" OLDEST TROPHY" WITH "NEW FORMAT"
Ranjitsinhji, in whose honour the trophy was established in 1934
History
The competition was launched as "The Cricket Championship of India" following a meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in July 1934, with the first fixtures taking place in 1934–35. The trophy was donated by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. The first Ranji Trophy Championship was won by Bombay after they defeated North India in the final.
It was an instant success, specially among British living in India. In fact, Ranji Trophy went smoothly even when all went to Second World War in 1939-45.
The unique rule of Ranji trophy, then and even now, is first innings lead. If teams fail to register outright wins, whichever made more runs with first 10 wickets is adjudged the winner. or promoted further in the championship.
Format
Most of the teams playing in the Ranji Trophy represent states of India; there are two teams representing regions within a state (Vidarbha and Saurashtra); three teams that represent individual cities (Mumbai, Baroda and Hyderabad) and two teams based in Delhi but with no regional affiliations (Railways and Services).
From its inception until the 2001-02 season, the teams were grouped geographically into four or five zones – North, West, East, and South, with Central added in 1952-53. Initial matches were played within the zones on a knock-out basis until 1956-57, and thereafter on a league basis, to determine a winner. Then, the individual zone winners competed in a knock-out tournament, leading to a final which decided the winner of the Ranji Trophy. In the 1970-71 season, the knock-out stage was expanded to the top two teams from each zone, a total of ten qualifying teams. This was expanded again to the top three from each zone in 1992-93, a total of fifteen qualifying teams; between 1996-97 and 1999-2000, the fifteen qualifying teams competed in a secondary group stage, with three groups of five teams, and the top two from each group qualifying for the knock-out stage; in all other years, a full fifteen-team knock-out tournament was held.
The format was changed in 2002–03 season with the zonal system abandoned and a two-division structure was adopted – the Elite Group, containing fifteen teams, and the Plate Group, containing the rest. Each group has two sub-groups who play a round-robin; the top two from each sub-group then contest a knock-out tournament to determine the winner. The team which finishes last in each Elite sub-group is relegated, and both Plate Group finalists are promoted, for the following season. For the 2006–07 season, the divisions were re-labelled the Super League and Plate League respectively.
In the 2008–09 season, the current format was adopted to allow Plate Group teams to contest the Ranji Trophy. The top two from each Plate sub-group contest semi-finals; the winners of these two matches then join the top three from each Super League sub-group in an eight-team knock-out tournament. The winner of this knock-out tournament then wins the Ranji Trophy. In 2010-11 season, history was created when a plate group team "Rajasthan" not only entered into the Elite Group but went on to win their maiden Ranji Trophy final.
Knock-out matches in the Ranji Trophy are decided on the first innings result if the final result is a draw.The matches are a 4 day match format except for the final which is played for five days just as a regular test match.
NEW FORMAT "2012-2013"
BCCI Technical Committee headed by former India captain" Sourav Ganguly" Design the new format and BCCI decide to introduce the format with nine teams in three groups and a revised points system for the Ranji Trophy tournament from the 2012-13 season
According to the new format, the 27 teams will be divided into three groups of nine teams each and each team will play eight matches in the league stage. In the previous format, Elite Division was divided into two groups of eight teams (A) and seven teams (B). The Plate Division was divided into two groups (A and B) consisting of six teams each.
The new format had two major changes in Ranji Trophy format. There will be nine teams in three groups A, B and C. Each team will play eight matches in the league stage and there will be promotion and relegation,
Ranji Trophy Groups
Group A:
1 Rajasthan 2 Mumbai 3 Hyderabad 4 MP 5 Saurashtra 6 Railways 7 Bengal 8 Punjab 9 Gujarat
Groupd B:
1 Tamil Nadu 2 Haryana 3 Maharashtra 4 Karnataka 5 Uttar Pradesh 6 Baroda 7 Delhi 8 Vidarbha 9 Odisha
Group C:
1 Himachal Pradesh 2 Kerala 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Services 5 Tripura 6 Goa 7 Jharkhand 8 Jammu & Kashmir 9 Assam.
