Ranji Trophy 2017-18: All you need to know

The three month long interstate tournament to conclude on first week of January.

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Parthiv Patel receives the Ranji Trophy Cup. (Photo Source: Twitter)

The date of October 6 will embark the start of yet another season of India’s premier domestic tournament, the Ranji Trophy of 2017-2018. This year around, few new rules and formats have been inculcated in the tournament. The home and away games will be played this time around as opposed to the neutral venue system adopted in the last season.

This time around in the Ranji Trophy, twenty-eight teams are divided into four groups of seven teams. The top two teams would progress into the quarterfinals. Previously, the teams were segregated into three groups and top three teams from Group A and B progressed into the quarterfinals, while only two teams from the other group made it to the next round.

Looking at all the pools of the Ranji Trophy, it is Group B which is the group of death as it features defending champions Gujarat along with semi-finalist from last year Jharkhand and quarter-finalists Haryana. The other teams in the Group are heavyweights such as Saurashtra, Kerala, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.

The tournament would conclude on the second of January 2018. The knockout stages will start from the first week of December after the league stages end on last week of November.

Semi-Finals are scheduled to take place on December 17 while the finals start from December 29. With the new format, BCCI gives more opportunities to all the teams unlike on previous occasions where only two teams qualified from a group of 9-10 teams in the third pool.

Ranji Trophy Pools-

Group A:

Karnataka, Delhi, Assam, Maharashtra, Hyderabad, Uttar Pradesh, Railways

Group B:

Jharkhand, Gujarat, Kerala, Saurashtra, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir

Group C:

Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Andhra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Baroda, Tripura

Group D:

Himachal Pradesh, Vidarbha, Punjab, Bengal, Services, Goa, Chhattisgarh

Ranji Trophy Squads

Delhi

Ishant Sharma(c), Gautam Gambhir, Unmukt Chand, Kunal Chandela, Himmat Singh, Kulwant Khejroliya, Manan Sharma, Milind Kumar, Rishabh Pant, Pulkit Narang, Nitish Rana, Navdeep Saini, Dhruv Shorey, Vikas Tokas, Vikas Mishra

Assam

Gokul Sharma(c), Pritam Debnath, Abu Nechim, Arup Das, Krishna Das, Pritam Das, Pallavkumar Das, Rishav Das, Swarupam Purkayastha, Sibsankar Roy, Kunal Saikia, Amit Sinha, Tarjinder Singh, Wasiqur Rahman

Madhya Pradesh

Devendra Bundela(c), Harpreet Singh, Ankit Sharma, Avesh Khan, Ankit Dane, Puneet Datey, Mihir Hirwani, Saransh Jain, Naman Ojha, Ishwar Pandey, Rajat Patidar, Chandrakant Sakure, Shubham Sharma, Aditya Shrivastava, Anshul Tripathi, Waseem Ahmed

Baroda

Irfan Pathan(c), Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Rishi Arothe, Kedar Devdhar, Lukman Meriwala, Ketul Patel, Mitesh Patel, Babashafi Pathan, Pinal Shah, Atit Sheth, Vishnu Solanki, Swapnil Singh, Soaeb Tai, Aditya Waghmode

Rajasthan

Pankaj Singh(c), Dishant Yagnik, Khaleel Ahmed, Rajesh Bishnoi, Rajesh Bishnoi Jr, Robin Bist, Deepak Chahar, Aniket Choudhary, Siddharth Dobal, Amitkumar Gautam, Arjit Gupta, Mahipal Lomror, Ashok Menaria, Tajinder Singh, Tanveer-Ul-Haq

Bengal

Manoj Tiwary(c), Sudip Chatterjee, Writtick Chatterjee, Ashok Dinda, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Aamir Gani, Koushik Ghosh, Sayan Ghosh, Shreevats Goswami, Anustup Majumdar, Mukesh Kumar, Pradipta Pramanik, Abhishek Raman, Wriddhiman Saha, Kanishk Seth, Boddupalli Amit

Andhra

Hanuma Vihari(c), Srikar Bharat, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Bhargav Bhatt, Ricky Bhui, Uppara Girinath, Pranith Manyala, Karthik Raman, Prasanth Kumar, Yarra Prithviraj, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, KV Sasikanth, Shoaib Md Khan, Bodapati Sumanth, Venugopal Rao, Paidikalva Vijaykumar

