2017–18 Ranji Trophy Group B

The 2017–18 Ranji Trophy was the 84th season of the Ranji Trophy, the first-class cricket tournament in India. It was contested by 28 teams divided into four groups, each containing seven teams.^[1] The top two teams from Group B progressed to the quarterfinals of the competition.^[2]

2017-18 Ranji Trophy Group B

The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates	6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) – 28 November 2017 (2017-11-28)
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin
Host(s)	India
Participants	7
← 2016–17

Defending champions Gujarat and Kerala progressed to the knockout stage of the competition after beating Jharkhand and Haryana respectively in the final round of group-stage fixtures.^[3][4] It was the first time that Kerala had progressed to the quarter-finals of the Ranji Trophy.^[5][6]

Teams

The following teams were placed in Group B, based on their average points in the previous three years:^[7]

• Gujarat
• Haryana
• Jammu & Kashmir
• Jharkhand
• Kerala
• Rajasthan
• Saurashtra

Points table

Team[8]	Pld	W	L	D	A	Pts	NRR
Gujarat	6	5	0	1	0	34	+0.097
Kerala	6	5	1	0	0	31	+0.636
Saurashtra	6	3	1	2	0	26	+0.245
Jammu & Kashmir	6	1	4	1	0	9	–0.077
Haryana	6	1	4	1	0	9	–0.506
Jharkhand	6	1	4	1	0	8	–0.049
Rajasthan	6	0	2	4	0	6	–0.294

•   Top two teams advanced to the knockout stage

Fixtures

Round 1

6–9 October 2017 Scorecard

Jharkhand	v	Kerala
202 (73.2 overs) Ishan Kishan 45 (100) Jalaj Saxena 6/50 (30 overs)		259 (90.3 overs) Jalaj Saxena 54* (148) Sunny Gupta 6/94 (35 overs)
89 (41.3 overs) Saurabh Tiwary 26* (44) Jalaj Saxena 5/27 (20.3 overs)		34/1 (5 overs) Arun Karthik 27* (21) Samar Quadri 1/15 (2 overs)

Kerala won by 9 wickets Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Nikhil Patwardhan Player of the match: Jalaj Saxena (Kerala)

• Jharkhand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ponnan Rahul (Kerala) and Nazim Siddiqui (Jharkhand) both made their first-class debuts.

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6–9 October 2017 Scorecard

Rajasthan	v	Jammu & Kashmir
330 (115.2 overs) Robin Bist 113 (233) Mohammed Mudhasir 5/81 (33.2 overs)		436/8d (156.5 overs) Ahmed Bandy 102 (205) Tanveer Ul-Haq 3/43 (21 overs)
246/4 (68 overs) Rajesh Bishnoi 101* (138) Rohit Sharma 2/28 (10 overs)

Match drawn Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Yeshwant Barde and Vineet Kulkarni Player of the match: Mohammed Mudhasir (Jammu & Kashmir)

• Jammu & Kashmir won the toss and elected to field.
• Khaleel Ahmed and Tajinder Singh (Rajasthan) both made their first-class debuts.

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6–9 October 2017 Scorecard

Saurashtra	v	Haryana
278 (90.3 overs) Prerak Mankad 68 (115) Ashish Hooda 6/61 (24 overs)		107 (42.3 overs) Rahul Tewatia 23 (29) Shaurya Sanandia 4/44 (13 overs)
		140 (43 overs) (f/o) Chaitanya Bishnoi 56 (115) Jaydev Unadkat 3/55 (14 overs)

Saurashtra won by an innings and 31 runs Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Sivasubramaniyan Shankar and R. Sundar Player of the match: Prerak Mankad (Saurashtra)

• Saurashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
• Amit Rana (Haryana) made his first-class debut.

Round 2

14–17 October 2017 Scorecard

Kerala	v	Gujarat
208 (66.5 overs) Sanju Samson 51 (83) Piyush Chawla 5/69 (19.5 overs)		307 (106.3 overs) Chirag Gandhi 91 (145) Akshay Chandran 3/52 (24.3 overs)
203 (76.3 overs) Arun Karthik 69 (148) Siddharth Desai 6/80 (26.3 overs)		108/6 (42.3 overs) Priyank Panchal 30 (77) Jalaj Saxena 2/16 (14 overs)

Gujarat won by 4 wickets GS Patel Stadium, Nadiad Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Subrat Das Player of the match: Siddharth Desai (Gujarat)

• Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
• Siddharth Desai (Gujarat) and Sijomon Joseph (Kerala) both made their first-class debuts.
• Siddharth Desai (Gujarat) took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.^[9]

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14–17 October 2017 Scorecard

Rajasthan	v	Jharkhand
423 (141.5 overs) Tajinder Singh 134 (282) Sunny Gupta 3/76 (27.5 overs)		265 (97.3 overs) Saurabh Tiwary 83 (157) Pankaj Singh 4/48 (24 overs)
		332/6 (103.5 overs) (f/o) Ishank Jaggi 103* (193) Pankaj Singh 3/53 (12 overs)

Match drawn Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Amitkumar Gautam (Rajasthan)

• Jharkhand won the toss and elected to field.
• Tajinder Singh (Rajasthan) scored his maiden first-class century.^[10]

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14–17 October 2017 Scorecard

Saurashtra	v	Jammu & Kashmir
624/7d (135 overs) Ravindra Jadeja 201 (313) Waseem Raza 3/164 (35 overs)		156 (60.5 overs) Shubham Khajuria 41 (137) Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 6/68 (21 overs)
		256 (84.1 overs) (f/o) Ram Dayal 56 (73) Vandit Jivrajani 6/79 (24.1 overs)

Saurashtra won by an innings and 212 runs Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Tapan Sharma Player of the match: Ravindra Jadeja (Saurashtra)

• Saurashtra won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 3

24–27 October 2017 Scorecard

Kerala	v	Rajasthan
335 (118.3 overs) Rohan Prem 79 (157) Mahipal Lomror 4/51 (22.3 overs)		243 (82.3 overs) Dishant Yagnik 62 (134) Jalaj Saxena 8/85 (33.3 overs)
250/4d (50.4 overs) Jalaj Saxena 105* (157) Tajinder Singh 2/38 (6.4 overs)		211 (83.4 overs) Robin Bist 70 (143) Sijomon Joseph 5/84 (30.4 overs)

Kerala won by 131 runs St Xavier's College Ground, Thumba Umpires: Rohan Pandit Player of the match: Jalaj Saxena (Kerala)

• Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sijomon Joseph (Kerala) took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.^[11]

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24–27 October 2017 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Jharkhand
208 (75.4 overs) Chaitanya Bishnoi 61 (205) Sunny Gupta 4/67 (25 overs)		425/9d (133.5 overs) Ishank Jaggi 135 (237) Chaitanya Bishnoi 2/43 (20.5 overs)
296 (113 overs) Rajat Paliwal 93 (237) Shahbaz Nadeem 6/93 (42 overs)		81/0 (10.4 overs) Ishan Kishan 46* (45)

Jharkhand won by 10 wickets JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan and Sadashiv Iyer Player of the match: Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand)

• Haryana won the toss and elected to bat.
• Ajit Chahal (Haryana) made his first-class debut.

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24–27 October 2017 Scorecard

Jammu & Kashmir	v	Gujarat
261 (77.2 overs) Shubham Khajuria 54 (86) Piyush Chawla 5/92 (24 overs)		455 (143 overs) Manpreet Juneja 131 (279) Manik Gupta 5/143 (29 overs)
130 (34.4 overs) Ram Dayal 29 (26) Hardik Patel 5/49 (14.4 overs)

Gujarat won by an innings and 64 runs Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal and Nitin Pandit Player of the match: Manprit Juneja (Gujarat)

