2015–16 Ranji Trophy

Cricket tournament October 2015 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Ranji_trophy.jpg 285px 2015 10 1 y 2016 2 28 y The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners BCCI First-class cricket Round-robin then knockout India Mumbai 41 27 115 Shreyas Iyer (1321) (Mumbai) Shahbaz Nadeem (51) (Jharkhand) 2014–15 2014–15 Ranji Trophy 2016–17 2016–17 Ranji Trophy The 2015–16 Ranji Trophy was the 82nd season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. It was contested by 27 teams divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B advanced to the quarterfinals along with the top two teams from Group C. For this season the schedule splits into two stages, the first is a league stage and the second being a knock-out stage. The league stage starts on 1 October 2015 and ends on 4 December 2015 and the knock-out stage starts on 3 February 2016 and ends on 28 February 2016. The 2015–16 Ranji Trophy will be followed by the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Deodhar Trophy.http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/901027.html BCCI splits Ranji Trophy stages in rejig ESPNcricinfo 20 July 2015 20 July 2015 The final was contested by Saurashtra and Mumbai, a repeat of the 2012–13 final.http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2015-16/content/story/973315.html Mumbai enter final on lead in Cuttack run fest 17 February 2016 ESPNcricinfo Mumbai won the match by an innings and 21 runs to claim their 41st title.http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2015-16/content/story/976735.html Mumbai seal 41st Ranji title with innings win 26 February 2016 ESPNcricinfo Personnel changes Players Player From To Role Sarfaraz Khan Mumbai Uttar Pradesh Batsmanhttp://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2015-16/content/story/903069.html Full list of transfers before the 2015-16 domestic season ESPNcricinfo July 25, 2015 July 25, 2015 Tashuk Ali Himachal Pradesh Mumbai All rounder Pragyan Ojha Hyderabad Bengal Spinner Wasim Jaffer Mumbai Vidarbha Opening Batsman Sainty Pathak Delhi Haryana Opening Batsmanhttp://www.bcci.tv/news/2015/press-releases/10804/sehwag-joins-haryana-ranji-team Sehwag joins Haryana Ranji team bcci.tv 22 August 2015 22 August 2015 23 August 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150823163610/http://www.bcci.tv/news/2015/press-releases/10804/sehwag-joins-haryana-ranji-team dead Mithun Manhas Delhi J&K Batsman RP Singh Uttar Pradesh Gujarat Seam BowlerRP Singh from Uttar Pradesh to Gujarat Prasanth Parameswaran Tamil Nadu Goa Seam Bowler Amit Verma Kerala Assam Batsman Coaches Coach From To Role Chandrakant Pandit Mumbai Coach Hrishikesh Kanitkar Goa Coach Dheeraj Jadhav Goa Asst. Coach Sairaj Bahutule Bengal Coach Lakshmipathy Balaji Tamil Nadu Bowling Coach Rizwan Shamshad Uttar Pradesh Head coach Ajay Jadeja Delhi Head coach Teams The groups drawn are as followshttp://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/901169.html Duleep Trophy omitted from 2015-16 calendar ESPNcricinfo July 20, 2015 July 20, 2015 Group A Assam Bengal Delhi Haryana Karnataka Maharashtra Odisha Rajasthan Vidarbha Group B Andhra Pradesh Baroda Gujarat Madhya Pradesh Mumbai Punjab Railways Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh Group C Goa Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu & Kashmir Jharkhand Kerala Saurashtra Services Tripura Group A 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Group A Points table TeamPld PlayedW WonL LostD DrawA AbandonedWI Won by an innings or 10 wicketsFI First innings lead in drawPts Points NRR Net run rateVidarbha 8 4 2 2 0 1 1 29 0.047Bengal 8 2 0 6 0 0 5 28 0.110Assam 8 3 2 3 0 1 2 26 –0.304Delhi 8 3 1 4 0 1 1 25 0.215Karnataka 8 2 1 5 0 1 3 24 0.336Rajasthan 8 2 3 3 0 0 1 17 –0.313Maharashtra 8 1 2 5 0 0 3 17 0.301Odisha 8 1 3 4 0 0 1 12 0.016Haryana 8 0 4 4 0 0 1 6 –0.406 #cfc darkgray Top