2022–23 Ranji Trophy Group A

The 2022–23 Ranji Trophy is the 88th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India.^[1] It is contested by 38 teams, divided into four elite groups and a plate group, with eight teams in Group A.^[2] The tournament was announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 8 August 2022.^[3]

2022–23 Ranji Trophy Group A

Dates	13 December 2022 – 10 February 2023
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin then knockout
Participants	8
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	D	NR	Pts	Quot
1	Bengal	7	4	1	0	2	0	32	1.573
2	Uttarakhand	7	3	0	0	4	0	29	1.365
3	Himachal Pradesh	7	2	1	0	4	0	21	1.459
4	Baroda	7	2	1	0	4	0	21	1.324
5	Odisha	7	1	2	0	4	0	14	0.846
6	Uttar Pradesh	7	1	2	0	4	0	13	0.980
7	Haryana	7	1	2	0	4	0	13	0.855
8	Nagaland	7	0	5	0	2	0	2	0.297

Updated to match(es) played on 27 January 2023. Source: ESPN Cricinfo

  Advances to Quarter-final   Relegated to Plate Group for next season

Fixtures

Round 1

13–16 December 2022 Scorecard

Uttarakhand	v	Nagaland
282 (78 overs) Kunal Chandela 92 (129) Akash Singh 3/45 (19 overs)		389 (154.1 overs) Shrikant Mundhe 161 (368) Swapnil Singh 5/47 (32.1 overs)
306/7d (70 overs) Swapnil Singh 88* (106) Akash Singh 3/66 (17 overs)		25 (18 overs) Nagaho Chishi 10 (6) Mayank Mishra 5/4 (9 overs)

Uttarakhand won by 174 runs Nagaland Cricket Association Stadium, Sovima Umpires: Parashar Joshi and Sundaram Ravi Player of the match: Swapnil Singh (Uttarakhand)

• Uttarakhand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Akhil Rawat (Uttarakhand), Akash Singh, Hem Chetri, Joshua Ozukum and Mungkham Phom (Nagaland) all made their first-class debuts.

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13–16 December 2022 Scorecard

Odisha	v	Baroda
457 (154.2 overs) Debabrata Pradhan 89 (147) Ninad Rathva 5/106 (39.2 overs)		624/8 (172.4 overs) Shashwat Rawat 135 (198) Basant Mohanty 2/31 (15.4 overs)

Match Drawn Vikas Cricket Ground, Cuttack Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh and Mohamad Rafi Player of the match: Shashwat Rawat (Baroda)

• Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
• Kartik Biswal (Odisha), Akshay More, Priyanshu Moliya and Shashwat Rawat (Baroda) all made their first-class debuts.

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13–16 December 2022 Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh	v	Bengal
198 (63.5 overs) Rinku Singh 79 (118) Ishan Porel 5/35 (17 overs)		169 (43.3 overs) Akash Deep 41 (30) Shivam Mavi 6/55 (18.3 overs)
227 (65.3 overs) Rinku Singh 89 (113) Akash Deep 3/52 (19.3 overs)		259/4 (74.5 overs) Anustup Majumdar 83 (170) Shivam Mavi 2/65 (19 overs)

Bengal won by 6 wickets Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Navdeep Singh Player of the match: Ishan Porel (Bengal)

• Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
• Aanjaneya Suryavanshi and Aaradhya Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) both made their first-class debuts.

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13–16 December 2022 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Himachal Pradesh
46 (20.4 overs) Nishant Sindhu 19 (29) Vaibhav Arora 4/15 (7 overs)		487/4d (130.2 overs) Raghav Dhawan 182 (359) Chaitanya Bishnoi 2/15 (5.2 overs)
353 (123 overs) Chaitanya Bishnoi 97 (192) Rishi Dhawan 3/83 (28 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by an innings and 88 runs Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Nikhil Patwardhan and Sanjay Kumar Singh Player of the match: Raghav Dhawan (Himachal Pradesh)

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

Round 2

20–22 December 2022 Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh	v	Nagaland
551/4d (117 overs) Dhruv Jurel 249 (329) Rongsen Jonathan 3/168 (42 overs)		136 (42.4 overs) Imliwati Lemtur 36 (72) Shivam Sharma 7/59 (16.4 overs)
		185 (55.4 overs) (f/o) Shrikant Mundhe 98 (193) Shivam Mavi 3/26 (9 overs)

Uttar Pradesh won by an innings and 230 runs Nagaland Cricket Association Stadium, Sovima Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Mohamad Rafi Player of the match: Dhruv Jurel (Uttar Pradesh)

• Nagaland won the toss and elected to field.
• Kartikeya Jaiswal (Uttar Pradesh) made his first-class debut.

