2021–22 Ranji Trophy Group C

The 2021–22 Ranji Trophy was the 87th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India.^[1][2] It was contested by 38 teams, divided into eight groups, with four teams in Group C.^[3] All the Group C league matches took place in Chennai.^[4] The tournament was announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 3 July 2021.^[5] Karnataka won Group C to progress to the knockout stage of the tournament.^[6]

2021–22 Ranji Trophy Group C

Dates	17 February – 26 June 2022
Administrator	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format	Round-robin then knockout
Participants	4
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Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	D	NR	Pts	Quot
1	Karnataka	3	2	0	0	1	0	16	1.681
2	Railways	3	1	0	0	2	0	10	1.324
3	Jammu & Kashmir	3	1	2	0	0	0	6	0.782
4	Pondicherry	3	0	2	0	1	0	1	0.548

Updated to match(es) played on 6 March 2022. Source: ESPN Cricinfo

  Advances to Quarter-final

Fixtures

Round 1

17–20 February 2022 Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Railways
481 (109.3 overs) Manish Pandey 156 (121) Yuvraj Singh 5/93 (27.3 overs)		426 (128.3 overs) Arindam Ghosh 105 (197) Krishnappa Gowtham 4/127 (41 overs)
223/9d (63.2 overs) Ravikumar Samarth 83 (170) Amit Mishra 4/58 (21.2 overs)		69/4 (33 overs) Mohammad Saif 27* (59) Vijaykumar Vyshak 2/16 (8 overs)

Match drawn Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai Umpires: Chettithody Shamshuddin and Madanagopal Kuppuraj Player of the match: Manish Pandey (Karnataka)

• Railways won the toss and elected to field.
• Vidyadhar Patil, Vijaykumar Vyshak (Karnataka) and Yuvraj Singh (Railways) all made their first-class debuts.
• Yuvraj Singh (Railways) took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.^[7]

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17–20 February 2022 Scorecard

Pondicherry	v	Jammu & Kashmir
343 (104.3 overs) Paras Dogra 108 (187) Parvez Rasool 4/56 (18.3 overs)		426 (114.1 overs) Abdul Samad 103 (78) Sagar Trivedi 5/74 (22 overs)
124 (45.5 overs) Sagar Trivedi 37 (37) Parvez Rasool 5/29 (19.5 overs)		45/2 (12.4 overs) Shubham Pundir 21* (34) Sagar Udeshi 2/18 (6.4 overs)

Jammu & Kashmir won by 8 wickets SSN College Ground, Chennai Umpires: Mohamad Rafi and Ulhas Gandhe Player of the match: Parvez Rasool (Jammu & Kashmir)

• Jammu and Kashmir won the toss and chose to field.
• Jatin Wadhwan (Jammu and Kashmir), Kothandapani Aravind, Neyan Shyam Kangayan and Vijai Raja (Pondicherry) all made their first-class debuts.

Round 2

24–27 February 2022 Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Jammu & Kashmir
302 (103.1 overs) Karun Nair 175 (311) Parvez Rasool 4/60 (30.1 overs)		93 (29.5 overs) Qamran Iqbal 35 (45) Prasidh Krishna 6/35 (12 overs)
298/3d (71 overs) Krishnamurthy Siddharth 72 (72) Abid Mushtaq 3/65 (18 overs)		390 (98.5 overs) Ian Dev Singh 110 (188) Prasidh Krishna 4/59 (20.5 overs)

Karnataka won by 117 runs Chemplast Cricket Ground, Chennai Umpires: Pashchim Pathak and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Karun Nair (Karnataka)

• Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.

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24–27 February 2022 Scorecard

Pondicherry	v	Railways
342 (107.1 overs) Paras Dogra 107 (170) Yuvraj Singh 3/67 (22 overs)		525/9d (151.4 overs) Arindam Ghosh 100 (193) Sagar Udeshi 3/144 (49 overs)
208/3 (62 overs) Paras Dogra 64* (96) Yuvraj Singh 2/26 (12 overs)

Match drawn Guru Nanak College Ground, Chennai Umpires: Chettithody Shamshuddin and Madanagopal Kuppuraj Player of the match: Paras Dogra (Pondicherry)

• Railways won the toss and elected to field.
• Akash Pandey, Rahul Sharma (Railways) and Sidak Singh (Pondicherry) all made their first-class debuts.

Round 3

3–6 March 2022 Scorecard

Jammu & Kashmir	v	Railways
259 (87.1 overs) Qamran Iqbal 83 (98) Karn Sharma 6/76 (29 overs)		426 (127.4 overs) Yuvraj Singh 103 (133) Abid Mushtaq 5/95 (31 overs)
203 (62 overs) Suryansh Raina 39 (84) Karn Sharma 5/64 (19 overs)		39/1 (12.4 overs) Shivam Chaudhary 18* (20) Parvez Rasool 1/7 (6 overs)

Railways won by 9 wickets Chemplast Cricket Ground, Chennai Umpires: Pashchim Pathak and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Railways)

• Jammu & Kashmir won the toss and elected to bat.
• This was the 5000th Ranji Trophy Match.^[8]

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3–6 March 2022 Scorecard

Karnataka	v	Pondicherry
453/8d (132.2 overs) Devdutt Padikkal 178 (309) Ashith Rajiv 4/80 (27.2 overs)		241 (77.4 overs) Damodaran Rohit 100* (133) Krishnappa Gowtham 5/86 (26.4 overs)
		192(f/o) (61 overs) Pavan Deshpande 54* (119) Shreyas Gopal 5/82 (19 overs)

Karnataka won by an innings and 20 runs SSN College Ground, Chennai Umpires: Mohamad Rafi and Ulhas Gandhe Player of the match: Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka)

• Pondicherry won the toss and elected to field.
• Vidhwath Kaverappa (Karnataka) made his first-class debut.