Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026: Full list of squads announced so far

What is the format of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026?

As many as 38 teams - 32 in the Elite and six in the Plate - will compete in the upcoming edition of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, India’s domestic T20 competition, starting Saturday, November 14. The Plate tournament runs separately and a total of 16 matches will determine the winner. As for the Elite group, 32 teams have been divided into four groups of eight each.

The group stage matches will run from November 14 to 26. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams from each group will make it to the Super League. The eight teams are then divided into two groups of four teams each.

In this round, each team will play three matches and the Super League matches will take place from November 30 to December 4. The top team from each group qualifies for the final, scheduled on December 6.

Jharkhand enter this edition of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy as the defending champions, having defeated Haryana in the final at the MCA Stadium in Pune.

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2026 squads: Full team lists and injury updates

Andhra

Ricky Bhui (C), Ashwin Hebbar, Marthala Dhanush, SDNV Prasad, Shaik Rasheed, Saurabh Kumar, T Bharath, Satyanarayana Raju, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Bailapudi Yeswanth, M Hemanth Reddy, Seeram Rahul, Sai Rahul, KS Narasimha Raju, Revanth Reddy, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Munish Verma

Arunachal Pradesh

Neelam Obi (C), Techi Neri, Nabam Tempol, Kamsha Yangfo, Biki Kumar, Chandan Kumar Singh, Darge Bagra, Techi Doria, Licha Jhon, Salil Malhotra, Penjor Mangal, Nabam Kama, Myendung Singpho, Likha Sonia, Yab Niya

Assam

Denish Das (C), Sibsankar Roy, Saahil Jain, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Roshan Alam, Bishal Saha, Avinov Choudhury, Mrinmoy Dutta, Jitumoni Kalita, Bhargab Lahkar, Ayushman Malakar, Mukhtar Hussain, Pradyun Saikia, Rohit Sen, Akash Sengupta

Baroda

Krunal Pandya (C), Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma, Atit Sheth, Safvan Patel, Dhruv Patel, Parikshit Patidar, Mahesh Pithiya, Hemant Punde, Shashwat Rawat, Deepak Hooda, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi

Bengal

Abhimanyu Easwaran (C), Abishek Porel, Sudip Chatterjee, Kanishk Seth, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sayan Ghosh, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Prayas Ray Barman, Akhilesh Yadav, Karan Lal, Yuvraj Keswani, Pradipta Pramanik, Aditya Purohit, Rishabh Chaudhary, Sayed Irfa Aftab, Shakir Gandhi, Shashank Singh, Sourav Halder

Bihar

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (C), Mayank Kumar, Mohammed Izhar, Suraj Kashyap, Altamish Ashraf, Anmol Kumar, Ashish Kumar, Himanshu Singh, Alok Kumar, Ayush Loharuka, Nawaz Khan, Prashant Singh, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Prithvi Raj, Vasudev Prasad Singh, Tarun Kumar, Amod Yadav

Chandigarh

Shivam Bhambri (C), Bhagmender Lather, Sandeep Sharma, Sanyam Saini, Manan Vohra, Arjun Azad, Raman Bishnoi, Rohit Dhanda, Chiragvir Dhindsa, Hardik Chowdhry, Jagjit Singh, Nikhil Kumar, Nikhil Thakur, Nehal Pajni

Chhattisgarh

Vikalp Tiwari (C), Aayush Pandey, Ajay Mandal, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Sandeep Warrier, Jayant Yadav, Shubham Agarwal, Shashank Chandrakar, Rudra Dehari, Dev Aditya Singh, Amandeep Khare, Sourab Majumdar, Rahul Pradhan, Sangeet Soni, Prateek Yadav

Delhi

Ayush Badoni (C), Anuj Rawat, Priyansh Arya, Ayush Doseja, Tejasvi Dahiya, Yash Dhull, Himmat Singh, Sarthak Ranjan, Harshit Rana, Digvesh Rathi, Ishant Sharma, Simarjeet Singh, Suyash Sharma, Mayank Yadav, Keshav Dabas

