2016–17 Ranji Trophy
The 2016–17 Ranji Trophy was the 83rd season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. Unlike previous seasons, the 2016–17 tournament was played at neutral venues.[1][2][3] Captains and coaches were supportive of the change.[4] Chhattisgarh cricket team made their debut in the competition, becoming the 28th team to compete in this edition of the Ranji Trophy.[5][6] Mumbai were the defending champions.[7] Gujarat beat Mumbai in the final by 5 wickets to win their first title.[8]
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners | |
Dates | 6 October 2016 – 14 January 2017 |
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Administrator(s) | BCCI |
Cricket format | First-class cricket |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin then knockout |
Host(s) | India |
Champions | Gujarat (1st title) |
Participants | 28 |
Most runs | Priyank Panchal (1310) |
Most wickets | Shahbaz Nadeem (56) |
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In September 2016, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the dates, groups and fixtures for the competition.[9] The pink ball was used in the tournament, to help the BCCI make a decision on playing a day/night Test match.[10]
In October 2016 during the Group B fixture between Maharashtra and Delhi, Swapnil Gugale and Ankit Bawne playing for Maharashtra, set a record partnership total in the Ranji Trophy, with 594 runs. It was also the second-highest partnership in the history of first-class cricket.[11]
Two group stage fixtures, the Group A match between Gujarat and Bengal and the Group C match between Hyderabad and Tripura, were abandoned because of smog pollution.[12] Initially, the BCCI rescheduled the fixtures to take place after the conclusion of the group stages.[12] As a result of the rescheduled matches, the dates of the matches in the knockout phase of the competition were moved back to accommodate the rearranged fixtures.[12] Both the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) and the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) opposed the rescheduling of the fixtures.[13] The MCA joint-secretary Unmesh Khanvilkar said that it "gives unfair advantage to the participating teams with respect to their qualification the knockout phase".[13] Kasi Viswanathan, secretary of the TNCA, said that "the matches should not be rescheduled and that points should be shared".[13] The BCCI reviewed the decision to reschedule the matches.[14] In December 2016, they revoked the changes and awarded each team one point from the abandoned matches.[15]
Mumbai, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu from Group A, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Odisha from Group B and Hyderabad and Haryana from Group C all qualified for the knockout stage of the tournament.[16][17][18][19] The dates of the quarter-finals were brought forward by one day and the semi-finals by two days.[20] The Holkar Stadium in Indore hosted the final on 10 January 2017, two days earlier than originally planned.[20]
In the semi-finals Gujarat beat Jharkhand by 123 runs to reach only their second final in the history of the Ranji Trophy, having previously played in the 1950–51 final.[21] Mumbai beat Tamil Nadu by 6 wickets to progress to their 46th final in the Ranji Trophy.[22]
Personnel changes
Players
Player/Coach | From | To | Role |
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S Badrinath | Vidarbha | Hyderabad | Batsman |
Iqbal Abdulla | Mumbai | Kerala | All-rounder |
Ambati Rayudu | Baroda | Vidarbha | Batsman |
Mohammad Kaif | Andhra | Chhattisgarh | Batsman |
Bhavin Thakkar | Mumbai | Kerala | Bowler |
Hanuma Vihari | Hyderabad | Andhra | All-rounder |
Bhargav Bhatt | Gujarat | Andhra | All-rounder |
Dwaraka Ravi Teja | Hyderabad | Andhra | All-rounder |
Ashutosh Singh | Madhya Pradesh | Chhattisgarh | Batsman |
Pankaj Rao | Madhya Pradesh | Chhattisgarh | Batsman |
Sumit Ruikar | Vidarbha | Chhattisgarh | Batsman |
Manjeet Singh | Rajasthan | Railways | Batsman |
Nikhil Doru | Rajasthan | Railways | Batsman |
Jalaj Saxena | Madhya Pradesh | Kerala | All-rounder |
Mittal Ravaliya | Baroda | Chhattisgarh | Batsman |
Prasanth Parameswaran | Goa | Kerala | Bowler |
Anustup Majumdar | Railways | Bengal | Batsman |
Smit Patel | Gujarat | Tripura | Wicket-keeper |
Yashpal Singh | Services | Tripura | Batsman |
Coaches
Coach | From | To | Role |
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Bharat Arun | Vidarbha | Hyderabad | Coach [23] |
Sulakshan Kulkarni | Chhattisgarh | Coach [23] | |
Hrishikesh Kanitkar | Goa | Tamil Nadu | Coach [23] |
Sunil Joshi | Jammu & Kashmir | Assam | Coach [23] |
Shrikant Kalyani | Maharashtra | Coach [23] | |
Jacob Martin | Baroda | Coach [23] | |
Jai Prakash Yadav | Railways | Coach [23] | |
Sanath Kumar | Assam | Andhra | Coach [23] |
Akshay Tandale | Maharashtra | Asst. Coach [23] | |
KP Bhaskar | Delhi | Coach [23] | |
Amit Bhandari | Delhi | Asst. Coach [23] | |
