Ranji Trophy 2021-22: Complete squad of all teams, where to watch the matches

The 2021-22 Ranji Trophy is underway from Thursday after some uncertainty due to the challenges of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, the opening phase of the tournament begins, we take a look at the complete squad of all the teams participating in it. Also, check out where and how you can watch the matches.

As usual, 38 teams will be competing in the Ranji Trophy. After the first phase, the competition will go on a break due to the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, which is likely to start on March 27. Nevertheless, the final is scheduled to take place from June 26. The opening phase will consist of the league stage and a pre-quarters tie.

The first phase schedule is from February 17 to 20, February 24 to 27, and March 3 to 6. The second phase is likely to begin from May 30. The teams have been divided into eight Elite Groups and a Plate Group. Matches will be held across Rajkot, Cuttack, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Thumba, Delhi, Rohtak, Gurugram, Sultanpur and Guwahati, while the Plate matches will be conducted in Kolkata. The knockout venues will be decided later. Selected matches will be aired on Star Sports and streamed LIVE on Hotstar.

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Delhi
Pradeep Sangwan (c), Nitish Rana, Dhruv Shorey, Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull, Kshitij Sharma, Jonty Sidhu, Himmat Singh, Lalit Yadav, Anuj Rawat (wk), Lakshay Thareja (wk), Navdeep Saini, Simarjit Singh, Mayank Yadav, Kuldeep Yadav, Vikas Mishra, Shivang Vashist and Shivam Sharma.

Saurashtra
Jaydev Unadkat (c), Cheteshwar Pujara, Sheldon Jackson, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Kamlesh Makwana, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Prerak Mankad, Vishvarajsinh Jadeja, Harvik Desai, Kevin Jivrajani, Kushang Patel, Jay Chauhan, Samarth Vyas, Parthkumar Bhut, Yuvrajsinh Chudasama, Devang Karamta, Snell Patel, Kishan Parmar and Aditya Jadeja.

Mumbai
Prithvi Shaw (c), Aman Hakim Khan, Armaan Jaffer, Shashank Attarde, Mohit Avasthi, Royston Dias, Shivam Dube, Aakarshit Gomel, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sarfaraz Khan, Tanush Kotian, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shams Mulani, Siddharth Raut, Prashant Solanki, Hardik Tamore, Aditya Tare and Arjun Tendulkar.

Tamil Nadu
Vijay Shankar (c), Washington Sundar (vc), Baba Aparajith, Aswin Crist, Kaushik Gandhi, Ganga Sridhar Raju, Baba Indrajith, Narayan Jagadeesan, R Kavin, M Mohammed, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Sai Sudharsan, Sandeep Warrier, P Saravana Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Ragupathy Silambarasan, Laxmesha Suryaprakash and Lakshminarayanan Vignesh.

Uttar Pradesh
Kuldeep Yadav (c), Almas Shaukat, Rishabh Bansal, Priyam Garg, Hardeep Singh, Jasmer Dhankhar, Dhruv Jurel, Aryan Juyal, Madhav Kaushik, Parth Mishra, Akshdeep Nath, Ankit Rajpoot, Shanu Saini, Samarth Singh, Sameer Choudhary, Karan Sharma, Shivam Mavi, Shivam Sharma, Rinku Singh, Yash Dayal and Zeeshan Ansari.

Mizoram
Taruwar Kohli (c), Bobby Zothansanga (vc), Abhay, Iqbal Abdulla, Uday Kaul, Lalmangaiha, Lalhruaizela, Reuben Lalhruaizela, B Lalnunfela, Lalnunkima Varte, Michael Lalremkima, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Parvez Ahmed, Rosiamliana Ralte, Remruatdika Ralte, Sumit Lama, Andrew Vanlalhruaia, K Vanlalruata and Vikash Kumar.

Vidarbha
Faiz Fazal (c), Akshay Wadkar (vc), Ganesh Bhosle, Ganesh Satish, Praful Hinge, Mohit Kale, Akshay Karnewar, Lalit Yadav, Siddhesh Neral, Yash Rathod, Sanjay Raghunath, Aditya Sarwate, Atharva Taide, Aditya Thakare, Akshay Wakhare, Apoorv Wankhade, Siddhesh Wath and Yash Thakur.

Sikkim
Akash Luitel, Ankur Malik, Nitesh Gupta, Codanda Ajit Karthik, Kranthi Kumar, Nilesh Lamichaney, Lee Yong Lepcha, Liyan Khan, Rajiv Malay, Md Saptulla, Nasun Tamang, Rahul Tamang, Pankaj Kumar Rawat, Anwesh Sharma, Sumit Singh, Chitiz Tamang, Palzor Tamang and Ashish Thapa.

