The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced all six teams’ squads for the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2026-27 season, which is scheduled to start on August 23 at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
Rajat Patidar was named the captain of the Central Zone team, while Tilak Varma has been named skipper of the South Zone squad. Ishan Kishan leads the East Zone squad, with Ruturaj Gaikwad named as West Zone captain. Meanwhile, Kanhaiya Wadhawan has been appointed North Zone skipper.
On that note, let’s take a look at all six squads.
Central Zone full squad for Duleep Trophy 2026-27:
Rajat Patidar (c), Rinku Singh (vc), Aryan Juyal (wk), Saransh Jain, Aman Mokhade, Kunal Chandela, Zeeshan Ansari, Aryan Pandey, Arshad Khan, Ayush Pandey, Yash Rathod, Harsh Dubey, Kunal Singh Rathod (wk), Yash Thakur and Nachiket Bhute.
Reserve players: Amandeep Khare, Mayank Mishra, Saurabh Rawat, Bhargav Merai, Kunal Yadav and Kumar Kartikeya
On the other hand, the South Zone will be captained by Tilak Varma, with Andhra batter Ricky Bhui named as his deputy. The squad also includes discarded Indian batter Karun Nair. Central Zone is the defending champion of the tournament, after defeating South Zone in last year’s final at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
South Zone full squad for Duleep Trophy 2026-27
Tilak Varma (c), Ricky Bhui (vc), Abhinav Tejrana, SK Rasheed, K Himateja, R Smaran, N Jagadeesan, Karun Nair, T Thyagarajan, Shreyas Gopal, K Sai Teja, T Vijay, V Kaverappa, Aman Khan.
East Zone Squad for Duleep Trophy 2026-27:
Abhimanyu Easwaran, Sudip Kumar Gharami, Shahbaz Ahmed, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Shami, Mukesh Kumar, Ishan Kishan (c), Kumar Kushagra, Shikhar Mohan, Anukul Roy, Virat Singh, Subhranshu Senapati, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (vc), Denish Das, Abhijit Sarkar.
Reserve players: Ayush Loharuka, Sridam Paul, Sambit S Baral, Sharandeep Singh and Swastik Samal.
West Zone squad for Duleep Trophy 2026-27:
Ruturaj Gaikwad (C, Maharashtra), Shams Mulani (VC, Mumbai), Prithvi Shaw (Maharashtra), Harvik Desai (WK, Saurashtra), Urvil Patel (WK, Gujarat), Shivalik Sharma (Baroda), Musheer Khan (Mumbai), Sarfaraz Khan (Mumbai), Jaymeet Patel (Gujarat), Siddharth Desai (Gujarat), Tanush Kotian (Mumbai), Tushar Deshpande (Mumbai), Shardul Thakur (Mumbai), Atit Seth (Baroda), Mukesh Chaudhary (Maharashtra).
North East Zone Squad for Duleep Trophy 2026-27:
Techi Neri (Arunachal Pradesh), Robin Limboo (Sikkim), Bishworjit Singh Konthoujam (Manipur), Imliwati Lemtur (Nagaland), Kishan Lyndoh (Meghalaya), Joseph Lal Thankhuma (Mizoram), Arpit Subhas (Meghalaya), Priyojit K (Manipur), Ronald Meitei (Manipur), Akash Kumar Choudhary (Meghalaya), Vino G. Zhimomi (Nagaland), Lalrempuia (Mizoram), Jonathan Rongsen (Nagaland), Jotin Singh Pheiroijam (Manipur) and Ashish Thapa (Sikkim).
Reserve players: Lee Yong Lepcha (Sikkim), Raj Kumar Rex (Manipur), K. Vanrotlinga (Mizoram), Yorjum Sera (Arunachal Pradesh) and Hem Bahadur Chettri (Nagaland).
North Zone Squad for the Duleep Trophy 2026-27:
Kanhaiya Wadhawan (c, wk), Sanat Sangwan, Qamran Iqbal, Yash Dhull, Ayush Doseja, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni (vc), Nishant Sindhu, Arjun Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, Arshdeep Singh, Sunil Kumar, Anshul Kamboj, Yudhvir Singh, Nikhil Kashyap