• Jammu & Kashmir won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 4

1–4 November 2017 Scorecard

Saurashtra	v	Jharkhand
553/9d (161 overs) Cheteshwar Pujara 204 (355) Ashish Kumar 3/76 (33 overs)		270 (82.1 overs) Ishank Jaggi 114 (171) Vandit Jivrajani 4/33 (14 overs)
59/4 (14 overs) Robin Uthappa 17 (18) Ashish Kumar 2/20 (6 overs)		341 (83 overs) (f/o) Sumit Kumar 108 (147) Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 4/108 (21 overs)

Saurashtra won by 6 wickets Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot Umpires: Yeshwant Barde and Saiyed Khalid Player of the match: Cheteshwar Pujara (Saurashtra)

• Saurashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
• Cheteshwar Pujara (Saurashtra) scored his 12th double-century, the most by an Indian batsman in first-class cricket, breaking the record set by Vijay Merchant.^[12][13]

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1–4 November 2017 Scorecard

Gujarat	v	Haryana
236 (84.1 overs) Bhargav Merai 52 (98) Amit Mishra 4/63 (26.1 overs)		157 (64 overs) Rohit Sharma 65* (129) Piyush Chawla 4/48 (21 overs)
281/9d (76.5 overs) Priyank Panchal 67 (108) Ashish Hooda 4/79 (21.5 overs)		122 (44.3 overs) Sanjay Pahal 41 (55) Piyush Chawla 5/44 (14.3 overs)

Gujarat won by 238 runs Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Valsad Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Siddharth Desai (Gujarat)

• Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.

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1–4 November 2017 Scorecard

Kerala	v	Jammu & Kashmir
219 (76 overs) Sanju Samson 112 (187) Parvez Rasool 6/70 (26 overs)		173 (62 overs) Shubham Khajuria 41 (84) KC Akshay 4/37 (14 overs)
191 (65.3 overs) Rohan Prem 58 (149) Parvez Rasool 5/70 (28 overs)		79 (41.5 overs) Parvez Rasool 17 (29) KC Akshay 5/21 (13.5 overs)

Kerala won by 158 runs St Xavier's College Ground, Thumba Umpires: Vineet Kulkarni and Nitin Pandit Player of the match: Sanju Samson (Kerala)

• Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
• KC Akshay (Kerala) made his first-class debut.
• Parvez Rasool (Jammu & Kashmir) took his tenth five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.^[14]
• KC Akshay (Kerala) took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.^[15]

Round 5

9–12 November 2017 Scorecard

Saurashtra	v	Gujarat
570 (161.4 overs) Cheteshwar Pujara 182 (313) Siddharth Desai 4/154 (36.4 overs)		413 (145.1 overs) Priyank Panchal 145 (289) Jaydev Unadkat 4/83 (29 overs)
98/1 (30.1 overs) Robin Uthappa 64* (85) Siddharth Desai 1/40 (12 overs)

Match drawn Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and R. Sundar Player of the match: Cheteshwar Pujara (Saurashtra)

• Saurashtra won the toss and elected to bat.

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9–12 November 2017 Scorecard

Jammu & Kashmir	v	Jharkhand
376 (100.3 overs) Puneet Bisht 115 (142) Varun Aaron 4/54 (22 overs)		292/9d (108 overs) Nazim Siddiqui 70 (69) Aamir Aziz 4/86 (25 overs)
265/9d (63.5 overs) Parvez Rasool 70 (74) Utkarsh Singh 3/40 (10 overs)		243 (49.4 overs) Ishan Kishan 52 (56) Aamir Aziz 5/63 (16 overs)

Jammu & Kashmir won by 106 runs Keenan Stadium, Jamshedpur Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan and Ulhas Gandhe Player of the match: Parvez Rasool (Jammu & Kashmir)

• Jammu & Kashmir won the toss and elected to bat.
• Utkarsh Singh (Jharkhand) and Aquib Nazir (Jammu & Kashmir) both made their first-class debuts.