Andhra

Hanuma Vihari(c), Srikar Bharat, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Bhargav Bhatt, Ricky Bhui, Uppara Girinath, Pranith Manyala, Karthik Raman, Prasanth Kumar, Yarra Prithviraj, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, KV Sasikanth, Shoaib Md Khan, Bodapati Sumanth, Venugopal Rao, Paidikalva Vijaykumar

Hyderabad

Ambati Rayudu(c), Kolla Sumanth, Tanmay Agarwal, Ashish Reddy, Akash Bhandari, Mehdi Hasan, Chama Milind, Mohammed Siraj, Ravi Kiran, Akshath Reddy, Rohit Rayudu, Palakodeti Sairam, Bavanaka Sandeep, Amol Shinde, Sudeep Tyagi

Jharkhand

Varun Aaron(c), Ashish Kumar, Sunny Gupta, Babul Kumar, Ishan Kishan, Ishank Jaggi, Jaskaran Singh, Kaushal Singh, Shahbaz Nadeem, Samar Quadri, Sumit Kumar, Nazim Siddiqui, Saurabh Tiwary, Virat Singh, Ajay Yadav

Kerala

Sachin Baby(c), Arun Karthik, Basil Thampi, Akshay Chandran, Mohammed Asif, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Karaparambil Monish, MD Nidheesh, Rohan Prem, Ponnam Rahul, Salman Nizar, Sanju Samson, Sandeep Warrier, Jalaj Saxena, Vishnu Vinod

Punjab

Harbhajan Singh(c), Manpreet Gony, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Jiwanjot Singh, Siddarth Kaul, Uday Kaul, Taruwar Kohli, Pargat Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Shubek Gill, Shubman Gill, Mayank Sidhana, Barinder Sran, Yuvraj Singh, Abhishek Gupta

Railways

Anureet Singh(c), Ashish Yadav, Avinash Yadav, Deepak Bansal, Nitin Bhille, Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi, Mrunal Devdhar, Arindam Ghosh, Manjeet Singh, Amit Mishra, Manish Rao, Mahesh Rawat, Shivakant Shukla, Saurabh Wakaskar, Vidhyadhar Kamat

Odisha

Govinda Poddar(c), Alok Mangaraj, Basant Mohanty, Abinash Saha, Deepak Behera, Dhiraj Singh, Natraj Behera, Sandeep Pattnaik, Suryakant Pradhan, Ranjit Singh, Saurabh Rawat, Biplab Samantray, Subhranshu Senapati, Alok Chandra Sahoo

Services

Sachidanand Pandey, Rahul Chahar, Vikas Hathwala, Muzzaffaruddin Khalid, Amit Pachhara, Diwesh Pathania, Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Pal Raj Bahadur, Ravi Chauhan, Nakul Harpal Verma, Shamsher Yadav, Vikas Yadav, Nitin Tanwar, Navneet Singh

Chhattisgarh

Mohammad Kaif(c), Pankaj Kumar Rao, Shubham Agarwal, Ashutosh Singh, Amandeep Khare, Shourabh Khairwar, Vishal Kushwah, Manoj Singh, Rishabh Tiwari, Abhimanyu Chauhan, Jatin Saxena, Sumit Ruikar, Shahnawaz Hussain, Sahil Gupta

Tamil Nadu

Abhinav Mukund(c), Murali Vijay, Baba Indrajith, Baba Aparajith, Washington Sundar, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kaushik Gandhi, V Lakshman, Ravi Kumar Rohith, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, N Jagadeesan, Malolan Rangarajan, Rahil Shah, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, Lakshminarayanan Vignesh

Uttar Pradesh

Suresh Raina(c), Akshdeep Nath, Almas Shaukat, Himanshu Asnora, Deependra Pandey, Umang Sharma, Rinku Singh, Eklavya Dwivedi, Shivam Chaudhary, Saurabh Kumar, Imtiaz Ahmed, Praveen Kumar, Mohd Israr , Ankit Rajpoot, Dhruv Pratap Singh, Zeeshan Ansari

Saurashtra

Cheteshwar Pujara(c), Avi Barot , Prerak Mankad, Kishan Parmar, Snell Patel, Robin Uthappa, Sheldon Jackson, Ravindra Jadeja, Chirag Jani, Shaurya Sanandia, Jaydev Unadkat, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Vandit Jivrajani, Kushang Patel, Hardik Rathod

Mumbai 

Aditya Tare(c), Shreyas Iyer, Akhil Herwadkar, Sufiyan Shaikh, Siddhesh Lad, Jay Gokul Bista, Sairaj Patil, Eknath Kerkar, Royston Dias, Shashank Singh, Shivam Dubey, Siddharth Akre, Abhishek Nayar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur, Vishal Dabholkar, Aditya Dhumal, Akash Parkar, Sagar Trivedi, Harshal Soni, Tushar Deshpande, Balwinder Sandhu, Vijay Gohil, Shivam Malhotra

Haryana

Mohit Sharma(c), Nitin Saini, Guntashveer Singh, Rahul Dagar, Rahul Dewan, Chaitanya Bishnoi, Himanshu Rana, Mohit Hooda, Shubham Rohilla, Virender Dahiya, Rohit Parmod Sharma, Rajat Paliwal, Umang Chugh, Harshal Patel, Ashish Hooda, Jayant Yadav, Rahul Tewatia, Sanjay Pahal, Deepak Punia, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shivam Chauhan, Ashok Sandhu, Ajit Chahal, Poonish Mehta, Amit Rana

Tripura

Manisankar Murasingh(c), Udiyan Bose, Joydeep Banik, Dwaipayan Bhattacharjee, Bishal Ghosh, Samrat Singha, Smit Patel, Abhijit Dey, Joydeep Bhattacharjee, Ajoy Sarkar, Rajesh Banik, Gurinder Singh, Rana Dutta, Abhijit Sarkar, Yashpal Singh

Himachal Pradesh

Rishi Dhawan(c), Ankush Bains, Priyanshu Khanduri , Ankit Kalsi, Ankit Kaushik, Nikhil Gangta, Paras Dogra, Sumeet Verma, Ankush Dhariwal, Pankaj Jaiswal, Mayank Dagar, Akash Vasisht, Akshay Chauhan, Gurvinder Singh, Prashant Chopra, Shresth Nirmohi, Vinay Galetiya

Goa

Sagun Kamat(c), Suraj Dongre, Reagan Pinto, Sumiran Amonkar, Samar Shravan Dubhashi, Darshan Wagha Misal, Keenan Vaz, Amit Yadav, Swapnil Asnodkar, Saurabh Bandekar, Felix Alemao, Shadab Bashir Jakati, Gauresh Gawas, Amulaya Pandrekar, Rituraj Singh

Maharashtra

Kedar Jadhav, Rahul Tripathi, Ankit Bawne, Jagdish Zope, Rohit Motwani, Naushad Shaikh, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chirag Khurana, Swapnil Gugale, P J Bhati, Shrikant Mundhe, Akshay Darekar, Anupam Sanklecha, Nikit Dhumal, Samad Fallah, Pradeep Dadhe

Ranji Trophy Squads for Karnataka, Gujarat, Vidharbha, Jammu and Kashmir- not announced as of now

Ranji Trophy Schedule

(9.30am start)

