The Ranji Trophy 2022 season will begin on Thursday, February 17.
The Ranji Trophy, one of India’s oldest cricket tournaments, will be held in two phases with the first set of matches being played between February 17 and March 3.
The second half will begin after the completion of Indian T20 League 2022, with a tentative date set for May 30.
The teams in Ranji Trophy 2022 have been divided into nine groups - eight Elite and one Plate. The Elite group will consist of four teams whereas the Plate group will have six teams.
The league stage will see each team play three matches each. While teams in the Elite group will face each other, Plate teams will face just three opponents in their group.
The top seven teams from the eight Elite Group toppers will directly qualify directly for the quarter-finals, while the lowest-ranked team will play a pre-quarterfinal match against the Plate Group topper.
The pre-quarterfinal will be played during the league phase, which will end before the start of the Indian T20 League on March 27.
Ranji Trophy 2022 Groups and Venues
| Groups | Teams | Venue |
| Elite A | Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya | Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium and Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium C in Rajkot |
| Elite B | Bengal, Baroda, Hyderabad, Chandigarh | Barabati Stadium and Vikas Cricket Ground in Cuttack |
| Elite C | Karnataka, Railways, Jammu & Kasmir, Pondicherry | Guru Nanak College Ground, SSN College Ground and Chemplast Cricket Ground in Chennai |
| Elite D | Saurashtra, Mumbai, Odisha, Goa | Ahmedabad |
| Elite E | Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Services, Uttarakhand | St Xavier's College Ground (Thumba) and Greenfield International Stadium in Thiruvananthapuram |
| Elite F | Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Tripura | Arun Jaitley Stadium and Palam A Stadium in Delhi |
| Elite G | Vidarbha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam | Gurgaon Cricket Ground (Sultanpur) and Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium (Rohtak) in Haryana |
| Elite H | Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh | Barsapara Cricket Stadium and Nehru Stadium in Guwahati |
| Plate | Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh | Jadavpur University Campus Ground, Videocon Academy Ground, Calcutta Cricket and Football Club Ground, and Eden Gardens in Kolkata |
Ranji Trophy 2022 squads
Tamil Nadu: Vijay Shankar (captain), Washington Sundar (vice-captain), Baba Aparajith, Aswin Crist, Kaushik Gandhi, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Baba Indrajith, Narayan Jagadeesan, R Kavin, M Mohammed, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Sai Sudharsan, Sandeep Warrier, P Saravana Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Ragupathy Silambarasan, Laxmesha Suryaprakash, and Lakshminarayanan Vignesh.
Uttar Pradesh: Kuldeep Yadav (captain), Almas Shaukat, Rishabh Bansal, Priyam Garg, Hardeep Singh, Jasmer Dhankhar, Dhruv Jurel, Aryan Juyal, Madhav Kaushik, Parth Mishra, Akshdeep Nath, Ankit Rajpoot, Shanu Saini, Samarth Singh, Sameer Choudhary, Karan Sharma, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Sharma, Rinku Singh, Yash Dayal, and Zeeshan Ansari.
Mizoram: Taruwar Kohli (captain), Bobby Zothansanga (vice-captain), Abhay, Iqbal Abdulla, Uday Kaul, Lalmangaiha, Lalhruaizela, Reuben Lalhruaizela, B Lalnunfela, Lalnunkima Varte, Michael Lalremkima, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Parvez Ahmed, Rosiamliana Ralte, Remruatdika Ralte, Sumit Lama, Andrew Vanlalhruaia, K Vanlalruata, and Vikash Kumar.
Vidarbha: Faiz Fazal (captain), Akshay Wadkar (vice-captain), Ganesh Bhosle, Ganesh Satish, Praful Hinge, Mohit Kale, Akshay Karnewar, Lalit Yadav, Siddhesh Neral, Yash Rathod, Sanjay Raghunath, Aditya Sarwate, Atharva Taide, Aditya Thakare, Akshay Wakhare, Apoorv Wankhade, Siddhesh Wath, and Yash Thakur.
Sikkim: Akash Luitel, Ankur Malik, Nitesh Gupta, Codanda Ajit Karthik, Kranthi Kumar, Nilesh Lamichaney, Lee Yong Lepcha, Liyan Khan, Rajiv Malay, Md Saptulla, Nasun Tamang, Rahul Tamang, Pankaj Kumar Rawat, Anwesh Sharma, Sumit Singh, Chitiz Tamang, Palzor Tamang, and Ashish Thapa.
Andhra Pradesh: Striker Bharat (captain), S Ashish, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Ricky Bhui, Uppara Girinath, Girinath Reddy, CR Gnaneshwar, Karan Shinde, Maheep Kumar, Manish Golamaru, Mohammad Rafi, Naren Reddy, Prithvi Raj, Yash Sandeep, KV Sasikanth, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Pinninti Tapaswi, Thanneru Vamsi Krishna, Ahitesh Varma, and Tripurana Vijay.
Mumbai: Prithvi Shaw (captain), Aman Hakim Khan, Armaan Jaffer, Shashank Attarde, Mohit Avasthi, Royston Dias, Shivam Dube, Aakarshit Gomel, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Tanush Kotian, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shams Mulani, Siddharth Raut, Prashant Solanki, Hardik Tamore, Aditya Tare, and Arjun Tendulkar.
