2014–15 Ranji Trophy

The 2014–15 Ranji Trophy was the 81st edition of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. It was contested by 27 teams divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B advanced to the quarter-finals with the top two teams from Group C. Karnataka retained the title won during the 2013–14 season. In the final, Karun Nair scored 328 runs, the highest total in the final of the Ranji Trophy.^[1]

2014–15 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates	7 December 2014 – 12 March 2015
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin then knockout
Champions	Karnataka (8th title)
Participants	27
Matches	115
Most runs	Robin Uthappa (912) (Karnataka)
Most wickets	Vinay Kumar (48) (Karnataka)
← 2013–14 2015–16 →

Points system

The 27 teams are divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B advance to the quarterfinals along with the top two teams from Group C. The winner of this knock-out tournament wins the Ranji Trophy. These knock-out matches are decided on the first innings result if the final result is a draw.

Points in the group stage of the tournament are awarded as follows:

Scenario	Points
Outright win	6
Bonus point (for innings and 10 wicket wins)	1
1st innings lead (in case of draw)	3
1st innings deficit (in case of draw)	1
No result	1
Outright defeat	none

Groups

The groups drawn are as follows:^[2]

Group A Karnataka Bengal Mumbai Railways Uttar Pradesh Baroda Tamil Nadu Jammu and Kashmir Madhya Pradesh

Group B Maharashtra Punjab Gujarat Saurashtra Rajasthan Delhi Vidarbha Haryana Odisha

Group C Goa Himachal Pradesh Kerala Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh Assam Tripura Jharkhand Services

Points table

Source:^[3]

Group A Team Pld W L T D NR Pts Q Karnataka 8 4 0 0 4 0 33 1.633 Tamil Nadu 8 4 1 0 3 0 29 1.244 Mumbai 8 2 2 0 4 0 20 0.937 Madhya Pradesh 8 1 1 0 6 0 19 1.143 Baroda 8 1 2 0 5 0 18 1.078 Railways 8 0 2 0 6 0 16 0.922 Uttar Pradesh 8 2 3 0 3 0 15 0.760 Bengal 8 0 1 0 7 0 13 0.921 Jammu and Kashmir 8 1 0 3 4 0 12 0.601   Advanced to knockout stage.   Relegated to Group C for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Group B Team Pld W L T D NR Pts Q Delhi 8 5 1 0 2 0 37 1.471 Maharashtra 8 3 2 0 3 0 26 1.269 Vidarbha 8 2 1 0 5 0 24 1.675 Gujarat 8 2 2 0 4 0 24 0.965 Odisha 8 3 3 0 2 0 20 0.965 Punjab 8 2 3 0 3 0 19 0.947 Rajasthan 8 2 3 0 3 0 18 0.821 Haryana 8 2 4 0 2 0 17 0.875 Saurashtra 8 1 3 0 4 0 10 0.688   Advanced to knockout stage.   Relegated to Group C for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Group C

Team	Pld	W	L	T	D	NR	Pts	Q
Assam	8	5	1	0	2	0	38	1.325
Andhra	8	4	1	0	3	0	29	1.454
Himachal Pradesh	8	2	0	0	6	0	28	1.677
Jharkhand	8	2	1	0	5	0	21	1.171
Hyderabad	8	1	1	0	6	0	20	1.123
Kerala	8	1	1	0	6	0	20	0.908
Tripura	8	0	3	0	5	0	9	0.635
Services	8	0	4	0	4	0	8	0.779
Goa	8	0	3	0	5	0	5	0.664

•   Advanced to knockout stage and promoted to Group A and B respectively for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

C1

Assam

185 & 338/4

A1

Karnataka (F)

452 & 415/5d

A1

Karnataka

202 & 286

A3

Mumbai

44 & 332

B1

Delhi

166 & 236

A3

Mumbai

156 & 450

A1

Karnataka

762

A2

Tamil Nadu

134 & 411

A2

Tamil Nadu (F)

403 & 266

B3

Vidarbha

259 & 142/8

A2

Tamil Nadu (F)

549 & 119/0d

B2

Maharashtra

454

C2

Andhra

138 & 101

B2

Maharashtra

91 & 223

(F) - Advanced to next round on First Innings Lead

Quarter-finals

16–20 February Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Assam
452 (144.2 overs) Robin Uthappa 153 (227) Krishna Das 4/101 (37.2 overs)		185 (75 overs) Gokul Sharma 58 (168) Sreenath Aravind 3/36 (17 overs)
415/5d (115 overs) Ravikumar Samarth 178 (298) Arup Das 2/63 (19 overs)		338/4 (88 overs) Gokul Sharma 127* (191) Ravikumar Samarth 2/67 (15 overs)

Match drawn Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore Umpires: Nitin Menon and Pashchim Pathak Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)

