The 2025/26 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy begins on November 26: Here are the updated squads and full team lists for all sides.
What's the format of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025/26?
Like the Ranji Trophy, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy features 32 teams in the Elite Division, split into four groups, while six teams will compete in the Plate Division from November 26.
In the Elite Division, the traditional knockout stage has been replaced by an eight-team round-robin Super League, the winners of which will progress directly to the final on December 18.
Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Jadavpur University Campus in Kolkata, Gymkhana Ground in Hyderabad, and the Narendra Modi Stadium 'B' Ground in Ahmedabad are among the venues that will host the Elite Division. Sixteen T20Is, including the final on December 6, will be played in the Plate competition.
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Mumbai enter the tournament as defending champions, having beaten Madhya Pradesh in last year’s final in December. MP posted 174-8 batting first. Mumbai chased down the target in 17.5 overs with five wickets in hand, with Suryakumar Yadav (48 off 35) and Suryansh Shedge (36* off 15) playing crucial roles.
Both captains from last year’s finalists will be missing this season. Mumbai will be led by Shardul Thakur, who steps in for the injured Shreyas Iyer after the latter sustained a spleen laceration during the Australia tour. Rajat Patidar, meanwhile, has reportedly suffered an injury during the recent India–South Africa 'A' series, and Madhya Pradesh are yet to name his leadership replacement.
Maharashtra have appointed Prithvi Shaw as captain, with Ruturaj Gaikwad earning a recall to India’s ODI squad for the upcoming South Africa series.
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Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025-26 squads: Full team lists and injury updates
Baroda
TBA
Jammu & Kashmir
Shubham Khajuria (c), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Musaif Aijaz, Abdul Samad, Yawer Hassan, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (vc), Abid Mushtaq, Vanshaj Sharma, Ashwin Murugan, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Umran Malik, Nasir Lone, Sunil Kumar.
Maharashtra
Prithvi Shaw (c), Arshin Kulkarni, Rahul Tripathi, Azim Kazi, Nikhil Naik (wk), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Vicky Ostwal, Tanay Sanghvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Mandar Bhandari (wk), Jalaj Saxena, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Yogesh Dongare, Ranjit Nikam
Mumbai
Shardul Thakur (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Ajinkya Rahane, Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Musheer Khan, Tushar Deshpande, Atharva Ankolekar, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Suryansh Shedge, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Sairaj Patil, Irfan Umair.
Odisha
Biplab Samantray (c), Subhranshu Senapati, Govinda Poddar, Aditya Rout, Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Sambit Baral, Gaurav Choudhury, Sourav Gouda, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Pappu Roy, Sandeep Pattnaik, Prayash Singh, Rajesh Mohanty,Swastik Samal, Subham Satrujit, Aashirwad Swain.
Services
Gaurav Kochar, Mohit Rathee, Arun Kumar, Vineet Dhankhar, Jayant Goyat, Harsh Vardhan, Vikas Hathwala, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Tanwar, Abhishek Tiwari, Vishal Gaur, Vikas Yadav
Andhra
Ricky Bhui (c), SK Rasheed, Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Pyla Avinash, Saurabh Kumar, Prithvi Raj, Satyanarayana Raju, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Bailapudi Yeswanth, Sai Rahul, Panduranga Raju, Siraparapu Ashish, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Munish Verma.
Gujarat
Arya Desai, Urvil Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Hiten Mehra, Ripal Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt, Abhishek Desai, Yash Doshi, Umang Kumar, Hemang Patel, Dhrushant Soni, Vishal Jayswal.
Himachal Pradesh
Ankush Bains (c), Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Nikhil Gangta, Naveen Kanwar, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Arpit Guleria, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Divesh Sharma, Rahul Chauhan, Pukhraj Mann, Mridul Surroch, Ravi Thakur, Vipin Sharma.
Hyderabad
C.V. Milind (c), Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Buddhi, Tanay Thyagarajan, Rakshan Readdi, Aman Rao, Arfaz Ahmed, Ashish Srivastav, Bhavesh Seth, Ajay Dev Goud, Nitesh Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Pragnay Reddy, HK Simha, Rishiket Sisodia
Puducherry
TBA
Rajasthan
TBA
Uttarakhand
Prashant Chopra, Bhupen Lalwani, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Dikshanshu Negi, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Rajan Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Agrim Tiwari, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Kunal Chandela, Shashwat Dangwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Rahul Raj, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi.
