BCCI DOMESTIC SEASON 2019-20

MULTI-DAY TOURNAMENTS (Men’s Sr., Men’s U23, Men’s U19)

ONE DAY TOURNAMENTS (Men’s Sr., Men’s U23, Men’s U19, Women’s Sr., Women’s U23, Women’s U19)

ELITE* PLATE*

9 Teams 9 Teams 10 Teams 10 Teams

Top 5 teams from Top 2 teams Top 1 team both groups combined

Quarter-finals (8 teams)

Semi-finals (4 teams)

FINAL

* Refer Annexure 1 for the number of teams in each group for individual tournaments.

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Promotion and Relegation of Teams

1. Top team that qualifies for Quarter-Finals from Plate Group will be promoted to Elite Group C in the next season.

2. Top two teams that qualify for Quarter-Finals from Elite Group C will be promoted to Elite Group A and Elite Group B in the next season.

3. Bottom two teams from Elite Group A and Elite Group B combined will be relegated to Elite Group C in the next season.

4. Bottom team from Elite Group C will be relegated to Plate Group in the next season.

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T20 DOMESTIC TOURNAMENTS (Men’s Sr., Women’s Sr. & Jr.)

TOURNAMENT FORMAT

+ + + D+ +

8 Teams 8 Teams 7 Teams 7 Teams 7 Teams

Super League (Top 2 teams from each group)

5 Teams 5 Teams

Top 2 Top 2 teams Semi-finals teams

FINAL

+ Refer Annexure 2 for the number of teams in each group for individual tournaments.

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VIJAY MERCHANT TROPHY (U -16) MULTI DAY

EAST SOUTH NORTH CENTRAL WEST NORTH ZONE# ZONE# ZONE# ZONE# ZONE# EAST #

6 Teams 7 Teams 6 Teams 6 Teams 5 Teams 6 Teams

10 teams (Top 2 teams from each group) Top 2 teams

4 teams selected from 5 teams (top team from each group) based on a draw of lot Remaining 6 teams

Pre-quarters

4 Quarter-finals (8 teams) Teams

Semi-finals (4 teams)

FINAL

# Refer Annexure 3 for List of Teams.

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Annexure 1

Number of teams in each group for individual Multiday and One Day tournaments are as follows

ELITE ELITE ELITE CATEGORY TOURNAMENT TEAMS # PLATE CATEGORY A B C

Vijay Hazare Trophy (One Day) 38 9 9 10 10 Men's Senior (Multi Day) 38 9 9 10 10

Col.C K Nayudu Trophy (Multi Day) 37 9 9 9 10 Men's U23 Mens U23 One Day League & K.O. 37 9 9 9 10

Vinoo Mankad Trophy (One Day) 36 9 9 8 10 Men's U19 (Multi Day) 36 9 9 8 10

Women's Senior Senior Women's One Day League 37 9 9 9 10

10 Women's U23 Women's U23 One Day League 37 9 9 9

Women's U19 Women's U19 One Day League 36 9 9 8 10

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Annexure 2

Number of teams in each group for individual T20 tournaments are as follows:

CATEGORY TOURNAMENT TEAMS # GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CATEGORY A B C D E

Men's Senior Trophy (T20) 38 8 8 7 7 7

Women's Senior Senior Women's T20 League 37 8 7 7 7 7

Women's U23 Women's U23 T20 League 37 8 7 7 7 7

Women's U19 Women's U19 T20 League 36 7 7 7 7 7

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Annexure 3

Vijay Merchant zones’ teams are as follows:

NORTH SOUTH CENTRAL ZONE ZONE ZONE (5) (7) (6)

Punjab Andhra Pradesh Madhya Pradesh Haryana Tamil Nadu Vidarbha

Himachal Pradesh Chhattisgarh Jammu & Kashmir Kerala Team Rajasthan Chandigarh Goa Puducherry

EAST WEST NORTH EAST ZONE ZONE ZONE (6) (5) (6)

Jharkhand Nagaland

Tripura Baroda Meghalaya

Bengal Manipur

Assam Sikkim

Odisha Saurashtra Arunachal Pradesh

Bihar Mizoram

Total number of teams: 36 Note : Figures in brackets indicate total number of teams in each zone.

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LIST OF DOMESTIC TOURNAMENTS 2019-20

CATEGORY TOURNAMENT TEAMS #

Duleep Trophy (Multi Day) 3

Vijay Hazare Trophy (One Day) 38

Men's Senior Prof. (One Day) 3

Ranji Trophy 38

Irani Trophy (Multi Day) 2

Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (T20) 38

Col.C K Nayudu Trophy (Multi Day) 37 Men's U23 Men’s U23 One Day (One Day) 37

Men's Vizzy Trophy (One Day) 4 Inter-University

Vinoo Mankad Trophy (One Day) 36

Men's U19 Men's U19 One Day Challenger 4

Cooch Behar Trophy (Multi Day) 36

Men's U16 Vijay Merchant Trophy (Multi Day) 36

Senior Women's T20 Challenger Trophy 3

Senior Women's One Day League 37 Women's Senior Senior Women's One Day Challenger Trophy 3

Senior Women's T20 League 37

Women's U23 T20 League 37

Women's U23 T20 Challenger Trophy 3 Women's U23 Women's U23 One Day League 37

Women's U23 One Day Challenger Trophy 3

Women's U19 T20 League 36

Women's U19 Women's U19 T20 Challenger Trophy 3 Women's U19 One Day League 36

Logic for Creating Groups: In order to ensure fair and evenly distributed groups, this year, we ensure that all groups are equally balanced by taking ranking mechanism into consideration to distribute teams across the groups.

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