Ranji Trophy

Ranji bays is the aboriginal calm capital candid championship played in India amid altered city-limits and accompaniment sides. It is actual agnate in arrangement to the County Championship in England. It is assuredly the a lot of important clash in India's calm candid season. Players who accomplish able-bodied in the Ranji accept a actual fair adventitious to play for India at the all-embracing level; this is why Ranji turns out to be one of the finest exhibitions of India’s adolescent candid talent. Not alone selectors but aswell the candid crazy humans in the country attending advanced to this tournament. It is organized by BCCI, The Board of Control for Candid in India every year.

History

The aboriginal Ranji Bays took abode in the 1934-35. It was again anticipation to be called as the ‘The Candid Championship of India’. However, afterwards the name was kept Ranji, afterwards Sir Ranjitsinghji Vibhaji of Nawanagar, who has the account of arena analysis candid for England and is broadly admired as one of the finest batsmen the bold has anytime seen. The bays was donated by the again Maharaja of Patiala, H.H. Bhupender Singh to the BCCI. The aboriginal Ranji was own by the aggregation of Bombay won the aboriginal Ranji Bays Championship by acquisition North India.

Teams

Most of the teams arena Ranji Bays accept bounded associations; amidst them a lot of of the teams represent altered states of the country. However, there are some institutional teams such as Railways and Services which do not accept bounded link-ups. There are aswell teams that do not represent states or institutions but alone cities such as Mumbai or Hyderabad. The alignment of teams in Ranji in its antecedent date was done on the zonal base till 2002-2003 and there were 5 groups, anniversary from the North, South, East, West and Central Zone. However afterwards 2002-2003, the arrangement of Elite Accumulation and the Bowl Accumulation was introduced. In 2006-2007, the groups were relabeled as the Super Alliance and Bowl League.

Pattern of Play

The arrangement of the Ranji Clash is ‘Test Candid Format’ and the access into the finals in done in a ‘knock out’ pattern. There are two groups of aggregation in the Bowl league, anniversary consisting of six alone teams. On the agnate basis, the Super Alliance is disconnected into two groups of aggregation with eight anniversary consisting of eight alone teams. The top two teams of anniversary accumulation of the Bowl Alliance are again fabricated to play a beating out affair with the three top teams of the anniversary accumulation of the Super League. The two top teams afterwards this beating out affair again play adjoin anniversary added in the finals. The accommodation of the alignment of next division is aswell done actuality in advance. The basal two teams of the Super Alliance are again relegated to the Bowl Alliance for the next division and the top two teams of the bowl Alliance are alien to the Super Alliance for the next season.

Ranji Bays Statistics

Year Winner Runner-up

2008-2009 Mumbai Uttar Pradesh

2007-2008 Delhi Uttar Pradesh

2006-2007 Mumbai Bengal

2005-06 Uttar Pradesh Bengal

2004-05 Railways Punjab

2003-04 Mumbai Tamil Nadu

2002-03 Mumbai Tamil Nadu

2001-02 Railways Baroda

2000-01 Baroda Railways

1999-00 Mumbai Hyderabad

1998-99 Karnataka Madhya Pradesh

1997-98 Karnataka Uttar Pradesh

1996-97 Mumbai Delhi

1995-96 Karnataka Tamil Nadu

1994-95 Mumbai Punjab

1993-94 Mumbai Mumbai

1992-93 Punjab Maharashtra

1991-92 Delhi Tamil Nadu

1990-91 Haryana Mumbai

1989-90 Bengal Delhi

1988-89 Delhi Bengal

1987-88 Tamil Nadu Railways

1986-87 Hyderabad Delhi

1985-86 Delhi Haryana

1984-85 Mumbai Delhi

1983-84 Mumbai Delhi

1982-83 Karnataka Mumbai

1981-82 Delhi Karnataka

1980-81 Mumbai Delhi

1979-80 Delhi Mumbai

1978-79 Delhi Karnataka

1977-78 Karnataka Uttar Pradesh

1976-77 Mumbai Delhi

1975-76 Mumbai Bihar

1974-75 Mumbai Karnataka

1973-74 Karnataka Rajasthan

1972-73 Mumbai Tamil Nadu

1971-72 Mumbai Bengal

1970-71 Mumbai Maharashtra

1969-70 Mumbai Rajasthan

1968-69 Mumbai Bengal

1967-68 Mumbai Madras

1966-67 Mumbai Rajasthan

1965-66 Mumbai Rajasthan

1964-65 Mumbai Hyderabad

1963-64 Mumbai Rajasthan

1962-63 Mumbai Rajasthan

1961-62 Mumbai Rajasthan

1960-61 Mumbai Rajasthan

1959-60 Mumbai Mysore

1958-59 Mumbai Bengal

1957-58 Baroda Services

1956-57 Mumbai Services

1955-56 Mumbai Bengal

1954-55 Madras Holkar

1953-54 Mumbai Holkar

1952-53 Holkar Bengal

1951-52 Mumbai Holkar

1950-51 Holkar Gujarat

1949-50 Baroda Holkar

1948-49 Mumbai Baroda

1947-48 Holkar Mumbai

1946-47 Baroda Holkar

1945-46 Holkar Baroda

1944-45 Mumbai Holkar

1943-44 Western India Bengal

1942-43 Baroda Hyderabad

1941-42 Mumbai Mysore

1940-41 Maharashtra Madras

1939-40 Maharashtra United Province

1938-39 Bengal Southern Punjab

1937-38 Hyderabad Nawanagar

1936-37 Nawanagar Bengal

1935-36 Mumbai Madras

1934-35 Mumbai Northern India