Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 schedule, fixtures, match times, squads, latest results and points table: Full list of matches

The Buchi Babu Trophy 2025, organised by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA), will begin on Monday, August 18.

The famous invitational red-ball tournament is regarded as a warm-up event for Indian domestic teams ahead of the Ranji Trophy season.

The competition, which returned in 2023 after six years, is one of India’s oldest cricket events and will once again see top teams from across the country fighting for silverware. 

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How many teams will play in the Buchi Babu Trophy 2025?

A total of 16 teams will take part this year, along with two special sides picked by TNCA- President’s XI and TNCA XI.

Group A: TNCA President’s XI, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra

Group B: Railways, Jammu & Kashmir, Baroda, Odisha

Group C: TNCA XI, Mumbai, Haryana, Bengal

Group D: Hyderabad, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand

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What is the format of the Buchi Babu Trophy 2025?

Every team in the group will face the other three teams one time each. The league stage will have three-day games, with each side batting for 90 overs in the first innings and 45 overs in the second innings to ensure results.

From the semi-finals onwards, matches will be four-day fixtures, with each team batting 90 overs per innings.

The winners of the tournament will get a prize of ₹3 lakh and the runners-up will receive ₹2 lakh.

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When will the Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 matches be played?

The tournament starts on August 18, 2025, and will run across multiple venues in Chennai. Match timings are set for 9:30 AM IST on each day of play.

Buchi Babu Trophy 2025: Full Squads

Maharashtra: Ankit Bawane (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Prithvi Shaw, Siddhesh Veer, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Harshal Kate, Siddharth Mhatre, Saurabh Nawale (wk), Mandar Bhandari (wk), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Vicky Ostwal, Hitesh Walunj, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar.

Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre (c), Musheer Khan, Divyansh Saxena, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parker (vc), Pragnesh Kanpillewar, Harsh Aghav, Sairaj Patil, Aakash Parkar, Aakash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shreyas Gurav, Yash Dicholkar, Himanshu Singh, Roystan Dias, Sylvester D’souza, Irfan Umair.

Madhya Pradesh: Chanchal Rathore (c), Saksham Purohit, Aryan Tiwari, Shubham Kushwah, Akhil Yadav Nigote, Rudransh Singh, Atharva Mahajan, Varun Tiwari, Soham Patwardhan, Aditya Mishra, Rohit Rajawat, Vishnu Bhardwaj, Anvesh Chawla, Akshat Dwivedi, Madhav Tiwari, Akshat Sharma, Mangesh Yadav, Ishan Choudhary.

TNCA President’s XI: Pradosh Ranjan Paul (c), C. Andre Siddarth (vc), B. Indrajith, Vijay Shankar, R. Vimal Khumar, S. Radhakrishnan, S. Lokeshwar, G. Ajitesh, J. Hemchudeshan, R.S. Ambrish, C.V. Achyuth, H. Trilok Nag, P. Saravana Kumar, P. Vidyuth, K. Abhinav.

TNCA XI: M. Shahrukh Khan (c), Boopathi Vaishna Kumar (Vice-capt.), B. Sachin, M. Siddharth, Tushar Raheja, Kiran Karthikeyan, S. Mohamed Ali, S. Rithik Easwaran, S.R. Athish, S. Lakshay Jain, D.T. Chandrasekar, P. Vignesh, R. Sonu Yadav, D. Deepesh, J. Prem Kumar, A. Esakkimuthu, T.D. Lokesh Raj.

Jammu & Kashmir: Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Paras Dogra, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Musaif Ajaz, Kawalpreet Singh, Shivansh Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, Dikshant Kundal, Umran Malik, Umar Nazir, Rohit Sharma, Vanshaj Sharma, Sunil Kumar, Sahil Lotra.

Bengal: Sudip Gharami, Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel, Sumanta Gupta, Aditya Purohit, Saurabh Singh, Chinmoy Singh, Vishal Bhati, Aishik Patel, Karanlal, Vikash Singh Jr., Aamir Gani, Rahul Prasad, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Ishan Porel, Yudhajit Guha, Nuruddin Mondal, Kanishk Seth, Sumit Mohanta, Subham Sarkar.

Punjab: Anmolpreet Singh (c), Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Jass Inder Singh, Prerit Dutta, Ashwani Kumar, Krish Bhagat, Uday Pratap Saharan, Anmol Malhotra, Salil Arora, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Aradhya Shukla, Pukhraj Mann, Raghu Shivam Sharma, Harnoor Singh Pannu.

Odisha: Swastik Samal (c), Sandeep Pattnaik, Sambit S Baral, Sumit Sharma, Anil Parida, Sunil Kumar Roul, Tapas Kumar Das, Saideep Mohapatra, Rajesh Dhupar (wk), Badal Biswal, Om T Munde, Tarini Sa, Subhranshu Senapati, Prasant K Rana, Binaya K. Paikaray (wk), Aashirwad Swain (vc) (wk), Ashutosh Chhuria, Kartik Biswal, Govinda Poddar, Piyush Panigrahi.

Chhattisgarh: Amandeep Khare (c), Aditya Sarwate, Ashish Chouhan, Ashutosh Singh, Avnish Singh Dhaliwal, Ayush Pandey, Dev Aditya Singh, Harvinder Singh, Mayank Yadav, Rahul Pradhan (wk), Ravi Kiran, Rishi Sharma, Sahban Khan, Sanjeet Desai, Shashank Chandrakar (wk), Shashank Tiwari, Shubham Agarwal, Sourabh Majumdar, Varun Singh Bhuie.

Haryana: TBA

Baroda: TBA

Himachal Pradesh: TBA

Jharkhand: TBA

Hyderabad: TBA

Railways: TBA

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