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9–12 November 2017 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Rajasthan
233 (71 overs) Harshal Patel 83 (108) Aniket Choudhary 3/37 (16 overs)		150 (52.4 overs) Tajinder Singh 38 (42) Ajit Chahal 3/42 (10.4 overs)
179/5d (55 overs) Shivam Chauhan 65 (104) Aniket Choudhary 2/30 (12 overs)		59/7 (39 overs) Mahipal Lomror 20* (98) Ashish Hooda 3/8 (12 overs)

Match drawn Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Yeshwant Barde and Belur Ravi Player of the match: Harshal Patel (Haryana)

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.

Round 6

17–20 November 2017 Scorecard

Kerala	v	Saurashtra
225 (78 overs) Sanju Samson 68 (104) Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 6/112 (33 overs)		232 (78.5 overs) Robin Uthappa 86 (120) Sijomon Joseph 4/43 (19 overs)
411/6d (92 overs) Sanju Samson 175 (180) Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 4/153 (35 overs)		95 (51.3 overs) Sheldon Jackson 24 (74) Jalaj Saxena 4/29 (14.3 overs)

Kerala won by 309 runs St Xavier's College Ground, Thumba Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Virender Sharma Player of the match: Sanju Samson (Kerala)

• Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.

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17–20 November 2017 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Jammu & Kashmir
184 (65.4 overs) Amit Mishra 41 (79) Ram Dayal 5/57 (24.4 overs)		176 (54.5 overs) Ahmed Bandy 67 (81) Ashish Hooda 3/38 (17 overs)
167 (86.3 overs) Rajat Paliwal 45 (144) Ram Dayal 6/44 (27.3 overs)		157 (44.1 overs) Owais Shah 52* (85) Ajit Chahal 5/53 (19 overs)

Haryana won by 18 runs CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal and Krishnaraj Srinath Player of the match: Ajit Chahal (Haryana)

• Jammu & Kashmir won the toss and elected to field

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17–20 November 2017 Scorecard

Rajasthan	v	Gujarat
153 (50 overs) Tajinder Singh 45 (54) Chintan Gaja 8/40 (15 overs)		601/4d (155 overs) Parthiv Patel 173 (172) Mahipal Lomror 1/95 (24 overs)
341 (107.3 overs) Robin Bist 81 (146) Siddharth Desai 5/129 (39 overs)

Gujarat won by an innings and 107 run Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and R. Sundar Player of the match: Chintan Gaja (Gujarat)

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.
• Shubham Sharma (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.

Round 7

25–28 November 2017 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Kerala
208 (81.3 overs) Rajat Paliwal 46 (140) Sandeep Warrier 4/50 (18 overs)		389 (129.3 overs) Rohan Prem 93 (314) Ajit Chahal 5/90 (25.3 overs)
173 (78.3 overs) Amit Mishra 40 (79) M. D. Nidheesh 3/27 (19.3 overs)

Kerala won by an innings and 8 runs Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Kamlesh Sharma and Nitin Pandit Player of the match: Jalaj Saxena (Kerala)

• Haryana won the toss and elected to bat.

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25–28 November 2017 Scorecard

Gujarat	v	Jharkhand
411 (130.5 overs) Rujul Bhatt 145* (224) Ashish Kumar 4/118 (30.5 overs)		242 (86.3 overs) Kumar Deobrat 80 (149) Kamlesh Thakor 3/43 (12 overs)
16/0 (1.4 overs) Priyank Panchal 12* (4)		183 (62) (f/o) Kumar Deobrat 53 (97) Hardik Patel 4/9 (6 overs)

Gujarat won by 10 wickets JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe and Virender Sharma Player of the match: Rujul Bhatt (Gujarat)

• Jharkhand won the toss and elected to field.
• Kamlesh Thakor (Gujarat) made his first-class debut.

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25–28 November 2017 Scorecard

Saurashtra	v	Rajasthan
534 (143.4 overs) Avi Barot 130 (272) Deepak Chahar 3/110 (31 overs)		275 (102.2 overs) Robin Bist 63 (148) Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 3/42 (18 overs)
		394/7 (101.2 overs) (f/o) Chetan Bist 109 (182) Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 5/167 (38 overs)

Match drawn Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan and Jayaraman Madanagopal Player of the match: Dharmendrasinh Jadeja (Saurashtra)

• Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.