1959–60 Ranji Trophy

The 1959–60 Ranji Trophy was the 26th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Mysore in the final.

1959–60 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (11th title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Rusi Surti (Rajasthan) (539)[1]
Most wickets	B. Y. Alva (Mysore) (36)[2]
← 1958–59 1960–61 →

Highlights

• Asif Iqbal made his first class debut for Hyderabad against Kerala.^[3] He moved to Pakistan two years later and captained them in Test cricket.

Group stage

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Mysore 4 4 0 0 0 0 34 2.184 Hyderabad 4 3 1 0 0 0 26 1.432 Madras 4 2 2 3 0 0 19 1.081 Kerala 4 0 3 1 0 0 6 0.538 Andhra 4 0 3 1 0 0 3 0.489 Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Rajasthan 3 1 0 2 0 0 18 1.588 Madhya Pradesh 3 1 1 1 0 0 14 1.224 Vidarbha 3 1 1 1 0 0 11 0.784 Uttar Pradesh 3 0 1 2 0 0 8 0.681 North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Services 5 3 0 2 0 0 36 2.479 Delhi 5 3 0 2 0 0 35 1.629 Railways 5 3 1 1 0 0 30 1.851 Eastern Punjab 5 1 2 2 0 0 17 1.090 Southern Punjab 5 1 3 1 0 0 15 0.643 Jammu & Kashmir 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0.110

West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bombay 4 3 0 1 0 0 32 3.065 Baroda 4 2 0 2 0 0 27 1.211 Maharashtra 4 2 1 1 0 0 21 1.061 Gujarat 4 0 3 1 0 0 6 0.625 Saurashtra 4 1 3 0 0 0 3 0.463 East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bihar 3 2 0 1 0 0 21 1.578 Bengal 3 2 1 0 0 0 18 2.046 Orissa 3 0 1 2 0 0 10 0.825 Assam 3 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.310

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	26 Feb 1960 – Delhi
	Services	318 & 220/6
					3 Mar 1960 – Delhi
	Rajasthan	289 & 317/6d
					Services	146 & 346/6d
					Bombay	416/9d & 32/1
									10 Mar 1960 – Bombay
									Bombay	504
									Mysore	221 & 261
					26 Feb 1960 – Jamshedpur
					Bihar	307 & 146
					Mysore	314 & 316

Final

10–13 Mar 1960 Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Mysore
504 (141.3 overs) Manohar Hardikar 145 Deepak Das Gupta 4/77 (22.3 overs)		221 (93.4 overs) KS Viswanath 51 Ghulam Guard 5/66 (25.4 overs)
		261 (90.1 overs, follow-on) V. Subramanya 103 Ghulam Guard 4/69 (25 overs)

Bombay won by an innings and 22 runs Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Umpires: I. Gopalakrishnan and Sambhu Pan

• Bombay won the toss and elected to bat.

Scorecards and averages

• CricketArchive
• ESPNcricinfo