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20–23 December 2022 Scorecard

Bengal	v	Himachal Pradesh
310 (78.2 overs) Anustup Majumdar 159 (207) Sidharth Sharma 5/69 (19 overs)		130 (46.5 overs) Prashant Chopra 71 (149) Shahbaz Ahmed 5/32 (13 overs)
291/5d (74 overs) Sudip Kumar Gharami 101 (166) Sidharth Sharma 2/53 (16 overs)		348/4 (93 overs) Prashant Chopra 109 (205) Sayan Mondal 2/29 (9 overs)

Match drawn Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe and Vinod Seshan Player of the match: Anustup Majumdar (Bengal)

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Ravikant Singh (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
• Substitute: Ekant Sen for Amit Kumar (Himachal Pradesh).

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20–23 December 2022 Scorecard

Odisha	v	Uttarakhand
213 (76.1 overs) Kartik Biswal 48 (75) Swapnil Singh 4/48 (15 overs)		477 (143 overs) Jiwanjot Singh 218 (363) Suryakant Pradhan 3/90 (34 overs)
165 (57.5 overs) Anurag Sarangi 93 (158) Abhay Negi 5/33 (10.5 overs)

Uttarakhand won by an innings and 99 runs Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun Umpires: Belur Ravi and Sundaram Ravi Player of the match: Jiwanjot Singh (Uttarakhand)

• Uttarakhand won the toss and elected to field.
• Saurabh Kanojia (Odisha) made his first-class debut.

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20–23 December 2022 Scorecard

Baroda	v	Haryana
615 (158 overs) Jyotsnil Singh 195 (261) Nishant Sindhu 3/57 (13 overs)		278 (66.2 overs) Nishant Sindhu 110 (100) Ninad Rathva 3/36 (7 overs)
		404/9 (137.3 overs) (f/o) Yuvraj Singh 94 (283) Jyotsnil Singh 3/50 (11 overs)

Match drawn Gujarat State Fertilizer Corporation Ground, Vadodara Umpires: Pashchim Pathak and Kamlesh Sharma Player of the match: Jyotsnil Singh (Baroda)

• Haryana won the toss and elected to field.

Round 3

27–29 December 2022 Scorecard

Nagaland	v	Bengal
166 (62.4 overs) Chetan Bist 64 (154) Pradipta Pramanik 6/43 (24.4 overs)		450/4d (96 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 170 (218) Rongsen Jonathan 2/79 (17 overs)
123 (45.3 overs) Shrikant Mundhe 28 (81) Karan Lal 5/47 (17 overs)

Bengal won by an innings and 161 runs Nagaland Cricket Association Stadium, Sovima Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan and Ganesh Charhate Player of the match: Pradipta Pramanik (Bengal)

• Nagaland won the toss and elected to bat.
• Karan Lal (Bengal) made his first-class debut.

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27–30 December 2022 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Odisha
338 (100 overs) Nishant Sindhu 142 (215) Suryakant Pradhan 6/93 (25 overs)		414 (128.5 overs) Kartik Biswal 101 (177) Yuzvendra Chahal 3/107 (33 overs)
384/4d (77 overs) Ankit Kumar 172* (243) Jayanta Behera 2/134 (27 overs)		110/1 (31 overs) Anurag Sarangi 53* (96) Jayant Yadav 1/20 (8 overs)

Match drawn DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack Umpires: Rohan Pandit and GS Ananth Ramakrishnan Player of the match: Suryakant Pradhan (Odisha)

• Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
• Tarani Sa, Swastik Samal and Prayash Singh (Odisha) all made their first-class debuts.

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27–30 December 2022 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh	v	Uttarakhand
49 (16.3 overs) Ankit Kalsi 26 (42) Deepak Dhapola 8/35 (8.3 overs)		336 (75.4 overs) Aditya Tare 92 (129) Vaibhav Arora 4/80 (18.4 overs)
391 (111 overs) Akash Vasisht 111 (196) Abhay Negi 4/54 (11 overs)		106/5 (28.5 overs) Kunal Chandela 59* (81) Mayank Dagar 3/35 (14 overs)

Uttarakhand won by 5 wickets Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun Umpires: VM Dhokre and Nitin Menon Player of the match: Deepak Dhapola (Uttarakhand)

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Aryan Sharma (Uttarakhand) made his first-class debut.

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27–30 December 2022 Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh	v	Baroda
258 (100.5 overs) Akshdeep Nath 71 (165) Bhargav Bhatt 3/81 (40 overs)		249 (88.1 overs) Ninad Rathva 102 (182) Shivam Mavi 2/40 (12.1 overs)
177 (54 overs) Dhruv Jurel 50 (61) Ninad Rathva 5/56 (21 overs)		189/6 (47.2 overs) Shashwat Rawat 68 (97) Saurabh Kumar 2/54 (17 overs)

Baroda won by 4 wickets Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Piyush Khakhar and Ranjeev Sharma Player of the match: Ninad Rathva (Baroda)

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Mahesh Pithiya (Baroda) made his first-class debut.
• Umpire Replacement: Piyush Khakhar for KN Ananthapadmanabhan.

Round 4

3–6 January 2023 Scorecard

Nagaland	v	Odisha
433 (142.5 overs) Chetan Bist 129 (213) Tarani Sa 3/86 (25 overs)		535/8d (146.1 overs) Shantanu Mishra 200* (405) Akash Singh 4/73 (25 overs)
120/1 (32 overs) Joshua Ozukum 56 (86) Jayanta Behera 1/34 (12 overs)

Match drawn DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack Umpires: Piyush Khakhar and Ravi Shankar Player of the match: Shantanu Mishra (Odisha)

• Odisha won the toss and elected to field.

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3–6 January 2023 Scorecard

Bengal	v	Uttarakhand
387 (120.5 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 165 (287) Mayank Mishra 6/95 (34 overs)		272 (105.3 overs) Kunal Chandela 136 (304) Pradipta Pramanik 4/58 (32.3 overs)
206/7d (58 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 82* (150) Mayank Mishra 4/99 (24 overs)		69/0 (23 overs) Avneesh Sudha 54* (87)

Match drawn Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh and Sabyasachi Sarkar Player of the match: Abhimanyu Easwaran (Bengal)

• Uttarakhand won the toss and elected to field.
• Geet Puri (Bengal) made his first-class debut.

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3–6 January 2023 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Uttar Pradesh
365 (116.2 overs) Ankit Kumar 174 (286) Aaqib Khan 4/73 (18.5 overs)		197 (55.1 overs) Priyam Garg 64 (99) Ajit Chahal 3/70 (18 overs)
		72/1 (12 overs) (f/o) Priyam Garg 36* (27) Ajit Chahal 1/41 (6 overs)

Match drawn BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Puttarangaiah Jayapal and Prabhakar Rao Player of the match: Ankit Kumar (Haryana)

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
• No play was held on Day 1 due to rain.
• Bhuwan Rohilla (Haryana) made his first-class debut.

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3–6 January 2023 Scorecard

Baroda	v	Himachal Pradesh
355 (97.2 overs) Vishnu Solanki 178 (273) Kanwar Abhinay 3/63 (20 overs)		561/8d (172 overs) Prashant Chopra 159 (280) Ninad Rathva 4/127 (41 overs)
216/6 (86 overs) Pratyush Kumar 59 (150) Gurvinder Singh 5/59 (31 overs)

Match drawn Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: NR Seetharam Prabhu and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Ankit Kalsi (Himachal Pradesh)

• Baroda won the toss and elected to bat.

