Ranji Trophy 2016-17: Squads

The 2016-17 edition of Ranji Trophy is set to begin in a couple of days’ time as the defending champions Mumbai look to win their record 42^nd title. This season’s Ranji Trophy will be challenging as all the matches will be played at neutral venues.

Chattisgarh will be making their Ranji Trophy debut this season as the Mohammad Kaif-led team is set to make an appearance in the tournament for the first time. With the tournament fast approaching, the teams are sweating out in order to taste success.

On paper, Karnataka, Mumbai, Baroda and Uttar Pradesh look strong while Tamil Nadu go into the tournament as the dark horses. Let us take a look at the squad of all the 28 teams taking part in this year’s Ranji Trophy.

Group A

Expectations are high on in-form Abhinav Mukund. Photo credits: Indian Express

Tamil Nadu

Abhinav Mukund(c), Kaushik Gandhi, Baba Aparajith, Dinesh Karthick, Baba Indrajith, Washington Sundar, J Kousik, Malolan Rangarajan, Aswin Crist, M Mohammad, K Vignesh, T Natarajan, L Suryaprakash, Aushik Srinivas, N Jagadeesan, Rahil Shah.

Gujarat

Parthiv Patel(c), Priyank Panchal, Hardik Patel, Chirag Gandhi, RP Singh, Karan Patel, Mehul Patel, Rujul Bhatt, Dhruv Raval, Bhargav Merai, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel, Rush Kalaria, Samit Gohel, Manpreet Juneja.

Baroda

Irfan Pathan(c), Aditya Waghmode, Kedar Devdhar, Deepak Hooda, Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Munaf Patel, Gagandeep Singh, Pinal Shah, M Sagar, Rohan Bhosale, Dhiren Mistry, Vishnu Solanki.

Madhya Pradesh

Devendra Bundela(c), Shubham Sharma, Rameez Khan, Aditya Shrivastava, C Sakure, Ankit Sharma, Mukul Raghav, Ashwin Das, Rajat Patidar, Ankit Dane, Saransh Jain, Gaurav Yadav, Ishwar Pandey, Harpreet Singh, Mihir Hirwani.

Can Suresh Raina make a comeback to the Indian team by having a good Ranji season?

Uttar Pradesh

Suresh Raina (c), Sarfaraz Khan, Praveen Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Eklavya Dwivedi, Amit Mishra, Tanmay Srivastava, Imtiaz Ahmed, Deependra Pandey, Saif Mohammad, Samarth Singh, Almas Shaukat, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Israr Azim.

Mumbai

Aditya Tare(c), Kaustubh Pawar, Akhil Herwadkar, Jay Bista, Arman Jaffer, Suryakumar Yadav, Abhishek Nayar, Balwinder Sandhu, Sufiyan Shaikh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shardul Thakur, Nikhil Patel, Tushar Deshpande, Vijay Gohil, Vishal Dabholkar.

Punjab

Yuvraj Singh (c), Harbhajan Singh, Manan Vohra, Arpit Pannu, Mayank Sidhana, Vinay Choudhary, Shubham Gill, Manpreet Gony, Sandeep Sharma, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Rajwinder Singh, Jiwanjot Singh, Mandeep Singh, G Khera, Siddarth Kaul, Uday Kaul.

Railways

Ranjit Mali, Anureet Singh, Ashish Yadav, Deepak Bansal, V Cheluvaraj, Mrunal Devdhar, Nikhil Doru, Arindam Ghosh, Gaurav Khatri, Manjeet Singh, Akshat Pandey, Mahesh Rawat, Karn Sharma, Shivakant Shukla, Saurabh Wakaskar.

*Bengal squad is yet to be announced.

Group B

Unmukt Chand to lead Delhi

Delhi

Unmukt Chand(c), Rishabh Pant, Pawan Suyal, Vikas Tolas, Milind Kumar, Mohit Sharma. Parvinedr Awana, Vaibhav Rawal, Dhruv Shorey, Navdeep Saini, Manan Sharma, Pradeep Sangwan, Nitish Rana, Pulkit Narang, Varun Sood.

Saurashtra

Jaydev Shah(c), Mohsin Dodia, Sheldon Jackson, Amitoze Singh, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Avi Barot, Chirag Jani, Aarpit Vasavada, Sunil Yadav, Vandit Jivrajani, Samarth Vyas, Sagar Jogiyani, Jaydev Undakat, Hardik Rathod, Kushang Patel, Deepak Punia, Cheteshwar Pujara, Saurya Sanandiya.

Assam

Gokul Sharma(c), KB Arun Karthik, Tarjinder Singh, Abu Nechim, J Syed Mohammad, Amit Verma, Kunal Saikia, Arup Das, Sibsankar Roy, Krishna Das, S Purkayastha, Pallavkumar Das, Rahul Hazarika, Dhiraj Goswami, Rishav Kalapkanti Das.

Rajasthan

Pankaj Singh(c), Rajat Bhatia, Pranay Sharma, Nathu Singh, Kukna Ajay Singh, Tanveer-ul-Haq, Rajesh Bishnoi, Vineet Saxena, Chetan Dinesh Bist, Puneet Yadav, Aniket Choudhary,MN Singh, Siddharth Dobal, Ashok Menaria, Mahipal Lomror.

