“While the first two rounds will be held at the Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, we decided to shift the final to the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, so that general spectators can come and watch the top players in action,” BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia told SportsStar
All the matches of the Duleep Trophy are set to be streamed live on JioHotstar & Star Sports aswell.
Squad: Tilak Varma (Captain), Ricky Bhui (Vice-Captain), Abhinav Tejrana, SK Rasheed, K Himateja, R Smaran, N Jagadeesan, Karun Nair, T Thyagarajan, Shreyas Gopal, K Sai Teja, T Vijay, av Kaverappa, Aman Khan
Standbyes: CV Milind, K Kannan, Vyashak VijayKumar, Sai Kishore, Vishnu Vinod & Andre Siddharth.
Central Zone squad for Duleep Trophy: Rajat Patidar (captain), Rinku Singh (vice-captain), Aryan Juyal (wicketkeeper), Saransh Jain, Aman Mokhade, Kunal Chandela, Zeeshan Ansari, Aryan Pandey, Arshad Khan, Ayush Pandey, Yash Rathod, Harsh Dubey, Kunal Singh Rathod (wk), Yash Thakur and Nachiket Bhute.
Stand-by players: Amandeep Khare, Mayank Mishra, Saurabh Rawat, Bhargav Merai, Kunal Yadav and Kumar Kartikeya
East Zone squad: Ishan Kishan (captain), Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Shahbaz Ahmed, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Kumar Kushagra, Shikhar Mohan, Anukul Roy, Virat Singh, Subhranshu Senapati, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (vice-captain), Denish Das, Abhijit Sarkar.
Stand-bys: Ayush Loharuka, Sridam Paul, Sambit S. Baral, Sharandeep Singh, Swastik Samal
Chhattisgarh have also appointed former India batter Amay Khurasiya as head coach and the camp in Alur is under his supervision. Khurasyia had previously coached Kerala to the Ranji final in 2024-25, where they lost to Vidarbha.
West Zone squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Shams Mulani (vice-captain), Harvik Desai (wk), Urvil Patel (wk), Jaymeet Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Shivalik Sharma, Siddharth Desai, Sarfaraz Khan, Musheer Khan, Atit Sheth, Mukesh Chaudhary, Tanush Kotian, Shardul Thakur, and Tushar Deshpande.
Reserve players: Jay Gohil, Aarya Desai, Arshin Kulkarni, Mahesh Pithiya, Vishal Jayswal, and Rajvardhan Hangargekar.