Buchi Babu Trophy 2025: Live streaming details, Full schedule and squads information

The Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) will conduct the All India Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025 from August 18 to September 9. The event was first held in the season of 1909/10 and is named for Mothavarapu Venkata Mahipathi Naidu who was recognised as the father of cricket in Tamil Nadu. After a 12 year break, the tournament returned last year.

This year will see 14 teams competing along with two teams that are selected by the TNCA, called President's XI and TNCA XI. The matches will be played at different venues in Chennai, and the champions will receive ₹3 lakh prize money while the runners up will receive ₹2 lakh.

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Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025 Format

• The competition will see 16 teams divided into four groups of four. Each side will face the other three teams in their group once.
• League-stage matches will span three days. In the first innings, each team will have 90 overs, while the second innings will be restricted to 45 overs per side.
• Knockout fixtures will be four-day contests, with each innings consisting of 90 overs. The winner of each group will progress to the semifinals.

Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025: Live Streaming Details

All matches of the All India Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025 will be streamed live on the official TNCA YouTube channel.

Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025 Groups

Group A: TNCA President’s XI, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra
Group B: Railways, Jammu & Kashmir, Baroda, Odisha
Group C: TNCA XI, Mumbai, Haryana, Bengal
Group D: Hyderabad, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand

Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025 Schedule

Round 1 (August 18 to 20)

• TNCA President’s XI vs HPCA – Gojan College A Ground

• TNCA XI vs Mumbai – Gojan College B Ground

• Chhattisgarh vs Maharashtra – Gurunanak College

• Jammu & Kashmir vs Indian Railways – MRF-Pachiyappa’s

• Odisha vs Baroda – CPT IP

• Haryana vs Bengal – AM Jain College

• MPCA vs Jharkhand – SRM College

• Hyderabad vs Punjab – Murugappa Ground

Round 2 (August 22 to 24)

• TNCA XI vs Haryana – Gojan College A Ground

• TNCA President’s XI vs Maharashtra – Gojan College B Ground

• Hyderabad vs Jharkhand – Gurunanak College

• Punjab vs MPCA – MRF-Pachiyappa’s

• Chhattisgarh vs HPCA – SSN College

• Jammu & Kashmir vs Baroda – Murugappa Ground

• Mumbai vs Bengal – IIT Madras

• Indian Railways vs Odisha – SRM College

Round 3 (August 26 to 28)

• TNCA President’s XI vs Chhattisgarh – Gojan College A Ground

• TNCA XI vs Bengal – Gojan College B Ground

• Mumbai vs Haryana – MRF-Pachiyappa’s

• Indian Railways vs Baroda – Gurunanak College

• Hyderabad vs MPCA – AM Jain College

• Punjab vs Jharkhand – CPT IP

• Jammu & Kashmir vs Odisha – SSN College

• Maharashtra vs HPCA – Murugappa Ground

Semifinals (August 31 to September 3)

• Winner Group A vs Winner Group B

• Winner Group C vs Winner Group D

Final (September 6 to 9)

• Venues for the knockout stages will be announced later.

Buchi Babu Invitational Cricket Tournament 2025 Squads

Maharashtra: Ankit Bawane (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Prithvi Shaw, Siddhesh Veer, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Harshal Kate, Siddharth Mhatre, Saurabh Nawale (wk), Mandar Bhandari (wk), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Vicky Ostwal, Hitesh Walunj, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar

Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre (c), Musheer Khan, Divyansh Saxena, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parker (vc), Pragnesh Kanpillewar, Harsh Aghav, Sairaj Patil, Aakash Parkar, Aakash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shreyas Gurav, Yash Dicholkar, Himanshu Singh, Roystan Dias, Sylvester D’souza, Irfan Umair

TNCA President’s XI: Pradosh Ranjan Paul (c), C. Andre Siddarth (vc), B. Indrajith, Vijay Shankar, R. Vimal Khumar, S. Radhakrishnan, S. Lokeshwar, G. Ajitesh, J. Hemchudeshan, R.S. Ambrish, C.V. Achyuth, H. Trilok Nag, P. Saravana Kumar, P. Vidyuth, K. Abhinav

TNCA XI: M. Shahrukh Khan (c), Boopathi Vaishna Kumar (vc), B. Sachin, M. Siddharth, Tushar Raheja, Kiran Karthikeyan, S. Mohamed Ali, S. Rithik Easwaran, S.R. Athish, S. Lakshay Jain, D.T. Chandrasekar, P. Vignesh, R. Sonu Yadav, D. Deepesh, J. Prem Kumar, A. Esakkimuthu, T.D. Lokesh Raj

Jammu & Kashmir: Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Paras Dogra, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Musaif Ajaz, Kawalpreet Singh, Shivansh Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, Dikshant Kundal, Umran Malik, Umar Nazir, Rohit Sharma, Vanshaj Sharma, Sunil Kumar, Sahil Lotra

Bengal: Sudip Gharami, Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel, Sumanta Gupta, Aditya Purohit, Saurabh Singh, Chinmoy Singh, Vishal Bhati, Aishik Patel, Karanlal, Vikash Singh (Jr), Aamir Gani, Rahul Prasad, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Ishan Porel, Yudhajit Guha, Nuruddin Mondal, Kanishk Seth, Sumit Mohanta, Subham Sarkar