Ranji Elite Group matches from Nov 3

India's [ Images ] domestic cricket season begins with the BCCI Corporate Tournament from September 1 while the league stage of the Ranji Trophy elite competition will be held from November 3 to December 24, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Wednesday.

The BCCI Corporate Tournament, for the Raj Singh Dungarpur [ Images ] Trophy, will be played from September 1-8 in Vishakhapatnam, Chennai and Bengaluru [ Images ].

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Jaipur [ Images ] will host the Irani Cup game between Ranji Trophy winners Rajasthan [ Images ] and Rest of India from October 1-5.

The next tournament, decided by BCCI Tour, Programmes and Fixtures Committee at its recent meeting in Mumbai [ Images ], is the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, at Nagpur from October 10-13.

For the Ranji Trophy first division, eight teams -- Rajasthan, Karnataka [ Images ], Mumbai, Railways, Uttar Pradesh [ Images ], Punjab [ Images ], Saurashtra and Orissa – are placed in Group A.

Group B comprises seven teams -- Baroda, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Delhi [ Images ], Gujarat, Bengal and Madhya Pradesh [ Images ].

The knock-out matches of Ranji Trophy Elite Group will be played from January 2-23, 2012.

The Ranji Trophy Plate group matches will be played from November 3 to December 9. The semi-finals will be played from December 21-24.

The winners of the semi-finals will qualify for the knock-out stage of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division.

In the Ranji Trophy Plate Division -- Andhra, Services, Kerala [ Images ], Vidarbha, HPCA and Tripura – are placed in Group A, while Maharashtra [ Images ], Goa [ Images ], Hyderabad, Jharkhand, Assam, Jammu and Kashmir [ Images ] will make up Group B.

The Duleep Trophy will be played from January 27 to February 16 next year while the inter-state one-day league will be played from February 20-28, 2012.

The All-India inter-state knock-out tournament, for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, will be played from March 5-12, 2012, while the Deodhar Trophy will be played from March 16-19, 2012.

The inter-state T20 zonal league will be played in September-October and the All-India inter-state T20 knock-out tournament for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, from March 23-27, 2012.