Complete Duleep Trophy Winners List

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has organised several competitions in the country over the decades, across the First Class, List A, and T20 format. One of the most iconic domestic tournaments includes the Duleep Trophy, which was named after former Indian cricketer Duleepsinhji, and was first contested in the 1961-62 format.

The basic idea was to have different geographical zones participating in a First Class cricket competition, but there have been several format changes, and special invitee teams taking place over the years too. Sometimes, zonal teams participated while in 2002-03, the Ranji Trophy groups were replicated in this tournament. Between 2016-17 and 2019-20, BCCI also had teams called India Blue, India Red and India Green.

Duleep Trophy format

The first Duleep Trophy format followed saw 5 teams participating in a knockout format including a final. Ever since the Duleep Trophy 1993-94 edition, the competition moved to a league format. That changed back again to the knockout format in 2000-01, but only for three more seasons.

Between the 2003–04 and 2009-10 seasons, BCCI invited a sixth team to participate in the tournament, including England A being the first such invitation team, only for this format to be scrapped too. Coming to the most recent tournament – Duleep Trophy 2024 – the participating teams are India A, B, C, and D.

Here, the squads were picked by national selectors and the format followed is a round-robin with no knockout, with the table topper being declared as the winner See below for our complete Duleep Trophy winners list, last updated 15th September 2024, during the Duleep Trophy 2024-25 season in India:

Complete Duleep Trophy winners list

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Venue	Man of the Match
1961-62	West Zone	South Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1962-63	West Zone (2)	South Zone	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	NA
1963-64	West Zone (3) & South Zone	DRAW	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	NA
1964-65	West Zone (4)	Central Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1965-66	South Zone (2)	Central Zone	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras	NA
1966-67	South Zone (3)	West Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1967-68	South Zone (4)	West Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1968-69	West Zone (5)	South Zone	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	NA
1969-70	West Zone (6)	North Zone	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	NA
1970-71	South Zone (5)	East Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1971-72	Central Zone	West Zone	Central College Ground, Bangalore	NA
1972-73	West Zone (7)	Central Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1973-74	North Zone	Central Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1974-75	South Zone (6)	West Zone	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	NA
1975-76	South Zone (7)	North Zone	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Madras	NA
1976-77	West Zone (8)	North Zone	Moti Bagh Stadium, Baroda	NA
1977-78	West Zone (9)	North Zone	Wankhede Stadium, Bombay	NA
1978-79	North Zone (2)	West Zone	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	NA
1979-80	North Zone (3)	West Zone	Wankhede Stadium, Bombay	NA
1980-81	West Zone (10)	East Zone	Eden Gardens, Calcutta	NA
1981-82	West Zone (11)	East Zone	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay	NA
1982-83	North Zone (4)	South Zone	Wankhede Stadium, Bombay	NA
1983-84	North Zone (5)	West Zone	Barabati Stadium, Cuttack	NA
1984-85	South Zone (8)	North Zone	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	NA
1985-86	West Zone (12)	South Zone	Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	NA
1986-87	South Zone (9)	West Zone	Wankhede Stadium, Bombay	NA
1987-88	North Zone (6)	West Zone	Jayanti Stadium, Bhilai	NA
1988-89	North Zone (7) & West Zone (13)	DRAW	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	NA
1989-90	South Zone (10)	Central Zone	Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad	NA
1990-91	North Zone (8)	West Zone	Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur	NA
1991-92	North Zone (9)	West Zone	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Valsad	NA
1992-93	North Zone (10)	Central Zone	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	NA

The Duleep Trophy zonal format is the one that has been played the most over the years and hence, West Zone is the most successful team in this competition, with as many as 19 titles to their name. West Zone beat South Zone in the final of the inaugural tournament and South Zone is also the Duleep Trophy defending champions, beating West Zone in the 2023 Duleep Trophy final.

West Zone and North Zone have always dominated the competition and have the most entries in the Duleep Trophy winners list. In fact, it was only in Duleep Trophy 1971-72 (11th edition) that a team apart from these two won the tournament, with Central Zone emerging as winners. From the zonal teams, Central Zone is the least successful in Duleep Trophy history from those who’ve played in 15+ editions, with 6 titles under their belt.

There is not much data online about the player of the match in the finals of the earlier seasons of the Duleep Trophy. It’s only in more recent years that a Man of the Match was announced in Duleep Trophy finals. In the Duleep Trophy, the 1st innings lead is taken into consideration to decide a winner when a match is drawn; however, a few times, the trophy has been shared when the 1st innings hasn’t been completed.

Year	Winner	Runner-up	Venue	Man of the Match
1993-94	North Zone (11)	West Zone	Round Robin	NA
1994-95	North Zone (12)	South Zone	Round Robin	NA
1995-96	South Zone (11)	Central Zone	Round Robin	NA
1996-97	Central Zone (2)	South Zone	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	NA
1997-98	Central Zone (3) & West Zone (14)	DRAW	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	NA
1998-99	Central Zone (4)	West Zone	N2 Stadium, Aurangabad	NA
1999-00	North Zone (13)	West Zone	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	NA
2000-01	North Zone (14)	Central Zone	Round Robin	NA
2001-02	West Zone (15)	North Zone	Round Robin	NA
2002-03	Elite C	Plate Group B	Round Robin	NA
2003-04	North Zone (15)	East Zone	Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali	NA
2004-05	Central Zone (5)	North Zone	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur	NA
2005-06	West Zone (16)	East Zone	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	NA
2006-07	North Zone (16)	Sri Lanka A	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	NA
2007-08	North Zone (17)	West Zone	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	NA
2008-09	West Zone (17)	South Zone	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	NA
2009-10	West Zone (18)	South Zone	Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad	NA
2010-11	South Zone (12)	North Zone	ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam	Subramaniam Badrinath – 136(208)
2011-12	East Zone	Central Zone	Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore	Wriddhiman Saha – 170(245) & 5 catches
2012-13	East Zone (2)	Central Zone	MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai	Ishank Jaggi – 100(251)* & 1 catch
2013-14	North Zone (18) & South Zone (13)	DRAW	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi	NA
2014-15	Central Zone (6)	South Zone	Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi	KL Rahul – 185(233) & 130(152)
2016-17	India Blue	India Red	Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground, Greater Noida	Cheteshwar Pujara – 256(363)* & 2 catches
2017-18	India Red	India Blue	Lucknow International Cricket Stadium, Lucknow	Washington Sundar – 88(118), 5/94, 42(135) & 6/87
2018-19	India Blue (2)	India Red	NPR College Ground, Dindigul	Nikhil Gangta – 130(241) & 2 catches
2019-20	India Red (2)	India Green	Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Abhimanyu Easwaran – 153(300)
2022-23	West Zone (19)	South Zone	SNR College Cricket Ground, Coimbatore	Yashasvi Jaiswal – 1(8), 265(323) & 2 catches
2023	South Zone (14)	West Zone	Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	Vidwath Kaverappa – 8(28), 7/53, 1/51 & 1 catch
2024-25	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2025-26	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2026-27	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2027-28	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Among the most memorable performances in a Duleep Trophy final was that of KL Rahul who scored twin centuries for Central Zone in the 2014-15 final; Washington Sundar also picked up two 5-fers and scored a fifty in the 2017-18 final. Till date, no player has been adjudged Man of the Match in two different Duleep Trophy finals.

Duleep Trophy 2024 – Ongoing

The 2024 Duleep Trophy will see each team playing the other three once each. At the time of us writing this, India C was in the lead with 1 win and 1 draw in their 2 games so far, with 9 points, leading India B who has 7 points. Here’s the winning moment for South Zone from the previous season: