2014–15 Ranji Trophy

2014-15 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates	7 December 2014 – 12 March 2015
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin then knockout
Champions	Karnataka (8th title)
Participants	27
Matches played	115

2014–15 Indian domestic cricket season

The 2014–15 Ranji Trophy is the 81st season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. It is being contested by 27 teams divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B advance to the quarterfinals along with the top two teams from Group C.

Karnataka retained the title won during the 2013–14 season.

Points system

The 27 teams are divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B advance to the quarterfinals along with the top two teams from Group C. The winner of this knock-out tournament wins the Ranji Trophy. These knock-out matches are decided on the first innings result if the final result is a draw.

Points in the group stage of the tournament are awarded as follows:

Scenario	Points
Outright win	6
Bonus point (for innings and 10 wicket wins)	1
1st innings lead (in case of draw)	3
1st innings deficit (in case of draw)	1
No result	1
Outright defeat	0

Groups

The groups drawn are as follows:^[1]

Group A

Group B

Group C

League table

Updated after Round 9 (9 February 2015)

Group A

Teams	Matches	Won	Lost	Draw/NR	Points	Quotient
Karnataka	8	4	0	4	33	1.633
Tamil Nadu	8	4	1	3	29	1.244
Mumbai	8	2	2	4	20	0.937
Madhya Pradesh	8	1	1	6	19	1.143
Baroda	8	1	2	5	18	1.078
Railways	8	0	2	6	16	0.922
Uttar Pradesh	8	2	3	3	15	0.760
Bengal	8	0	1	7	13	0.921
Jammu and Kashmir	8	1	3	4	12	0.601

Advanced to knockout stage.
Relegated to Group C for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Group B

Teams	Matches	Won	Lost	Draw/NR	Points	Quotient
Delhi	8	5	1	2	37	1.471
Maharashtra	8	3	2	3	26	1.269
Vidarbha	8	2	1	5	24	1.675
Gujarat	8	2	2	4	24	0.965
Odisha	8	3	3	2	20	0.965
Punjab	8	2	3	3	19	0.947
Rajasthan	8	2	3	3	18	0.821
Haryana	8	2	4	2	17	0.875
Saurashtra	8	1	3	4	10	0.688

Advanced to knockout stage.
Relegated to Group C for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Group C

Teams	Matches	Won	Lost	Draw/NR	Points	Quotient
Assam	8	5	1	2	38	1.325
Andhra	8	4	1	3	29	1.454
Himachal Pradesh	8	2	0	6	28	1.677
Jharkhand	8	2	1	5	21	1.171
Hyderabad	8	1	1	6	20	1.123
Kerala	8	1	1	6	20	0.908
Tripura	8	0	3	5	9	0.635
Services	8	0	4	4	8	0.779
Goa	8	0	3	5	5	0.664

Advanced to knockout stage and promoted to Group A and B respectively for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Source:^[2]

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Assam

185 & 338/4

Karnataka

452 & 415/5d

Karnataka

202 & 286

Mumbai

44 & 332

Delhi

166 & 236

Mumbai

156 & 450

Karnataka

762

Tamil Nadu

134 & 411

Tamil Nadu

403 & 266

Vidarbha

259 & 142/8

Tamil Nadu

549 & 119/0d

Maharashtra

454

Andhra

138 & 101

Maharashtra

91 & 223

Quarter-finals

16–20 February
Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Assam
452 (144.2 overs) Robin Uthappa 153 (227) Krishna Das 4/101 (37.2 overs)		185 (75 overs) Gokul Sharma 58 (168) Sreenath Aravind 3/36 (17 overs)
415/5d (115 overs) Ravikumar Samarth 178 (298) Arup Das 2/63 (19 overs)		338/4 (88 overs) Gokul Sharma 127* (191) Ravikumar Samarth 2/67 (15 overs)

Match drawn
Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore
Umpires: Nitin Menon and Pashchim Pathak
Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)

Assam won the toss and elected to field
Karnataka won on 1st innings

16–20 February
Scorecard

Mumbai	v	Delhi
156 (81 overs) Nikhil Patil 54* (116) Sumit Narwal 3/37 (19 overs)		166 (54 overs) Virender Sehwag 49 (58) Shardul Thakur 5/54 (16 overs)
450 (143.1 overs) Akhil Herwadkar 161 (272) Manan Sharma 4/92 (30 overs)		236 (87 overs) Rajat Bhatia 49 (122) Balwinder Sandhu 3/35 (17 overs)

Mumbai won by 204 runs
DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack
Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnaraj Srinath
Player of the match: Shardul Thakur (Mumbai)

