Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017-18- All you need to know

The sixteenth edition of India’s domestic 50 overs tournament, Vijay Hazare Trophy is around the corner and the players are all gearing up given the importance it has in the eyes of the national selectors. The battle to claim the coveted title is all set to begin on February 5 and promises to be a bigger and better than all the previous editions.

The fifteenth season of the Vijay Hazare Trophy witnessed some nail-biting encounters. It comes as an obvious fact that players from the domestic arena will look to express themselves in the best possible way and help their team grab the title. A total of 28 teams that are further divided into four groups of seven each will be participating to claim the coveted title.

The three-week excitement will run all around the country and help populous to reunite and witness some serious cricket. The final will be played on 26 February.

Teams and Squads:

Delhi

Ishant Sharma (C), Pradeep Sangwan, Gautam Gambhir, Rishabh Pant, Hiten Dalal, Dhruv Shorey, Nitish Rana, Unmukt Chand, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya, Suboth Bhati, Pawan Negi, Manan Sharma, Kshitiz Sharma, Lalit Yadav

Tamil Nadu

Vijay Shankar (C), Baba Aparajith, Balchander Anirudh, Ravichandran Ashwin, Aswin Crist, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Kaushik Gandhi, N Jagadeesan, Jagatheesan Kousik, Yo Mahesh, Abhinav Mukund, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Rahil Shah, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, Murali Vijay, Washington Sundar

Uttar Pradesh

Akshdeep Nath (C), Prashant Gupta, Aryan Juyal, Amit Mishra, Shubham Chaubey, Shivam Chaudhary, Kartik Tyagi, Mohammad Saif, Mohd Israr, Mohsin Khan, Ankit Rajpoot, Saurabh Kumar, Umang Sharma, Shivam Mavi, Rinku Singh, Upendra Yadav

Saurashtra

Jaydev Shah (C), Aarpit Vasavada, Himalaya Barad, Sheldon Jackson, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Ravindra Jadeja, Chirag Jani, Kamlesh Makvana, Prerak Mankad, Cheteshwar Pujara, Hardik Rathod, Shaurya Sanandia, Jaydev Unadkat, Robin Uthappa, Samarth Vyas

Mumbai

Aditya Tare (C), Dhawal Kulkarni, Suryakumar Yadav, Siddhesh Lad, Akhil Herwadkar, Jay Gokul Bista, Shivam Dubey, Shashank Singh, Eknath Kerkar, Akash Parkar, Dhrumil Matkar, Royston Dias, Shams Mulani, Shubham Ranjane, Shivam.

Karnataka

Squad yet to be announced

Assam

Gokul Sharma (C), Sibsankar Roy, Abu Nechim, Arup Das, Pritam Das, Rishav Das, Mrinmoy Dutta, Jitumoni Kalita, Riyan Parag, Rahul Singh, Romario Sharma, Amit Sinha, Abhishek Thakuri, Wasiqur Rahman

Gujarat

Priyank Panchal (C), Rohit Dahiya, Rujul Bhatt, Ishwar Chaudhary, Piyush Chawla, Chintan Gaja, Chirag Gandhi, Samit Gohel, Jesal Karia, Bhargav Merai, Ashav Panchal, Hardik Patel, Karan Patel, Dhruv Raval, Santosh Shinde

Madhya Pradesh

Harpreet Singh (C), Ankit Sharma, Avesh Khan, Anand Bais, Puneet Datey, Sohraab Dhaliwal , Dharmesh Patel, Mihir Hirwani, Saransh Jain, Ankit Kushwah, Naman Ojha, Ishwar Pandey, Rajat Patidar, Rameez Khan, Ajay Rohera, Anshul Tripathi

Baroda

Deepak Hooda (C), Atit Sheth, Rishi Arothe, Viraj Bhosale, Kedar Devdhar, Lukman Meriwala, Krunal Pandya, Dhruv Patel, Urvil Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Ninad Rathva, Vishnu Solanki, Swapnil Singh, Soaeb Tai, Aditya Waghmode

