1977–78 Ranji Trophy
Cricket tournament
Cricket tournament
 The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get. | |
| Administrator(s) | BCCI |
|---|---|
| Cricket format | First-class cricket |
| Tournament format(s) | League and knockout |
| Champions | Karnataka (2nd title) |
| Participants | 24 |
| Most runs | Venkat Sunderam (Delhi) (608)[1] |
| Most wickets | Rajinder Singh Hans (Uttar Pradesh) (52)[2] |
← 1976–77 1978–79 → | |
The 1977–78 Ranji Trophy was the 44th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka won their second title defeating Uttar Pradesh.
Highlights
- Bombay finished third in the West Zone and failed to qualify for the knockout stage. Gujarat won all their four matches in the West Zone, a rare feat.
- Bombay were dismissed for 42 by Gujarat.[3] This is their lowest total in Ranji Trophy.
- The loss against Gujarat ended a sequence of 124 matches without defeat for Bombay. Their previous defeat was against Baroda in 1957/58.[4] During these twenty years, Bombay won the Ranji Trophy 18 times.
- Karnataka defeated Kerala without losing a wicket. Kerala scored 141 and 124, and Karnataka 451/0 decl.[5] The partnership between Sanjay Desai and Roger Binny was then an Indian record for the first wicket.[6]
- Rajinder Goel took 7 wickets for 4 runs in the second innings as Haryana bowled out Jammu Kashmir for 23. Goel's match figures were 13 for 29.[7]
Group stage
South Zone
West Zone
North Zone
| Central Zone
East Zone
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Knockout stage
| Pre-Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 11 Feb 1978 — Ghaziabad | ||||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 407 & 41/0 | |||||||||||||
| 24 Feb 1978 — Ghaziabad | ||||||||||||||
| Punjab | 287 & 275/9d | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 186 & 280 | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | 154 & 252 | |||||||||||||
| 17 Mar 1978 — Ghaziabad | ||||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 267 & 159/3 | |||||||||||||
| Hyderabad | 247 & 175 | |||||||||||||
| 17 Feb 1978 — Hyderabad | ||||||||||||||
| Hyderabad | 317 | |||||||||||||
| Bengal | 197 & 108/8 | |||||||||||||
| 4 Apr 1978 — Ghaziabad | ||||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 129 & 112 | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 434 | |||||||||||||
| 26 Feb 1978 — Delhi | ||||||||||||||
| Delhi | 522/9d | |||||||||||||
| 21 Feb 1978 — Karad | ||||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 223 & 196 | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 237 & 258 | |||||||||||||
| 17 Mar 1978 — Delhi | ||||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 220 & 284/6 | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 332 & 195/7d | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 391 & 94/5 | |||||||||||||
| 18 Feb 1978 — Bangalore | ||||||||||||||
| Karnataka | 486 | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | 255 & 162 | |||||||||||||
Final
4–6 April 1978 Scorecard |
Uttar Pradesh (H) | v | |
Karnataka won by an innings and 193 runs Narendra Mohan Sports Stadium, Mohan Nagar, Uttar Pradesh Umpires: P. D. Reporter and Har Prasad Sharma |
- Uttar Pradesh won the toss and decided to bat.
Scorecards and averages
- CricketArchive
References
- ^ "Ranji Trophy, 1977/78 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ "Ranji Trophy, 1977/78 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ Gujarat v Bombay, Bulsar, 1977/78
- ^ Baroda v Bombay, Solapur, 1957/58
- ^ Karnataka v Kerala, Chickmagalur, 1977/78
- ^ "How many batters have made their first two centuries in the same Test?". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ Haryana v Jammu Kashmir, Rai, 1977/78
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