Ranji Trophy 2022: Full squads, Fixtures & Preview: All you need to know

With big names like Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara in action, India's premier red-ball competition, the Ranji Trophy, 2022 will be played from February 17 onwards.

After a couple of postponements amid a raging COVID-19, the Ranji Trophy, 2022 is finally upon us. While the group stage of the competition will be played before IPL 2022, the knockouts will take place after the T20 League. As such, the tournament will conclude on June 26.

Cuttack, Rajkot, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Trivandrum, Delhi, Haryana, Guwahati and Kolkata are the nine centres set to host the matches of the two-phased tournament.

The pre-quarterfinals will be held from March 12 to 16, after which the teams will break for the IPL.

A total of 38 teams take part in the tournament. The teams have been divided into eight Elite Groups and One Plate Group. Each Elite Group will have four teams while the Plate Group will comprise six teams.

Groups

Elite A: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Meghalaya; Venue: Rajkot

Elite B: Bengal, Baroda, Hyderabad, Chandigarh; Venue: Cuttack

Elite C: Karnataka, Railways, Jammu & Kashmir, Pondicherry; Venue: Chennai

Elite D: Saurashtra, Mumbai, Odisha, Goa; Venue: Ahmedabad

Elite E: Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Services, Uttarakhand; Venue: Trivandrum

Elite F: Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Tripura; Venue: Delhi

Elite G: Vidarbha, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Assam; Venue: Haryana

Elite H: Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Venue: Guwahati

Plate: Bihar, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh; Venue: Kolkata

Squads

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: Striker 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Delhi: Pradeep Sangwan, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Shorey, Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull, Khsitij 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, Shivam Sharma.

TBA

Fixtures

17th February 2022

Gujarat vs Madhya Pradesh

Kerala vs Meghalaya

Bengal vs Baroda

Hyderabad vs Chandigarh

Karnataka vs Railways

J&K vs Pondicherry

Saurashtra vs Mumbai

Odisha vs Goa

Andhra vs Rajasthan

Services vs Uttarakhand

Punjab vs Himachal Pradesh

Haryana vs Tripura

Vidarbha vs Uttar Pradesh

Maharashtra vs Assam

Delhi vs Tamil Nadu

Jharkhand vs Chhattisgarh

Bihar vs Mizoram

Nagaland vs Sikkim

Manipur vs Arunachal Pradesh

24th February 2022

Gujarat vs Kerala

Madhya Pradesh vs Meghalaya 

Bengal vs Hyderabad

Baroda vs Chandigarh

Karnataka vs J&K

Railways vs Pondicherry

Saurashtra vs Odisha

Mumbai vs Goa

Andhra vs Services

Rajasthan vs Uttarakhand

Punjab vs Haryana

Himachal Pradesh vs Tripura 

Vidarbha vs Maharashtra

Uttar Pradesh vs Assam

Delhi vs Jharkhand 

Tamil Nadu vs Chhattisgarh

Bihar vs Sikkim

Nagaland vs Arunachal Pradesh

Manipur vs Mizoram

3rd March 2022

Gujarat vs Meghalaya

Madhya Pradesh vs Kerala

Bengal vs Chandigarh

Baroda vs Hyderabad

Karnataka vs Pondicherry

Railways vs J&K

Saurashtra vs Goa

Mumbai vs Odisha

Andhra vs Uttarakhand

Rajasthan vs Services

Punjab vs Tripura

Himachal Pradesh vs Haryana

Vidarbha vs Assam

Uttar Pradesh vs Maharashtra

Delhi vs Chhattisgarh

Tamil Nadu vs Jharkhand 

Bihar vs Arunachal Pradesh

Nagaland vs Mizoram

Manipur vs Sikkim

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