The Vijay Hazare Trophy is a cricket tournament played in India. It is administered by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and is contested by state and city teams in a league and playoff format. Along with the inter-zonal Deodhar Trophy, it forms the top level of List A cricket in the country, and is an important feeder tournament for selection in the Indian National Cricket Team. Matches consist of 50 overs per side, similar to One Day International matches. It was initially a zonal tournament, and became a national tournament in 2002. Vidarbha are the defending champions, after having won the 2025-26 edition.
History The Vijay Hazare trophy began in the 1993–94 season as the Ranji One Day Trophy, a List A counterpart to the First-Class Ranji Trophy. In its early years, it was played at the zonal level. North, South, East, West, and Central Zones each produced their own winner, and success in this tournament was used to determine selection for zonal teams in the Deodhar Trophy. The most successful teams in this phase were Bombay/Mumbai (8 titles) and Bengal (6 titles).
It became a national competition in 2002–03, with a knockout stage crowning a national champion every year. The most successful teams since then have been Tamil Nadu and Karnataka (5 titles each). For the 2007-08 edition, it was renamed in honour of Vijay Hazare.Ranji One Day Trophy, 2007. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 December 2023.Vijay Hazare Trophy, 2008. ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 26 December 2023. Domestic cricket in India was suspended for several months because of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, leading to the cancellation of the 2020–21 Ranji Trophy. However, the BCCI announced that the 2020/21 edition of the Vijay Hazare tournament would take place.
Format The format of the national-level tournament has changed several times. During the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, a final round-robin stage was held for the top teams in each zone. Since the 2004–05 tournament, a playoff format including semi-finals and a final has been held, with varying qualification mechanisms. Teams are currently grouped on the basis of average points gained in the preceding three seasons.
Between the 2015–16 and 2017–18 seasons, the tournament consisted of 28 teams divided into four groups. For the 2018/19 edition, the teams were divided into three elite groups and one plate group. Two of the elite groups had nine teams while the third had ten. The plate group consisted of nine new teams.
The current format consists of 38 teams divided into 4 elite groups and 1 plate group. The elite groups have 8 teams while the plate group has 6. After playing each team in the group once, the five winners and the best performing runner-up qualify for the quarter final stage directly, while the four other runners-up play in the preliminary quarter finals. The two winners of pre-quarter finals join the remaining six teams in the quarter final stage.
Results +Zonal tournaments Edition Zone winners Most runs Most wickets Ref Central East North South West 1993–94 Bengal Haryana Karnataka Mumbai Rahul Dravid (Karnataka) Dhanraj Singh (Haryana) Ranji Trophy One Day 1993/94. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 1994–95 Punjab Hyderabad Maharashtra Ajay Sharma (Delhi) Arindam Sarkar (Bengal) Ranji Trophy One Day 1994/95. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 1995–96 Uttar Pradesh Haryana Karnataka Mumbai S. Ramesh (Tamil Nadu) K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Kerala)S. Joshi (Karnataka)S. Mukherjee (Bengal)S. Sharma (Punjab) Ranji Trophy One Day 1995/96. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 1996–97 Madhya Pradesh Assam Delhi Sanjay Manjrekar (Mumbai) Hanumara Ramkishen (Andhra Pradesh) Ranji Trophy One Day 1996/97. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 1997–98 Bengal Sujith Somasunder (Karnataka) Rahul Sanghvi (Karnataka) Ranji Trophy One Day 1997/98. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 1998–99 Punjab Karnataka Vijay Bharadwaj (Karnataka) Jaswant Rai (Himachal Pradesh)N. Singh (Hyderabad) Ranji Trophy One Day 1998/99. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 1999-00 Delhi Tamil Nadu Mohammad Azharuddin (Hyderabad) T. Pawan Kumar (Hyderabad) Ranji Trophy One Day 1999/00. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2000–01 Orissa Punjab Amit Pathak (Andhra Pradesh) Venkatapathy Raju (Hyderabad)R. Sanghvi (Delhi) Ranji Trophy One Day 2000/01. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. Railways Karnataka Sandeep Sharma (Himachal Pradesh) Anup Dave (Rajasthan)J. Gokulakrishnan (Assam)L. Patel (Gujarat)V. Sharma (Punjab) Ranji Trophy One Day 2001/02. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. +National tournaments Edition Final host Winner Ref 2002-03 No final Punjab Niranjan Godbole (Maharashtra) (Maharashtra) Ranji Trophy One Day 2002/03. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2003–04 Mumbai Bengal Devang Gandhi (Bengal) Sarandeep Singh (Delhi) Ranji Trophy One Day 2003/04. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2004–05 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Shared: Tamil Naduand Uttar Pradesh (Tamil Nadu) Ranadeb Bose (Bengal)Praveen Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) Ranji Trophy One Day 2004/05. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2005–06 Railways Uttar Pradesh Dinesh Mongia (Punjab) Sankalp Vohra (Baroda) Ranji Trophy One Day 2005/06. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2006–07 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Mumbai Rajasthan Wasim Jaffer (Mumbai) D. Tamil Kumaran (Tamil Nadu) Ranji Trophy One Day 2006/07. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2007–08 ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Saurashtra Bengal Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai) Vishal Bhatia (Himachal Pradesh) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2007/08. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2008–09 Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala Tamil Nadu Virat Kohli (Delhi) Shoaib Ahmed (Hyderabad) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2008/09. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2009–10 Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Ahmedabad Shreevats Goswami (Bengal) Yo Mahesh (Tamil Nadu) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2009/10. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2010–11 Holkar Stadium, Indore Jharkhand Gujarat Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand) Amit Mishra (Haryana) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2010/11. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2011–12 Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, Delhi Bengal Mumbai Wriddhiman Saha (Bengal) Parvinder Awana (Delhi) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2011/12. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2012–13 ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Delhi Assam Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) Pritam Das (Assam) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2012/13. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2013–14 Eden Gardens, Kolkata Karnataka Railways Vinay Kumar (Karnataka) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2013/14. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2014–15 Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Ahmedabad Punjab Manish Pandey (Karnataka) Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2014/15. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2015–16 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Gujarat Delhi Mandeep Singh (Punjab) Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015/16. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2016–17 Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, Delhi Tamil Nadu Bengal Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu) Aswin Crist (Tamil Nadu) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2016/17. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2017–18 Karnataka Saurashtra Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) Mohammed Siraj (Hyderabad) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2017/18. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2018–19 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Mumbai Delhi Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu) Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2018/19. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2019–20 Karnataka Tamil Nadu Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka) Pritam Das (Assam) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019/20. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2020–21 Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium, Delhi Mumbai Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai) Shivam Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2020/21. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2021–22 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra) Yash Thakur (Vidarbha) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2021/22. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2022–23 Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad Saurashtra Maharashtra Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu) Vasuki Koushik (Karnataka) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2022/23. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2023–24 Niranjan Shah Stadium, Rajkot Haryana Rajasthan Arslan Khan (Chandigarh) Harshal Patel (Haryana) Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023/24. CricketArchive. Retrieved 22 December 2023. 2024–25 Baroda Cricket Association Stadium, Vadodara Karnataka Vidarbha Karun Nair (Vidarbha) Arshdeep Singh (Punjab) 2025–26 National Cricket Academy, Bengaluru Vidarbha Saurashtra Aman Mokhade (Vidarbha) Ankur Panwar (Saurashtra)
+Finals Appearances by Team Team Winner Most Recent Win Most Recent Runner up Tamil Nadu 5 2 2016–172021–22 Karnataka 5 0 2024–25 - Mumbai 4 1 2020–212011–12 Saurashtra 2 2 2022–232025–26 Bengal 1 5 2011–122016–17 Uttar Pradesh 1 2 2004–052020–21 Delhi 1 2 2012–132018–19 Railways 1 1 2005–062013–14 Gujarat 1 1 2015–162010–11 Vidarbha 1 1 2025–262024–25 Jharkhand 1 0 2010–11 - Himachal Pradesh 1 0 2021–22 - Haryana 1 0 2023–24 - Punjab 0 2 -2014–15 Rajasthan 0 2 -2023–24 Assam 0 1 -2012–13 Maharashtra 0 1 -2022–23
Records This is a list of records in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. It is current as of 31 December 2025. +Team RecordsCategoryTeamRecordMost National ChampionshipsKarnataka5Tamil NaduMost Zonal ChampionshipsMumbai8Highest Innings TotalBihar574/6Lowest Innings TotalRajasthan35Highest Match AggregateJharkhand vs Karnataka825Lowest Match AggregateRajasthan vs Railways74Largest Victory MarginTamil Nadu vs Arunachal435Most Extras in an InningsJharkhand47Highest Winning PercentageKarnataka77.73 +Batting RecordsCategoryPlayerRecordMost RunsAnkit Bawne4164Highest Individual ScoreNarayan Jagadeesan277Highest Batting Average (min 10 matches)Devdutt Padikkal92.96Highest Batting Strike RateRajagopal Sathish134.58Most CenturiesAnkit Bawne15Most Half CenturiesAnkit Bawne17Most Runs in a seasonNarayan Jagadeesan830Highest PartnershipSai Sudarshan and Narayan Jagadeesan416 +Bowling RecordsCategoryPlayerRecordMost WicketsSiddarth Kaul155Best Bowling FiguresShahbaz Nadeem8/10Best Bowling Average (min 100 overs)Varun Chakravarthy14.13Best Economy Rate (min 100 overs)Iresh Saxena3.61Best Strike Rate (min 100 overs)Varun Chakravarthy19.81Most 5 Wicket HaulsSiddarth Kaul7Most Wickets in a SeasonVinay Kumar28 +Wicketkeeping RecordsCategoryPlayerRecordMost DismissalsAditya Tare133Most CatchesAditya Tare115Most StumpingsParthiv Patel21Most Dismissals in a MatchMahesh Rawat7Keenan VazIshan KishanMost Dismissals in a SeasonKunal Singh Rathore24 +Fielding RecordsCategoryPlayerRecordMost CatchesManish Pandey68Most Catches in a MatchVignesh Puthur6Most Catches in a SeasonManish Pandey14 +Other Individual RecordsCategoryPlayerRecordMost MatchesManish Pandey103Most Matches as CaptainParthiv Patel67
Salary The BCCI increased the match fees in 2024 to allow it to compete with lucrative tournaments like the IPL. Match fees depend on a player's level, which is calculated using the total number of matches they have played in the Vijay Hazare Trophy throughout their career. Players who are on the bench but do not play in the match receive half fees. + Salary Per Match Category Number of Matches Match Fees (Starting 11) Match Fees (Bench) Senior>40 ₹60,000₹30,000Mid Level21 - 40₹50,000₹25,000Junior0 - 20₹40,000₹20,000
See also Deodhar Trophy Duleep Trophy Irani Cup Ranji Trophy Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
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