (102 overs)Danish Malewar 203 (222)Akash Choudhary 2/103 (23 overs)	185 (69.3 overs)Karnajit Yumnam 48 (77)Aditya Thakare 3/23 (11 overs)	BCCI COE Ground 2, BengaluruUmpires: Abhijit Bhattacharya and Kaushik Gandhi Player of the match: Danish Malewar (Central Zone)
331/7d (80.3 overs)Shubham Sharma 122 (215) Akash Choudhary 2/44 (14 overs)	200/6 (58 overs)Jehu Anderson 64 (96)Shubham Sharma 2/10 (6 overs)
North East Zone won the toss and elected to field.
Central Zone advanced to semi finals
Danish Malewar (Central Zone) scored his maiden double century in first-class cricket.


Scorecard	536 (169.2 overs)Narayan Jagadeesan 197 (352)Nishant Sindhu 5/125 (47.2 overs)	361 (100.1 overs)Shubham Khajuria 128 (252)Gurjapneet Singh 4/96 (24.1 overs)	BCCI COE Ground 1, BengaluruUmpires: Parashar Joshi and Akshay Totre Player of the match: Narayan Jagadeesan (South Zone)
95/1 (24.4 overs)Narayan Jagadeesan 52* (69)Auqib Nabi 1/23 (7 overs)
North Zone won the toss and elected to field.
South Zone advanced to final


Scorecard	438 (108 overs)Ruturaj Gaikwad 184 (206)Harsh Dubey 3/118 (34 overs)	600 (164.3 overs)Shubham Sharma 96 (241)Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 4/130 (45 overs)	BCCI COE Ground 2, BengaluruUmpires: Abhijeet Bengeri and Saidharshan Kumar Player of the match: Saransh Jain (Central Zone)
216/8 (53.3 overs)Yashasvi Jaiswal 64 (70)Saransh Jain 5/84 (22.3 overs)
West Zone won the toss and elected to bat.
Central Zone advanced to final.


Scorecard	149 (63 overs)Tanmay Agarwal 31 (76)Saransh Jain 5/49 (24 overs)	511 (145.1 overs)Yash Rathod 194 (286)Ankit Sharma 4/180 (44.1 overs)	BCCI COE Ground 1, BengaluruUmpires: Mohit Krishnadas and Jayaraman Madanagopal Player of the match: Yash Rathod (Central Zone)
426 (121 overs)Ankit Sharma 99 (168)Kumar Kartikeya 4/110 (39 overs)	66/4 (20.3 overs)Akshay Wadkar 19* (52)Ankit Sharma 2/22 (10 overs)
Central Zone won the toss and elected to field.
Central Zone won Duleep Trophy for seventh time.

Rank	Player	Team	INN	Runs	AVG	HS
Rajat Patidar	Central Zone	5	76.40	125	2	2
Yash Rathod	Central Zone	5	124.66	194	1	2
Danish Malewar	Central Zone	5	70.40	203	1	2
Ayush Badoni	North Zone	3	153.50	204*	1	1
Shubham Sharma	Central Zone	5	53.20	122	1	1

Rank	Player	Team	INN	Wickets	BBI	AVG	ECO
Saransh Jain	Central Zone	4	5/49	24.00	3.29	–	2
Gurjapneet Singh	South Zone	3	4/96	24.10	4.14	2	–
Harsh Dubey	Central Zone	4	3/96	28.7	3.08	–	–
Kumar Kartikeya	Central Zone	2	4/53	20.37	2.71	2	–
Auqib Nabi	North Zone	3	5/28	20.33	2.96	–	1

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