Andhra Pradesh
Srikar Bharat (c), S Ashish, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Ricky Bhui, Uppara Girinath, Girinath Reddy, CR Gnaneshwar, Karan Shinde, Maheep Kumar, Manish Golamaru, Mohammad Rafi, Naren Reddy, Prithvi Raj, Yash Sandeep, KV Sasikanth, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Pinninti Tapaswi, Thanneru Vamsi Krishna, Ahitesh Varma and Tripurana Vijay.

Bengal
Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Abishek Porel, Akash Deep, Writtick Chatterjee, Sudip Chatterjee, Nilkantha Das, Abhishek Das, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Habib Gandhi, Karan Lal, Anustup Majumdar, Sayan Mondal, Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Porel, Pradipta Pramanik, Geet Puri, Abhishek Raman, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Kazi Saifi, Shahbaz Ahmed and Manoj Tiwary.

Gujarat
Bhargav Merai (c), Het Patel (vc), Rujul Bhatt, Saurav Chauhan, Piyush Chawla, Siddharth Desai, Chintan Gaja, Manan Hingrajia, Manprit Juneja, Roosh Kalaria, Umang Kumar, Jayveer Parmar, Kathan Patel, Tejas Patel, Karan Patel, Priyesh Patel, Abhinav Tandel and Parth Vaghani.

Baroda
Kedar Dhevdhar, Vishnu Solanki, Pratyush Kumar, Shivalik Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Abhimanyusingh Rajput, Dhruv Patel, Mitesh Patel, Lukman Meriwala, Babasafikhan Pathan (wk), Atit Sheth, Bhargav Bhatt, Parth Kohli, Shashwat Rawat, Soyeb Sopariya, Kartik Kakade, Gurjindersingh Mann, Jyotsnil Singh, Ninad Rathwa and Akshay More.

Kerala
Sachin Baby (c), Vishnu Vinod (wk), Anand Krishnan, Rohan Kunnumel Vatsal Govind, Rahul P, Salman Nizar, Sanju Samson, Jalaj Saxena, Sijo Mon Joseph, Akshay KC, Mithun, Basil NP, Nideesh M D, Manu Krishnan, Basil Thampi Fanoos F, S Sreesanth, Akshay Chandran, Varun Nayanar K), Anand Jospeh Vinoop Manoharan, Arun M and Vaishak Chandran.

Karanataka
Manish Pandey (c), Samarth, Mayank, Karun Nair, Padikkal, Siddharth KV, Nischal, Aneeshwar Gautam, Shubhang, Gowtham, Gopal, Suchith, Cariappa, Sharath Srinivas, Sharath BR, Prasidh Krishna, Ronit Mor, Venkatesh M, Vyshak and Vidyadhar Patil.

Maharashtra
Ankit Bawne (c), Rahul Tripathi (vc), Yash Nahar, Pavan Shah, Naushad Shaikh, Azim Kazi, Vishant More (wk), Satyajeet Bachhav, Avdhoot Dandekar (wicket-keeper), Taranjitsingh Dhillon, Mukesh Choudhary, Ashay Palkar, Pradeep Dadhe, Divyang Hinganekar, Yash Kshirsagar, Vishal Gite, Nikit Dhumal, Siddhesh Veer, Manoj Ingale, Vicky Ostwal and Kaushal Tambe.

Haryana
Ankit Kumar, Himanshu Rana, Shubham Rohilla, Rohit Parmod Sharma, Nitesh Hooda, Nishant Sindhu, Sumit Kumar, Dinesh Bana, Kapil Hooda, Ashok Sandhu, Ravi Balhara,  Ajit Chahal, Anshul Kamboj, Amit Rana, Shivam Chauhan and Jayant Yadav.

Jharkhand
Saurabh Tiwary (c), Virat Singh, Kumar Deobrat, Kumar Suraj, Anukul Roy,  Kumar Kushagra, Nazim Siddiqui, Ashish Kumar, Manishi, Sushant Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Utkarsh Singh, Bal Krishna, Pankaj Kishor Kumar, Sahil Raj and Vikash Vishal.

Puducherry
Gonnabattula Chiranjeevi, Damodaren Rohit, Paras Dogra, Pavan Deshpande, Madhavan Manohar, A Aravinddaraj, Suboth Bhati, Fabid Ahmed, Gurvinder Singh, Neyan Shyam Kangayan, Astish Rajiv, Sagar Trivedi, Sagar Udeshi. Arvind Kothandapani, Karthikeyan Jayasundaram, Premraj Rajavelu, R Ragupathy, Raghu Sharma and Vengadeshwaran.

