Kolkata : Duleep Trophy 2025 is scheduled to take place from August 28 to September 11, 2025. It will feature zonal teams like North, South, East, West, Central, and North East Zones, with matches played in Bengaluru.
The competition serves as a vital platform for emerging and established domestic cricket talent as the six zones will battle for supremacy.
As of now only West, East and South Zone have announced their squads.
West Zone, star studded will be captained by all-rounder Shardul Thakur. It includes stalwarts like Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, veteran Shreyas Iyer, CSK captain Ruturaj Gaikwad, domestic stars Sarfaraz Khan, Tanush Kotian, Shams Mulani, Tushar Deshpande, Dharmendra Jadeja. However, veterans like Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara are excluded.
East Zone captained by star wicket keeper of Jharkhand Ishan Kishan and includes stars from Bengal Cricket like Abhimanyu Easwaran, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Jaiswal. Riyan Parag, the Assam captain is also in the squad.
South Zone will be captained by Tilak Varma and includes domestic stars like Sai Kishore, Devdutt Padikkal, Narayan Jagadeesan.
Duleep Trophy 2025 squads :
West Zone squad
Shardul Thakur (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Aarya Desai, Harvik Desai, Shreyas Iyer, Sarfaraz Khan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Jaymeet Patel, Manan Hingrajia, Saurabh Nawale, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Dharmendra Jadeja, Tushar Deshpande, Arzan Nagwaswala
East Zone Squad
Ishan Kishan (c) & (wk), Abhimanyu Easwaran (vc), Sandeep Pattnaik, Virat Singh, Denish Das, Sridam Paul, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra (WK), Riyan Parag, Utkarsh Singh, Manishi, Suraj Jaiswal, Mukesh Kumar, Akash Deep, Mohammed Shami
Stand-by: Mukhtar Hussain, Aasirwad Swain, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Swastik Samal, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Rahul Singh
South Zone Squad
Tilak Varma (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohit Kale, Salman Nizar, Narayan Jagadeesan, T. Vijay, R. Sai Kishore, Tanay Thyagarajan, Vyshak Vijaykumar, MD Nidheesh, Ricky Bhui, Basil NP, Gurjapneet Singh, Snehal Kauthankar.
Stand-by: Mohit Redkar, R. Smaran, Ankit Sharma, Eden Apple Tom, Andre Siddarth, Shaikh Rasheed.
