Buchi Babu Tournament 2025: Schedule, Venues, Squads & Other Details

The domestic tournament in Indian Cricket kick-started and will be played till January-February next month. The season started with the Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament, which began on 18th August in Chennai, which is always played in the lead-up to the Indian domestic season.
The Buchi Babu Invitational Tournament is hosted by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association every year. In 2023, the tournament returned after a gap of six years. It is named after Mothavarapu Venkata Mahipathi Naidu, popularly known as Buchi Babu Naidu, a pioneer of cricket in Tamil Nadu.
Buchi Babu Tournament this time around will see a lot of Indian players taking part in it. The event will serve as a great preparation for all the players to get into the groove ahead of the domestic season and maybe make a strong case for the national side, which is one of the best cricket teams in the world.

Buchi Babu Tournament 2025: Format

The format of the tournament is such that, in the league stage, each game will be played for three days. The first innings will comprise 90 overs, while the second innings will see 45 overs. In the knockout stage, each game will be four days. Both innings here will see 90 overs. This could pave the way for several upcoming stars to find their way into the biggest leagues in the world.

Buchi Babu Tournament Full Schedule for 2025 Season

The Buchi Babu Tournament full schedule will see games being played in three rounds. The first round will be played from August 18 to 20, followed by the second round scheduled to take place from August 22 to 24. The last round will be played from August 26 to 28. The semi-finals will be played from August 31 to September 3, while the final is scheduled to be played from September 6 to 9.

Buchi Babu Tournament 2025 Squads

This edition of the Buchi Babu Tournament will see 16 teams taking part in the event, along with TNCA picking two teams in the President’s XI and TNCA XI. The teams that are part of the event are:

• Maharashtra: Ankit Bawane (c), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Prithvi Shaw, Siddhesh Veer, Sachin Dhas, Arshin Kulkarni, Harshal Kate, Siddharth Mhatre, Saurabh Nawale (wk), Mandar Bhandari (wk), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Pradeep Dadhe, Vicky Ostwal, Hitesh Walunj, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar.
• Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre (c), Musheer Khan, Divyansh Saxena, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parker (vc), Pragnesh Kanpillewar, Harsh Aghav, Sairaj Patil, Aakash Parkar, Aakash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shreyas Gurav, Yash Dicholkar, Himanshu Singh, Roystan Dias, Sylvester D’souza, Irfan Umair.
• Madhya Pradesh: Chanchal Rathore (c), Saksham Purohit, Aryan Tiwari, Shubham Kushwah, Akhil Yadav Nigote, Rudransh Singh, Atharva Mahajan, Varun Tiwari, Soham Patwardhan, Aditya Mishra, Rohit Rajawat, Vishnu Bhardwaj, Anvesh Chawla, Akshat Dwivedi, Madhav Tiwari, Akshat Sharma, Mangesh Yadav, Ishan Choudhary.
• TNCA President’s XI: Pradosh Ranjan Paul (c), C. Andre Siddarth (vc), B. Indrajith, Vijay Shankar, R. Vimal Khumar, S. Radhakrishnan, S. Lokeshwar, G. Ajitesh, J. Hemchudeshan, R.S. Ambrish, C.V. Achyuth, H. Trilok Nag, P. Saravana Kumar, P. Vidyuth, K. Abhinav.
• TNCA XI: M. Shahrukh Khan (c), Boopathi Vaishna Kumar (Vice-capt.), B. Sachin, M. Siddharth, Tushar Raheja, Kiran Karthikeyan, S. Mohamed Ali, S. Rithik Easwaran, S.R. Athish, S. Lakshay Jain, D.T. Chandrasekar, P. Vignesh, R. Sonu Yadav, D. Deepesh, J. Prem Kumar, A. Esakkimuthu, T.D. Lokesh Raj.
• Jammu & Kashmir: Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Paras Dogra (c), Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Musaif Ajaz, Kawalpreet Singh, Shivansh Sharma (wk), Abid Mushtaq, Dikshant Kundal, Umran Malik, Umar Nazir, Rohit Sharma, Vanshaj Sharma, Sunil Kumar, Sahil Lotra.
• Bengal: Sudip Gharami, Anustup Majumdar (c), Abishek Porel, Sumanta Gupta, Aditya Purohit, Saurabh Singh, Chinmoy Singh, Vishal Bhati, Aishik Patel, Karanlal, Vikash Singh Jr., Aamir Gani, Rahul Prasad, Mukesh Kumar, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Ishan Porel, Yudhajit Guha, Nuruddin Mondal, Kanishk Seth, Sumit Mohanta, Subham Sarkar.
• Punjab: Anmolpreet Singh (c), Prabhsimran Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Jass Inder Singh, Prerit Dutta, Ashwani Kumar, Krish Bhagat, Uday Pratap Saharan, Anmol Malhotra, Salil Arora, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Aradhya Shukla, Pukhraj Mann, Raghu Shivam Sharma, Harnoor Singh Pannu.
• Odisha: Swastik Samal (c), Sandeep Pattnaik, Sambit S Baral, Sumit Sharma, Anil Parida, Sunil Kumar Roul, Tapas Kumar Das, Saideep Mohapatra, Rajesh Dhupar (wk), Badal Biswal, Om T Munde, Tarini Sa, Subhranshu Senapati, Prasant K Rana, Binaya K. Paikaray (wk), Aashirwad Swain (vc) (wk), Ashutosh Chhuria, Kartik Biswal, Govinda Poddar, Piyush Panigrahi.
• Chhattisgarh: Amandeep Khare (c), Aditya Sarwate, Ashish Chouhan, Ashutosh Singh, Avnish Singh Dhaliwal, Ayush Pandey, Dev Aditya Singh, Harvinder Singh, Mayank Yadav, Rahul Pradhan (wk), Ravi Kiran, Rishi Sharma, Sahban Khan, Sanjeet Desai, Shashank Chandrakar (wk), Shashank Tiwari, Shubham Agarwal, Sourabh Majumdar, Varun Singh Bhuie.
• Haryana: Ankit Kumar (c), Lakshya Dalal, Himanshu Rana, Yashvardhan Dalal (wk), Nishant Sindhu, Parth Vats, Sumit Kumar, Kanishk Chouhan, Amit Rana, Ajay Singh, Aman Kumar.
• Baroda: Abhimanyusingh Rajput (c), Nitya Pandya, Akshay More (wk), Sukirt Pandey, Harsh Desai, Mohit Mongia, Parth Kohli, Aryan Chavda, Pradip Yadav, Lakshit Toksiya, Ashutosh Das.
• Himachal Pradesh: Mayank Dagar (c), Ankush Bains (wk), Ankit Kalsi, Shaurya Saran, Akash Vashisht, Sidhant Purohit, Digvijay Singh Rangi, Apoorav Walia, Divesh Sharma, Hritik Kalia, Abhishek.
• Jharkhand: Virat Singh (c), Shikhar Mohan, Sharandeep Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Suraj, Anukul Roy, Sahil Raj, Manishi, Vikash Singh, Jatin Kumar Pandey.
• Hyderabad: Rahul Singh (c), Hima Teja, Tanmay Agarwal, Abhirath Reddy M, Rahul Radesh (wk), Rohith Rayudu, T. Ravi Teja, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aniketh Reddy, Nishanth, Varun Goud.
• Indian Railways: Vivek Singh (c), Dinesh Mor (wk), Ashish Singh, Mrunal Devdhar, Navneet Virk, Kush Marathe, Zubair Ali Khan, Akash Pandey, Raj Chaudhary, Adarsh Singh, Himanshu Sangwan.