Bihar
Babul Kumar, Mangal Mahrour, Yashasvi Rishav, Ashutosh Aman, Bipin Saurabh, Nikhil Anand, Lakhan Raja, Pratyush Singh, Sachin Kumar, Abhijeet Saket, Sakibul Gani, Rishav Raj, Malay Raj and Harsh Singh.

Goa
Snehal Suhas Kauthankar (c), Sumiran Amonkar, Amogh Sunil Desai, Prathamesh Gawas, Aditya Kaushik, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Shubham Ranjane, Amit Yadav, Shrikant Wagh, Samar Shravan Dubhashi, Eknath Kerkar, Felix Alemao, Harshad Hanumant Gadekar, Lakshay Garg, Amulya Pandrekar, Vishambar Kahlon, Heramb Parab, Vijesh Prabhudessai and Malliksab Sirur.

Himachal Pradesh
Nikhil Gangta, Ankit Kalsi, Praveen Thakur, Ekant Sen, Nitin Sharma, Abhimanyu Rana, Rishi Dhawan, Pankaj Jaiswal, Raghav Dhawan, Ankush Bains, Prashant Chopra, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Vinay Guletiya, Arpit Guleria, Gurvinder Singh, Akash Vashisht, Shubham Arora and Sidharth Sharma.

Manipur
Samson Singh, Sheiteendra Singh, Kishan Thokchom, Nirisingh Yadav, Kishan Singha, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Nitesh Sedai, Ajay Lamabam Singh, Rex Singh, Sultan Karim, Al Bashid Muhammed, Johnson Singh, Langlonyamba Keishangbam, Thomas Moirangthem, Prafullomani Singh, Bonny Chingangbam, Bimol Singh, Kangabam Priyojit Singh and Thokchom Santosh.

Nagaland
Rongsen Jonathan, Mungkham Phom, Sedezhalie Rupero, Hokaito Zhimomi, Imliwati Lemtur, Shrikant Mundhe, Chetan Bist, Temjentoshi Jamir, Abu Nechim, Tahmeed Rahman, Chopise Hopongkyu, Khrievitso Kense, Nzanthung Mozhui and Magaho Chisthi.

Chattisgarh
Harpreet Singh Bhatia (c), Ashutosh Singh, Akhil Herwadkar, Amandeep Khare, Shashank Singh, Anuj Tiwary, Shubham Agarwal, Lavin Coster, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Pankaj Kumar Rao, Veer Pratap Singh, Ravi Kiran, Sumit Rulkar, Shakeeb Ahmed, Sanjeet Desai, Sanindhya Hurkat, Sourabh Majumdar, Shahbaz Hussain and Vishvas Malik.

Hyderabad
Tanmay Agarwal (c), Tilak Varma, Alankrit Agarwal, Jaweed Ali, Kartikeya Kak, Akshath Reddy, Rohit Rayudu, Chandan Sahani, Adul Ela Ali Quraisi, Rahul Buddhi, Hanuma Vihari, Tanay Thyagarajan, Prateek Reddy, Himalay Agarwal, Mehdi Hassan, Mickil Jaiswal, Chama V Milind, Chinntla Rakshann Readdi, Telukupalli Ravi Teja and PS Chaitanya Reddy.

Punjab
Abhijeet Garg, Anmolpreet Singh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Jiwanjot Singh, Anmol Malhotra, Mandeep Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Gurnoor Brar, Sanvir Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Baltej Singh Dhanda, Prabhsinran Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Vinay Choudhary, Prerit Dutta, Siddharth Kaul, Mayank Markande and Ashwani Kumar.

Assam
Pallavkumar Das, Rishav Das, Riyan Parag, Gokul Sharma, Swarupam Purkayastha, Kunal Saikai (c), Hrishikesh Tamuli, Roshan Alam, Pritam Das, Denish Das, Arup Das, Amlanjyoti Paresh Das, Saahil Jain, Ranjit Mali, Subham Mandal, Mukhtar Hussain and Sidharth Sarmah.

Chandigarh
Manan Vohra (c), Arslan Khan, Shivam Bhambri, Harnoor Singh, Sarul Kanwar, Ankit Kaushik, Gurinder Singh, Arjit Pannu, Jaskaranvir Singh, Raj Bawa, Yuvraj Choudhary, Shresth Nirmohi, Aman Bharti, Gaurav Gambhir, Gaurav Puri, Jagjit Singh and Amrit Lubana.

Odisha
Subhranshu Senapati (c), Sandeep Pattnaik, Shantanu Mishra, Govinda Poddar, Debabrata Pradhan, Ashish Rai, Abhishek Raut, Anurag Sarangi, Basant Mohanty, Anshuman Rath, Rajesh Dhuper, Sujit Lenka, Jayanta Behera, Subham Nayak, Pappu Roy, Rajesh Mohanty, Rakesh Pattnaik, Debasis Samantray and Tarani Sa.