Rajasthan

Aniket Choudhary (C), Mahipal Lomror, K Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Bist, Rahul Chahar, Chandrapal Singh, Aditya Garhwal, Amitkumar Gautam, Salman Khan, Yash Kothari, Ankit Lamba, Abhimanyu Lamba, Tajinder Singh

Haryana

Squad yet to be announced

Bengal

Manoj Tiwary (C), Sudip Chatterjee, Shreevats Goswami, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Abhishek Raman, Writtick Chatterjee, Vivek Singh, Kanishk Seth, Ashok Dinda, Sayan Ghosh, Mukesh Kumar, Aamir Gani, Pradipta Pramanik, Sumanta Gupta, Ishan Porel, Anustup Majumdar

Andhra

G H Vihari (C), Ricky Bhui, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Srikar Bharat, Bhargav Bhatt, Girinath Reddy, Karthik Raman, Prasanth Kumar, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Harishankar Reddy, KV Sasikanth, Bukkapatnam Siddharth, Duvvarapu Siva Kumar, Bodapati Sumanth

Hyderabad

Akshath Reddy (C), Bavanaka Sandeep, Tanmay Agarwal, Akash Bhandari, PS Chaitanya Reddy, Mehdi Hasan, Jaweed Ali, Mohammad Muddassir, Mohammed Siraj, Ravi Kiran, Telukupalli Ravi Teja, Ambati Rayudu, Rohit Rayudu, Palakodeti Sairam, Kolla Sumanth

Jharkhand

Ishan Kishan (C), Varun Aaron, Kumar Deobrat, Jaskaran Singh, Monu Kumar, Shahbaz Nadeem, Nazim Siddiqui, Rahul Shukla, Sumit Kumar, Atul Singh Surwar, Saurabh Tiwary, Utkarsh Singh, Vikash Singh, Virat Singh, Anukul Roy

Kerala

Abhishek Mohan, KC Akshay, Arun Karthik, KM Asif, Akshay Chandran, Vinoop Manoharan, Mohammed Azharuddeen, MD Nidheesh, Rohan Prem, Sachin Baby, Sanju Samson, Sandeep Warrier, Jalaj Saxena, Vinod Kumar, Vishnu Vinod

Punjab

Harbhajan Singh (C), Yuvraj Singh, Abhishek Gupta, Abhishek Sharma, Manpreet Gony, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Siddarth Kaul, Gitansh Khera, Sharad Lumba, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Markande, Sandeep Sharma, Shubman Gill, Barinder Sran, Manan Vohra

Railways

Mahesh Rawat (C), Abhishek Yadav, Akash Verma, Akash Yadav, Anureet Singh, Ashish Yadav, Mrunal Devdhar, Arindam Ghosh, Vidhyadhar Kamat, Manjeet Singh, ACP Mishra, Chanderpal Saini, Karan Thakur, Saurabh Wakaskar, Ankit Yadav

Tripura

Manisankar Murasingh (C), Udiyan Bose, Abhijit Chakraborty, Shyam Gon, Kaushal Acharjee, Joydeep Banik, Joydeep Bhattacharjee, Saurabh Das, Rajat Dey, Bishal Ghosh, Gurinder Singh, Smit Patel, Abhijit Sarkar, Yashpal Singh

Vidarbha

Faiz Fazal (C), Ganesh Satish, Ravi Jangid, Rajneesh Gurbani, Akshay Karnewar, Sanjay Ramaswamy, Jitesh Sharma, Karn Sharma, Atharva taide, Yash Thakur, Akshay Vinod Wadkar, Shrikant Wagh, Akshay Wakhare, Apoorv Wankhade, Umesh Yadav

Odisha

Govinda Poddar (C), Basant Mohanty, Deepak Behera, Jayanta Behera, Shesdeep Babu Patra, Suryakant Pradhan, Prayash Singh, Ranjit Singh, Abhishek Raut, Saurabh Rawat, Roshan Kumar Rao, Biplab Samantray, Anurag Sarangi, Santanu Mishra, Arabind Singh

