2025–26 Duleep Trophy
First-class cricket tournament
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The 2025–26 Duleep Trophy was the 62nd edition of the Duleep Trophy, a domestic first-class cricket competition played in India. It took place from 28 August to 15 September 2025.[1] The tournament returned to a zonal format, featuring six teams: Central Zone, East Zone, North Zone, North East Zone, South Zone, and West Zone.[2] All squads were picked by national selectors. It formed part of the 2025 Indian domestic cricket season, announced by the BCCI in June 2025.[3][4]
| Dates | 28 August – 15 September 2025 |
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| Administrator | Board of Control for Cricket in India |
| Cricket format | First-class |
| Tournament format | Knockout |
| Host | India |
| Champions | Central Zone (7th title) |
| Runners-up | South Zone |
| Participants | 6 |
| Matches | 5 |
| Player of the series | Saransh Jain (Central Zone) |
| Most runs | Rajat Patidar (Central Zone) (382) |
| Most wickets | Saransh Jain (Central Zone) (16) |
| Official website | Duleep Trophy |
Squads
Format
The tournament featured six teams playing in a single-elimination bracket. South Zone and West Zone pre-qualified to the semifinals, with the four remaining zonal teams required to play a quarterfinal match to start the competition.[citation needed]
Fixtures
Bracket
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||||||
| South Zone | 536 & 95/1 | ||||||||||
| North Zone | 405 & 658/4d | North Zone | 361 | ||||||||
| East Zone | 230 | South Zone | 149 & 426 | ||||||||
| Central Zone | 511 & 66/4 | ||||||||||
| West Zone | 438 & 216/8 | ||||||||||
| Central Zone | 532/4d & 331/7d | Central Zone | 600 | ||||||||
| North East Zone | 185 & 200/6 | ||||||||||
Quarterfinals
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28–31 August 2025 |
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Match drawn |
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BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru, Bengaluru Umpires: Bhavesh Patel and Vinod Seshan Player of the match: Auqib Nabi (North Zone) | |||||
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28–31 August 2025 |
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Match drawn |
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BCCI COE Ground 2, Bengaluru Umpires: Abhijit Bhattacharya and Kaushik Gandhi Player of the match: Danish Malewar (Central Zone) | |||||
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Semifinals
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4–7 September 2025 |
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Match drawn |
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BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru Umpires: Parashar Joshi and Akshay Totre Player of the match: Narayan Jagadeesan (South Zone) | |||||
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4–7 September 2025 |
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Match drawn |
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BCCI COE Ground 2, Bengaluru Umpires: Abhijeet Bengeri and Saidharshan Kumar Player of the match: Saransh Jain (Central Zone) | |||||
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Final
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11–15 September 2025 |
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Central Zone won by 6 wickets |
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BCCI COE Ground 1, Bengaluru Umpires: Mohit Krishnadas and Jayaraman Madanagopal Player of the match: Yash Rathod (Central Zone) | |||||
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Statistics
| Rank | Player | Team | INN | Runs | AVG | HS | 100s | 50s |
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| 1 | Rajat Patidar | Central Zone | 5 | 382 | 76.40 | 125 | 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Yash Rathod | Central Zone | 5 | 374 | 124.66 | 194 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | Danish Malewar | Central Zone | 5 | 352 | 70.40 | 203 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Ayush Badoni | North Zone | 3 | 307 | 153.50 | 204* | 1 | 1 |
| 5 | Shubham Sharma | Central Zone | 5 | 266 | 53.20 | 122 | 1 | 1 |
| Rank | Player | Team | INN | Wickets | BBI | AVG | ECO | 4W | 5W |
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| 1 | Saransh Jain | Central Zone | 4 | 16 | 5/49 | 24.00 | 3.29 | – | 2 |
| 2 | Gurjapneet Singh | South Zone | 3 | 10 | 4/96 | 24.10 | 4.14 | 2 | – |
| 3 | Harsh Dubey | Central Zone | 4 | 10 | 3/96 | 28.7 | 3.08 | – | – |
| 4 | Kumar Kartikeya | Central Zone | 2 | 8 | 4/53 | 20.37 | 2.71 | 2 | – |
| 5 | Auqib Nabi | North Zone | 3 | 6 | 5/28 | 20.33 | 2.96 | – | 1 |