The Vijay Hazare Trophy replaced the Ranji One Day Trophy in 2007. It is an annual domestic cricket tournament held by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the 50-over format. Teams from states and union territories, like those in the Ranji Trophy, participate. Initially, it was played at the zonal level, but since 2002–03, it has been a national event. The tournament has been named after Vijay Hazare, former cricketer and captain who led India in 14 matches from 1951 to 1953. He famously guided India to their first-ever Test match win 1951–52 in Madras, against England.
Before the 2018/19 edition, teams were sorted into three elite groups and one plate group. Two elite groups had nine teams each, while the third had ten. The plate group included nine new teams. Teams were grouped based on the average points they earned in the previous three seasons. In the current 2023–24 season, 38 teams are divided into five groups from A to E.
Teams Played in Vijay Hazare Trophy
Group A – Tripura, Sikkim, Saurashtra, Railways, Pondicherry, Odisha, Mumbai, and Kerala.
Group B – Vidarbha, Services, Meghalaya, Manipur, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Hyderabad, and Chhattisgarh.
Group C – Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh, and Bihar.
Group D – Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Andhra Pradesh.
Group E – Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Nagaland, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Bengal, and Baroda.
Format of Vijay Hazare Trophy
Teams in each group play each other once during the League stage. The top two teams from each group progress to the next stage. After the group stage, there are three pre-quarter-finals, four quarter-finals, and two semi-finals. Finally, the teams that reach the final compete for the title.
Past Winners in Vijay Hazare Trophy
The tournament began in the 1993-94 season, with teams playing within their zones until 2001-02, without any finals. Playoff and finals were introduced in the 2004-05 season and have been a part of the tournament since then. In Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023-24, Haryana defeated Rajasthan by 30 runs in the final to win the title for the first time. Tamil Nadu is the most successful team with five titles.
Several of the current international Indian cricketers have played the tournament in the past. Virat Kohli was the highest run-scorer in the 2009 Vijay Hazare Trophy. Jasprit Bumrah was the leading wicket-taker in the 2016 edition of the tournament, while Mohammed Siraj bagged the most wickets in the 2018 edition.
List of Winners of Vijay Hazare Trophy
| Edition | Winner | Runner-up | Most runs | Most wickets |
| 2004–05 | Tamil Nadu & Uttar Pradesh —————— | V. Sivaramakrishnan | Ranadeb Bose Praveen Kumar | |
| 2005–06 | Railways | Uttar Pradesh | Dinesh Mongia | Sankalp Vohra |
| 2006–07 | Mumbai | Rajasthan | Wasim Jaffer | D. Tamil Kumaran |
| 2007–08 | Saurashtra | Bengal | Ajinkya Rahane | Vishal Bhatia |
| 2008–09 | Tamil Nadu | Bengal | Virat Kohli | Shoaib Ahmed |
| 2009–10 | Tamil Nadu | Bengal | Shreevats Goswami | Yo Mahesh |
| 2010–11 | Jharkhand | Gujarat | Ishank Jaggi | Amit Mishra |
| 2011–12 | Bengal | Mumbai | Wriddhiman Saha | Parvinder Awana |
| 2012–13 | Delhi | Assam | Robin Uthappa | Pritam Das |
| 2013–14 | Karnataka | Railways | Robin Uthappa | Vinay Kumar |
| 2014–15 | Karnataka | Punjab | Manish Pandey | Abhimanyu Mithun |
| 2015–16 | Gujarat | Delhi | Mandeep Singh | Jasprit Bumrah |
| 2016–17 | Tamil Nadu | Bengal | Dinesh Karthik | Aswin Crist |
| 2017–18 | Karnataka | Saurashtra | Mayank Agarwal | Mohammed Siraj |
| 2018–19 | Mumbai | Delhi | Abhinav Mukund | Shahbaz Nadeem |
| 2019–20 | Karnataka | Tamil Nadu | Devdutt Padikkal | Pritam Das |
| 2020–21 | Mumbai | Uttar Pradesh | Prithvi Shaw | Shivam Sharma |
| 2021–22 | Himachal Pradesh | Tamil Nadu | Ruturaj Gaikwad | Yash Thakur |
| 2022–23 | Saurashtra | Maharashtra | Narayan Jagadeesan | Vasuki Koushik |
| 2023–24 | Haryana | Rajasthan | Arslan Khan | Harshal Patel |
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