Delhi won the toss and elected to field

16–20 February
Scorecard

Tamil Nadu	v	Vidarbha
403 (169.5 overs) Vijay Shankar 111 (305) Rakesh Dhurv 3/106 (35.4 overs)		259 (105.2 overs) Sachin Katariya 42 (152) Malolan Rangarajan 3/42 (24.2 overs)
266 (98.2 overs) Vijay Shankar 82 (146) Swapnil Bandiwar 3/42 (14 overs)		142/8 (49 overs) Ganesh Satish 59* (131) Baba Aparajith 3/41 (19 overs)

Match drawn
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande
Player of the match: Vijay Shankar (Tamil Nadu)

Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field
Tamil Nadu won on 1st innings

16–20 February
Scorecard

Maharashtra	v	Andhra
91 (41.5 overs) Rohit Motwani 23 (66) Siva Kumar 6/41 (16.5 overs)		138 (63.3 overs) Murumulla Sriram 31 (83) Anupam Sanklecha 4/45 (18 overs)
223 (68.3 overs) Kedar Jadhav 81 (86) Siva Kumar 6/79 (21.3 overs)		101 (46.3 overs) AG Pradeep 25 (80) Anupam Sanklecha 4/19 (11 overs)

Maharashtra won by 75 runs
Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak
Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Virender Sharma
Player of the match: Kedar Jadhav (Maharashtra)

Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat

Semi-finals

25 February-1 March
Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Mumbai
202 (60.2 overs) Robin Uthappa 68 (100) Shardul Thakur 4/61 (18 overs)		44 (15.3 overs) Shreyas Iyer 15 (15) Vinay Kumar 6/20 (8 overs)
286 (77.5 overs) Abhimanyu Mithun 89 (113) Shardul Thakur 4/69 (17.5 overs)		332 (121.1 overs) Aditya Tare 98 (207) Abhimanyu Mithun 4/69 (34 0vers)

Karnataka won by 112 runs
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
Player of the match: Vinay Kumar (Karnataka)

Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat
This is 2nd Lowest total(44) for Mumbai^[3]

25 February-1 March
Scorecard

Tamil Nadu	v	Maharashtra
549 (226.4 overs) Dinesh Karthik 113 (304) Anupam Sanklecha 3/115 (45 overs)		454 (142 overs) Swapnil Gugale 154 (282) Aswin Crist 4/89 (34 overs)
119/0 d (46.2 overs) Abhinav Mukund 66* (144) Shrikant Mundhe 0/7 (6 0vers)

Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and Pashchim Pathak
Player of the match: Vijay Shankar (Tamil Nadu)

Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat
Tamil Nadu won on 1st innings

Final

8-12 March
Scorecard

Tamil Nadu	v	Karnataka
134 (62.4 overs) Abhinav Mukund 35 (137) Vinay Kumar 5/34 (15.4 overs)		762 (231.2 overs) Karun Nair 328 (560) Lakshmipathy Balaji 3/95 (34 overs)
411 (107.5 ov) Dinesh Karthik 120 (112) Shreyas Gopal 4/126 (25 overs)

Karnataka won by an innings and 217 runs
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)
Player of the match: Karun Nair (Karnataka)

Karnataka won the toss and elected to field

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Inns	Runs	Ave	HS	100s	50s
Robin Uthappa	Karnataka	19	912	50.66	156	2	5
Dinesh Karthik	Tamil Nadu	19	884	55.25	129	4	2
Abhinav Mukund	Tamil Nadu	20	858	45.15	140	2	4
KL Rahul	Karnataka	9	838	93.11	337	2	3
Sheldon Jackson	Saurashtra	14	819	68.25	181*	3	3

Most wickets

Player	Team	Inns	Wickets	Ave.	BBI	BBM	5/i	10/m
Shardul Thakur	Mumbai	18	48	20.81	6/20	9/90	3	0
Vinay Kumar	Karnataka	19	48	18.72	6/53	9/123	5	0
Siva Kumar	Andhra	15	44	14.25	7/30	12/120	4	2
Sreenath Aravind	Karnataka	19	42	17.42	4/9	8/61	0	0
Rishi Dhawan	Himachal Pradesh	13	40	24.75	7/93	11/185	4	1

References

↑ "J&K to play Ranji matches away from home". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
↑ "League Points Table". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
↑ "Karnataka dismantle Mumbai for 44". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 25 February 2015.

External links

2014–15 Ranji Trophy on ESPNcricinfo

Ranji Trophy

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Current teams	Andhra Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Mumbai Odisha Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Vidarbha

Former teams	Army Central India Central Provinces and Berar Holkar Madhya Bharat Northern India Sindh Southern Punjab United Provinces

Records Triple centuries

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