1962–63 Ranji Trophy

The 1962–63 Ranji Trophy was the 29th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final. The tournament was severely impacted by the Chinese Aggression of 1962. Services and Railways pulled out of the tournament after playing one game each. Being so close to the action Assam and Odisha had to pull out of the tournament. When the ceasefire was ordered, the invaders were only a few kilometres away from Tezpur, which was the headquarters of Assam cricket. Bihar played one match and then closed their season as most of their players were employed in firms and factories which were pressed into defence production.

1962–63 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (14th title)
Participants	21
Most runs	Pankaj Roy (Bengal) (662)[1]
Most wickets	Baloo Gupte (Bombay) (38)[2]
← 1961–62 1963–64 →

Highlights

• 8-ball overs were used for the only time in Ranji Trophy.
• Following India's 0–5 loss to West Indies in the 1961–62 away series, BCCI contracted four West Indian fast bowlers to play in the Ranji Trophy. Thus Charlie Stayers played for Bombay, Roy Gilchrist for Hyderabad, Lester King for Bengal and Chester Watson for Delhi.
• Subhash Gupte took 15 for 104 for Rajasthan v Vidarbha.^[3] This was the best bowling in a match in Ranji Trophy till 1985–86.^[4]
• Rajinder Goel took 6 for 6 in four overs for Northern Punjab v Southern Punjab.^[5]
• Pankaj Roy scored hundreds in both innings for Bengal v Hyderabad in the quarter-final.^[6] This match involved fiery bowling by the West Indian fast bowlers Roy Gilchrist and Lester King
• G. S. Ramchand scored a hundred in his third successive Ranji final, a unique feat.

Group stage

West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bombay 4 3 0 1 0 0 39 2.512 Baroda 4 1 1 2 0 0 23 1.051 Saurashtra 4 1 1 2 0 0 19 0.990 Maharashtra 4 0 1 3 0 0 14 0.713 Gujarat 4 0 2 2 0 0 6 0.561 East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bengal 2 2 0 0 0 0 21 3.653 Bihar [n 1] 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.370 Orissa [n 2] 2 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.191 North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Delhi 5 3 0 0 0 2 35 2.595 Northern Punjab 5 2 1 0 0 2 24 1.235 Railways [n 3] 5 1 0 0 0 4 19 7.179 Services [n 4] 5 1 0 0 0 4 18 2.051 Southern Punjab 5 1 2 0 0 2 15 0.645 Jammu & Kashmir 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0.381

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Hyderabad 4 3 0 1 0 0 36 2.342 Madras 4 3 0 1 0 0 33 2.253 Mysore 4 2 2 0 0 0 22 1.193 Andhra 4 0 3 1 0 0 7 0.473 Kerala 4 0 3 1 0 0 4 0.410 Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Rajasthan 3 2 0 1 0 0 26 2.309 Madhya Pradesh 3 0 0 3 0 0 12 0.922 Uttar Pradesh 3 0 1 2 0 0 9 0.741 Vidarbha 3 0 1 2 0 0 9 0.693

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
					15 Feb 1963 – Delhi
					Delhi	204 & 146
					Rajasthan	220 & 133/5
									9 Mar 1963 – Jaipur
									Rajasthan	196 & 336
	22 Feb 1963 – Calcutta
									Bombay	551/6d
	Bengal	386 & 280
					2 Mar 1963 – Calcutta
	Hyderabad	361 & 121/8
					Bengal	322 & 199
					Bombay	552

Final

9–13 Mar 1963 Scorecard

Bombay	v	Rajasthan (H)
551/6 decl (117 overs) R. G. Nadkarni 219, Ramakant Desai 107, G. S. Ramchand 102 G. R. Sunderam 3/73		196 (55.2 overs) Kishan Rungta 64 Charlie Stayers 6/36
		336 (95 overs, follow on) Vijay Manjrekar 108 Charlie Stayers 3/85

Bombay won by an innings and 19 runs Maharaja College Ground, Jaipur Umpires: Sunil Banerjee and Samar Roy

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field

Notes

1. Orissa's match against Bihar was not played.
2. Orissa's match against Bihar was not played.
3. Railways's only match was against Jammu & Kashmir.
4. Services's only match was against Jammu & Kashmir.

Scorecards and averages

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