How to watch Ranji Trophy 2026/27: TV channel & live stream

The Ranji Trophy 2026/27 begins on October 11, with multiple teams facing each other in their respective groups as India’s prestigious event sees many players, both young and veteran, compete in red-ball cricket. The 2026/27 season, running from October 11, 2026, to March 03, 2027, will be a treat to watch.

The Elite competition has 32 teams across four groups, and the Plate Competition will have six teams. The games of both divisions will begin on the same day. The two phases of the event are divided from October 11, 2026 to November 05, 2026 and from January 17 to February 04, 2027.

Ranji Trophy 2026/27 dates, groups and squads: season starts October 11 with 32 Elite teams in four groups

Jammu and Kashmir enter the Elite League stage of the competition as the defending champions after winning their maiden title in the 2025/26 season under Paras Dogra. Bihar earned the Plate League title last season and earned promotion to the Elite League.

The teams are divided into four groups, which are-

Elite Group A- Baroda, Bihar, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha

Elite Group B- Andhra, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Punjab, Saurashtra, Tripura

Elite Group C- Bengal, Delhi, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Services

Elite Group D- Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Mumbai, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand

Plate Group- Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim.

Here are all the squads of the tournament-

Arunachal Pradesh- Denish Das (c), Sibsankar Roy, Rajveer Singh, Nibir Deka, Rishav Das, Swarupam Purkayastha, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Anurag Talukdar, Mohit Thakur, Amlanjyoti Das, Mukhtar Hussain, Sunil Lachit, Dipjyoti Saikia, Roshan Alam, Bishal Newar.

Bengal- Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sudip Gharami (vc), Sudip Chatterjee, Ankur Paul, Ankit Shukla, Abishek Porel, Shakir Gandhi, Subham Chatterjee, Sumanta Gupta, Mohammad Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Pradipta Pramanik, Aamir Gani, Md. Kaif, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Soummyadip Mondal

Bihar: Sakibul Gani (c), Himanshu Singh (vc), Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Naman Gaurav, Piyush Singh, Bipin Kumar Saurabh (wk), Shraman Nigrodh (wk), Akash Raj, Prithvi Raj, Khalid Alam, Suraj Kumar Kashyap, Sakib Hussain, Mohammad Izhar, Shabbir Khan, Raghvendra Singh, Amod Yadav.

Chandigarh: Manan Vohra (c), Shivam Bhambri (vc), Anirudh Kanwar, Arjit Singh, Arjun Azad, Arslan Khan, Jagjit Singh Sandhu, Karthik Sandil, Nehal Pajni, Nishunk Birla, Raj Angad Bawa, Rohit Dhanda, Dipender Kush, Akshit Rana, Vishu Kashyap.

Chhattisgarh: Anuj Tiwari (c), Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Dev Aditya Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jayant Yadav, Mayank Verma, Mohammad Sohail, Prateek Yadav, Rahul Pradhan, Rudra Pratap Dehari, Sandeep Warrier, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sanjeet Desai, Sourabh Majumdar, Vasudev Bareth, Vikalp Tiwari.

Delhi: Ayush Badoni (c), Yash Dhull (vc), Anuj Rawat (wk), Sanat Sangwan, Ayush Doseja, Dev Lakra, Hritik Shokeen, Divij Mehra, Money Grewal, Simarjeet Singh, Navdeep Saini, Pranav Rajvanshi (wk), Sarthak Ranjan, Tejasvi, Dhruv Kaushik, Sumit Mathur.

Hyderabad- Mohammed Siraj (c), CV Milind (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, M Abhirath Reddy, G Rahul Singh, K Himateja, Rahul Radesh (wk), M Sai Pragnay Reddy (wk), A Varun Goud, Tanay Thyagarajan, G Aniketh Reddy, CTL Rakshann Readdi, Ajay Dev Goud, Mende Ruthik Yadav, P Sai Vikas Reddy.

Karnataka Ranji Trophy squad: Smaran Ravichandran (c), Mayank Agarwal, KL Rahul, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karun Nair, Aneesh KV, Shreyas Gopal, Krutik Krishna (wk), Shrikhar Shetty, Prasidh Krishna, Abhilash Shetty, Manvanth Kumar, LR Kumar, Ritesh Bhatkal, KL Shrijith (wk).

Kerala Ranji Trophy squad: Vishnu Vinod (c, wk), Rohan S Kunnummal, Abhishek J Nair, Abhishek P Nair, Sachin Baby, Ahammed Imran, Mohammed Azharuddeen (wk), Salman Nizar, Varun Nayanar (wk), Jalaj Saxena, Vaisakh Chandran, Aditya Anand Sarwate, Anuraj JS, Abhijith Praveen V, Nidheesh MD, Eden Apple Tom, Pavan Raj, Basil NP.

Madhya Pradesh Ranji Trophy squad: Shubham Sharma (c), Harsh Gawli (wk), Himanshu Mantri (wk), Yash Dubey, Chanchal Rathore, Himanshu Shinde, Atharva Mahajan, Saransh Jain, Kumar Karthikeya, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Anubhav Agarwal, Roshan Kewat, Akshay Sharma, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Ravi Kiran.

Maharashtra Ranji Trophy squad: Prithvi Shaw (c), Sachin Dhas, Digvijay Patil, Ankeet Bawane, Harshal Kate, Siddhesh Veer, Saurabh Navale (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Tanay Sanghvi, Vaibhav Darkunde, Hitesh Walunj, Rishikesh Sonawane, Atharva Dharmadhikari.