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (captain), Abishek Porel, Akash Deep, Writtick Chatterjee, Sudip Chatterjee, Nilkantha Das, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Habib Gandhi, Karan Lal, Anustup Majumdar, Sayan Mondal, Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Porel, Pradipta Pramanik, Geet Puri, Abhishek Raman, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Kazi Saifi, Shahbaz Ahmed, and Manoj Tiwary.
Gujarat: Bhargav Merai (captain), Het Patel (vice-captain), Rujul Bhatt, Saurav Chauhan, Piyush Chawla, Siddharth Desai, Chintan Gaja, Manan Hingrajia, Manprit Juneja, Roosh Kalaria, Umang Kumar, Jayveer Parmar, Kathan Patel, Tejas Patel, Karan Patel, Priyesh Patel, Abhinav Tandel, and Parth Vaghani.
Saurashtra: Jaydev Unadkat (captain), Cheteshwar Pujara, Sheldon Jackson, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Kamlesh Makwana, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Prerak Mankad, Vishvarajsinh Jadeja, Harvik Desai, Kevin Jivrajani, Kushang Patel, Jay Chauhan, Samarth Vyas, Parthkumar Bhut, Yuvrajsinh Chudasama, Devang Karamta, Snell Patel, Kishan Parmar, and Aditya Jadeja.
Baroda: Kedar Dhevdhar, Vishnu Solanki, Pratyush Kumar, Shivalik Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Abhimanyusingh Rajput, Dhruv Patel, Mitesh Patel, Lukman Meriwala, Babasafikhan Pathan (wicket-keeper), Atit Sheth, Bhargav Bhatt, Parth Kohli, Shashwat Rawat, Soyeb Sopariya, Kartik Kakade, Gurjindersingh Mann, Jyotsnil Singh, Ninad Rathwa, and Akshay More.
Delhi: Pradeep Sangwan, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Shorey, Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull, Khsitij Sharma, Jonty Sidhu, Himmat Singh, Lalit Yadav, Anuj Rawat Wk, Lakshay Thareja wk, Navdeep Saini, Simarjit Singh, Mayank Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Vikas Mishra, Shivang Vashist, Shivam Sharma.
Ranji Trophy 2022: Schedule, fixtures and India match times
All games will begin at 9.30 AM IST (India Standard Time)
February 17 to February 20
Elite Group A
Kerala vs Meghalaya
Gujarat vs Madhya Pradesh
Elite Group B
Bengal vs Baroda
Chandigarh vs Hyderabad
Elite Group C
Karnataka vs Railways
Jammu & Kashmir vs Puducherry
Elite Group D
Mumbai vs Saurashtra
Goa vs Odisha
Elite Group E
Andhra vs Services
Services vs Uttarakhand
Elite Group F
Himachal Pradesh vs Punjab
Haryana vs Tripura
Elite Group G
Uttar Pradesh vs Vidarbha
Assam vs Maharashtra
Elite Group H
Delhi vs Tamil Nadu
Chhattisgarh vs Jharkhand
Plate Group
Bihar vs Mizoram
Nagaland vs Sikkim
Arunachal Pradesh vs Manipur
February, 24 to February 27
Elite Group A
Gujarat vs Kerala
Madhya Pradesh vs Meghalaya
Elite Group B
Bengal vs Hyderabad
Baroda vs Chandigarh
Elite Group C
Karnataka vs Jammu & Kashmir
Puducherry vs Railways
Elite Group D
Odisha vs Saurashtra
Goa vs Mumbai
Elite Group E
Andhra vs Services
Rajasthan vs Uttarakhand
Elite Group F
Himachal Pradesh vs Tripura
Haryana vs Punjab
Elite Group G
Maharashtra vs Vidarbha
Assam vs Uttar Pradesh
Elite Group H
Delhi vs Jharkhand
Chhattisgarh vs Tamil Nadu
Plate Group
Bihar vs Sikkim
Arunachal Pradesh vs Nagaland
Manipur vs Mizoram
March 3 to March 6
Elite Group A
Kerala vs Madhya Pradesh
Gujarat vs Meghalaya
Elite Group B
Bengal vs Chandigarh
Baroda vs Hyderabad
Elite Group C
Jammu & Kashmir vs Railways
Karnataka vs Puducherry
Elite Group D
Goa vs Saurashtra
Mumbai vs Odisha
Elite Group E
Andhra vs Uttarakhand
Rajasthan vs Services
Elite Group F
Punjab vs Tripura
Haryana vs Himachal Pradesh
Elite Group G
Assam vs Vidarbha
Maharashtra vs Uttar Pradesh
Elite Group H
Chhattisgarh vs Delhi
Jharkhand vs Tamil Nadu
Plate Group
Arunachal Pradesh vs Bihar
Mizoram vs Nagaland
Manipur vs Sikkim
Where to watch the Ranji Trophy 2022 live in India?
Ranji Trophy 2022 will be telecast on the Star Sports 2 SD and HD TV channels in India. Each game will begin at 9:30 AM IST.
Live streaming for the Ranji Trophy 2022 will be available on the Disney+ Hotstar app and website.
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