1977–78 Ranji Trophy

The 1977–78 Ranji Trophy was the 44th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka won their second title defeating Uttar Pradesh.

1977-78 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Karnataka (2nd title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Venkat Sunderam (Delhi) (608)[1]
Most wickets	Rajinder Singh Hans (Uttar Pradesh) (52)[2]
← 1976–77 1978–79 →

Highlights

• Bombay finished third in the West Zone and failed to qualify for the knockout stage. Gujarat won all their four matches in the West Zone, a rare feat.
• Bombay were dismissed for 42 by Gujarat.^[3] This is their lowest total in Ranji Trophy.
• The loss against Gujarat ended a sequence of 124 matches without defeat for Bombay. Their previous defeat was against Baroda in 1957/58.^[4] During these twenty years, Bombay won the Ranji Trophy 18 times.
• Karnataka defeated Kerala without losing a wicket. Kerala scored 141 and 124, and Karnataka 451/0 decl.^[5] The partnership between Sanjay Desai and Roger Binny was then an Indian record for the first wicket.^[6]
• Rajinder Goel took 7 wickets for 4 runs in the second innings as Haryana bowled out Jammu Kashmir for 23. Goel's match figures were 13 for 29.^[7]

Group stage

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Karnataka 4 3 0 1 0 0 27 2.481 Hyderabad 4 2 0 2 0 0 25 2.247 Tamil Nadu 4 1 1 2 0 0 19 1.099 Andhra 4 0 2 2 0 0 8 0.547 Kerala 4 0 3 1 0 0 3 0.232 West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Gujarat 4 4 0 0 0 0 32 2.062 Maharashtra 4 1 1 2 0 0 17 0.733 Bombay 4 0 1 3 0 0 13 1.086 Baroda 4 0 1 3 0 0 11 0.818 Saurashtra 4 0 2 2 0 0 8 0.692 North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Delhi 4 3 0 1 0 0 30 3.149 Punjab 4 3 1 0 0 0 24 1.306 Haryana 4 2 1 1 0 0 19 1.731 Services 4 1 3 0 0 0 8 0.640 Jammu and Kashmir 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0.171

Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Uttar Pradesh 4 2 0 2 0 0 26 1.512 Rajasthan 4 2 1 1 0 0 19 1.272 Madhya Pradesh 4 1 1 1 0 1 15 0.903 Vidarbha 4 0 1 3 0 0 9 0.662 Railways 4 0 2 1 0 1 7 0.757 East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bengal 3 2 0 1 0 0 22 3.236 Bihar 3 2 0 1 0 0 19 1.437 Assam 3 0 2 1 0 0 5 0.559 Orissa 3 0 2 0 0 0 3 0.431

Knockout stage

Pre-Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

11 Feb 1978 — Ghaziabad

Uttar Pradesh

407 & 41/0

24 Feb 1978 — Ghaziabad

Punjab

287 & 275/9d

Uttar Pradesh

186 & 280

Gujarat

154 & 252

17 Mar 1978 — Ghaziabad

Uttar Pradesh

267 & 159/3

Hyderabad

247 & 175

17 Feb 1978 — Hyderabad

Hyderabad

317

Bengal

197 & 108/8

4 Apr 1978 — Ghaziabad

Uttar Pradesh

129 & 112

Karnataka

434

26 Feb 1978 — Delhi

Delhi

522/9d

21 Feb 1978 — Karad

Rajasthan

223 & 196

Maharashtra

237 & 258

17 Mar 1978 — Delhi

Rajasthan

220 & 284/6

Delhi

332 & 195/7d

Karnataka

391 & 94/5

18 Feb 1978 — Bangalore

Karnataka

486

Bihar

255 & 162

Final

4–6 April 1978 Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh (H)	v	Karnataka
129 (50.5 overs) Anand Shukla 32 B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/57 (19.5 overs)		434 (136.4 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 247 Rajinder Hans 9/152 (55.4 overs)
112 (56.2 overs) Shashikant Srivastava 22 B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/24 (17.2 overs)

Karnataka won by an innings and 193 runs Narendra Mohan Sports Stadium, Mohan Nagar, Uttar Pradesh Umpires: P. D. Reporter and Har Prasad Sharma

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and decided to bat.

Scorecards and averages

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