Goa

Abhinav Tejrana (C), Deepraj Gaonkar, Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Felix Alemao, Vasuki Koushik, Vikash Singh, Shivendra Bhujbal, Ishaan Gadekar, Rajashekhar Harikant, Yash Kasvankar, Manthan Khutkar, Heramb Parab, Ruthvik Naik, Shubham Tari, Azaan Thota

Himachal Pradesh

Pukhraj Mann (C), Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Nehal Wadhera, Arpit Guleria, Aryaman Singh, Harshit Sandal, Ayush Jamwal, Jitender Rana, Hritik Kalia, Rahul Chauhan, Rohit Kumar, Mridul Surroch, Vaibhav Kalta

Hyderabad

Chama Milind (C), Tanmay Agarwal, Aman Rao, Rahul Buddhi, Kodimela Himateja, Pranav Varma, Rakshan Readdi, Tanay Thyagarajan, Abhirath Reddy, Bhavesh Seth, Ajay Dev Goud, Gadugu Ganesh, Harshith Sai, Saranu Nishanth, Pragnay Reddy, Rahul Radesh, Ved Reddy

Jammu & Kashmir

Shubham Khajuria (C), Abdul Samad, Dikshant Kundal, Qamran Iqbal, Yawer Hassan, Abid Mushtaq, Sahil Lotra, Brijesh Sharma, Sunil Kumar, Vanshaj Sharma, Umran Malik, Yudhvir Singh, Kawalpreet Singh, Lone Nasir, Rydham Sharma

Jharkhand

Anukul Roy (C), Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar, Robin Minz, Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Amit Kumar, Sushant Mishra, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Md Kounain Quraishi, Pratyush Kumar, Harsh Raj, Pratik Ranjan, Shubh Sharma

Karnataka

Ravichandran Smaran (C), Karun Nair, Manish Pandey, Rohan Patil, Krishnan Shrijith, Luvnith Sisodia, Rithesh Bhatkal, Aneeshwar Gautam, Abhinav Manohar, Manvanth Kumar, Shikhar Shetty, Abhilash Shetty, Praveen Dubey, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vijaykumar Vyshak

Keralam

Sanju Samson (C), Ahammed Imran, Rohan Kunnummal, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Salman Nizar, Vishnu Vinod, Jalaj Saxena, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Vignesh Puthur, Karthik Nair, Krishna Devan, Biju Narayanan, Akhil Scaria, Sharafuddeen, Vaisakh Chandran

Madhya Pradesh

Rajat Patidar (C), Akshat Raghuwanshi, Harsh Gawli, Aniket Verma, Saransh Jain, Mangesh Yadav, Shivang Kumar, Avesh Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Ankush Singh, Rahul Batham, Apurve Dwivedi, Ritik Tada, Shivam Shukla, Tripuresh Singh

Maharashtra

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Rahul Tripathi, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Pradeep Dadhe, Mukesh Choudhary, Vicky Ostwal, Prashant Solanki, Kiran Chormale, Ranjeet Nikam, Tanay Sanghvi, Rushikesh Sonawane, Vivek Shelar, Hitesh Walunj

Manipur

Pheiroijam Jotin, Ahmed Shah, Mandingbam Andyroshan, Bidash Chingakham, LM Keishangbam, Ulenyai Khwairakpam, Kiran Laishram, L Kishan Singha, Yumnam C Nganba, Prafullomani Singh, Rex Rajkumar, Sultan Karim, Karanjit Yumnam

Mizoram

Jehu Anderson (C), Joseph Lalthankhuma, Kuldip Yadav, J Biakthanpuia, Lalhruaizela, F Lalmuanzuala, B Lalnunfela, Lalrempuia, Marty Lalrinhlua, Manendar Singh, Sahil Sharma, Sumit Lama, Chinmay Sutar, Khiangte Vanrotlinga

Mumbai

Suryakumar Yadav (C), Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Hardik Tamore, Atharva Ankolekar, Shivam Dube, Shams Mulani, Musheer Khan, Shardul Thakur, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester D’Souza, Maxwell Swaminathan, Sairaj Patil, Divyaansh Saxena

