Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023, Round 1: Saurashtra Bat First Against Kerala; Toss Update And Playing XIs For All Games

All eyes will be on Test batter Cheteshwar Pujara and Saurashtra skipper Jaydev Unadkat, who was their leading wicket-taker last season. Samarth Vyas, the side's highest run-scorer in 2022-23, and wicketkeeper-batter Harvik Desai, the team's second-highest run-getter then, will also be closely watched.

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Here are the toss updates from all the first-round games of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023:

Group A matches
Saurashtra vs Kerala: Kerala won the toss and chose to bowl first in Alur
Playing XIs
Saurashtra: Sheldon Jackson (wk), Arpit Vasavada, Prerak Mankad, Harvik Desai, Chirag Jani, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Jaydev Unadkat (c), Samarth Vyas, Parth Bhut, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Ankur Panwar
Kerala: Sanju Samson (c & wk), Rohan Kunnummal, Sachin Baby, Vishnu Vinod, Sijomon Joseph, Abdul Basith, Basil Thampi, Akhil Scaria, Shreyas Gopal, Nedumankuzhy Basil, Akhin Sathar

Mumbai vs Sikkim: Sikkim won the toss and chose to bat first in Alur
Playing XIs
Sikkim: Ashish Thapa, Ankur Malik, Bhim Luitel, Nilesh Lamichaney (c), James Lepcha (wk), Palzor Tamang, Sumit Singh, Saurav Prasad, Lee Yong Lepcha, Md Saptulla, Pankaj Rawat
Mumbai: Jay Gokul Bista, Ajinkya Rahane (c), Sarfaraz Khan, Prasad Pawar (wk), Shams Mulani, Mohit Avasthi, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Atharva Ankolekar, Royston Dias, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande

Puducherry vs Railways: Railways won the toss and chose to field in Alur
Railways (Playing XI): Shivam Chaudhary, Pratham Singh, Mohammad Saif, Bhargav Merai, Upendra Yadav (c & wk), Karn Sharma, Ashutosh Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Raj Choudhary, Rahul Sharma, Akash Pandey
Puducherry Squad: Arun Karthik (wk), Paras Dogra, Gaurav Yadav, Fabid Ahmed, Jay Pande, Vikneshwaran Marimuthu, Damodaran Rohit, A Aravinddaraj, Sagar Udeshi, Premraj Rajavelu, Manik Beri, Sidak Gurvinder Singh, Abin Mathew, Akash Kargave, Parameeswaran Sivaraman, Aravind Akash

Group B matches
Meghalaya vs Vidarbha: Meghalaya won the toss and chose to bowl first in Jaipur
Playing XIs
Meghalaya: Raj Biswa, Tanmay Mishra, Nakul Harpal Verma (wk), Kishan Lyngdoh, Dippu Sangma, Akash Choudhary (c), Anish Charak, Swarajeet Das, Larry Sangma, Rajesh Bishnoi Jr, Jaskirat Singh
Vidarbha: Atharva Taide (c), Akshay Wadkar (wk), Karun Nair, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Shubham Dubey, Akshay Karnewar, Harsh Dubey, Darshan Nalkande, Nachiket Bhute, Rajneesh Gurbani

Chhattisgarh vs Services: Services won the toss and chose to bat in Jaipur
Playing XIs
Services: Arjun Sharma, Anshul Gupta, Nitin Yadav, Nakul Sharma (wk), Nitin Tanwar, Rajat Paliwal (c), Abhishek Tiwari, Ravi Chauhan, Shubham Rohilla, Varun Choudhary, Vineet Dhankhar
Chhattisgarh: Ajay Jadav Mandal, Amandeep Khare (c), Harpreet Singh Bhatia, Eknath Kerkar (wk), Rishabh Tiwari, Sanjeet Desai, Shashank Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Shubham Singh, Sourabh Majumdar, Satyam Dubey

