Vijay Hazare Trophy

Vijay Hazare Trophy

Countries	India
Administrator	BCCI
Format	List A cricket
First edition	1993–94
Latest edition	2023–24
Next edition	2025–26
Tournament format	Round-robin, then knockout
Number of teams	38
Current champion	Haryana (1st title)
Most successful	Tamil Nadu (5 titles)
Website	https://www.bcci.tv
2024–25

The Vijay Hazare Trophy (officially known as the IDFC First Bank Vijay Hazare Trophy for sponsorship reasons), is an annual List A Cricket competition organised by the BCCI. The Indian States and union territories teams take part in the Ranji Trophy. The tournament had been played at zonal level only until 2002–03 when it was expanded to become a national competition. The most successful team since expansion is Tamil Nadu who have won the tournament five times.

History

Until 2006/07, Vijay Hazare Trophy was the title of a national under-19 tournament, involving zonal teams,^[1] which had been running since 1983/84.^[2] The BCCI then decided to rename the Ranji One Day Trophy, which began in the 1993/94 season,^[2] in honour of Vijay Hazare who had died in December 2004. The 2007/08 edition was the first using the current title.^[3][4]

Ahead of 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. Teams were grouped on the basis of average points gained in the preceding three seasons.^{[citation needed]} The 2020/21 edition was postponed for several months because of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The 2020–21 Ranji Trophy had been cancelled but, in January 2021, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the Vijay Hazare tournament would take place.^[5][6]

Format

Currently, in the 2023–24 season, 38 teams are split into five groups (A to E) as follows:

Group	Teams
A	Kerala, Mumbai, Odisha, Pondicherry, Railways, Saurashtra, Sikkim, Tripura
B	Chhattisgarh, Hyderabad, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Services, Vidarbha
C	Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Mizoram, Uttarakhand
D	Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
E	Baroda, Bengal, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland, Punjab, Tamil Nadu

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. In the 2015–16 to 2017–18 seasons, the zonal groups were replaced with four groups of seven each.^{[citation needed]}

Summary

Zonal tournaments

From the tournament's inaugural edition as the Ranji One Day Trophy in 1993–94, through to the 2001–02 season, no finals were held, and teams consequently played only within their zones, with no national winner declared. The table below lists the winners of each zone by year.

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)	[7]
1994–95	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Punjab	Hyderabad	Maharashtra	Ajay Sharma (Delhi)	Arindam Sarkar (Bengal)	[8]
1995–96	Uttar Pradesh	Bengal	Haryana	Karnataka	Bombay	S. Ramesh (Tamil Nadu)	K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Kerala) S. Joshi (Karnataka) S. Mukherjee (Bengal) S. Sharma (Punjab)	[9]
1996–97	Madhya Pradesh	Assam	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	Sanjay Manjrekar (Mumbai)	Hanumara Ramkishen (Andhra Pradesh)	[10]
1997–98	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	Sujith Somasunder (Karnataka)	Rahul Sanghvi (Karnataka)	[11]
1998–99	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Punjab	Karnataka	Mumbai	Vijay Bharadwaj (Karnataka)	Jaswant Rai (Himachal Pradesh) N. Singh (Hyderabad)	[12]
1999–2000	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	Mohammad Azharuddin (Hyderabad)	T. Pawan Kumar (Hyderabad)	[13]
2000–01	Madhya Pradesh	Orissa	Punjab	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	Amit Pathak (Andhra Pradesh)	Venkatapathy Raju (Hyderabad) R. Sanghvi (Delhi)	[14]
2001–02	Railways	Orissa	Punjab	Karnataka	Mumbai	Sandeep Sharma (Himachal Pradesh)	Anup Dave (Rajasthan) J. Gokulakrishnan (Assam) L. Patel (Gujarat) V. Sharma (Punjab)	[15]

The most successful teams in the zonal phase were Bombay/Mumbai (8 titles), Bengal (6), Karnataka (4), Punjab (4), and Tamil Nadu (4).

National tournaments

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 formats. The tournament was still known as the Ranji One Day Trophy until the 2006–07 edition. It was renamed as the Vijay Hazare Trophy ahead of the 2007–08 edition.

Edition	Final host	Winner	Runner-up	Most runs	Most wickets	Ref
2002–03	No final	Tamil Nadu	Punjab	Niranjan Godbole (Maharashtra)	Iqbal Siddiqui (Maharashtra)	[16]
2003–04	No final	Mumbai	Bengal	Devang Gandhi (Bengal)	Sarandeep Singh (Delhi)	[17]
2004–05	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Shared: Tamil Nadu (2) and Uttar Pradesh		Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu)	Ranadeb Bose (Bengal) Praveen Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)	[18]
2005–06	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Railways	Uttar Pradesh	Dinesh Mongia (Punjab)	Sankalp Vohra (Baroda)	[19]
2006–07	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	Mumbai (2)	Rajasthan	Wasim Jaffer (Mumbai)	D. Tamil Kumaran (Tamil Nadu)	[20]
2007–08	Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam	Saurashtra	Bengal (2)	Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai)	Vishal Bhatia (Himachal Pradesh)	[21]
2008–09	Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala	Tamil Nadu (3)	Bengal (3)	Virat Kohli (Delhi)	Shoaib Ahmed (Hyderabad)	[22]
2009–10	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Tamil Nadu (4)	Bengal (4)	Shreevats Goswami (Bengal)	Yo Mahesh (Tamil Nadu)	[23]
2010–11	Holkar Stadium, Indore	Jharkhand	Gujarat	Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand)	Amit Mishra (Haryana)	[24]
2011–12	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi	Bengal	Mumbai	Wriddhiman Saha (Bengal)	Parvinder Awana (Delhi)	[25]
2012–13	Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam	Delhi	Assam	Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)	Pritam Das (Assam)	[26]
2013–14	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Karnataka	Railways	Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)	Vinay Kumar (Karnataka)	[27]
2014–15	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Karnataka (2)	Punjab (2)	Manish Pandey (Karnataka)	Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka)	[28]
2015–16	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Gujarat	Delhi	Mandeep Singh (Punjab)	Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat)	[29]
2016–17	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi	Tamil Nadu (5)	Bengal (5)	Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu)	Aswin Crist (Tamil Nadu)	[30]
2017–18	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi	Karnataka (3)	Saurashtra	Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka)	Mohammed Siraj (Hyderabad)	[31]
2018–19	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Mumbai (3)	Delhi (2)	Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu)	Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand)	[32]
2019–20	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Karnataka (4)	Tamil Nadu	Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka)	Pritam Das (Assam)	[33]
2020–21	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	Mumbai (4)	Uttar Pradesh (2)	Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai)	Shivam Sharma (Uttar Pradesh)	[34]
2021–22	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	Himachal Pradesh	Tamil Nadu (2)	Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra)	Yash Thakur (Vidarbha)	[35]
2022–23	Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad	Saurashtra (2)	Maharashtra	Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu)	Vasuki Koushik (Karnataka)	[36]
2023–24	Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot	Haryana	Rajasthan (2)	Arslan Khan (Chandigarh)	Harshal Patel (Haryana)	[37]
2024–25

Salary

Salary Per Match ^[38]

Category	playing eleven	bench
Seniors (Who played 41+ Vijay Hazare matches in his entire career)	₹60,000 (per match)	₹30,000 (per match
Mid levels (Who played 21 to 40 Vijay Hazare matches in his entire career)	₹50,000 (per match)	₹25,000 (per match
juniors (Who played 0 to 20 Vijay Hazare matches in his entire career)	₹40,000 (per match)	₹20,000 (per match)

^[39]

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