The All India Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 is scheduled to be held ahead of the senior men’s domestic cricket season, starting August 18 in Tamil Nadu.
Hosted annually in the lead-up to the domestic cricket season, the Buchi Babu Trophy returned after a six-year hiatus in 2023. Considered to be one of the oldest-running cricket tournaments in India, the tournament is named after Mothavarapu Venkata Mahipathi Naidu, popularly known as Buchi Babu Naidu, a pioneer of cricket in Tamil Nadu.
The tournament will also have several India stars in the competition this time.
Teams, format and venues
16 teams will participate in the competition along with two teams picked by the TNCA – President’s XI and TNCA XI. The tournament will be held at multiple venues across Chennai. The winner will take receive Rs. 3 lakh while the runner-up will get Rs. 2 lakh.
In the league stage, each game lasts for three days. Each team’s first innings will consist of 90 overs, followed by a second innings of 45 overs.
Knockout matches are four-day games, with each team batting for 90 overs in both the first and second innings.
Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 Groups
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Group A: TNCA President’s XI, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra
Group B: Railways, Jammu & Kashmir, Baroda, Odisha
Group C: TNCA XI, Mumbai, Haryana, Bengal
Group D: Hyderabad, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand.
Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 Match Schedule
Round 1 (August 18 to 20)
TNCA President’s XI vs HPCA at Gojan College A Ground
TNCA XI vs Mumbai at Gojan College B Ground
Chhattisgarh vs Maharashtra at Gurunanak College
Jammu & Kashmir vs Indian Railways at MRF-Pachiyappa’s
Odisha vs Baroda at CPT IP
Haryana vs Bengal at AM Jain College
MPCA vs Jharkhand at SRM College
Hyderabad vs Punjab at Murugappa Ground
Round 2 (August 22 to 24)
TNCA XI vs Haryana at Gojan College A Ground
TNCA President’s XI vs Maharashtra at Gojan College B Ground
Hyderabad vs Jharkhand at Gurunanak College
Punjab vs MPCA at MRF-Pachiyappa’s
Chhattisgarh vs HPCA at SSN College
Jammu & Kashmir vs Baroda at Murugappa Ground
Mumbai vs Bengal at IIT Madras
Indian Railways vs Odisha at SRM College
Round 3 (August 26 to 28)
TNCA President’s XI vs Chhattisgarh at Gojan College A Ground
TNCA XI vs Bengal at Gojan College B Ground
Mumbai vs Haryana at MRF-Pachiyappa’s
Indian Railways vs Baroda at Gurunanak College
Hyderabad vs MPCA at AM Jain College
Punjab vs Jharkhand at CPT IP
Jammu & Kashmir vs Odisha at SSN College
Maharashtra vs HPCA at Murugappa Ground
Semifinals (August 31 to September 3)
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Winner of Group A vs Winner of Group B, Venue: TBD
Winner of Group C vs Winner of Group D, Venue: TBD
Final (September 6 to 9) Venue: TBD
Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 Live Streaming Details
When and where to watch Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 matches?
The Buchi Babu Trophy 2024 matches will be streamed on the TNCA app and the TNCA YouTube channel.
Buchi Babu Trophy 2025 Squads
Maharashtra: Ankeet 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.
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Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre (c), Musheer Khan, Divyansh Saxena, Sarfaraz Khan, Suved Parker (vc), P Kanpillewar, Harsh Aghav, Sairaj Patil, Aakash Parkar, Aakash Anand,, Hardik Tamore, Shreyas Gurav, Yash Dicholkar, Himanshu Singh, Roystan Dias, Sylvester Dsouza, Irfan Umair.
TNCA President’s XI: Pradosh Ranjan Paul (C), C. Andre Siddarth C (Vice-capt.), 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 and Kashmir: Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Paras Dogra, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Musaif Ajaz, Kawalpreet Singh, Shivansh Sharma, Abid Mushtaq, Dikshant Kundal, Umran Malik, Umar Nazir, Rohit Sharma, Vanshaj Sharma, Sunil Kumar & Sahil Lotra.
