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)
Most wickets	B. S. Chandrasekhar (Karnataka) (55)
	← 1972–73 1974–75 →

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-finals		Final



Hyderabad	276 & 155

Rajasthan	196 & 247
		Rajasthan	176 & 127

		Karnataka	276 & 212
Karnataka	385 & 279/9d

Bombay	307 & 84/0

Semi-finals

15–18 March 1974
1st Semi-final
Scorecard

Rajasthan	v	Hyderabad (H)
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

Karnataka	v	Bombay
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

Karnataka	v	Rajasthan (H)
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

Cricketarchive

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

External links

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |subscription= ignored (|url-access= suggested) (help)

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