three teams advanced to knockout stage. #fcc darkgray Bottom placed team relegated to Group C for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy. Group B 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Group B Points table TeamPld PlayedW WonL LostD DrawA AbandonedWI Won by an innings or 10 wicketsFI First innings lead in drawPts Points NRR Net run rate Mumbai 8 4 0 4 0 1 3 35 0.851Punjab 8 3 2 3 0 1 2 26 0.045Madhya Pradesh 8 3 2 3 0 1 1 24 –0.059Gujarat 8 3 1 4 0 2 0 24 –0.092Uttar Pradesh 8 2 1 5 0 0 2 21 –0.117Tamil Nadu 8 2 2 4 0 0 1 18 –0.321Baroda 8 2 3 3 0 2 0 17 –0.045Railways 8 2 6 0 0 0 0 12 0.039Andhra Pradesh 8 0 4 4 0 0 3 10 –0.459 #cfc darkgray Top three teams advanced to knockout stage. #fcc darkgray Bottom placed team relegated to Group C for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy. Group C 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Group C Points table Teamhttp://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/series/901105.html?view=pointstable Ranji Trophy, 2015-16 Points table ESPN ESPNcricinfo 3 October 2015 Pld PlayedW WonL LostD DrawA AbandonedWI Won by an innings or 10 wicketsFI First innings lead in drawPts Points NRR Net run rateSaurashtra 8 5 1 2 0 1 0 36 –0.061Jharkhand 8 4 2 2 0 0 0 31 0.093Himachal Pradesh 8 3 1 4 0 1 0 30 1.201Services 8 3 1 4 0 0 1 27 0.473Kerala 8 2 2 4 0 0 2 25 0.589Goa 8 1 1 6 0 0 1 18 –0.206Jammu & Kashmir 8 0 3 5 0 0 0 9 0.870Hyderabad 8 0 2 6 0 0 0 8 –0.330Tripura 8 0 5 3 0 0 0 3 –0.760 #cfc darkgray Top two teams advanced to knockout stage and promoted to Group A and Group B respectively for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy. Knockout stage y 25px 125px 80px Final A1 Vidarbha 151 & 139 C1 Saurashtra 375 A3 Assam 323 & 101 B2 Punjab 137 & 236 A2 Bengal 121 & 432 B3 Madhya Pradesh 348 & 560/9d C2 Jharkhand 172 & 94 B1 Mumbai 416 & 245 C1 Saurashtra 353 & 24/0 A3 Assam 234 & 139 B3 Madhya Pradesh 227 & 361/5 B1 Mumbai 371 & 426 C1 Saurashtra 235 & 115 B1 Mumbai 371 Quarter-finals 1st Quarter-final match109 3–7 February Vidarbha Saurashtra 151 (50.4 overs) Wasim Jaffer 41 (86) Jaydev Unadkat 5/70 (18.4 overs) 375 (112.4 overs) Sagar Jogiyani 130 (261) Umesh Yadav 5/81 (23 overs) 139 (68.1 overs) Wasim Jaffer 48 (78) Jaydev Unadkat 4/35 (16.1 overs) ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field. Saiyed Khalid and Chirra Ravikanthreddy Jaydev Unadkat (Saurashtra) Scorecard Saurashtra won by an innings and 85 runs 2nd Quarter-final match110 3–7 February Assam Punjab 323 (108 overs) Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 121 (223) Siddarth Kaul 4/99 (31 overs) 137 (47.2 overs) Mayank Sidhana 80* (131) Arup Das 3/41 (15.2 overs) 101 (35.5 overs) Arup Das 31 (18) Barinder Sran 5/43 (15 overs) 236 (63.2 overs) Gurkeerat Singh 64 (55) Arup Das 8/83 (21.2 overs) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Valsad Punjab won the toss and elected to field. Nitin Menon and Nitin Pandit Arup Das (Assam) Scorecard Assam won by 51 runs 3rd Quarter-final match111 3–7 February Madhya Pradesh Bengal 348 (114.5 overs) Aditya Shrivastava 65 (142) Veer Pratap Singh 5/76 (23 overs) 121 (45.2 overs) Swagato (Raka) 48 (100) Ishwar Pandey 4/45 (16 overs) 560/9d (160.3 overs) Harpreet Singh 139 (206) Ashok Dinda 2/92 (32.3 overs) 432 (91.4 overs) Manoj Tiwary 124 (160) Ishwar Pandey(Bunty) 4/93 (22.4 overs) Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai Bengal won the toss and elected to field. Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande Ishwar Pandey (Madhya Pradesh) Scorecard Madhya Pradesh won by 355 runs Chandrakant Sakure (Madhya Pradesh) made his first-class debut. 