Are you a fan of the Duleep Trophy 2025? Read on this sports blog all about the Duleep Trophy 2025, including the match start date, where to watch, the match schedule, the winner’s name of previous and current matches, and much more.
Many of the Indian cricket fans of the Duleep Trophy 2025 are now watching this match either online or through highlights. People have also started betting as well as the prediction of this tournament.
Even in school, college, or as an officer, people shave tarted talking about this tournament, about which matches are today, who will win, and how to buy a ticket too.
It might also be helpful to know what the Duleep Trophy is all about first.
The Duleep Trophy is all about a cricket competition held in India that has been conducted since the year 1961-1962. This cricket tournament is contested by different zones of India, namely the East, West, North, South, and Central Zone teams.
The first time it was played, the winner was the West Zone team, which defeated the South Zone. During that first match event, it was played in the format of a knockout, but later, only during the year 1993, it was converted into a league format. In the Cricket tournament history, the first guest cricket team was the England cricket team, which was in the year 2003.
There were also times when this tournament was not held, such as in 2016; however, in the year 2023, after the COVID-19 pandemic, it started to be played again.
During the 2024 tournament, it was seseen at four teams, namely Team India A, B, C, and D, competed with each other.
You might also be interested in knowing which states belong to the various zones. See below the list of the names of the states, zonal-wise
- In the north-east zone, states include Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, and Nagaland.
- In the south zone, the states are Karnataka, Hyderabad, Kerala, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, etc.
- In the central zone, the names of the states included are Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, railways, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand.
- In the western zone, the states included are Baroda, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Saurashtra,
- In the North Zone, the states included are Delhi, Chandigarh, HP, J & K, Punjab, Haryana, and Services.
Which team has been the winner since 1961?
The winning team since the tournament started in 1961 comprises the West Zone in 1962,1963,1965,1969,1976, 1980, 1981,1986, 2005,2008,2022, etc. The Central Zone cricket team won this tournament in the years 1965, 1966,2004, 2005,1985,1981,1978,1972,1969, etc. The South Zone won it in the years 1967, 1968,1970, 1974, 1975,1984, and 1989,1995,2010.
The North Zone cricket team won this tournament in the years 1973, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993,1994,1995,1999, 2000,2003,2006, 2007,2013.
It has also been seen that the India Red team won this tournament in the year 2019, India Blue in 2018, India Red in 2017, and India A in the year 2024 -2025.
Where will this trophy be telecast in India?
This cricket tournament will not be telecast on any TV channel in India, but you can watch the live match at the stadium. Even if you have an internet TV at your home, you can’t watch the live match, so what best option? Fans can buy a ticket for the match and watch it at the match venue directly.
Many of the cricket tournament fans have now arrived at the Bangalore BCCI stadium to watch the live matches. By doing so, they spent money on buying travel tickets along with the stadium ticket fee and the room rent charges. Not only fans from across the Indian state but also fans from other countries visited Bangalore to watch the live matches of this cricket tournament. Fans of the Duleep cricket tournament from Australia, Germany, the United States, South Africa, Japan, etc. were seen on the match day, clapping their hands when their favourite teams scored sixes or 4s.
Duleep Trophy Match Schedule 2025
The Duleep Trophy cricket tournament started on August 28 and ends on September 15, 2025. On the 1ST, the teams playing are the North Zone vs. West Zone, and the C Zone vs. NE Zone. On September 4, the South Zone vs TBC and the West Zone vs TBC will play at the BCCI Centre of Excellence ground in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. On September 11, TBC vs TBC will compete with each other. For the latest highlights, do stay with our updates online.
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