1938–39 Ranji Trophy

1938-39 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bengal
Participants	19
Matches played	18
Most runs	Naoomal Jeoomal (Sind) (418)[1]
Most wickets	Amir Elahi (Nawanagar) (28)[2]

The 1938–39 Ranji Trophy was the fifth season of the Ranji Trophy. Nineteen teams took part in four zones in a knockout format. Bengal won their first title defeating Southern Punjab in the final.

Highlights

Tom Longfield was the second non-native captain to win Ranji trophy, after Bert Wensley in 1936-37
Naoomal Jeoomal of Sind scored 203* against Nawanagar out of a score of only 326.
In the Nawanagar v Western India match, Amar Singh became the first bowler to take 100 Ranji Trophy wickets.^[3] This was his 14th Ranji Trophy match.

Knockout tree

Semi-finals		Final

21 Jan 1939 – Calcutta

Bengal	inns and 285 runs
		18 Feb 1939 – Calcutta
Madras
		Bengal	178 runs
10 Feb 1939 - Patiala
		Southern Punjab
Southern Punjab	7 wkts

Sind

Final

18–21 February 1939
Scorecard

Bengal (H)	v	Southern Punjab
222 (83.5 overs) Kartick Bose 48 Amir Elahi 5/73		328 (90 overs) Wazir Ali 222 Kamal Bhattacharya 5/100
418 (146.3 overs) Basil Malcolm 91 Murawwat Hussain 4/97		134 (48.4 overs) Lala Amarnath 37 Tom Longfield 4/48

Bengal won by 178 runs
Eden Gardens, Calcutta
Umpires: Nirmal Chatterjee, M. Dutta Ray

Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.

Teams

North Zone
Southern Punjab
Northern India
North West Frontier Province
Delhi
Rajputana
West Zone
Sind
Nawanagar
Western India
Bombay
Maharashtra
Gujarat
Baroda
South Zone
Madras
Hyderabad
Mysore
East Zone
Bengal
Central India
United Provinces
Bihar

The team that won the zonal title is listed in bold. The teams are listed in the approximate order in which they finished in the zone.

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1938/39 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1938/39 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16836.html Nawanagar v Western India, 1938-39

External links

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[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1938/39 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1938/39 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

[3] ttps://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16836.html Nawanagar v Western India, 1938-39

Ranji Trophy
Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19
Current teams	Andhra Pradesh Arunachal Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Bihar Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Mumbai Nagaland Odisha Puducherry Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks