1984–85 Ranji Trophy

The 1984–85 Ranji Trophy was the 51st season of the Ranji Trophy. The season was preceded by celebrations on the completion of fifty years and a one-day series by Australia. Mumbai won their 30th title defeating Delhi in the final considered one of the best in the history of Ranji Trophy. During the tournament, Ravi Shastri batting for Mumbai against Baroda, scored a double-century in 113 minutes, a record that would stand for more than thirty years.^[3][4]

1984-85 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay (30th title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Ghulam Parkar (Bombay) (660)[1]
Most wickets	Rajinder Goel (Haryana) (39)[2]
← 1983–84 1985–86 →

Group stage

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Karnataka 4 3 0 1 0 0 91 2.027 Tamil Nadu 4 2 1 1 0 0 78 1.464 Hyderabad 4 1 0 3 0 0 57 1.779 Andhra 4 1 3 0 0 0 52 0.602 Kerala 4 0 3 1 0 0 24 0.361 West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bombay 4 1 0 3 0 0 74 2.053 Saurashtra 4 0 1 3 0 0 49 0.841 Maharashtra 4 0 0 4 0 0 45 1.106 Baroda 4 0 0 4 0 0 39 0.716 Gujarat 4 0 0 4 0 0 37 0.775 Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Uttar Pradesh 4 3 0 1 0 0 90 1.990 Railways 4 1 1 2 0 0 47 0.661 Madhya Pradesh 4 0 1 3 0 0 39 1.051 Vidarbha 4 0 2 2 0 0 39 0.706 Rajasthan 4 0 0 4 0 0 29 1.021

North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Delhi 4 2 0 2 0 0 76 2.167 Haryana 4 2 0 2 0 0 68 1.285 Punjab 4 1 0 3 0 0 50 1.259 Services 4 1 2 1 0 0 44 0.880 Jammu and Kashmir 4 0 4 0 0 0 17 0.333 East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Orissa 3 1 0 2 0 0 48 1.651 Bihar 3 1 0 2 0 0 46 1.136 Bengal 3 0 0 3 0 0 25 1.146 Assam 3 0 2 1 0 0 14 0.453

Knockout stage

Pre-Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

22 Feb 1985 — Delhi

Railways

213& 168/2

7 Mar 1985 — Faridabad

Haryana

341 & 335/9d

Haryana

223 & 148

Bombay

195 & 177/2

23 Mar 1985 — Bombay

Bombay

548

Tamil Nadu

409 & 276/8d

7 Mar 1985 — Madras

Tamil Nadu

362 & 197/0

Bihar

297 & 261

1 Apr 1985 — Bombay

Bombay

333 & 364/7d

Delhi

398 & 209

7 Mar 1985 — Bangalore

Karnataka

489 & 261/1d

Orissa

276 & 231

23 Mar 1985 — Bangalore

Karnataka

189 & 307/8

Delhi

376

7 Mar 1985 — Delhi

Delhi

404

22 Feb 1985 — Agra

Uttar Pradesh

124 & 179

Uttar Pradesh

157 & 176

Saurashtra

176 & 102

Final

1–6 April 1985 Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Delhi
333 (102.5 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 106 Madan Lal 4/42		398 (138 overs) Ajay Sharma 131 Raju Kulkarni 5/106
364/7 decl (91.3 overs) Ravi Shastri 76 Maninder Singh 4/132		209 (85.5 overs) Bhaskar Pillai 60 Ravi Shastri 8/91

Bombay won on by 90 runs Wankhede Stadium, Bombay Umpires: Bhairab Ganguli, V. K. Ramaswamy

• Bombay won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

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