Services

Ashutosh Aman, Arun Bamal, Lakhan Singh, Nakul Sharma, Nishan Singh, Amit Pachhara, Diwesh Pathania, Gahlaut Rahul Singh, Raushan Raj, Hardik Rajeev Sethi, Nakul Harpal Verma, Suraj Yadav, Vikas Yadav

Himachal Pradesh

Squad yet to be announced

Jammu and Kashmir

Parvez Rasool (C), Abhishek Bhat, Bandeep Singh, Ram Dayal, Deepak Dogra, Manzoor Dar, Mohammed Mudhasir, Pranav Gupta, Ian Dev Singh , Umar Nazir Mir, Waseem Raza

Goa

Sagun Kamat (C), Felix Alemao, Sumiran Amonkar, Swapnil Asnodkar, Amogh Sunil Desai, Srinivas Fadte, Lakshay Garg , Rajashekhar Harikant, Snehal Suhas Kauthankar, Darshan Misal, Ganeshraj Dayanand Narvekar, Amulya Pandrekar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vijesh Prabhudessai, Keenan Vaz

Maharashtra

Rahul Tripathi (C), Ankit Bawne, Satyajeet Bachhav, Pradeep Dadhe, Nikit Dhumal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Divyang Himganekar, Atharva Kale, Shamshuzama Kazi, Shrikant Mundhe, Nikhil Naik, Jay Pande, Anupam Sanklecha, Naushad Shaikh, Murtaza Trunkwala, Siddhesh Warghante, Vijay Zol

Chhattisgarh

Amandeep Khare (C), Pankaj Kumar Rao, Shashank Chandraker, Abhimanyu Chauhan, Shourabh Khairwar, Vishal Kushwah, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Manoj Singh, Pawandeep Singh, Sumit Ruikar, Shahnawaz Hussain, Shakeeb Ahmed, Shivendra Singh

Fixtures

5th February:

Bengal v Maharashtra, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Delhi v Uttar Pradesh, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

Himachal Pradesh v Tripura, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Andhra v Rajasthan, Group C | Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Ground, Chennai

Gujarat v Tamil Nadu, Group C |MRF Pachyappas Ground, Chennai

Madhya Pradesh vs Mumbai, Group C | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Chhattisgarh v Saurashtra, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

Hyderabad v Services, Group D | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Jharkhand v Vidarbha, Group D | AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

6th February

Andhra v Madhya Pradesh, Group C | MRF Pachyappas Ground, Chennai

Goa vs Tamil Nadu, Group C | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Gujarat vs Mumbai, Group C | Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Ground, Chennai

Chhattisgarh vs Services, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

Hyderabad vs Jharkhand, Group D |Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Jammu and Kashmir vs Vidarbha, Group D |AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

7th February

Karnataka vs Baroda, Group A |Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Odisha vs Railways, Group A |KSCA Cricket (2) Ground, Alur

Haryana vs Punjab, Group A | KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur

Bengal vs Kerala, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Delhi vs Tripura, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Maharashtra vs Uttar Pradesh, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

8th February

Assam vs Karnataka, Group A | Just Cricket Academy Ground, Bengaluru

Baroda vs Haryana, Group A | KSCA Cricket (2) Ground, Alur

Odisha vs Punjab, Group A | KSCA Cricket (3) Ground, Alur

Goa vs Rajasthan, Group C | MRF Pachyappas Ground, Chennai

Gujarat vs Madhya Pradesh, Group C | TI Cycles Ground, Murugappa, Chennai

Mumbai vs Tamil Nadu, Group C | Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Ground, Chennai

Hyderabad vs Vidarbha, Group D | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Jammu and Kashmir vs Saurashtra, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

Jharkhand vs Services, Group D | AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

9th February

Bengal vs Uttar Pradesh, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

Delhi vs Maharashtra, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Kerala vs Himachal Pradesh, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Andhra vs Goa, Group C | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Madhya Pradesh vs Tamil Nadu, Group C | MRF Pachyappas Ground, Chennai