Hyderabad vs Manipur: Hyderabad won the toss and chose to bowl first in Jaipur
Playing XIs
Hyderabad: Rahul Buddhi, Chandan Sahani, Chinntla Rakshan Readdi, Rohit Rayudu, Kartikeya Kak, Nitin Sai Yadav, Pragnay Reddy (wk), Gahlaut Rahul Singh (c), Telukupalli Ravi Teja, Tanay Thyagarajan, Tanmay Agarwal
Manipur: Ajay Lamabam Singh, Basir Rahman, Chingakham Bidash, Bikash Singh, Bishworjit Konthoujam, Johnson Singh, L Kishan Singha, Langlonyamba Keishangbam (c), Prafullomani Singh (wk), Kangabam Priyojit Singh, Rex Rajkumar

Jharkhand vs Maharashtra: Jharkhand won the toss and chose to field in Jaipur
Playing XIs
Maharashtra: Kedar Jadhav (c), Ankit Bawne, Azim Kazi, RS Hangargekar, Prashant Solanki, Sachin Bhosale, Naushad Shaikh, Nikhil Naik (wk), Om Bhosale, Satyajeet Bachhav, Pradeep Dadhe
Jharkhand: Virat Singh (c), Kumar Kushagra (wk), Saurabh Tiwary, Aryaman Sen, Nazim Siddiqui, Vikash Vishal, Monu Kumar, Anukul Roy, Varun Aaron, Sushant Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem

Group C matches
Haryana vs Uttarakhand: Haryana won the toss and chose to field in Anand
Playing XIs
Uttarakhand: Aditya Tare (wk), Akhil Rawat, Deepak Dhapola, Dikshanshu Negi, Jiwanjot Singh (c), Kunal Chandela, Swapnil Singh, Mayank Mishra, Akash Madhwal, Rajan Kumar, Priyanshu Khanduri
Haryana: Ashok Menaria (c), Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Himanshu Rana, Rohit Parmod Sharma (wk), Sumit Kumar, Ankit Kumar, Anshul Kamboj, Nishant Sindhu, Yuvraj Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

Chandigarh vs Mizoram: Mizoram won the toss and chose to bowl first in Ahmedabad
Playing XIs
Mizoram: Lalhruai Ralte (c), Agni Chopra, KC Cariappa, Mohit Jangra, B Lalnunfela, Joseph Lalthankhuma, Andrew Vanlalhruaia, Jehu Anderson (wk), Remruatdika Ralte, Vanlal Remruata, C Lalrinsanga
Chandigarh: Manan Vohra (c), Arslan Khan, Gaurav Puri, Ankit Kaushik, Mayank Sidhu (wk), Bhagmender Lather, Raj Bawa, Murugan Ashwin, Mandeep Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Karan Kaila

Jammu and Kashmir vs Karnataka: Karnataka won the toss and chose to bat in Ahmedabad
Playing XIs
Karnataka: Ravikumar Samarth, Mayank Agarwal (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Sharath BR (w), Nikin Jose, Manish Pandey, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jagadeesha Suchith, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Vasuki Koushik, Vidhwath Kaverappa
Jammu and Kashmir: Qamran Iqbal, Shubham Khajuria (c), Fazil Rashid (wk), Henan Nazir Malik, Abdul Samad, Vivrant Sharma, Rasikh Dar Salam, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Sahil Lotra, Abid Mushtaq, Umran Malik

Bihar vs Delhi: Bihar won the toss and chose to bat first in Ahmedabad
Playing XIs
Delhi: Anuj Rawat (wk), Priyansh Arya, Yash Dhull (c), Himmat Singh, Ayush Badoni, Lalit Yadav, Pranshu Vijayran, Suyash Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Mayank Yadav
Bihar: Bipin Saurabh (wk), Mangal Mahrour, Babul Kumar, Malay Raj, Sachin Kumar, Abhijeet Saket, Raghuvendra Pratap Singh, Shishir Saket, Veer Pratap Singh, Sakibul Gani, Ashutosh Aman(c)

