Cricket tournament
 The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get. | |
| Administrator(s) | BCCI |
|---|---|
| Cricket format | First-class cricket |
| Tournament format(s) | League and knockout |
| Champions | Bombay (22nd title) |
| Participants | 24 |
| Most runs | Hemant Kanitkar (Maharashtra) (687) |
| Most wickets | B. S. Chandrasekhar (Mysore) (46) |
| ← 1969–701971–72 → | |
The 1970–71 Ranji Trophy was the 37th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their 13th title in a row defeating Maharashtra in the final.
A proposal to promote two teams from the zonal leagues to the knockout stage was made Maharashtra in the working committee meeting of BCCI at Shillong on 16 August 1970. Bombay had won Ranji Trophy in the previous twelve seasons and Maharashtra repeatedly found their qualification from the West Zone blocked. Ironically, Maharashtra won the West Zone in the 1970–71 and Bombay finished second in the zone for the first time since 1958–59. But the new rules enabled Bombay to qualify for the knockout matches as the second team and they eventually beat Maharashtra in the final.
Highlights
- From this season, two teams qualified from each zone to the knockout rounds.
- For the first time in 13 seasons, Bombay finished second in the West Zone, but thanks to new rule, qualified to the quarterfinals behind Maharashtra. They then won their 13th title in a row beating Maharashtra in the final.
Group stage
South Zone
North Zone
Central Zone
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West Zone
East Zone
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Knockout stage
| Pre-Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Finals | |||||||||||
| 26 Feb 1971 – Calcutta | ||||||||||||||
| Bengal | 330 & 255/7d | |||||||||||||
| Vidarbha | 187 & 157/4 | |||||||||||||
| 19 Mar 1971 – Calcutta | ||||||||||||||
| Bengal | 158 & 275/9 | |||||||||||||
| Bombay | 459 | |||||||||||||
| 28 Feb 1971 – Bombay | ||||||||||||||
| Bombay | 301 & 82/0 | |||||||||||||
| 13 Feb 1971 – Delhi | ||||||||||||||
| Delhi | 185 & 197 | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | 366 & 235 | |||||||||||||
| 2 Apr 1971 – Bombay | ||||||||||||||
| Hyderabad | 210 & 269 | |||||||||||||
| Bombay | 287 & 196 | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 230 & 205 | |||||||||||||
| 28 Feb 1971 – Poona | ||||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 624/5d | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | 604 | |||||||||||||
| 19 Mar 1971 – Poona | ||||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | 210 & 315/8 | |||||||||||||
| Mysore | 239 & 246 | |||||||||||||
| 28 Feb 1971 – Bangalore | ||||||||||||||
| Mysore | 195 & 210/8 | |||||||||||||
| 18 Feb 1971 – Jamshedpur | ||||||||||||||
| Bihar | 196 & 205 | |||||||||||||
| Bihar | 406/9d & 165/3d | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | 404 & 54/1 | |||||||||||||
Semi-finals
| 19–22 March 1971 1st Semi-final Scorecard |
| Bombay | v | Bengal (H) |
| 459 (184 overs) Mahesh Sampat 141 Dilip Doshi 3/72 (45 overs) |
158 (98.3 overs) Prakash Poddar 47 Padmakar Shivalkar 5/36 (29 overs) | |
| 275/9 (111 overs) SS Mitra 130* Padmakar Shivalkar 5/69 (38 overs) |
| Match drawn Calcutta |
| 19–22 March 1971 2nd Semi-final Scorecard |
| Maharashtra (H) | v | Mysore |
| 210 (69.1 overs) Nicholas Saldanha 45 BS Chandrasekhar 4/66 (26 overs) |
239 (98 overs) B Raghunath 87 VN Joshi 3/56 (31 overs) | |
| 315/8d (81.4 overs) Chetan Chauhan 147 BS Chandrasekhar 5/110 (30 overs) |
246 (110.5 overs) Brijesh Patel 77 VN Joshi 7/80 (46.5 overs) |
| Maharashtra won by 40 runs Pune |
Final
| 2–7 April 1971 Final Scorecard |
| Bombay (H) | v | Maharashtra |
| 287 (110 overs) Ramnath Parkar 108 Nicholas Saldanha 6/66 (26 overs) |
230 (92.3 overs) Nicholas Saldanha 50 Abdul Ismail 4/41 (19 overs) | |
| 196 (107.3 overs) Mahesh Sampat 60 Vithal Joshi 5/62 (27.1 overs) |
205 (83.4 overs) Chandu Borde 51 Padmakar Shivalkar 6/56 (29.4 overs) |
| Bombay won by 48 runs Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Umpires: M. V. Nagendra and B. Satyaji Rao |
- Bombay won the toss and elected to bat.
Scorecards and average
References
- "Ranji Trophy, 1970/71 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- "Ranji Trophy, 1970/71 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
- Cricket board to discuss changes in Ranji Trophy rules, Indian Express, August 15, 1970
External links
- Ranji Trophy, 1970-71 at ESPNcricinfo
- Ranji Trophy, 1970-71 Archived 9 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine at BCCI
- Ranji Trophy 1970/71 at CricketArchive (subscription required)
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