Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been everywhere since the IPL, he impressed everyone with his explosive game in England and then Australia. Now he is ready to dominate in Ranji Trophy also, but this time he has got a big responsibility in this domestic tournament. He has been appointed as the vice-captain of Bihar cricket team for the first two rounds of Ranji Trophy 2025-2026 season.
Bihar Cricket Association issued a notification on Sunday giving this information and announced the squad for the first two matches of the team in Ranji Trophy. Vaibhav Suryavanshi has been selected as vice-captain in the list of 15 players. The appointment came two days before the team’s match in the tournament, as the Bihar Cricket Association (BCA) was late in appointing a selector on an ad-hoc basis to join the two-member panel following the BCCI’s order.
Shakibul Ghani became captain
Shakibul Ghani has been made the captain of Bihar cricket team. The team will play its first match in Ranji Trophy from Wednesday, October 15. This group stage match will be played by Bihar against Arunachal Pradesh at Moin Ul Haq Stadium.
Bihar team for Ranji Trophy 2025-26
Piyush Kumar Singh, Bhaskar Dubey, Shakibul Ghani (captain), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (vice-captain), Arnav Kishore, Ayush Anand Loharuka (wicket keeper), Bipin Saurabh (wicket keeper), Amod Yadav, Nawaz Khan, Saqib Hussain, Raghavendra Pratap Singh, Sachin Kumar Singh, Himanshu Singh, Khalid Alam, Sachin Kumar.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi’s performance on Australia tour was excellent
Suryavanshi’s promotion happened after the Australia tour, he has recently returned from the Australia tour with the India Under-19 team. In the first four-day Test against Australia Under-19, he scored a century in 78 balls. He was the second highest run scorer in the multi-day series by scoring 133 runs in 3 innings.
Earlier, he had also performed brilliantly in England, he also made the record of scoring the fastest century in youth ODI matches. He had scored 143 runs in this match. In 5 matches in England, he scored 355 runs at a strike rate of 174.01.

