1972–73 Ranji Trophy

1972-73 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay
Most runs	Chetan Chauhan (Maharashtra) (873)^[1]
Most wickets	S. Venkataraghavan (Tamil Nadu) (58)^[2]

The 1972–73 Ranji Trophy was the 39th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their 15th title in a row defeating Tamil Nadu in the final.

Highlights

Bombay won their 15th successive Ranji Trophy. This is a record for the national championships in the Test countries. Bombay lost the 1973-74 semifinal to Karnataka on first innings lead.
27 wickets fell on the second day of the Bombay - Tamil Nadu final at Chepauk. The match ended on the first ball of the third day

Final

18-21 April 1973
Scorecard

Bombay	v	Tamil Nadu (H)
151 (71.5 overs) Ashok Mankad 38 V. V. Kumar 5/48, S. Venkataraghavan 5/60		80 (45.5 overs) Abdul Jabbar 29 Padmakar Shivalkar 8/16
113 (49.3 overs) Sudhir Naik 28*, Ajit Naik 28 B. Kalyanasundaram 4/8		61 (33.1 overs) Abdul Jabbar 28 Padmakar Shivalkar 5/18, Eknath Solkar 5/23

Bombay won by 123 runs
Madras Cricket Club Ground, Madras
Umpires: Sukken Bhattacharya and Har Prasad Sharma

Bombay won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1972/73 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1972/73 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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