Narendra Hirwani (Air-India), Hrishikesh Kanitkar (Elf), Iqbal Siddiqui, Hemant Kinikar, Syed Abbas Ali (Indian Oil), Venkatapathy Raju, Atul Bedade, Shantanu Sugwekar, Nayan Mongia (all Sun-Grace), Nikhil Haldipur, Subroto Banerjee (both Tatas), would be the big oustation names who would be displaying their skills alongwith local stalwarts past and present.

Sanjay Manjrekar, Sameer Dighe (both Air-India), Sulakshan Kulkarni (RCF), Jatin Paranjape, Amol Muzumdar, Sairaj Bahutule, Paras Mhambrey, Abey Kuruvilla, Nilesh Kulkarni (all Elf), Wasim Jaffer, Amit Dani (both Indian Oil), Vinod Kambli, Amit Pagnis (both Sun-Grace), Lalchand Rajput, Ajit Agarkar, (both Tatas) would be the tried and tested players who would be on view challenging the promising prospects Sushant Manjrekar, Swapnil Hazare, Ojas Mehta, Santosh Chafe(all Elf), Sachin Sawant (RCF), Sriram Kannan, Abhijit Shetye (both Tatas). Also on display would be the likes of Robin Morris, Rohan Gavaskar (both Sun-Grace), Anand Yalvigi (Tatas), Sanjay Bangar (Western Railway), who have sought refuge in other states after gaining their baptism in the game from the city. More importantly, all of them have made a mark for their respective state teams with impressive displays in Ranji Trophy.

Defending champions Elf Lubricants will be locking horns with Air-India in the opening match while last year's finalists Tatas Sports Club taken on Western Railway.

Following are the teams:

Group A: Elf Lubricants, Tata Sports Club, Air-India, Western Railway

Group B: Sun-Grace, Central Railway, Indian Oil, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilisers Ltd.