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Round 5

10–13 January 2023 Scorecard

Baroda	v	Bengal
269 (100.1 overs) Jyotsnil Singh 85 (217) Akash Deep 4/71 (28 overs)		191 (59.3 overs) Anustup Majumdar 90 (171) Sahejadkhan Pathan 5/48 (17.3 overs)
98 (44 overs) Pratyush Kumar 62* (149) Mukesh Kumar 4/43 (14 overs)		179/3 (61 overs) Sudip Kumar Gharami 76* (140) Soyeb Sopariya 2/38 (16 overs)

Bengal won by 7 wickets Bengal Cricket Academy Ground, Kalyani Umpires: Abhijit Bengeri and Saurabh Dhote Player of the match: Anustup Majumdar (Bengal)

• Baroda won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sahejadkhan Pathan (Baroda) made his first-class debut.
• Pratyush Kumar (Baroda) carried his bat.

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10–12 January 2023 Scorecard

Nagaland	v	Haryana
88 (42.1 overs) Shrikant Mundhe 32 (89) Amit Rana 5/15 (7.1 overs)		229/7d (49 overs) Yuvraj Singh 75 (111) Imliwati Lemtur 4/76 (18 overs)
72 (23 overs) Akash Singh 30* (42) Amit Rana 7/24 (10 overs)

Haryana won by an innings and 69 runs Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Mihir Parmar and Chettithody Shamshuddin Player of the match: Amit Rana (Haryana)

• Haryana won the toss and elected to field.
• Khriesavituo Solo (Nagaland) made his first-class debut.

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10–13 January 2023 Scorecard

Odisha	v	Himachal Pradesh
191 (50 overs) Shantanu Mishra 52 (107) Vaibhav Arora 5/51 (14 overs)		258 (76.5 overs) Prashant Chopra 138 (198) Sunil Roul 6/62 (22.5 overs)
374 (95.5 overs) Govinda Poddar 135 (176) Vinay Galetiya 2/58 (15 overs)		310/7 (76.3 overs) Ankit Kalsi 165* (201) Basant Mohanty 3/40 (16 overs)

Himachal Pradesh won by 3 wickets Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun Umpires: Anurag Rathour and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Player of the match: Ankit Kalsi (Himachal Pradesh)

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
• Sunil Roul (Odisha) made his first-class debut.

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10–13 January 2023 Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh	v	Uttarakhand
142 (67.5 overs) Sameer Choudhary 49 (126) Agrim Tiwari 4/27 (20 overs)		172/4 (53.3 overs) Kunal Chandela 56 (135) Karthikeya Jaiswal 3/40 (16 overs)

Match drawn BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Nand Kishore and Keshav K. Kolle Player of the match: Agrim Tiwari (Uttarakhand)

• Uttar Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• Match was effected due to rain.
• Sameer Choudhary, Shiva Singh and Bihari Rai (Uttar Pradesh) all made their first-class debuts.

Round 6

17–20 January 2023 Scorecard

Baroda	v	Uttarakhand
86 (35.3 overs) Bhargav Bhatt 23 (25) Agrim Tiwari 5/40 (13 overs)		199 (77.4 overs) Swapnil Singh 63 (146) Ninad Rathva 4/19 (7.4 overs)
336/7 (102 overs) Shashwat Rawat 89 (173) Swapnil Singh 3/80 (27 overs)

Match drawn Abhimanyu Cricket Academy, Dehradun Umpires: Krishnamachari Srinivasan and Akshay Totre Player of the match: Agrim Tiwari (Uttarakhand)

• Uttarakhand won the toss and elected to field.

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17–20 January 2023 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh	v	Nagaland
346 (104.5 overs) Ankit Kalsi 160* (317) Imliwati Lemtur 5/74 (28.5 overs)		233 (79.5 overs) Rongsen Jonathan 96 (168) Vinay Galetiya 6/62 (23.5 overs)
263/3d (46 overs) Prashant Chopra 115* (143) Imliwati Lemtur 1/66 (15 overs)		31/4 (17 overs) Yugandhar Singh 17 (46) Nikhil Gangta 1/0 (1 over)

Match drawn Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun Umpires: Nagaraj Ramesh and Rajesh Timaney Player of the match: Ankit Kalsi (Himachal Pradesh)

• Nagaland won the toss and elected to field.