Odisha

Swastik Samal (C), Omkar Mohanty, Subhranshu Senapati, Abhishek Yadav, Aditya Rout, Badal Biswal, Kartik Biswal, Gourav Choudhury, Sourav Gouda, Lalit Yadav, Soumya Lenka, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Om Munde, Debabrata Pradhan, Pradeep Pradhan, Ninad Rathva, Vageesh Sharma, Aashirwad Swain

Puducherry

Pugazhendi Akash, Aman Khan, Shashank Singh, Raghav Goyal, Adil Tunda, Anugrah Latwal, Bhanu Anand, Vedant Bhardwaj, Aditya Chauhan, Gaurav Yadav, Prithvi Khanna, R Nithiyananda, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Prasad Pawar, Prannay Singh, Ramamoorthy Ragavan, Gautam Shastry, Shiva Subash, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi, Vijai Raja

Punjab

Anmolpreet Singh, Salil Arora, Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Uday Saharan, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Vihaan Malhotra, Harpreet Brar, Raghu Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Sukhdeep Singh Bajwa, Kartik Chadha, Vishwanath Pratap Singh

Railways

Mohammad Saif (C), LR Chethan, Ravi Singh, Atal Bihari Rai, Eshaan Goyal, Jamshed Alam, Kritagya Singh, Kunal Yadav, Akshat Pandey, Pradhyumn Parikh, Mohit Raut, Garv Sangwan, Toufik Uddin Mondal, Zubair Ali

Rajasthan

Mukul Choudhary, Kartik Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore, Abhijeet Tomar, Mahipal Lomror, Manav Suthar, Deepak Chahar, Rahul Chahar, Ramnivas Golada, Abhishek Moond, Himanshu Nehra, Pratap Singh, Rohan Rajbar, Himanshu Rana, Ajayraj Singh

Saurashtra

Ruchit Ahir, Harvik Desai, Harvansh Pangalia, Krains Fuletra, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar, Siddhant Rana, Luckyraj Vaghela

Services

Arun Bamal, Arjun Sharma, Arun Kumar, Irfan Khan, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Mohit Kumar, Nakul Sharma, Kuwar Pathak, Raj Bahadur, Shivam Tiwari, Shivam Tiwari, Amit Shukla, Sufiyan Alam, Suraj Vashisht, Vishal Gaur

Sikkim

Lee Yong Lepcha (C), Ashish Thapa, Ankur Malik, Gurinder Singh, Kranthi Kumar, Satyajeet Bachhav, Abishek Kumar, Amit Rajera, Pranesh Chettri, Ingsho Limboo, Robin Limboo, Md Saptulla, Parth Palawat, Saurav Prasad, Palzor Tamang

Tamil Nadu

Sai Kishore (C), Amit Sathvik, C Andre Siddarth, Narayan Jagadeesan, Rithik Easwaran, Balasubramaniam Sachin, M Shahrukh Khan, Tushar Raheja, R Rajkumar, Sunny Sandhu, Athisayaraj Davidson, Gurjapneet Singh, T Natarajan, Manimaran Siddharth, Varun Chakravarthy

Tripura

Manisankar Murasingh (C), Bikramkumar Das, Mandeep Singh, Sridam Paul, Abhijit Sarkar, Parvez Sultan, Arindam Barman, Saurabh Das, Bikramjit Debnath, Saruk Hossain, Chiranjit Paul, Viki Saha, Sandip Sarkar, Sentu Sarkar, Danveer Singh, Arkaprabha Sinha, Subham Sutradhar, Lakshay Thareja

Uttar Pradesh

Karan Sharma (C), Abhishek Goswami, Swastik Chikara, Aryan Juyal, Madhav Kaushik, Sameer Rizvi, Shivam Mavi, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohsin Khan, Yash Dayal, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Arnav Baliyan, Yash Garg, Divyansh Joshi, Siddarth Yadav

Uttarakhand

Kunal Chandela (C), Avneesh Sudha, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Janmejay Joshi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aarav Mahajan, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Kandpal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Ravinder Negi, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi, Vijay Sharma

Vidarbha

Atharva Taide (C), Shubham Dubey, Danish Malewar, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Ravikumar Samarth, Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Saurabh Dubey, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Varun Bisht, Adhyayan Daga, Yash Kadam

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