Vijay Hazare Trophy

The Vijay Hazare Trophy, also known as the Ranji One-Day Trophy, was started in 2002–03 as a limited-overs cricket domestic competition involving state teams from the Ranji Trophy plates. It is named after the famous Indian cricketer Vijay Hazare.

Vijay Hazare Trophy
Countries India
AdministratorBCCI
FormatList A cricket
First edition2002–03
Latest edition2019-20
Tournament formatRound robin and Playoff
Number of teams38
Current championKarnataka (4 titles)
Most successfulTamil Nadu (5 titles)
2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy
WebsiteBcci.tv

Tamil Nadu is the most successful team having won the trophy 5 times. Karnataka are the current champions(2019-20) who won their 4th title beating Tamil Nadu in the finals.

in the 2021 edition Vijay Hazare Trophy has been held and no Ranji Trophy has been held because of Covid 19[1]

Format

Until the 2014-15 season, 27 teams are split into 5 zonal groups as follows:

ZoneTeamsNo. of Teams
CentralMadhya Pradesh, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha5
EastAssam, Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Tripura6
NorthDelhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Services6
SouthAndhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu6
WestBaroda, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Saurashtra5

After playing each team in the group once, the five winners and the best performing runner-up qualify for the quarter final stage directly, while the four other runners-up play in the preliminary quarter finals. The two winners of pre-quarter finals join the remaining six teams in the quarter final stage. From the 2015-16 to 2017-18 season, the zonal groups were replaced with 4 groups of 7 each.

From 2018-19 season, the teams were divided into 3 elite groups and 1 plate group. The 2 top elite group had 9 teams while 3rd elite group has 10 team. Plate group consists of 9 new teams. Teams are grouped based on average points in preceding 3 seasons.

Tournament history

From the tournament's inaugural edition during the 1993–94 season through to the 2001–02 season, no finals were held, and teams consequently played only within their zones, with no overall winner named.

YearZone winnersMost runsMost wicketsRef
CentralEastNorthSouthWest
1993–94Uttar PradeshBengalHaryanaKarnatakaBombayR. Dravid (Karnataka)D. Singh (Haryana)[2]
1994–95Madhya PradeshBengalPunjabHyderabadMaharashtraA. Sharma (Delhi)A. Sarkar (Bengal)[3]
1995–96Uttar PradeshBengalHaryanaKarnatakaBombayS. Ramesh (Tamil Nadu)K. Ananthapadmanabhan (Kerala)
S. Joshi (Karnataka)
S. Mukherjee (Bengal)
S. Sharma (Punjab)		[4]
1996–97Madhya PradeshAssamDelhiTamil NaduMumbaiS. Manjrekar (Mumbai)H. Ramkishen (Andhra Pradesh)[5]
1997–98Madhya PradeshBengalDelhiTamil NaduMumbaiS. Somasunder (Karnataka)R. Sanghvi (Karnataka)[6]
1998–99Madhya PradeshBengalPunjabKarnatakaMumbaiV. Bharadwaj (Karnataka)J. Rai (Himachal Pradesh)
N. Singh (Hyderabad)		[7]
1999–00Madhya PradeshBengalDelhiTamil NaduMumbaiM. Azharuddin (Hyderabad)T. Pawan Kumar (Hyderabad)[8]
2000–01Madhya PradeshOrissaPunjabTamil NaduMumbaiA. Pathak (Andhra Pradesh)V. Raju (Hyderabad)
R. Sanghvi (Delhi)		[9]
2001–02RailwaysOrissaPunjabKarnatakaMumbaiS. Sharma (Himachal Pradesh)A. Dave (Rajasthan)
J. Gokulakrishnan (Assam)
L. Patel (Gujarat)
V. Sharma (Punjab)		[10]

During the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, a final round-robin stage was held for the top teams in each zone. Since the 2004–05 tournament, a playoff format including semi-finals and a final has been held, with varying formats.

YearFinal hostWinnerRunner-upMost runsMost wicketsRef
2002–03no finalTamil NaduPunjabNiranjan Godbole (Maharashtra)Iqbal Siddiqui (Maharashtra)[11]
2003–04no finalMumbaiBengalDevang Gandhi (Bengal)Sarandeep Singh (Delhi)[12]
2004–05MumbaiShared: Tamil Nadu (2)
and Uttar Pradesh		V. Sivaramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu)Ranadeb Bose (Bengal)
Praveen Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)		[13]
2005–06MumbaiRailwaysUttar PradeshDinesh Mongia (Punjab)Sankalp Vohra (Baroda)[14]
2006–07JaipurMumbai (2)RajasthanWasim Jaffer (Mumbai)Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran (Tamil Nadu)[15]
2007–08VisakhapatnamSaurashtraBengal (2)Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai)Vishal Bhatia (Himachal Pradesh)[16]
2008–09AgartalaTamil Nadu (3)Bengal (3)Virat Kohli (Delhi)Shoaib Ahmed (Hyderabad)[17]
2009–10AhmedabadTamil Nadu (4)Bengal (4)Shreevats Goswami (Bengal)Yo Mahesh (Tamil Nadu)[18]
2010–11IndoreJharkhandGujaratIshank Jaggi (Jharkhand)Amit Mishra (Haryana)[19]
2011–12DelhiBengalMumbaiWriddhiman Saha (Bengal)Parvinder Awana (Delhi)[20]
2012–13VisakhapatnamDelhiAssamRobin Uthappa (Karnataka)Pritam Das (Assam)[21]
2013–14KolkataKarnatakaRailwaysRobin Uthappa (Karnataka)Vinay Kumar (Karnataka)[22]
2014–15AhmedabadKarnataka (2)Punjab (2)Manish Pandey (Karnataka)Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka)[23]
2015–16BengaluruGujaratDelhiMandeep Singh (Punjab)Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat)[24]
2016–17DelhiTamil Nadu (5)Bengal (5)Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu)Aswin Crist (Tamil Nadu)[25]
2017–18DelhiKarnataka (3)SaurashtraMayank Agarwal (Karnataka)Mohammed Siraj (Hyderabad)[26]
2018-19 Bengaluru Mumbai (3) Delhi (2) Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu) Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand)
2019-20 Bengaluru Karnataka (4) Tamil Nadu Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka) Pritam Das (Assam)

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