Vijay Hazare Trophy

Vijay Hazare Trophy
Tournament logo
CountriesIndia
AdministratorBCCI
FormatList A cricket
First edition1993–94
Latest edition2024–25
Next edition2025–26
Tournament formatRound-robin, then knockout
Number of teams38
Current championKarnataka (5th title)
Most successfulKarnataka / Tamil Nadu (5 titles each)
Most runsAnkit Bawne (4,164) (Maharashtra)
Most wicketsSiddarth Kaul (155) (Punjab)
Websitehttps://www.bcci.tv
2025–26

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. Karnataka are the defending champions, after having won the 2024-25 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.[1][2] 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.[3][4]

Format

The format of the national-level tournament has changed several times.[5] 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.[citation needed]

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 Uttar Pradesh Bengal Haryana Karnataka Bombay Rahul Dravid (Karnataka) Dhanraj Singh (Haryana) [6]
1994–95 Madhya Pradesh Bengal (2) Punjab Hyderabad Maharashtra Ajay Sharma (Delhi) Arindam Sarkar (Bengal) [7]
1995–96 Uttar Pradesh (2) Bengal (3) Haryana (2) Karnataka (2) Bombay (2) S. Ramesh (Tamil Nadu) K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Kerala)
S. Joshi (Karnataka)
S. Mukherjee (Bengal)
S. Sharma (Punjab)		 [8]
1996–97 Madhya Pradesh (2) Assam Delhi Tamil Nadu Mumbai (3) Sanjay Manjrekar (Mumbai) Hanumara Ramkishen (Andhra Pradesh) [9]
1997–98 Madhya Pradesh (3) Bengal (4) Delhi (2) Tamil Nadu (2) Mumbai (4) Sujith Somasunder (Karnataka) Rahul Sanghvi (Karnataka) [10]
1998–99 Madhya Pradesh (4) Bengal (5) Punjab (2) Karnataka (3) Mumbai (5) Vijay Bharadwaj (Karnataka) Jaswant Rai (Himachal Pradesh)
N. Singh (Hyderabad)		 [11]
1999–2000 Madhya Pradesh (5) Bengal (6) Delhi (3) Tamil Nadu (3) Mumbai (6) Mohammad Azharuddin (Hyderabad) T. Pawan Kumar (Hyderabad) [12]
2000–01 Madhya Pradesh (6) Orissa Punjab (3) Tamil Nadu (4) Mumbai (7) Amit Pathak (Andhra Pradesh) Venkatapathy Raju (Hyderabad)
R. Sanghvi (Delhi)		 [13]
2001–02 Railways Orissa (2) Punjab (4) Karnataka (4) Mumbai (8) Sandeep Sharma (Himachal Pradesh) Anup Dave (Rajasthan)
J. Gokulakrishnan (Assam)
L. Patel (Gujarat)
V. Sharma (Punjab)		 [14]
National tournaments
Edition Final host Winner Runner-up Most runs Most wickets Ref
2002–03 No final Tamil Nadu Punjab Niranjan Godbole (Maharashtra) Iqbal Siddiqui (Maharashtra) [15]
2003–04 No final Mumbai Bengal Devang Gandhi (Bengal) Sarandeep Singh (Delhi) [16]
2004–05 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Shared: Tamil Nadu (2)
and Uttar Pradesh		 Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu) Ranadeb Bose (Bengal)
Praveen Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)		 [17]
2005–06 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Railways Uttar Pradesh Dinesh Mongia (Punjab) Sankalp Vohra (Baroda) [18]
2006–07 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Mumbai (2) Rajasthan Wasim Jaffer (Mumbai) D. Tamil Kumaran (Tamil Nadu) [19]
2007–08 Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Saurashtra Bengal (2) Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai) Vishal Bhatia (Himachal Pradesh) [20]
2008–09 Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala Tamil Nadu (3) Bengal (3) Virat Kohli (Delhi) Shoaib Ahmed (Hyderabad) [21]
2009–10 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Tamil Nadu (4) Bengal (4) Shreevats Goswami (Bengal) Yo Mahesh (Tamil Nadu) [22]
2010–11 Holkar Stadium, Indore Jharkhand Gujarat Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand) Amit Mishra (Haryana) [23]
2011–12 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Bengal Mumbai Wriddhiman Saha (Bengal) Parvinder Awana (Delhi) [24]
2012–13 Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Delhi Assam Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) Pritam Das (Assam) [25]
2013–14 Eden Gardens, Kolkata Karnataka Railways Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) Vinay Kumar (Karnataka) [26]
2014–15 Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad Karnataka (2) Punjab (2) Manish Pandey (Karnataka) Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka) [27]
2015–16 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Gujarat Delhi Mandeep Singh (Punjab) Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat) [28]
2016–17 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Tamil Nadu (5) Bengal (5) Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu) Aswin Crist (Tamil Nadu) [29]
2017–18 Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Karnataka (3) Saurashtra Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) Mohammed Siraj (Hyderabad) [30]
2018–19 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Mumbai (3) Delhi (2) Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu) Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand) [31]
2019–20 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Karnataka (4) Tamil Nadu Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka) Pritam Das (Assam) [32]
2020–21 Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Mumbai (4) Uttar Pradesh (2) Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai) Shivam Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) [33]
2021–22 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Himachal Pradesh Tamil Nadu (2) Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra) Yash Thakur (Vidarbha) [34]
2022–23 Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad Saurashtra (2) Maharashtra Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu) Vasuki Koushik (Karnataka) [35]
2023–24 Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot Haryana Rajasthan (2) Arslan Khan (Chandigarh) Harshal Patel (Haryana) [36]
2024–25 Kotambi Stadium, Vadodara Karnataka (5) Vidarbha Karun Nair (Vidarbha) Arshdeep Singh (Punjab)
Finals appearances by team
Team Winner Runner-up Last Final
Tamil Nadu 5 2 2021–22
Karnataka 5 0 2024–25
Mumbai 4 1 2020–21
Saurashtra 2 1 2022–23
Bengal 1 5 2016–17
Uttar Pradesh 1 2 2020–21
Delhi 1 2 2018–19
Railways 1 1 2013–14
Gujarat 1 1 2015–16
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
Vidarbha 0 1 2024–25