Mizoram Ranji Trophy squad: Joseph Lalthankhuma (c), Jehu Anderson (vc), Bobby Zothansanga, K Vanrotlinga, Lalhruaizela, Lalrempuia, Nasib Rai, R Lalnuntluanga, Remruatdika Ralte, Sahil Reza, Sahil Sharma, Vikash Kumar, Kuldip Yadav, Manendra Singh, Chinmay Sutar.

Mumbai Ranji Trophy squad: Siddhesh Lad (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ayush Mhatre (vc), Divyaansh Saxena, Musheer Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parkar, Aakash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Atharva Ankolekar, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Avasthi, Sylvester Dsouza, Onkar Tarmale.

Nagaland Ranji Trophy squad: Hokaito Zhimomi (c), Jonathan Rongsen (vc), Sedezhalie Rupreo, Imliwati Lemtur, Hem Bahadur Chetri, Joshua Ben Ozukum, Chetan Bisht, Anil Gupta, Yugandhar Singh, Neizekho Rupreo, Odilemba Kichu, Nagaho Chishi, Hopongkyu Sangtam, Saurav Kumar, Vino G Zhimomi, Aloto Sumi.

Odisha Ranji Trophy squad: Swastik Samal, Subhranshu Senapati (c), Om T Munde, Gourav Choudhary, Shreyansh Bhardwaj, Sandeep Pattnaik, Shantanu Mishra, Aashirwad Swain (wk), Dinesh Majhi (wk), Ninad Rathva, Lalit Yadav, Rajesh Mohanty, Prashant Rana, Soumya Lenka, Sambit Beja, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad, Badal Biswal.

Rajasthan Ranji Trophy squad: Manav Suthar (c), Mahipal Lomror (vc), Rohan Rajbar, Sachin Yadav, Sumit Godara, Kartik Sharma, Karan Lamba, Anshul Gadhwal, Mukul Choudhary (wk), Ajay Kookna, Aakash Singh, Chetan Sharma, Hemant Choudhary, Danish Bhamboo, Darshan Jain (wk).

Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy squad: R Sai Kishore (c), G Ajitesh, S Ajith Ram, C Andre Siddarth (vc), SR Athish, D Deepesh, G Govinth, J Hemchudeshan, B Indrajith, N Jagadeesan, S Nidhish Rajagopal, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, RD Pranav Ragavendra, P Saravana Kumar, R Sonu Yadav, R Vimal Khumar.

Tripura Ranji Trophy squad: Bikram Kumar Das, Hrituraj Ghosh Roy, Subham Sutradhar, Sridam Paul, Arindam Barman, Rajat Dey, Hanuma Vihari, Mandeep Singh, Mani Sankar Mura Singh (c), Bikram Debnath, Swapnil Singh, Abhijit Sarkar (vc), Ajay Sarkar, Sentu Sarkar (wk), Arkaprabha Sinha (wk), Sandip Sarkar, Parvez Sultan, Amit Ali.

Uttar Pradesh Ranji Trophy squad: Aryan Juyal (c, wk), Rinku Singh, Abhishek Goswami, Aradhya Yadav, Karan Sharma, Madhav Kaushik, Aditya Sharma, Siddharth Yadav, Prashant Veer, Kartik Yadav, Zeeshan Ansari, Vansh Choudhary, Yash Dayal, Priyam Garg, Abhinandan Singh, Kartik Tyagi

Vidarbha Ranji Trophy squad: Akshay Wadkar (c, wk), Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod (vc), Danish Malewar, Atharva Taide, Satyam Bhoyar, Yash Kadam, Harsh Dubey, Parth Rekhade, Ganesh Bhosale, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Nachiket Bhute, Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Rajneesh Gurbani, Dhruv Shorey, R Samarth.

Punjab- Harnoor Pannu, Vihaan Malhotra, Anshul Chaudhary, Uday Saharan (c), Jashanpreet Sidhu, Salil Arora, Ramandeep Singh, Anmol Malhotra, Harpreet Brar, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Harjas Tandon, Gurnoor Brar, Umesh Yadav, Gursimran Singh, Sanvir Singh and Sehaj Dhawan.

Saurashtra- Jaydev Unadkat (c), Ravindra Jadeja, Harvik Desai, Arpit Vasavada, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Jay Gohil, Chetan Sakariya, Ankur Panwar, Sammar Gajjar, Parth Bhut, Visvarajsinh Jadeja, Hetvik Kotak, Neel Pandya, Arth Yadav, Tarang Gohel

Live streaming and TV channels: Where to watch Ranji Trophy 2026/27 matches in India

In the current JioStar setup, Viacom18 holds the television and digital rights for the BCCI domestic games. JioHotstar is the main digital streaming platform, while a few selected games will be shown on the Star Sports Network. The match-specific fixtures and the TV details should be checked before every round.

The BCCI has been planning to expand the domestic coverage, but the match-by-match streaming availability can still differ. The knockout games receive wider coverage than the league stage clashes of the tournament.

The Quarter-finals will be on February 09, 2027, while the semifinals will be on February 18, 2027. The final will take place from February 27 to March 03, 2027. All the games will begin at 9:30 am IST.