India opener Ruturaj Gaikwad has been named Maharashtra’s captain for the 2025/26 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy beginning on November 26, stated the Maharashtra Cricket Affiliation introduced on Friday.
Gaikwad heads into the match on the again of sturdy type for India A of their 50-over collection in Rajkot, the place he amassed 210 runs, together with a century. Maharashtra will play its group‑stage fixtures at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, and can begin their marketing campaign in opposition to Jammu and Kashmir on November 26.
Aside from J&Okay, Maharashtra will even face off in opposition to Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Hyderabad, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Chandigarh of their Elite Group B league matches. In the meantime, Shubham Khajuria has been named captain of the J&Okay group.
The squad contains quick bowler Umran Malik and laborious‑hitting batsman Abdul Samad, each of whom convey beneficial expertise to the facet whose fortunes within the Ranji Trophy have been on a excessive. For his or her white-ball video games, they’ll have the providers of their visitor participant leg-spinner Murugan Ashwin, who beforehand performed for Tamil Nadu and Chandigarh.
Beforehand, Jharkhand named wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan as their captain for the match, the place they’re slotted in Elite Group D, alongside Delhi, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Saurashtra, and Tripura in Ahmedabad.
Karnataka, in the meantime, have named Mayank Agarwal as their captain, with availability of Devdutt Padikkal, Prasidh Krishna and KL Rahul relying on their choice for the continuing multi-format collection in opposition to South Africa.
Maharashtra squad: Ruturaj Gaikwad (C), Prithvi Shaw, Arshin Kulkarni, Rahul Tripathi, Azim Kazi, Nikhil Naik (WK), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Vicky Ostwal, Tanay Sanghvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Mandar Bhandari (WK), Jalaj Saxena, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Yogesh Dongare, Ranjit Nikam.
Jammu & Kashmir squad: Qamran Iqbal, Shubham Khajuria (c), Vivrant Sharma, Musaif Aijaz, Abdul Samad, Yawer Hassan, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (vc), Abid Mushtaq, Vanshaj Sharma, Ashwin Murugan, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Umran Malik, Nasir Lone, and Sunil Kumar.