![]() The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners | |
Dates | 9 December 2019 β 13 March 2020 |
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Administrator(s) | BCCI |
Cricket format | First-class cricket |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin then knockout |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Champions | Saurashtra (1st title) |
Participants | 38 |
Matches | 169 |
Most runs | Rahul Dalal (1,340) (Arunachal Pradesh) |
Most wickets | Jaydev Unadkat (67) (Saurashtra) |
2019β20 Indian domestic cricket season |
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Women |
The 2019β20 Ranji Trophy was the 86th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. [1] It took place between December 2019 and March 2020. [2] [3] Chandigarh competed in the Ranji Trophy for the first time. [4] Vidarbha were the defending champions. [5] [6]
In the opening round of fixtures, Vidarbha's Wasim Jaffer became the first cricketer to play in 150 matches in the Ranji Trophy. [7] [8] In January 2020, in the round seven match between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh's Ravi Yadav became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in his first over on his debut in a first-class cricket match. [9] On 12 February 2020, the Plate Group fixture between Chandigarh and Manipur was the 60,000th first-class cricket match to be played. [10] [11]
Ahead of the final round of group stage matches, Gujarat, Saurashtra and Andhra had qualified for the quarter-finals, with fourteen teams in contention for the remaining five places. [12] Goa qualified from the Plate Group, after beating Mizoram inside two days. [13] Following the final group stage games, Bengal from Group A, [14] Karnataka from Group B, [15] Jammu & Kashmir from Group C, [16] and Odisha, also from Group C, had all qualified for the quarter-finals. [17] Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka and Saurashtra all progressed from the quarter-finals to the semi-finals of the tournament. [18]
Bengal reached the final for the first time since the 2006β07 tournament, after beating Karnataka by 174 runs. [19] Saurashtra beat Gujarat by 92 runs to advance to the final for the fourth time in the last eight seasons. [20] The final finished in a draw, with Saurashtra winning their maiden title, with a lead in the first innings of the match. [21] [22]
The tournament retained the same format as the previous edition of the competition. [23] The tournament had four groups, with nine teams each in Groups A, B, and ten teams in Group C and the Plate Group. The top two teams from Group C and the top team in the Plate Group progressed to the quarter-finals of the tournament, along with the top five teams across Groups A and B. [24] A neutral curator was appointed to select the wicket for each fixture. [25]
In July 2019, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) considered the use of the Decision Review System (DRS) for matches in the knockout section of the tournament. [26] The BCCI agreed to use a "limited DRS" system, which does not use Hawk-Eye and UltraEdge. [27]
The following player transfers were approved ahead of the season. The new team, Chandigarh, transferred few players from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. [28]
Player | From | To |
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Stuart Binny [29] | Karnataka | Nagaland |
Unmukt Chand [30] | Delhi | Uttarakhand |
C. M. Gautam [31] | Karnataka | Goa |
Arun Karthik [32] | Kerala | Pondicherry |
Abrar Kazi [33] | Nagaland | Mizoram |
Milind Kumar [34] | Sikkim | Tripura |
Vinay Kumar [35] | Karnataka | Pondicherry |
Shrikant Mundhe [36] | Maharashtra | Nagaland |
K. B. Pawan [33] | Nagaland | Mizoram |
Malolan Rangarajan [37] | Uttarakhand | Tamil Nadu |
Rahil Shah [38] | Tamil Nadu | Uttarakhand |
Yashpal Singh [39] | Manipur | Sikkim |
Dwaraka Ravi Teja [40] | Andhra | Meghalaya |
Robin Uthappa [41] | Saurashtra | Kerala |
The teams were placed in the following groups, based on their performance from the previous edition. Chandigarh competed in the tournament for the first time. [42] [43]
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Plate Group
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Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
A1 | Gujarat | 602/8d & 199/6d | ||||||||||||
P1 | Goa | 173 & 164 | ||||||||||||
A1 | Gujarat | 252 & 234 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Saurashtra | 304 & 274 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Saurashtra | 419 & 426 | ||||||||||||
A3 | Andhra | 136 & 149/4 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Saurashtra | 425 & 105/4 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Bengal | 381 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Karnataka | 206 & 316 | ||||||||||||
C1 | Jammu & Kashmir | 192 & 163 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Karnataka | 122 & 177 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Bengal | 312 & 161 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Bengal | 332 & 373 | ||||||||||||
C2 | Odisha | 250 & 39/0 |