Saurabh Tiwary is crucial for Jharkhand

Jharkhand

Varun Aaron(c), Saurabh Tiwary, Virat Singh, Anand Singh, Ajay Yadav, Ashish Kumar, Vikas Singh, Shiv Gautam, Samar Quadri, Sunny Gupta, Pratyush Singh, Ishan Kishan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Ishank Jaggi, Kaushal Singh.

Vidarbha

Faiz Fazal(c), Shrikant Wagh, Ravi Jangid, Akshay Wakhare, Aditya Shanware, Ganesh Satish, Ravikumar Thakur, Rajneesh Gurbani, Jitesh Sharma, Akshay Karnewar, Akshay Kolhar, Shalabh Srivastava, Sanjay Ramaswamy, Aditya Sarwate.

Odisha

Govinda Poddar(c), AC Sahoo, Basant Mohanty, S Senapati, Deepak Behera, Abinash Saha, Biplab Samantray, Halhadar Das, Pratik Das, Anurag Sarangi, Dhiraj Singh, Sandeep Pattnaik, Rashmi Sahoo, Suryakant Pradhan, Ranjit Singh.

*Karnataka and Maharashtra are yet to announce their squad.

Group C

S Badrinath set to play for Hyderabad

Haryana

Mohit Sharma(c), Shivam Chauhan, Nitin Saini, Ashok Sandhu, Yuzvendra Chahal, RP Sharma, Ashish Hooda, Shubham Rohilla, Mohit Hooda, Harshal Patel, Joginder Sharma, Sanjay Pahal, Rajat Paliwal.

Andhra

Hanuma Vihari(c), Srikar Bharat, Murumulla Sriram, Ashwin Hebbar, Bandaru Ayyappa, Bhargav Bhatt, Karthik Raman, AG Pradeep, Prasanth Kumar, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Bukkapatnam Siddharth, Duvvarapu Siva Kumar, Koripalli Sreekanth, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Vamsi Krishna, Paidikalva Vijaykumar

Hyderabad

S Badrinath(c), B Anirudh Sitaram, K Sumanth, Habeeb Ahmed, Benjamin Thomas, Vishal Sharma, Akshath Reddy, Himalay Agarwal, B Sandeep, Tanmay Agarwal, Ravi Kiran, Akash Bhandari, Chama Milind, Mehdi Hasan, Mohammad Siraj, Mohammad Muddassir.

Kerala

Rohan Prem(c), Sachin Baby, U Manukrishnan, Jalaj Saxena, Basil Thampi, Vinod Kumar, Robert Fernandez, Bhavin Thakkar, Iqbal Abdulla, VA Jagadeesh, N Surendran, K Monish, Sandeep Warrior, MD Nidheesh, Sanju Samson.

Tripura

M Murasingh(c), Udiyan Bose, Samrat Singha, Saurabh Das, NS Chowdhary, Abhijit Dey, Yashpal Singh, Rajat Dey, Bishal Ghosh, Ajoy Sarkar, Gurinder Singh, Aniruddha Saha, Sanjay Majumder, Abhijit Sarkar, Samit Patel, Bunti Roy, Chiranjit Paul, Rana Dutta.

Services

Soumik Chatterjee(c), Azaruddin Bloch, Anshul Gupta, Vikas Hathwala, Irfan Khan, Lakhan Singh, Muzzaffaruddin Khalid, Amit Pachhara, Diwesh Pathania, Poonam Poonia, Rahul Singh, Raushan Raj, Ravi Chauhan, Nakul Verma.

Can Rishi Dhawan continue his good show in the Ranji rophy?

Himachal Pradesh

Rishi Dhawan(c), Sumeet Verma, Bipul Sharma, Kanwar Abhinay Singh, Amit Kumar, Robin Bist, Ankush Bains, Akshay Chauhan, V Malik, Prashant Chopra, Shresth Nirmohi, Mayank Dagar, Paras Dogra, Pankaj Jaiswal, Nikhil Gangta, Gurvinder Singh.

Jammu and Kashmir

Mithun Manhas(c), Parvez Rasool, Ian Dev Singh, Zahoor Sofi, Amir Sofi, Umar Nazir, Aamir Aziz, Adil Reshi, Rohit Sharma, Bandeep Singh, Samiullah Beigh, Pranav Gupta, Puneet Bisht, MM Hussain, Ram Dayal, Shubham Khajuria.

Goa

Sagun Kamat(c), Shadab Jakati, Darshan Misal, HH Gadekar, Felix Alemao, Amit Yadav, Rituraj Singh, Sumiran Amonkar, Keenan Vaz, Swapnil Asnodkar, Amulya Pandrekar, Saurabh Bandekar, Amogh Sunil Desai, Snekal K, SS Dubhashi.

Chhattisgarh

Mohammad Kaif(c), Pankaj Kumar Rao, Ashutosh Singh, Abhimanyu Chauhan, Sahil Gupta, Kant Singh, Amandeep Khare, Ajay Mandal, Manoj Singh, Vivek Naidu, Rishabh Tiwari, Sumit Ruikar, Shakeeb Ahmed, Shivendra Singh, Pratik Sinha, Abhishek Tamrakar