Group D matches
Assam vs Gujarat: Gujarat won the toss and chose to bat in Chandigarh
Playing XIs
Assam: Denish Das, Kunal Saikia (wk), Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Riyan Parag (c), Swarupam Purkayastha, Sibsankar Roy, Saahil Jain, Mrinmoy Dutta, Mukhtar Hussain, Akash Sengupta, Abir Chakraborty
Gujarat: Kshitij Patel, Het Patel (wk), Priyank Panchal, Kathan Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Jayveer Parmar, Chirag Gandhi, Vishal Jayswal, Piyush Chawla, Chintan Gaja (c), Arzan Nagwaswalla

Andhra vs Himachal Pradesh: Himachal Pradesh won the toss and chose to bowl in Chandigarh
Playing XIs
Himachal Pradesh: Ekant Sen, Sumeet Verma, Amit Kumar, Nikhil Gangta (c), Prashant Chopra (wk), Arpit Guleria, Rishi Dhawan, Mayank Dagar, Akash Vasisht, Vinay Galetiya, Vaibhav Arora
Andhra: Ashwin Hebbar, Hanuma Vihari, Srikar Bharat (c & wk), Ricky Bhui, Manish Golamaru, Tripurana Vijay, Shaik Rasheed, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Nitish Reddy, Prithvi Raj Yarra, KV Sasikanth

Arunachal Pradesh vs Rajasthan: Rajasthan won the toss and chose to bat first in Chandigarh
Playing XIs
Rajasthan: Mahipal Lomror, Kunal Singh Rathore (wk), Deepak Hooda (c), Aniket Choudhary, Deepak Chahar, Yash Kothari, Abhijeet Tomar, Manav Suthar, Khaleel Ahmed, Salman Khan, Rahul Chahar
Arunachal Pradesh: Neelam Obi (c), Techi Doria, Kumar Nyompu, Aprameya Jaiswal, Kamsha Yangfo (wk), Likha Sonia, Divyanshu Yadav, Akshay Jain, Sachin Sharma, Nabam Abo, Yorjum Sera

Group E matches
Bengal vs Nagaland: Bengal won the toss and chose to field in Mumbai
Playing XIs
Bengal: Abhimanyu Easwaran (wk), Abishek Porel, Sudip Kumar Gharami (c), Anustup Majumdar, Ritwik Chowdhury, Karan Lal, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sakshaim Chaudhary, Pradipta Pramanik, Akash Deep, Ishan Porel
Nagaland: Joshua Ozukum, Sedezhalie Rupero, Tahmeed Rahman, Karan Tewatiya, Khrievitso Kense, Chopise Hopongkyu, Hokaito Zhimomi, Sumit Kumar (wk), Akavi Yeptho, Rongsen Jonathan (c), Jaganath Sinivas

Goa vs Madhya Pradesh: Madhya Pradesh won the toss and chose to bowl first in Mumbai
Playing XIs
Madhya Pradesh: Venkatesh Iyer, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Rajat Patidar, Shubham Sharma (c), Himanshu Mantri (wk), Yash Dubey, Kulwant Khejroliya, Kumar Kartikeya, Arshad Khan, Rahul Batham, Saransh Jain
Goa: Arjun Tendulkar, Darshan Misal (c), Deepraj Gaonkar, Ishaan Gadekar, Mohit Redkar, Rahul Tripathi, Samar Shravan Dubhashi (wk), Shubham Tari, Snehal Kauthankar, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vijesh Prabhudessai

Baroda vs Punjab: Punjab won the toss and chose to bowl first in Thane
Playing XIs
Punjab: Abhishek Sharma, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Anmolpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh (c), Nehal Wadhera, Sanvir Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Siddarth Kaul, Harpreet Brar, Mayank Markande, Baltej Singh
Baroda: Jyotsnil Singh, Ninad Rathva, Abhimanyu Singh Rajput, Krunal Pandya (c), Vishnu Solanki, Shivalik Sharma, Mitesh Patel (wk), Babashafi Pathan, Atit Sheth, Mahesh Pithiya, Lukman Meriwala