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17–20 January 2023 Scorecard

Odisha	v	Uttar Pradesh
226 (87 overs) Shantanu Mishra 109 (226) Kunal Yadav 5/47 (17 overs)		362 (100.3 overs) Priyam Garg 122 (185) Suryakant Pradhan 4/76 (25 overs)
335/4 (96 overs) Subhranshu Senapati 145 (179) Saurabh Kumar 2/98 (34 overs)

Match drawn Victoria Park Stadium, Meerut Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Bhavesh Patel Player of the match: Kunal Yadav (Uttar Pradesh)

• Odisha won the toss and elected to bat.
• Kunal Yadav (Uttar Pradesh) made his first-class debut.

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17–20 January 2023 Scorecard

Bengal	v	Haryana
419 (113.4 overs) Anustup Majumdar 145 (245) Harshal Patel 4/80 (24.4 overs)		163 (52 overs) Sumit Kumar 70* (74) Akash Deep 5/61 (13 overs)
		206 (79 overs) (f/o) Yuvraj Singh 78 (187) Akash Deep 5/51 (21 overs)

Bengal won by an innings and 50 runs Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Nitin Pandit and Vinod Seshan Player of the match: Akash Deep (Bengal)

• Haryana won the toss and elected to field.
• Suvankar Bal (Bengal) made his first-class debut.

Round 7

24–27 January 2023 Scorecard

Odisha	v	Bengal
265 (98 overs) Subhranshu Senapati 67 (127) Pritam Chakraborty 3/59 (25 overs)		100 (35.5 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 27 (50) Sunil Roul 3/19 (8 overs)
112/3 (22.2 overs) Anurag Sarangi 37 (61) Akash Ghatak 2/29 (6 overs)		276 (79 overs) (f/o) Abhimanyu Easwaran 101 (175) Sunil Roul 6/96 (27 overs)

Odisha won by 7 wickets Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Manish Jain and Chettithody Shamshuddin Player of the match: Sunil Roul (Odisha)

• Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
• Rakesh Pattnaik (Odisha) and Akash Ghatak (Bengal) both made their first-class debuts.

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24–27 January 2023 Scorecard

Haryana	v	Uttarakhand
233 (71.3 overs) Sumit Kumar 86 (97) Avneesh Sudha 6/51 (13.3 overs)		269 (75.4 overs) Avneesh Sudha 62 (123) Nishant Sindhu 4/57 (14 overs)
168/7d (42.5 overs) Yuvraj Singh 77* (114) Mayank Mishra 4/44 (13.5 overs)		61/5 (23 overs) Kunal Chandela 23 (36) Jayant Yadav 3/40 (11 overs)

Match drawn Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Krishnendu Pal and Nikhil Patwardhan Player of the match: Avneesh Sudha (Uttarakhand)

• Uttarakhand won the toss and elected to field.
• Jaideep Bhambhu (Haryana) and Nikhil Kohli (Uttarakhand) both made their first-class debuts.

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24–27 January 2023 Scorecard

Himachal Pradesh	v	Uttar Pradesh
92/2 (26 overs) Amit Kumar 35* (63) Bihari Rai 2/13 (7 overs)

Match drawn Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium, Nadaun Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe and Chirra Ravikanthreddy

• Himachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
• No play was held on Day 2 and Day 3 due to rain.

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24–26 January 2023 Scorecard

Baroda	v	Nagaland
561/6d (128 overs) Vishnu Solanki 179 (281) Chopise Hopongkyu 2/71 (16 overs)		130 (45.5 overs) Hokaito Zhimomi 44 (87) Bhargav Bhatt 5/40 (20 overs)
		88 (30.1 overs) (f/o) Chetan Bist 28 (56) Ninad Rathva 4/32 (8.1 overs)

Baroda won by an innings and 343 runs Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Umpires: Rajeev Godara and M. Madhu Player of the match: Ninad Rathva (Baroda)

• Baroda won the toss and elected to bat.