Rajasthan vs Mumbai, Group C | TI Cycles Ground, Murugappa, Chennai

Chhattisgarh vs Jammu and Kashmir, Group D | AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

Hyderabad vs Saurashtra, Group D | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Services vs Vidarbha, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

10th February

Assam vs Railways, Group A | KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur

Baroda vs Punjab, Group A | KSCA Cricket (3) Ground, Alur

Haryana vs Karnataka, Group A | KSCA Cricket (2) Ground, Alur

11th February

Odisha vs Assam, Group A | Just Cricket Academy Ground, Bengaluru

Railways vs Haryana, Group A | KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur

Karnataka vs Punjab, Group A | KSCA Cricket (2) Ground, Alur

Bengal vs Delhi, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Himachal Pradesh vs Uttar Pradesh, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

Kerala vs Tripura, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Andhra vs Tamil Nadu, Group C | TI Cycles Ground, Murugappa, Chennai

Goa vs Madhya Pradesh, Group C | India Cement Limited Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai

Gujarat vs Rajasthan, Group C | Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering Ground, Chennai

Chhattisgarh vs Vidarbha, Group D | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Jammu and Kashmir vs Services, Group D | AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

Jharkhand vs Saurashtra, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

12th February

Andhra vs Gujarat, Group C | TI Cycles Ground, Murugappa, Chennai

Goa vs Mumbai, Group C | India Cement Limited Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai

Madhya Pradesh vs Rajasthan, Group C | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Chhattisgarh vs Jharkhand, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

Hyderabad vs Jammu and Kashmir, Group D | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Saurashtra vs Services, Group D | AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

13th February

Assam vs Punjab, Group A | KSCA Cricket (3) Ground, Alur

Baroda vs Railways, Group A | KSCA Cricket (2) Ground, Alur

Karnataka vs Odisha, Group A | KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur

Bengal vs Tripura, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Delhi vs Kerala, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Himachal Pradesh vs Maharashtra, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

14th February

Assam vs Haryana, Group A | KSCA Cricket (2) Ground, Alur

Baroda vs Odisha, Group A | KSCA Cricket (3) Ground, Alur

Punjab vs Railways, Group A | Just Cricket Academy Ground, Bengaluru

Andhra vs Mumbai, Group C | TI Cycles Ground, Murugappa, Chennai

Goa vs Gujarat, Group C | India Cement Limited Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai

Rajasthan vs Tamil Nadu, Group C | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

Chhattisgarh vs Hyderabad, Group D | Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad

Jammu and Kashmir vs Jharkhand, Group D | Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad

Saurashtra vs Vidarbha, Group D | AOC Centre Thapar Stadium, Secunderabad

15th February

Delhi vs Himachal Pradesh, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

Kerala vs Uttar Pradesh, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Maharashtra vs Tripura, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

16th February

Assam vs Baroda, Group A | KSCA Cricket (3) Ground, Alur

Haryana vs Odisha, Group A | Just Cricket Academy Ground, Bengaluru

Karnataka vs Railways, Group A | KSCA Cricket Ground, Alur

17th February

Bengal vs Himachal Pradesh, Group B | Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

Kerala vs Maharashtra, Group B | Lohnu Cricket Ground, Bilaspur

Tripura vs Uttar Pradesh, Group B | Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun

21st February

TBC vs TBC, 1st Quarter-Final | TBC, TBC

TBC vs TBC, 2nd Quarter-Final | TBC, TBC

22nd February

TBC vs TBC, 3rd Quarter-Final | TBC, TBC

TBC vs TBC, 4th Quarter-Final | TBC, TBC

24th February

TBC vs TBC, 1st Semi-Final | TBC, TBC

TBC vs TBC, 2nd Semi-Final | TBC, TBC

26th February

TBC vs TBC, Final | TBC, TBC

Broadcast details

TV – All the knockout matches will be telecast on StarSports

Live streaming – All the knockout matches will be live on Hotstar