1938–39 Ranji Trophy

1938-39 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bengal
Participants	19
Matches played	18
Most runs	Naoomal Jeoomal (Sind) (418)^[1]
Most wickets	Amir Elahi (Nawanagar) (28)^[2]

The 1938–39 Ranji Trophy was the fifth season of the Ranji Trophy. Nineteen teams took part in four zones in a knockout format. Bengal won their first title defeating Southern Punjab in the final.

Highlights

Tom Longfield was the second non-native captain to win Ranji trophy, after Bert Wensley in 1936-37
Naoomal Jeoomal of Sind scored 203* against Nawanagar out of a score of only 326.
In the Nawanagar v Western India match, Amar Singh became the first bowler to take 100 Ranji Trophy wickets.^[3] This was his 14th Ranji Trophy match.

Knockout tree

Semi-finals		Final

21 Jan 1939 – Calcutta
Bengal	inns and 285 runs
Madras

		18 Feb 1939 – Calcutta
		Bengal	178 runs
		Southern Punjab



10 Feb 1939 - Patiala
Southern Punjab	7 wkts
Sind

Final

18-21 Feb 1939
Scorecard

Bengal (H)	v	Southern Punjab
222 (83.5 overs) Kartick Bose 48 Amir Elahi 5/73		328 (90 overs) Wazir Ali 222 Kamal Bhattacharya 5/100
418 (146.3 overs) Basil Malcolm 91 Murawwat Hussain 4/97		134 (48.4 overs) Lala Amarnath 37 Tom Longfield 4/48

Bengal won by 178 runs
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: Nirmal Chatterjee, M. Dutta Ray

Bengal won the toss and elected to bat

Teams

North Zone
Southern Punjab
Northern India
North West Frontier Province
Delhi
Rajputana
West Zone
Sind
Nawanagar
Western India
Bombay
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Baroda
South Zone
Madras
Hyderabad
Mysore
East Zone
Bengal
Central India
United Provinces
Bihar

The team that won the zonal title is listed in bold. The teams are listed in the approximate order in which they finished in the zone.

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1938/39 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1938/39 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
↑ http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16836.html Nawanagar v Western India, 1938-39

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