Vidarbha
Harsh Dubey (c), Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Dhruv Shorey, Akshay Wadkar, Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Yash Thakur (vc), Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Umesh Yadav, Varun Bisht, Adhyayan Daga, Shivam Deshmukh, Yash Kadam, Dipesh Parwani.
Bengal
Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sudip Gharami, Abishek Porel (wk), Shakir Habib Gandhi (wk), Yuvraj Keswani, Priyanshu Srivastav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramanik, Writtick Chatterjee, Karan Lal, Saksham Chaudhary, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Sayan Ghosh, Kanishk Seth, Yudhajit Guha, Shreyan Chakraborty.
Bihar
Sakibul Gani (c), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (vc), Piyush Singh, Bipin Saurabh, Suraj Kashyap, Khalid Alam, Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Nawaz Khan, Malay Raj, Akash Raj, Amod Yadav
Haryana
TBA
Karnataka
Mayank Agarwal (c), Macneil H. Noronha, K.L. Shrijith, Karun Nair, R. Smaran, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, Shikhar Shetty, V. Vyshak, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vidyadhar Patil, Shreevathsa R. Acharya, Shubhang Hegde, Pravin Dubey, B.R. Sharath, Devdutt Padikkal.
Kerala
Sanju Samson (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen, Ahammed Imran, Rohan Kunnummal, Salman Nizar, Vishnu Vinod, Abdul Basith, Ankit Sharma, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Vignesh Puthur, Sibin Gireesh, Krishna Devan, Krishna Prasad, Saly Samson, Akhil Scaria, Sharafuddeen.
Madhya Pradesh
Harpreet Singh, Aniket Verma, Venkatesh Iyer, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen, Ankush Singh, Rahul Batham, Rishabh Chouhan, Harsh Gawli, Abhishek Pathak, Ritik Tada, Shivam Shukla, Shivang Kumar, Tripuresh Singh
Punjab
TBA
Uttar Pradesh
TBA
Assam
Denish Das, Riyan Parag (c), Sibsankar Roy, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Avinov Choudhury, Bhargab Lahkar, Mukhtar Hussain, Mrinmoy Dutta, Saahil Jain, Jitumoni Kalita, Nibir Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Rhot Sen, Akash Sengupta.
Chandigarh
TBA
Chhattisgarh
Amandeep Khare (c), Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Amit Kumar Yadav, Ayush Pandey, Shashank Chandrakar, Gagandeep Singh, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sourabh Majumdar, Mayank Verma, Mayank Yadav, Anand Rao, Ravi Kiran, Prateek Yadav.
Delhi
Nitish Rana (c), Arpit Rana, Priyansh Arya, Sarthak Ranjan, Ayush Badoni, Ayush Doseja, Mayank Rawat, Tejasvi, Anuj Rawat, Yash Dhull, Himmat Singh, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Dagar, Yash Bhatia, Ankit Rajesh Kumar, Harsh Tyagi, Suyash Sharma, Prince Yadav, Money Grewal, Rohan Rana, Dhruv Kaushik, Aryan Rana, Vaibhav Khandpal.
Subject to availability: Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Navdeep Saini.
Jharkhand
Ishan Kishan (c) (wk), Virat Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Robin Minz, Pankaj Kumar, Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Bal Krishna, Sushant Mishra, Amit Kumar, Md Kounain Qureshi, Manishi, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Shubh Sharma, Vikash Singh.
Railways
Karn Sharma (c), Suraj Ahuja, Kush Marathe, Ashutosh Sharma, Atal Bihari Rai, Shubham Chaubey, Shivam Chaudhary, Raj Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akshat Pandey, Akash Pandey, Ravi Singh, Rahul Sharma, Navneet Virk.
Tamil Nadu
Varun Chakaravarthy (c), N. Jagadeesan (vc), Tushar Raheja (WK), Amith Sathvik, Shahrukh Khan, Andre Siddharth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Shivam Singh, R. Sai Kishore, M. Siddharth, T. Natarajan, Gurjapneet Singh, A. Esakkimuthu, Sonu Yadav, R. Silambarasan, Rithik Easwaran (wk).
Saurashtra
Harvik Desai, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Krains Fuletra, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana, Siddhant Rana, Luckyraj Vaghela.
Goa
Suyash Prabhudessai (c), Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Lalit Yadav, Darshal Misal, Felix Alemao, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Kashyap Bakhale, Ishan Gadekar, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Heramb Parab, Mohit Redkar, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Vikash Singh.
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