1961–62 Ranji Trophy

The 1961–62 Ranji Trophy was the 28th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final.

1961–62 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (13th title)
Participants	23
Most runs	Harcharan Singh (Southern Punjab) (495)[1]
Most wickets	P. Sitaram (Delhi) (40)[2]
← 1960–61 1962–63 →

Highlights

• Prakash Bhandari scored a hundred in 60 minutes against Rajasthan in the semifinal which was then the fastest hundred in Ranji trophy.^[3]

Group stage

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Madras 3 2 0 1 0 0 22 2.170 Mysore 3 1 0 2 0 0 18 1.526 Hyderabad 3 0 1 2 0 0 5 0.619 Kerala 3 0 2 1 0 0 2 0.324 West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bombay 4 3 0 1 0 0 33 2.464 Maharashtra 4 3 1 0 0 0 25 0.941 Baroda 4 1 2 1 0 0 13 1.150 Saurashtra 4 1 2 1 0 0 12 0.683 Gujarat 4 0 3 1 0 0 5 0.606 Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Rajasthan 3 1 0 2 0 0 16 1.150 Uttar Pradesh 3 0 0 3 0 0 15 0.902 Vidarbha 3 0 1 2 0 0 12 1.059 Madhya Pradesh 3 0 0 3 0 0 11 0.914

East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bengal 3 2 0 1 0 0 24 2.908 Assam 3 0 0 3 0 0 13 0.993 Bihar 3 1 1 1 0 0 12 0.773 Orissa 3 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.452 North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Delhi 5 4 0 1 0 0 41 1.941 Railways 5 4 1 0 0 0 36 1.842 Services 5 1 1 3 0 0 23 1.080 Southern Punjab 5 1 2 2 0 0 17 1.047 Northern Punjab 5 1 2 2 0 0 17 0.913 Jammu & Kashmir 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0.193

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	26 Jan 1962 – Madras
	Madras	182 & 203
					17 Feb 1962 – Delhi
	Delhi	385 & 136
					Delhi	149 & 267
					Bombay	290 & 116/2
									20 Mar 1962 – Bombay
									Bombay	539
									Rajasthan	157 & 95
					16 Feb 1962 – Udaipur
					Rajasthan	392 & 195/5
					Bengal	292 & 291/3d

Final

20–22 Mar 1962 Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Rajasthan
539 (140.2 overs) Ajit Wadekar 235, G. S. Ramchand 100 Raj Singh 4/86		157 (62.4 overs) Suryaveer Singh 32 Sharad Diwadkar 5/68
		95 (34.4 overs, follow on) Hanumant Singh 48* G. S. Ramchand 2/16

Bombay won by an innings and 287 runs Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Umpires: Sukken Bhattacharya and Narayan Sane

• Bombay won the toss and elected to bat

Scorecards and averages

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