1957–58 Ranji Trophy

The 1957–58 Ranji Trophy was the 24th season of the Ranji Trophy. Baroda won the title defeating Services in the final. Vidarbha made their debut in the competition.^[3]

1957–58 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Baroda (4th title)
Participants	22
Most runs	Polly Umrigar (Bombay) (594)[1]
Most wickets	Ghulam Ahmed (Hyderabad) and V.V. Kumar (Madras) (28)[2]
← 1956–57 1958–59 →

Highlights

• The Zonal matches were played in a round-robin format, for the first time in Ranji Trophy history.
• Bombay conceded its last match in the West Zone match against Baroda when it became certain that Baroda would qualify from the West Zone.^[4] It would be twenty years, 124 matches and 18 Ranji titles before Bombay lost another match outright, against Gujarat in 1977–78.^[5]
• Prakash Bhandari hit 227 and took 4/34 and 5/47 for Delhi against Patiala^[6]

Group stage

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Hyderabad 4 3 0 1 0 0 29 1.574 Mysore 4 2 1 1 0 0 23 1.250 Madras 4 1 0 3 0 0 20 1.183 Andhra 4 1 2 1 0 0 13 1.086 Kerala 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0.460 Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Rajasthan 3 0 0 3 0 0 18 1.540 Uttar Pradesh 3 0 0 3 0 0 14 1.024 Madhya Pradesh 3 0 0 3 0 0 11 0.838 Vidarbha 3 0 0 3 0 0 10 0.748 North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Services 3 2 0 1 0 0 24 1.970 Delhi 3 2 0 1 0 0 20 1.673 Patiala 3 1 2 3 0 0 8 0.727 Eastern Punjab 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0.481

West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Baroda 4 1 0 3 0 0 27 1.574 Bombay 4 1 0 3 0 0 24 1.250 Maharashtra 4 1 0 3 0 0 21 1.183 Gujarat 4 0 0 4 0 0 15 1.086 Saurashtra 4 0 3 1 0 0 3 0.460 East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bengal 3 3 0 0 0 0 27 2.759 Bihar 3 2 1 0 0 0 18 1.688 Assam 3 0 2 1 0 0 5 0.598 Orissa 3 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.283

Points System

• Win : 8 points
• Draw (with First Innings Lead) : 5 points
• Draw (without First Innings Lead) : 3 points
• Lost : 0 points
• Bonus : 1 point

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
					7 Feb 1958 – Udaipur
					Rajasthan	256 & 127/2
					Baroda	424
									13 Mar 1958 – Baroda
									Baroda	495
									Services	239 & 205
					28 Feb 1958 – Delhi
					Services	370/2
	21 Feb 1958 – Hyderabad
					Bengal	360
	Hyderabad	122 & 188
	Bengal	310 & 4/0

Final

13–16 March 1958 Scorecard

Baroda (H)	v	Services
495 (171.4 overs) Vijay Hazare 203 C. B. Ramesh 3/58 (25 overs)		239 (113.1 overs) Mohinder Singh 73 Jyotirvadan Vin 4/32 (21.1 overs)
		205 f/o (85.1 overs) Mahipetsinhji 57 Vijay Hazare 3/17 (11 overs)

Baroda won by an innings and 51 runs Moti Bagh Stadium, Baroda Umpires: Noshirvan Nagarwala and M. G. Vijayasarathi

• Baroda won the toss and elected to bat.
• Vijay Hazare (Baroda) passed 6,000 runs in first-class matches.^[7]