Services
Anshul Gupta, Devender Lohchab, Mumtaz Qadir, Ravi Chauhan, Shubham Rohilla, Hardik Rajeev Sethi, Shamsher Yadav, Vikash Yadav, Irfan Khan, Rajat Paliwal, Mohit Ahlawat, Arun Bamal, Koteshwar Rao, Pulkit Narang, Sachidanand Pandey, Diwesh Pathania, Poonam Poonia, Arjun Sharma, Nitin Yadav, Sagar Sharma, Shivam Tiwari, Rahul Singh and Rahul Singh.

Uttarakhand
Jay Bista (c), Dikshanshu Negi, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Robin Bist, Kunal Chandela, Deepak Dhopala, Kamal Singh, Nikhil Kohli, Akash Madhwal, Mayank Mishra, Deepesh Nainwal, Dipankar Ramola, Saurabh Rawat, Arya Sethi, Shivam Khurana, Swapnil Singh, Tanush Gusain and Agrim Tiwari.

Jammu & Kashmir
Ian Dev Singh (c), Abdul Samad, Abid Mushtaq, Auqib Nabi, Akash Choudhary, Ram Dayal, Fazil Rashid, Henan Nazir, Mujtaba Yousuf, Parvez Rasool, Shubham Pundir, Qamran Iqbal, Suryansh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Sahil Lotra, Shivansh Sharma, Taizeem Tak, Umar Nazir Mir, Umran Malik, Jatin Wadhwan and Yudhvir Singh.

Rajasthan
Ashok Menaria (c), Mahipal Lomror, Khaleel Ahmed, Anirudh Singh, Anirudh Singh, Rajesh Bishnoi, Aniket Choudhary, Chandrapal Singh, Aditya Garhwal, Deepak Hooda, Mohit Jain, Deepak Karwasara, Yash Kothari, Abhimanyu Lamba, Menender Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Samarpit Joshi, Shubham Sharma, Rituraj Singh, Manav Suthar and Tanverr Ul-Haq.

Madhya Pradesh
Aditya Shrivastava (c), Rajat Patidar, Anubhav Agarwal, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Arshad Khan, Puneet Datey, Yash Dubey, Gaurav Yadav, Mihir Hirwani, Saransh Jain, Kumar Kartikeya, Himanshu Mantri, Ishwar Pandey, Rameez Khan, Ajay Rohera, Parth Sahani, Kuldeep Sen, Shumham Sharma, Rakesh Thakur, Prithviraj Singh Tomar, Avesh Khan and Venkatesh Iyer.

Tripura
KB Pawan (c), Rajat Dey, Amit Ali, Saurabh Das, Bikramkumar Das, Dipayan Debbarma, Subham Ghosh, Bishal Ghosh, Samit Gohel, Sanjay Majumdar, Manisankar Murasingh, Chiranjit Paul, Sankar Paul, Rana Dutta, Ajoy Sarkar, Nirupam Sen, Nirupam Sen Choudhary, Rahil Shah, Samrat Singha and Ashsih Yadav.

Railways
Avinash Yadav (c), Shubham Choubey, Shivam Chaudhary, Mrunal Devdhar, Arindam Ghosh, Amit Mishra, Mohammad Saif, Akshat Pandey, Akash Pandey, Pratham Singh, Vikrant Rajput, Ananta Saha, Himanshu Sangwan, Saurabh Singh, Karn Sharma, Karan Thakur, Vivek Singh, Upendra Yadav and Yuvraj Singh.

Arunachal Pradesh
Neelam Obi (c), Suraj Tayam, Rajesh Bishnoi, Techi Doria, Indiya Toku, Techi Kagung, Rakesh Kumar, Techi Neri, Kumar Nyompu, Momar Ori, Manvan Patel, Akhilesh Sahani, Nazeeb Saiyed, Song Tacho, Nabam Tatang, Licha Tehi, Yab Niya and Kamsha Yangfo.

Meghalaya
Punit Bisht, Aryan Bora, Anish Charak, Akash Choudhary, Nicky Dann, Ram Gurung, Himan Phukan, Chirag Khurana, Kishan Lyngdoh, Shaisngi Lyngdoh, Purajit Mandal, Kilco Marak, Morningstar Khongwir, Wanlambok Nongkhlaw, Wellmanson Passah, Prolin Phanjom, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Dippu Sangma, Tengchan Sangma, Chengkam Sangma, Pringsang Sangma, Larry Sangma, Bamanbha Shangpliang and Nafees Siddique.