4th Quarter-final match112 3–7 February Mumbai Jharkhand 416 (114.4 overs) Akhil Herwadkar 107 (217) Shahbaz Nadeem 5/140 (39 overs) 172 (71.5 overs) Kaushal Singh 43 (92) Akhil Herwadkar 3/26 (11 overs) 245 (63.1 overs) Shreyas Iyer 81 (106) Samar Quadri 5/62 (18.1 overs) 94 (42.4 overs) Shiv Gautam 27 (120) Jay Bista 5/16 (6.4 overs) Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground, Mysore Mumbai won the toss and elected to bat. Abhijit Deshmukh and Navdeep Singh Akhil Herwadkar (Mumbai) Scorecard Mumbai won by 395 runs Sufiyan Shaikh (Mumbai) made his first-class debut. Semi-finals 1st Semi-final match113 13–17 February Assam Saurashtra 234 (87 overs) Amit Verma 98 (241) Jaydev Unadkat 6/77 (26 overs) 353 (113.5 overs) Cheteshwar Pujara 126 (243) Krishna Das 3/80 (37 overs) 139 (39.1 overs) Syed Mohammad 39 (69) Jaydev Unadkat 5/45 (13 overs) 24/0 (3.1 overs) Sagar Jogiyani 23* (10) Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field. Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan Jaydev Unadkat (Saurashtra) Scorecard Saurashtra won by 10 wickets 2nd Semi-final match113 13–17 February Mumbai Madhya Pradesh 371 (102.5 overs) Shreyas Iyer 90 (104) Chandrakant Sakure 5/137 (29.5 overs) 227 (92.1 overs) Naman Ojha 79 (189) Balwinder Sandhu 5/43 (21.1 overs) 426 (125.1 overs) Suryakumar Yadav 115 (199) Harpreet Singh 3/55 (17 overs) 361/5 (109 overs) Naman Ojha 113 (185) Bhavin Thakkar 1/3 (2 overs) DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field. K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan and Virender Sharma Scorecard Match drawn (Mumbai won on 1st innings) Jagdeep Baweja (Madhya Pradesh) made his first-class debut. Mumbai progressed to the final due to the first innings lead. Shreyas Iyer (Mumbai) became the fifth player to score 1,200 runs in a single Ranji Trophy competition.http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2015-16/content/story/973189.html Suryakumar, Tare tons set MP 571 target 17 February 2016 ESPNcricinfo Final match115 24–28 February Saurashtra Mumbai 235 (93.2 overs) Arpit Vasavada 77 (214) Dhawal Kulkarni 5/42 (23 overs) 371 (82.2 overs) Shreyas Iyer 117 (142) Jaydev Unadkat 4/118 (25.2 overs) 115 (48.2 overs) Cheteshwar Pujara 27 (98) Shardul Thakur 5/26 (13.2 overs) MCA Stadium, Pune Mumbai won the toss and elected to field. C. K. Nandan and Chettithody Shamshuddin Shreyas Iyer (Mumbai) Scorecard Mumbai won by an innings and 21 runs Prerak Mankad (Saurashtra) made his first-class debut. Statistics Batting records Most runs Player name Style Team Run Shreyas Iyer Right-handed Middle-order Mumbai 1321 Akhil Herwadkar Left-handed Opening Mumbai 879 Arun Karthik Right-handed Middle-order Assam 802 High scores Player name Style Team Run Ground Natraj Behera Right-handed Opening Odisha 255* CH Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Swapnil Asnodkar Right-handed Opening Goa 232 Gandhi Memorial Science College Ground, Jammu Paras Dogra Right-handed Middle-order Himachal Pradesh 227 Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala Tashuk Ali Right-handed Middle-order Mumbai 220* Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharmshala Most hundreds Player name Style Team 100s Rajat Paliwal Right-handed Middle-order Services 4 Sudip Chatterjee Left-handed Middle-order Bengal 4 Shreyas Iyer Right-handed Middle-order Mumbai 4 Most fifties (and over) Player name Style Team 50+ Shreyas Iyer Right-handed Middle-order Mumbai 11 Harpreet Singh Bhatia Left-handed Middle-order Madhya Pradesh 8 Tashuk ali Right-handed Middle-order Mumbai 8 Most sixes in an innings Player name Style Team 50+ Ground Ishan Kishan Left-handed Opening Jharkhand 8 Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Ground, Rajkot Paras Dogra Right-handed Middle-order Himachal Pradesh 8 Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala References 2 External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo Series home at Bcci.tv https://web.archive.org/web/20151002224527/http://www.bcci.tv/ranji-trophy-2015-16/overview 2 October 2015 Category:2015 in Indian cricket Category:2016 in Indian cricket Category:Domestic cricket competitions in 2015–16 Category:Ranji Trophy seasons