1977–78 Ranji Trophy

The 1977–78 Ranji Trophy was the 44th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka won their second title defeating Uttar Pradesh.

1977-78 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)League and knockout
ChampionsKarnataka
Participants24
Most runsVenkat Sunderam (Delhi) (608)[1]
Most wicketsRajinder Singh Hans (Uttar Pradesh) (52)[2]

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.
  • 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.[6]

Final

4–6 April 1978
Scorecard
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129 (50.5 overs)
Anand Shukla 32
B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/57
434 (136.4 overs)
G. R. Viswanath 247, Brijesh Patel 100
Rajinder Singh Hans 9/152
112 (56.2 overs)
Shashikant Srivastava 22
B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/24
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

References

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