# Vijay Hazare Trophy

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 format of cricket is 50 overs per side similar to One Day International matches. The most successful teams since expansion are Tamil Nadu and Karnataka who have won the tournament five times; the latter winning the latest edition.

## History

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

## 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.

## 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 | Zone winners | Zone winners | Zone winners | Zone winners | Most runs | Most wickets | Ref |
| Edition | Central | East | North | South | West | Most runs | Most wickets | Ref |
| 1993–94 | Uttar Pradesh | Bengal | Haryana | Karnataka | Bombay | Rahul Dravid (Karnataka) | Dhanraj Singh (Haryana) | |
| 1994–95 | Madhya Pradesh | Bengal | Punjab | Hyderabad | Maharashtra | Ajay Sharma (Delhi) | Arindam Sarkar (Bengal) | |
| 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) | |
| 1996–97 | Madhya Pradesh | Assam | Delhi | Tamil Nadu | Mumbai | Sanjay Manjrekar (Mumbai) | Hanumara Ramkishen (Andhra Pradesh) | |
| 1997–98 | Madhya Pradesh | Bengal | Delhi | Tamil Nadu | Mumbai | Sujith Somasunder (Karnataka) | Rahul Sanghvi (Karnataka) | |
| 1998–99 | Madhya Pradesh | Bengal | Punjab | Karnataka | Mumbai | Vijay Bharadwaj (Karnataka) | Jaswant Rai (Himachal Pradesh) N. Singh (Hyderabad) | |
| 1999–2000 | Madhya Pradesh | Bengal | Delhi | Tamil Nadu | Mumbai | Mohammad Azharuddin (Hyderabad) | T. Pawan Kumar (Hyderabad) | |
| 2000–01 | Madhya Pradesh | Orissa | Punjab | Tamil Nadu | Mumbai | Amit Pathak (Andhra Pradesh) | Venkatapathy Raju (Hyderabad) R. Sanghvi (Delhi) | |
| 2001–02 | Railways | Orissa | Punjab | Karnataka | Mumbai | Sandeep Sharma (Himachal Pradesh) | Anup Dave (Rajasthan) J. Gokulakrishnan (Assam) L. Patel (Gujarat) V. Sharma (Punjab) | |
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 |
| 2002–03 | No final | Tamil Nadu | Punjab | Niranjan Godbole (Maharashtra) | Iqbal Siddiqui (Maharashtra) |
| 2003–04 | No final | Mumbai | Bengal | Devang Gandhi (Bengal) | Sarandeep Singh (Delhi) |
| 2004–05 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | Shared: Tamil Nadu (2) and Uttar Pradesh | Shared: Tamil Nadu (2) and Uttar Pradesh | Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu) | Ranadeb Bose (Bengal) Praveen Kumar (Uttar Pradesh) |
| 2005–06 | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | Railways | Uttar Pradesh | Dinesh Mongia (Punjab) | Sankalp Vohra (Baroda) |
| 2006–07 | Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | Mumbai (2) | Rajasthan | Wasim Jaffer (Mumbai) | D. Tamil Kumaran (Tamil Nadu) |
| 2007–08 | Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam | Saurashtra | Bengal (2) | Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai) | Vishal Bhatia (Himachal Pradesh) |
| 2008–09 | Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala | Tamil Nadu (3) | Bengal (3) | Virat Kohli (Delhi) | Shoaib Ahmed (Hyderabad) |
| 2009–10 | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | Tamil Nadu (4) | Bengal (4) | Shreevats Goswami (Bengal) | Yo Mahesh (Tamil Nadu) |
| 2010–11 | Holkar Stadium, Indore | Jharkhand | Gujarat | Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand) | Amit Mishra (Haryana) |
| 2011–12 | Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi | Bengal | Mumbai | Wriddhiman Saha (Bengal) | Parvinder Awana (Delhi) |
| 2012–13 | Dr. Y. S. Rajashekar Reddy ACA–VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam | Delhi | Assam | Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) | Pritam Das (Assam) |
| 2013–14 | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | Karnataka | Railways | Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) | Vinay Kumar (Karnataka) |
| 2014–15 | Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad | Karnataka (2) | Punjab (2) | Manish Pandey (Karnataka) | Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka) |
| 2015–16 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore | Gujarat | Delhi | Mandeep Singh (Punjab) | Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat) |
| 2016–17 | Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi | Tamil Nadu (5) | Bengal (5) | Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu) | Aswin Crist (Tamil Nadu) |
| 2017–18 | Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi | Karnataka (3) | Saurashtra | Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) | Mohammed Siraj (Hyderabad) |
| 2018–19 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore | Mumbai (3) | Delhi (2) | Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu) | Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand) |
| 2019–20 | M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore | Karnataka (4) | Tamil Nadu | Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka) | Pritam Das (Assam) |
| 2020–21 | Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi | Mumbai (4) | Uttar Pradesh (2) | Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai) | Shivam Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) |
| 2021–22 | Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | Himachal Pradesh | Tamil Nadu (2) | Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra) | Yash Thakur (Vidarbha) |
| 2022–23 | Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad | Saurashtra (2) | Maharashtra | Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu) | Vasuki Koushik (Karnataka) |
| 2023–24 | Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot | Haryana | Rajasthan (2) | Arslan Khan (Chandigarh) | Harshal Patel (Haryana) |
| 2024–25 | Kotambi Stadium, Vadodara | Karnataka (5) | Vidarbha | Karun Nair (Vidarbha) | Arshdeep Singh (Punjab) |

## Salary

Salary Per Match :
| 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) |