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Dates | 9 December 2019 β 13 March 2020 |
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Administrator(s) | BCCI |
Cricket format | First-class cricket |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin then knockout |
Host(s) | ![]() |
Champions | Saurashtra (1st title) |
Participants | 38 |
Matches | 169 |
Most runs | Rahul Dalal (1,340) (Arunachal Pradesh) |
Most wickets | Jaydev Unadkat (67) (Saurashtra) |
2019β20 Indian domestic cricket season |
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Men |
Women |
The 2019β20 Ranji Trophy was the 86th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. [1] It took place between December 2019 and March 2020. [2] [3] Chandigarh competed in the Ranji Trophy for the first time. [4] Vidarbha were the defending champions. [5] [6]
In the opening round of fixtures, Vidarbha's Wasim Jaffer became the first cricketer to play in 150 matches in the Ranji Trophy. [7] [8] In January 2020, in the round seven match between Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh's Ravi Yadav became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in his first over on his debut in a first-class cricket match. [9] On 12 February 2020, the Plate Group fixture between Chandigarh and Manipur was the 60,000th first-class cricket match to be played. [10] [11]
Ahead of the final round of group stage matches, Gujarat, Saurashtra and Andhra had qualified for the quarter-finals, with fourteen teams in contention for the remaining five places. [12] Goa qualified from the Plate Group, after beating Mizoram inside two days. [13] Following the final group stage games, Bengal from Group A, [14] Karnataka from Group B, [15] Jammu & Kashmir from Group C, [16] and Odisha, also from Group C, had all qualified for the quarter-finals. [17] Bengal, Gujarat, Karnataka and Saurashtra all progressed from the quarter-finals to the semi-finals of the tournament. [18]
Bengal reached the final for the first time since the 2006β07 tournament, after beating Karnataka by 174 runs. [19] Saurashtra beat Gujarat by 92 runs to advance to the final for the fourth time in the last eight seasons. [20] The final finished in a draw, with Saurashtra winning their maiden title, with a lead in the first innings of the match. [21] [22]
The tournament retained the same format as the previous edition of the competition. [23] The tournament had four groups, with nine teams each in Groups A, B, and ten teams in Group C and the Plate Group. The top two teams from Group C and the top team in the Plate Group progressed to the quarter-finals of the tournament, along with the top five teams across Groups A and B. [24] A neutral curator was appointed to select the wicket for each fixture. [25]
In July 2019, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) considered the use of the Decision Review System (DRS) for matches in the knockout section of the tournament. [26] The BCCI agreed to use a "limited DRS" system, which does not use Hawk-Eye and UltraEdge. [27]
The following player transfers were approved ahead of the season. The new team, Chandigarh, transferred few players from Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. [28]
Player | From | To |
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Stuart Binny [29] | Karnataka | Nagaland |
Unmukt Chand [30] | Delhi | Uttarakhand |
C. M. Gautam [31] | Karnataka | Goa |
Arun Karthik [32] | Kerala | Pondicherry |
Abrar Kazi [33] | Nagaland | Mizoram |
Milind Kumar [34] | Sikkim | Tripura |
Vinay Kumar [35] | Karnataka | Pondicherry |
Shrikant Mundhe [36] | Maharashtra | Nagaland |
K. B. Pawan [33] | Nagaland | Mizoram |
Malolan Rangarajan [37] | Uttarakhand | Tamil Nadu |
Rahil Shah [38] | Tamil Nadu | Uttarakhand |
Yashpal Singh [39] | Manipur | Sikkim |
Dwaraka Ravi Teja [40] | Andhra | Meghalaya |
Robin Uthappa [41] | Saurashtra | Kerala |
The teams were placed in the following groups, based on their performance from the previous edition. Chandigarh competed in the tournament for the first time. [42] [43]
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Plate Group
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Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
A1 | Gujarat | 602/8d & 199/6d | ||||||||||||
P1 | Goa | 173 & 164 | ||||||||||||
A1 | Gujarat | 252 & 234 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Saurashtra | 304 & 274 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Saurashtra | 419 & 426 | ||||||||||||
A3 | Andhra | 136 & 149/4 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Saurashtra | 425 & 105/4 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Bengal | 381 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Karnataka | 206 & 316 | ||||||||||||
C1 | Jammu & Kashmir | 192 & 163 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Karnataka | 122 & 177 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Bengal | 312 & 161 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Bengal | 332 & 373 | ||||||||||||
C2 | Odisha | 250 & 39/0 |
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