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2018–19 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates1 November 2018 – 7 February 2019
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)Round-robin then knockout
Host(s) India
Participants37
2018–19 Indian domestic cricket season
Men
Women

The 2018–19 Ranji Trophy is the 85th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament that is currently taking place in India between November 2018 and February 2019.[1] The opening round of fixtures saw a total of 94 players making their first-class cricket debut.[2] Vidarbha are the defending champions.[3]

Background

In April 2018, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) reinstated Bihar for the competition, bringing the total teams to 29.[1][4] In July 2018, the BCCI increased the total number of teams to 37, with the addition of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim and Uttarakhand.[5][6]

Format

The tournament has four groups, with nine teams each in Groups A and B, and ten teams in Group C. All the new teams were placed in the Plate Group.[5][6] The teams in the Plate Group were allowed to have up to three professional players in their squads.[7] The top two teams from Group C and the top team in the Plate Group will progress to the quarter-finals of the tournament, along with five teams from Groups A and B.[5][6]

Summary

In the third round match between Vidarbha and Baroda, Vidarbha's Wasim Jaffer became the first batsman to score 11,000 runs in the Ranji Trophy.[8][9] In the fourth round match between Puducherry and Mizoram, Puducherry's Pankaj Singh set a new record for the most five-wicket hauls against different teams in the Ranji Trophy with 17.[10] The fourth round of fixtures also saw the first occasion that seven captains scored centuries.[11]

In round five, Paras Dogra batting for Puducherry scored 253 runs against Sikkim. It was his eighth double century, the most by a batsman in the Ranji Trophy.[12] Also in round five, Ajay Rohera set a new record for the highest score on debut in a first-class match.[13] Batting for Madhya Pradesh against Hyderabad, he scored 267 not out, breaking the record of 260 runs set by Amol Mazumdar in 1994.[14]

In the sixth round of fixtures, Milind Kumar of Sikkim became the first batsman to score 1,000 runs in this edition of the tournament.[15] He did so in the match against Mizoram, in his ninth innings of the competition.[16] In round seven of the tournament, Ashutosh Aman of Bihar became the first bowler to take 50 wickets in this years' Ranji Trophy tournament.[17] He went on to finish the tournament with 68 wickets, breaking the previous record of 64 dismissals set by Bishan Singh Bedi in the 1974–75 tournament.[18] Round eight saw Pankaj Singh of Puducherry become the first seam bowler to take 400 wickets in the Ranji Trophy.[19] In round nine, Tripura and Madhya Pradesh were both dismissed for just 35 runs in one of their innings.[20]

The group stage of the tournament saw two captains retire from all forms of cricket. In November 2018, Gautam Gambhir initially stepped down as captain of Delhi,[21] before announcing his retirement the following month.[22] Saurashtra's captain, Jaydev Shah, also retired from cricket in December.[23] Gambhir went on to score 112 in his final innings, his 43rd century in first-class cricket.[24]

On 2 January 2019, Rajasthan from Group C became the first team to qualify for the quarter-finals, after they beat Goa by ten wickets.[25] Ahead of the penultimate round of fixtures, ten teams across Groups A and B still had a chance to progress to the quarter-finals.[26] Vidarbha became the first team to qualify from Group A, after Baroda beat Karnataka by two wickets in their final group-stage match.[27] Despite the loss, Karnataka also qualified from Group A.[28] Uttarakhand won the Plate Group and advanced to the quarter-finals.[29]

Chhattisgarh were relegated from Group A to Group C,[30] while Goa were relegated from Group C to the Plate Group for the next season.[30]

Player transfers

The following player transfers were approved ahead of the season.[31] All the new teams in the Plate Group also transferred players into their squads, along with signing professionals.[31]

Player From To
Karn Sharma Vidarbha Andhra
Harpreet Singh Bhatia Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh
Krishna Das Assam Goa
Amit Verma Assam Goa
Urvil Patel Baroda Gujarat
Irfan Pathan Baroda Jammu & Kashmir
Chandrakant Sakure Madhya Pradesh Railways
Madhur Khatri Rajasthan Railways
Rajat Paliwal Haryana Services
Arjun Sharma Himachal Pradesh Services
Abhishek Tiwari Uttar Pradesh Services
Harmeet Singh Baddhan Jammu & Kashmir Tripura
Bravish Shetty Mumbai Tripura

Teams

The teams were drawn in the following groups:

League stage

Knockout stage

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Quarter-finals

15–19 January 2019
1st Quarter-final
Scorecard
Vidarbha
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Utarakhand
15–19 January 2019
2nd Quarter-final
Scorecard
Saurashtra
v
Uttar Pradesh
15–19 January 2019
3rd Quarter-final
Scorecard
TBC
v
TBC
15–19 January 2019
4th Quarter-final
Scorecard
TBC
v
TBC

Semi-finals

24–28 January 2019
1st Semi-final
Scorecard
TBC
v
TBC
24–28 January 2019
2nd Semi-final
Scorecard
TBC
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Final

3–7 February 2019
Final
Scorecard
TBC
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TBC

References

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