• Assam won the toss and elected to field
• Karnataka won on 1st innings

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16–20 February Scorecard

Mumbai	v	Delhi
156 (81 overs) Nikhil Patil 54* (116) Sumit Narwal 3/37 (19 overs)		166 (54 overs) Virender Sehwag 49 (58) Shardul Thakur 5/54 (16 overs)
450 (143.1 overs) Akhil Herwadkar 161 (272) Manan Sharma 4/92 (30 overs)		236 (87 overs) Rajat Bhatia 49 (122) Balwinder Sandhu 3/35 (17 overs)

Mumbai won by 204 runs DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Shardul Thakur (Mumbai)

• Delhi won the toss and elected to field

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16–20 February Scorecard

Tamil Nadu	v	Vidarbha
403 (169.5 overs) Vijay Shankar 111 (305) Rakesh Dhurv 3/106 (35.4 overs)		259 (105.2 overs) Sachin Katariya 42 (152) Malolan Rangarajan 3/42 (24.2 overs)
266 (98.2 overs) Vijay Shankar 82 (146) Swapnil Bandiwar 3/42 (14 overs)		142/8 (49 overs) Ganesh Satish 59* (131) Baba Aparajith 3/41 (19 overs)

Match drawn Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande Player of the match: Vijay Shankar (Tamil Nadu)

• Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field
• Tamil Nadu won on 1st innings

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16–20 February Scorecard

Maharashtra	v	Andhra
91 (41.5 overs) Rohit Motwani 23 (66) Siva Kumar 6/41 (16.5 overs)		138 (63.3 overs) Murumulla Sriram 31 (83) Anupam Sanklecha 4/45 (18 overs)
223 (68.3 overs) Kedar Jadhav 81 (86) Siva Kumar 6/79 (21.3 overs)		101 (46.3 overs) AG Pradeep 25 (80) Anupam Sanklecha 4/19 (11 overs)

Maharashtra won by 75 runs Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Virender Sharma Player of the match: Kedar Jadhav (Maharashtra)

• Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat

Semi-finals

25 February-1 March Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Mumbai
202 (60.2 overs) Robin Uthappa 68 (100) Shardul Thakur 4/61 (18 overs)		44 (15.3 overs) Shreyas Iyer 15 (15) Vinay Kumar 6/20 (8 overs)
286 (77.5 overs) Abhimanyu Mithun 89 (113) Shardul Thakur 4/69 (17.5 overs)		332 (121.1 overs) Aditya Tare 98 (207) Abhimanyu Mithun 4/69 (34 overs)

Karnataka won by 112 runs M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Vinay Kumar (Karnataka)

• Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat
• This is 2nd Lowest total(44) for Mumbai^[4]

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25 February-1 March Scorecard

Tamil Nadu	v	Maharashtra
549 (226.4 overs) Dinesh Karthik 113 (304) Anupam Sanklecha 3/115 (45 overs)		454 (142 overs) Swapnil Gugale 154 (282) Aswin Crist 4/89 (34 overs)
119/0 d (46.2 overs) Abhinav Mukund 66* (144) Shrikant Mundhe 0/7 (6 overs)

Match drawn Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and Pashchim Pathak Player of the match: Vijay Shankar (Tamil Nadu)

• Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat
• Tamil Nadu won on 1st innings

Final

8–12 March Scorecard

Tamil Nadu	v	Karnataka
134 (62.4 overs) Abhinav Mukund 35 (137) Vinay Kumar 5/34 (15.4 overs)		762 (231.2 overs) Karun Nair 328 (560) Lakshmipathy Balaji 3/95 (34 overs)
411 (107.5 ov) Dinesh Karthik 120 (112) Shreyas Gopal 4/126 (25 overs)

Karnataka won by an innings and 217 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind) Player of the match: Karun Nair (Karnataka)

• Karnataka won the toss and elected to field

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Inns	Runs	Ave	HS	100s	50s
Robin Uthappa	Karnataka	19	912	50.66	156	2	5
Dinesh Karthik	Tamil Nadu	19	884	55.25	129	4	2
Abhinav Mukund	Tamil Nadu	20	858	45.15	140	2	4
KL Rahul	Karnataka	9	838	93.11	337	2	3
Sheldon Jackson	Saurashtra	14	819	68.25	181*	3	3

Most wickets

Player	Team	Inns	Wickets	Ave.	BBI	BBM	5/i	10/m
Shardul Thakur	Mumbai	18	48	20.81	6/20	9/90	3	0
Vinay Kumar	Karnataka	19	48	18.72	6/53	9/123	5	0
Siva Kumar	Andhra	15	44	14.25	7/30	12/120	4	2
Sreenath Aravind	Karnataka	19	42	17.42	4/9	8/61	0	0
Rishi Dhawan	Himachal Pradesh	13	40	24.75	7/93	11/185	4	1