Oct 06, Fri – Oct 09, Mon           Delhi vs Assam, Group A

                                                         Uttar Pradesh vs Railways, Group A

                                                         Hyderabad vs Maharashtra, Group A

                                                         Haryana vs Saurashtra, Group B

                                                         Rajasthan vs Jammu and Kashmir, Group B

                                                         Kerala vs Jharkhand, Group B

                                                         Madhya Pradesh vs Baroda, Group C

                                                         Odisha vs Tripura, Group C

                                                         Tamil Nadu vs Andhra, Group C

                                                         Services vs Bengal, Group D

                                                         Goa vs Chhattisgarh, Group D

                                                         Himachal Pradesh vs Punjab, Group D

Oct 14, Sat – Oct 17, Tue              Railways vs Delhi, Group A

                                                         Hyderabad vs Uttar Pradesh, Group A

                                                         Karnataka vs Assam, Group A

                                                         Saurashtra vs Jammu and Kashmir, Group B

                                                         Rajasthan vs Jharkhand, Group B

                                                         Gujarat vs Kerala, Group B

                                                         Baroda vs Andhra, Group C

                                                         Madhya Pradesh vs Mumbai, Group C

                                                         Tripura vs Tamil Nadu, Group C

                                                         Punjab vs Vidarbha, Group D

                                                         Himachal Pradesh vs Goa, Group D

                                                         Chhattisgarh vs Bengal, Group D

Oct 24, Tue – Oct 27, Fri             Assam vs Railways, Group A

                                                         Uttar Pradesh vs Maharashtra, Group A

                                                         Karnataka vs Hyderabad, Group A

                                                         Jammu and Kashmir vs Gujarat, Group B

                                                         Jharkhand vs Haryana, Group B

                                                         Kerala vs Rajasthan, Group B

                                                         Andhra vs Odisha, Group C

                                                         Mumbai vs Tamil Nadu, Group C

                                                         Tripura vs Madhya Pradesh, Group C

                                                         Goa vs Punjab, Group D

                                                         Services vs Himachal Pradesh, Group D

                                                         Vidarbha vs Chhattisgarh, Group D

Nov 01, Wed – Nov 04, Sat         Railways vs Hyderabad, Group A

                                                         Delhi vs Uttar Pradesh, Group A

                                                         Maharashtra vs Karnataka, Group A

                                                         Jammu and Kashmir vs Kerala, Group B

                                                         Gujarat vs Haryana, Group B

                                                         Saurashtra vs Jharkhand, Group B

                                                         Baroda vs Tripura, Group C

                                                         Andhra vs Madhya Pradesh, Group C

                                                         Odisha vs Mumbai, Group C

                                                         Bengal vs Himachal Pradesh, Group D

                                                         Vidarbha vs Services, Group D

                                                         Chhattisgarh vs Punjab, Group D

Nov 09, Thu – Nov 12, Sun         Assam vs Uttar Pradesh, Group A

                                                          Maharashtra vs Railways, Group A

                                                          Karnataka vs Delhi, Group A

                                                         Haryana vs Rajasthan, Group B

                                                         Jharkhand vs Jammu and Kashmir, Group B

                                                         Saurashtra vs Gujarat, Group B

                                                         Tripura vs Andhra, Group C

                                                         Odisha vs Tamil Nadu, Group C

                                                         Mumbai vs Baroda, Group C

                                                         Bengal vs Vidarbha, Group D

                                                         Himachal Pradesh vs Chhattisgarh, Group D

                                                         Services vs Goa, Group D

Nov 17, Fri – Nov 20, Mon         Delhi vs Maharashtra, Group A

                                                         Assam vs Hyderabad, Group A

                                                         Uttar Pradesh vs Karnataka, Group A

                                                         Gujarat vs Rajasthan, Group B

                                                         Jammu and Kashmir vs Haryana, Group B

                                                         Kerala vs Saurashtra, Group B

                                                         Tamil Nadu vs Madhya Pradesh, Group C

                                                         Baroda vs Odisha, Group C

                                                         Andhra vs Mumbai, Group C

                                                         Punjab vs Bengal, Group D

                                                         Chhattisgarh vs Services, Group D

                                                         Goa vs Vidarbha, Group D

Nov 25, Sat – Nov 28, Tue          Hyderabad vs Delhi, Group A

                                                         Maharashtra vs Assam, Group A

                                                         Railways vs Karnataka, Group A

                                                         Rajasthan vs Saurashtra, Group B

                                                         Jharkhand vs Gujarat, Group B

                                                         Haryana vs Kerala, Group B

                                                         Tamil Nadu vs Baroda, Group C

                                                         Madhya Pradesh vs Odisha, Group C

                                                         Mumbai vs Tripura, Group C

                                                         Punjab vs Services, Group D

                                                         Vidarbha vs Himachal Pradesh, Group D

                                                         Bengal vs Goa, Group D

Dec 07, Thu – Dec 11, Mon         TBC vs TBC, 1st Quarter-Final

                                                         TBC vs TBC, 2nd Quarter-Final

                                                         TBC vs TBC, 3rd Quarter-Final

                                                         TBC vs TBC, 4th Quarter-Final

Dec 17, Sun – Dec 21, Thu           TBC vs TBC, 1st Semi-Final

                                                         TBC vs TBC, 2nd Semi-Final

Dec 29, Fri – Jan 02, Tue           TBC vs TBC, Final

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