2017–18 Irani Cup

The 2017–18 Irani Cup was the 56th season of Irani Cup, a first-class cricket competition in India. It was played as a one-off match between Vidarbha (the winner of the 2017–18 Ranji trophy) and Rest of India cricket team. The match was played from 14 March 2018 to 18 March 2018 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur.[1][2]

2017–18 Irani Cup
Vidarbha Rest of India
800/7 & 79/0 390
Match drawn; Vidarbha won on 1st innings
Date14 March 2018 (2018-03-14) – 18 March 2018 (2018-03-18)
VenueVidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Player of the matchWasim Jaffer (Vidarbha)
UmpiresC. K. Nandan and Anil Chaudhary
← 2016-17
2017–18 Indian domestic cricket season
Men
Women

Squads
Vidarbha[3] Rest of India[4]
Faiz Fazal (c) Karun Nair (c)
Ganesh Satish Prithvi Shaw
Rajneesh Gurbani Abhimanyu Easwaran
Wasim Jaffer Ravikumar Samarth
Akshay Karnewar Mayank Agarwal
Lalit Yadav Hanuma Vihari
Siddhesh Neral K. S. Bharat (wk)
Sanjay Ramaswamy Ravindra Jadeja
Aditya Sarwate Jayant Yadav
Karn Sharma Shahbaz Nadeem
Shalabh Shrivastava Anmolpreet Singh
Aditya Thakare Siddarth Kaul
Akshay Wadkar (wk) Ankit Rajpoot
Akshay Wakhare Navdeep Saini
Apoorv Wankhade Atit Sheth
Siddhesh Wath (wk) Ravichandran Ashwin
Umesh Yadav

Ravindra Jadeja was ruled out of Rest of India's squad before the start of the tournament. He was replaced by Ravichandran Ashwin[5]

Match
14–18 March
Scorecard
v
800/7d (226.3 overs)
Wasim Jaffer 286 (431)
Siddarth Kaul 2/91 (36 overs)
390 (129.1 overs)
Hanuma Vihari 183 (327)
Rajneesh Gurbani 4/70 (24 overs)
79/0 (26 overs)
Akshay Wadkar 50* (71)
Match drawn; Vidarbha won on 1st innings
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur
Umpires: C. K. Nandan and Anil Chaudhary
Player of the match: Wasim Jaffer (Vidarbha)
  • Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.
  • This was Vidarbha's maiden Irani Trophy.

References
  1. "BCCI advances domestic T20 tournaments ahead of IPL auction". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  2. "Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament advanced on request of IPL teams". Indian Express. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  3. "Vidarbha Squad / Players". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  4. "Ashwin, Iyer to lead Deodhar Trophy squads". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  5. "R Ashwin to replace injured Ravindra Jadeja for Irani Trophy 2018". CricTracker. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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