Records

This is a list of records in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. It is current as of December 31st 2025.[37]

Team Records
Category Team Record
Most National Championships Karnataka 5
Tamil Nadu
Most Zonal Championships Mumbai 8
Highest Innings Total Bihar 574/6
Lowest Innings Total Rajasthan 35
Highest Match Aggregate Jharkhand vs Karnataka 825
Lowest Match Aggregate Rajasthan vs Railways 74
Largest Victory Margin Tamil Nadu vs Arunachal 435
Most Extras in an Innings Jharkhand 47
Highest Winning Percentage Karnataka 77.73
Batting Records
Category Player Record
Most Runs Ankit Bawne 4164
Highest Individual Score Narayan Jagadeesan 277
Highest Batting Average (min 10 matches) Devdutt Padikkal 92.96
Highest Batting Strike Rate Rajagopal Sathish 134.58
Most Centuries Ankit Bawne 15
Most Half Centuries Ankit Bawne 17
Most Runs in a season Narayan Jagadeesan 830
Highest Partnership Sai Sudarshan and Narayan Jagadeesan 416
Bowling Records
Category Player Record
Most Wickets Siddarth Kaul 155
Best Bowling Figures Shahbaz Nadeem 8/10
Best Bowling Average (min 100 overs) Varun Chakravarthy 14.13
Best Economy Rate (min 100 overs) Iresh Saxena 3.61
Best Strike Rate (min 100 overs) Varun Chakravarthy 19.81
Most 5 Wicket Hauls Siddarth Kaul 7
Most Wickets in a Season Vinay Kumar 28
Wicketkeeping Records
Category Player Record
Most Dismissals Aditya Tare 133
Most Catches Aditya Tare 115
Most Stumpings Parthiv Patel 21
Most Dismissals in a Match Mahesh Rawat 7
Keenan Vaz
Ishan Kishan
Most Dismissals in a Season Kunal Singh Rathore 24
Fielding Records
Category Player Record
Most Catches Manish Pandey 68
Most Catches in a Match Vignesh Puthur 6
Most Catches in a Season Manish Pandey 14
Other Individual Records
Category Player Record
Most Matches Manish Pandey 103
Most Matches as Captian Parthiv Patel 67

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 [38]
Category Number of Matches Match Fees (Starting 11) Match Fees (Bench)
Senior >40 ₹60,000 ₹30,000
Mid Level 21 - 40 ₹50,000 ₹25,000
Junior 0 - 20 ₹40,000 ₹20,000

See also

References

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