Teams
The teams were drawn in the following groups:[9]
Group A
Points table
Team[24] | Pld | W | L | D | A | Pts | NRR |
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Mumbai | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 30 | +0.027 |
Gujarat | 8 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 26 | +0.368 |
Tamil Nadu | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 26 | +0.164 |
Punjab | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 21 | +0.109 |
Bengal | 8 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 21 | –0.235 |
Madhya Pradesh | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 20 | +0.024 |
Uttar Pradesh | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 | –0.124 |
Baroda | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 10 | –0.003 |
Railways | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 10 | –0.368 |
- Top three teams advanced to knockout stage.
Group B
Points table
Team[24] | Pld | W | L | D | A | Pts | NRR |
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Jharkhand | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 39 | +0.399 |
Karnataka | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 37 | +0.273 |
Odisha | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 22 | +0.054 |
Delhi | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 21 | +0.579 |
Maharashtra | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 21 | –0.059 |
Vidarbha | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 20 | –0.025 |
Saurashtra | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 18 | +0.101 |
Rajasthan | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 12 | –0.637 |
Assam | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | –0.620 |
- Top three teams advanced to knockout stage.
Group C
Points table
Team[24] | Pld | W | L | D | A | Pts | NRR |
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Hyderabad | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 31 | –0.117 |
Haryana | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 31 | +0.218 |
Andhra | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 28 | +0.119 |
Himachal Pradesh | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 26 | +0.664 |
Kerala | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 25 | +0.206 |
Goa | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 18 | –0.330 |
Services | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 16 | –0.177 |
Jammu and Kashmir | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 15 | –0.383 |
Chhattisgarh | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 14 | –0.011 |
Tripura | 9 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | –0.196 |
- Top two teams advanced to knockout stage
Knockout stage
Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||
A1 | Mumbai | 294 & 217 | ||||||||||||
C1 | Hyderabad | 280 & 201 | ||||||||||||
A1 | Mumbai | 411 & 251/4 | ||||||||||||
A3 | Tamil Nadu | 305 & 356/6d | ||||||||||||
A3 | Tamil Nadu | 152 & 87/3 | ||||||||||||
B2 | Karnataka | 88 & 150 | ||||||||||||
A1 | Mumbai | 228 & 411 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Gujarat | 328 & 313/5 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Gujarat | 263 & 641 | ||||||||||||
B3 | Odisha | 199 & 81/1 | ||||||||||||
A2 | Gujarat | 390 & 252 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Jharkhand | 408 & 111 | ||||||||||||
C2 | Haryana | 258 & 262 | ||||||||||||
B1 | Jharkhand | 345 & 178/5 | ||||||||||||
Quarter-finals
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- Mumbai won the toss and elected to bat.
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- Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to field.
- Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu) played in his 100th Ranji Trophy match.[25]
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- Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
- Samit Gohel (Gujarat) scored his first triple century in first-class cricket and the 40th triple century in the Ranji Trophy. His 359 not out is the highest score for carrying the bat in first-class cricket.[26]
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- Haryana won the toss and elected to bat.
Semi-finals
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- Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat.
- Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai) and Ganga Sridhar Raju (Tamil Nadu) both made their first-class debuts.
- Prithvi Shaw became the first player for Mumbai to score a century on debut in the Ranji Trophy since Amol Muzumdar did so in the 1993–94 tournament.[22]
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- Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.
Final
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- Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
- This was the highest successful run-chase in the final of the Ranji Trophy.[27]
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