1973–74 Ranji Trophy

1973-74 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s) BCCI
Cricket format First-class cricket
Tournament format(s) League and knockout
Champions Karnataka
Most runs Hemant Kanitkar (Maharashtra) (629)[1]
Most wickets B. S. Chandrasekhar (Karnataka) (55)[2]

The 1973–74 Ranji Trophy was the 40th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka ended Bombay's sequence of 15 consecutive titles by defeating them on first innings in the semifinal. They defeated Rajasthan by 185 runs in the final to win their first Ranji Trophy.

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 
 
 
Hyderabad276 & 155
 
 
 
Rajasthan196 & 247
 
Rajasthan176 & 127
 
 
 
Karnataka276 & 212
 
Karnataka385 & 279/9d
 
 
Bombay307 & 84/0
 

Semi-finals

15–18 March 1974
1st Semi-final
Scorecard
v
196 (82.2 overs)
Parthasarathy Sharma 86
Naushir Mehta 6/74 (29.2 overs)
276 (94.1 overs)
Abdul Hai 135
Suresh Shastri 4/55 (21 overs)
247 (100.1 overs)
Nazmul Hussain 72
MV Narasimha Rao 5/24 (14.1 overs)
155 (67.3 overs)
Mumtaz Hussain 32
Gajendra Singh Shaktawat 6/34 (20.3 overs)
Rajasthan won by 12 runs
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad
Umpires: Ahmed Mamsa and Ram Punjabi
  • Sunil Benjamin (Rajasthan) passed 1,000 runs and Abbas Ali Baig (Hyderabad) passed 12,000 runs in first-class cricket.
  • ML Jaisimha (Hyderabad) reached 400 wickets in first-class cricket.
15–18 March 1974
2nd Semi-final
Scorecard
v
385 (152 overs)
Gundappa Viswanath 162
Padmakar Shivalkar 4/94 (43 overs)
307 (135 overs)
Ashok Mankad 84
EAS Prasanna 5/117 (63 overs)
279/9d (107.1 overs)
Brijesh Patel 63
Rakesh Tandon 4/114 (42 overs)
84/0 (34 overs)
Ramnath Parkar 49*
Gundappa Viswanath 0/7 (2 overs)
Match drawn (Karnataka won on first innings)
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Sunil Banerjee and Bhairab Ganguli
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Brijesh Patel (Karnataka) passed 2,000 runs in first-class cricket.
  • Padmakar Shivalkar (Bombay) reached 300 wickets in first-class cricket.

Final

23–27 March 1974
Scorecard
v
276 (101.3 overs)
B. Vijayakrishna 71
Chandrasekhar Joshi 3/53 (19 overs)
176 (89.1 overs)
Hanumant Singh 83
Vijay Kumar 4/9 (7.1 overs)
212 (85 overs)
Arani Jayaprakash 64*
Kailash Gattani 4/41 (19 overs)
127 (50.3 overs)
Parthasarathy Sharma 51
EAS Prasanna 5/45 (21 overs)
Karnataka won by 185 runs
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Madhav Gothoskar and Judah Reuben
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.

Scorecards and averages

References

  1. ↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
  2. ↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
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