Duleep Trophy Winners List From 1961-2025 | Updated

One of the most prestigious domestic cricket tournaments and one of the most important cricket tournaments for the future of Indian cricket is the Duleep Trophy. The first season of the Duleep Trophy took place back in late September 1961 and was named after legendary cricketer Duleepsinhji. The tournament has always been in the headlines due to its thrilling encounters and players who will represent India on the international stage and have the potential to become one of the best cricketers in the world, such as Virat Kohli or Sachin Tendulkar, who have represented the Indian cricket team and taken the nation to new heights.

Who is the Duleep Trophy 2025 Winner?

The 2025 Duleep Trophy 2025 is currently in the climax stage, as the final match of the tournament between South Zone and Central Zone is being fought out in the finals of this iconic contest. Central Zone won the toss and decided to bowl first, which works in their favour as in the first innings of the game, South Zone's batting line was shattered at the score of just 149 runs after an incredible bowling demonstration from a right-arm off-spinner, Saransh Jain, who took an incredible five-wicket haul in 24 overs and gave just 49 runs off it, the bowler was supported by the left-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya who took 4 wickets 21-over spell.

In reply, Central Zone demonstrated an incredible performance, and at the end of Day 2, Central Zone scored 384 for the loss of 5 wickets. Central Zone skipper Rajat Patidar played a brilliant knock and scored 101 runs in 115 balls, including 12 fours and 2 sixes. Though Patidar played an outstanding innings, the showstopper was the 25-year-old left-handed batter, Yash Rathore, who scored a brilliant 137 runs in 188 balls, including 11 fours and 1 six and is still on the crease.

Fans will hope to witness a thrilling game of cricket from these two teams on Day 3, like they did in the first 2 Days of the Duleep Trophy 2025 final between West Zone and Central Zone.

Duleep Trophy Winners List

Here is the Duleep Trophy Winners list from the Inaugural season to the 2024-25 season. The Duleep Trophy is a first-class cricket contest and one of the prestigious tournaments, which is rated very highly in the domestic circuit of cricket in India. The players who do well in this tournament are considered to represent the national side of the Indian Cricket Team.

All Duleep Trophy Teams

The Duleep Tournament is a first-class cricket contest where the teams are divided into the various geographical zones of India, which are North, South, East, West, and Central. Though there have been few expectations in the tournaments over the years, where the regular Zonal format was not being followed, like back in the 2002-2003 edition of the tournament, where the teams were based on the Ranji Trophy Groups. The teams were named Elite Group A, Elite Group B, Elite Group C, Plate Group A, Plate Group B, Plate Group C.

The back-to-back four editions of the Duleep Trophy 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-2019, 2019-2020 also did not follow the traditional Zonal format, where the Teams were named India Red, India Blue, and India Green, which were selected by the The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to showcase top talents in domestic cricket for the national team. The traditional Zonal format was again changed in the previous 2024 edition of the tournament, where the teams were named India A, India B, India C, and India D.

The first-ever Duleep Trophy final was between the South Zone and West Zone, where the West Zone won the game by 10 wickets with the help of India's legendary right-arm off spinner Polly Umrigar took 6 wickets in the first innings and led the West Zone to become the inaugural champions of the Duleep Trophy.

In the Previous edition of the Duleep Trophy 2024, India A won the tournament after defeating India C in the finals by 132 runs, where middle-order batter Shashwat Rawat was named Player of the Match after scoring an incredible 124 runs in the first innings and 53 runs in the second innings.

Duleep Trophy Winners (Zonal Format)

As mentioned above, the Duleep Trophy always followed the traditional Zonal format with a few exceptions over the years. In the Zonal Format, the five featured zones are the North Zone, the South Zone, the East Zone, the West Zone, and the Central Zone. The North Zone has won most of the time with 17 titles to its name, while the second place was acquired by the West Zone, which is just behind the North Zone with 16 titles. South Zone is in third place with 12 titles. Central Zone is in 4th place with 5 titles. While the East Zone is currently residing at the bottom of the list with 2 titles, 4 finals of the Duleep Trophy were ended in a tie.

As mentioned above, the West Zone was the first ever winner of the Zonal format, which played against the South Zone and won by 10 wickets. On the other hand, South Zone won the last Zonal format of the tournament, against the West Zone by 75 runs back in July 2023.

Duleep Trophy Winners 2002-2003 (Elite and Plate Group)

As mentioned above, back in the 2002-2003 edition of the Duleep Trophy, the tournament did not follow the traditional Zonal format of the tournament, and the teams' names were Elite Group A, Elite Group B, Elite Group C, Plate Group A, Plate Group B, Plate Group C, where the teams were based on the Ranji Trophy Groups. Elite C won the tournament after ending up at the top of the points table with 21 points. They played 4 games in the tournament, and 3 of them ended in a draw, and they won 1 of them against Plate A by 9 wickets with the help of right-arm medium fast bowler Siddharth Trivedi, who took a total of 8 wickets in the match, and led his team to a victory.

Duleep Trophy Winners 2016-2019 (India Red, India Blue, and India Green)

After more than a decade, for four back-to-back editions of the Duleep Trophy from 2016 to 2019, the tournament was played in a format other than the Zonal, as the teams were named India Red, India Blue and India Green, which were directly selected by the BCCI to determine the top talents in the Indian domestic cricket for the who could be the top and potential players who will represent India national team in the future. India Red and India Blue both won 2-time each, while India Green did not win the single title during those four editions of the Duleep Trophy.

India Blue won the 2016-17 edition of the Duleep Trophy against India Red by a massive margin of 355 runs on September 10th 2016, after an outstanding innings by one of the best Test batters in the world, Cheteshwar Pujara, who scored a brilliant 256 runs, including 28 boundaries.

While India Red won the last cup in this format against India Green back on September 4 2019, by an innings and 38 runs, with the help of an outstanding knock from top order batter Abhimanyu Easwaran, who smashed 153 in the game and led his team to a victory.

Duleep Trophy winners 2024-2025 (India A, India B, India C and India D)

After the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Duleep Trophy, which followed the traditional zonal format of the game was changed again in the previous edition, as in the 2024 edition, teams were named India A, India B, India C and India D. As mentioned above India A won the tournament after defeating India C in the finals by 132 runs, where middle-order batter Shashwat Rawat was named Player of the Match after scoring an incredible 124 runs in the first innings and 53 runs in the second innings.

Highest Run Scorers in the Duleep Trophy

• Right-handed top-order batter Wasim Jaffer, who played for the West Zone and India A, is the leading run scorer in the Duleep Trophy. The former Indian batter has scored 2545 runs in the 30 matches he played, including 8 centuries and 13 half-centuries.
• Former Indian batting coach Vikram Rathour, who played for the North Zone, is the 2nd highest run-scorer in the Duleep Trophy as he scored 2265 in the 25 matches he played, including 6 hundreds and 11 fifties.
• India's legendary opening batter Anshuman Gaekwad is the second-highest run scorer for the West Zone and the third-highest run scorer in the Duleep Trophy. The right-handed batter has scored 2004 runs in 26 matches he played, including 9 hundreds and 4 fifties.

Highest Wicket Takers in the Duleep Trophy

• India's former leg-spinner Narendra Hirwani, who played for the Central Zone, is the leading wicket-taker in the Duleep Trophy. The former bowler has taken 126 wickets in the 29 matches he played, including 8 five-wicket hauls.
• Leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule, who played for the West Zone, is the 2nd highest wicket-taker in the Duleep Trophy as he took 112 wickets in the 30 matches he played, including 4 five-wicket hauls.
• India's legendary leg spinner Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, who played for the South Zone, is the third-highest wicket-taker in the Duleep Trophy. The right-hand bowler took 99 wickets in the 24 games he played in the tournament.