Hubballi, Feb. 24 -- Jammu and Kashmir captain Paras Dogra won the toss and elected to bat first against Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy 2025-26 final at Hubballi's KSCA Stadium on Tuesday.

J&K made two changes to their knockout-winning XI, bringing in Qamran Iqbal and Sahil Lotra for Vanshaj Sharma and Shubham Khajuria, while Karnataka stuck with their semi-final XI.

Playing their first Ranji final, J&K enter the game on the back of successive wins against Bengal in the semi-final and against Madhya Pradesh in the quarter-final. Karnataka, meanwhile, won the semi-final against Uttarakhand on first-innings lead.

The two teams have met four times in the Ranji Trophy previously, and Karnataka have won on each occasion.

"We will bat first....