1972–73 Ranji Trophy

1972-73 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay
Most runs	Chetan Chauhan (Maharashtra) (873)[1]
Most wickets	S. Venkataraghavan (Tamil Nadu) (58)[2]

The 1972–73 Ranji Trophy was the 39th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their 15th title in a row defeating Tamil Nadu in the final.

Highlights

Bombay won their 15th successive Ranji Trophy. This is a record for the national championships in the Test countries. Bombay lost the 1973-74 semifinal to Karnataka on first innings lead.
27 wickets fell on the second day of the Bombay - Tamil Nadu final at Chepauk. The match ended on the first ball of the third day
Ajit Wadekar captained Bombay to the title for the fourth time. He had already captained in the 1968-69, 1969-70 and 1971-72 finals. As of 2017, C. K. Nayudu of Holkar is the only other captain to win four Ranji titles. ^[3]

Final

18–21 April 1973
Scorecard

Bombay	v	Tamil Nadu (H)
151 (71.5 overs) Ashok Mankad 38 V. V. Kumar 5/48, S. Venkataraghavan 5/60		80 (45.5 overs) Abdul Jabbar 29 Padmakar Shivalkar 8/16
113 (49.3 overs) Sudhir Naik 28*, Ajit Naik 28 B. Kalyanasundaram 4/8		61 (33.1 overs) Abdul Jabbar 28 Padmakar Shivalkar 5/18, Eknath Solkar 5/23

Bombay won by 123 runs
Madras Cricket Club Ground, Madras
Umpires: Sukken Bhattacharya and Har Prasad Sharma

Bombay won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1972/73 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1972/73 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ Indian Cricket 2004

External links

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[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1972/73 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1972/73 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

[3] Indian Cricket 2004

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