Ranji Trophy Groups
Group A:
1 Rajasthan 2 Mumbai 3 Hyderabad 4 MP 5 Saurashtra 6 Railways 7 Bengal 8 Punjab 9 Gujarat
Groupd B:
1 Tamil Nadu 2 Haryana 3 Maharashtra 4 Karnataka 5 Uttar Pradesh 6 Baroda 7 Delhi 8 Vidarbha 9 Odisha
Group C:
1 Himachal Pradesh 2 Kerala 3 Andhra Pradesh 4 Services 5 Tripura 6 Goa 7 Jharkhand 8 Jammu & Kashmir 9 Assam.
"The changes will make the competition even and each team will play a few more matches.
The new format brings parity in the number of matches that the teams will play against each other in the league stage. Earlier, in the Plate Division, a side could play five matches at the preliminary level.
The top three from group B at the end of the season would be promoted to group A, while the bottom three from the latter group would be relegated to group B. The last two from group B would go down further to group C, from where the top two would be promoted to group B.
Besides, the format design to make the quarter-finals and the semi-finals of the tournament five-day affairs instead of the four-day matches that were played till this season. Top three teams each from group A and B and top two teams from group C will play in the quarterfinals. The final will remain a five-day match as has been the practice.
Other important change in the Ranji Trophy was points system. The winning team in each match should get six points while a drawn match should fetch three points each for both the teams," .
Earlier in drawn matches, the team which takes first innings lead gets three points while the other side collects one point.
If in the Ranji Trophy knockout phase, a result on first innings is not obtained at the end of the fifth day, then the match will be extended into a sixth day. If a result on first innings is not obtained even at the end of the sixth day, then the winner will be decided on the spin of a coin.
Regarding the Ranji Trophy points system, an outright win give the team six points while both teams will get three points each in case of a tie on both innings. If a team wins by an innings or by 10 wickets, it will get one bonus point.
A first Innings lead but no outright win will give the team three points while a loss on first innings will fetch one point. A tie on first innings without outright result will result to both teams getting one point each. If the innings results were not achieved with or without weather interference, one point will be awarded to each team.
List of Ranji Trophy records
List of Ranji Trophy records
B. B. Nimbalkar Premangsu Chatterjee Anil Kumble
Highest individual innings Best innings bowling Best match bowling
V. V. S. Laxman Bishan Bedi Ajay Sharma
| Most runs in a season Most wickets in a season Most career centuries |
| Most centuries in a season |
| Team records | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most wins | 39 | Mumbai (formerly Bombay) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest team score | 944/6 decl. | Hyderabad v Andhra | 1993–94 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Lowest team score | 21 | Hyderabad v Rajasthan | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Individual match records |
|---|
| Highest individual innings | 443* | B. B. Nimbalkar | Maharashtra v Kathiawar | 1948–49 |
| Best innings bowling | 10/20 | Premangsu Chatterjee | Bengal v Assam | 1956–57 |
| Best match bowling | 16/99 | Anil Kumble | Karnataka v Kerala | 1994–95 |
Individual season records | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most runs in a season | 1415 | V. V. S. Laxman | Hyderabad | 1999–2000 |
| Most centuries in a season | 8 | V. V. S. Laxman | Hyderabad | 1999–2000 |
| Most wickets in a season | 64 | Bishan Bedi | Delhi | 1974–75 |
Individual career records | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most career runs | 8319 | Wasim Jaffer | 1996–present | |||||
| Most career centuries | 31 | Ajay Sharma | 1984–2000 | |||||
| Highest career batting average | 98.35 | Vijay Merchant | 1934–1951 | |||||
Rajinder Goel Most career wickets Wasim Jaffer Most career runs  Vijay Merchant Highest career batting average ------------------------------------------ THANKS TO CRICINFO.COM CRICBUZZ.COM WIKIPEDIA CRICKET NEXT.COM (tirupur cricket academy.blog spot is only a compiler of the content.. Copyrights © are owned by the respective writers and websites . tirupur cricket academy.blog spot holds no rights on the above compilation) | ||||||||
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