1977–78 Ranji Trophy

1977-78 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
Participants	24
Most runs	Venkat Sunderam (Delhi) (608)
Most wickets	Rajinder Singh Hans (Uttar Pradesh) (52)
	← 1976–77 1978–79 →

The 1977–78 Ranji Trophy was the 44th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka won their second title defeating Uttar Pradesh.

Highlights

Bombay finished third in the West Zone and failed to qualify for the knockout stage. Gujarat won all their four matches in the West Zone, a rare feat.
Bombay were dismissed for 42 by Gujarat.^[3] This is their lowest total in Ranji Trophy.
The loss against Gujarat ended a sequence of 124 matches without defeat for Bombay. Their previous defeat was against Baroda in 1957/58.^[4] During these twenty years, Bombay won the Ranji Trophy 18 times.
Karnataka defeated Kerala without losing a wicket. Kerala scored 141 and 124, and Karnataka 451/0 decl.^[5] The partnership between Sanjay Desai and Roger Binny was then an Indian record for the first wicket.
Rajinder Goel took 7 wickets for 4 runs in the second innings as Haryana bowled out Jammu Kashmir for 23. Goel's match figures were 13 for 29.^[6]

Final

4–6 April 1978
Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh (H)	v	Karnataka
129 (50.5 overs) Anand Shukla 32 B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/57		434 (136.4 overs) G. R. Viswanath 247, Brijesh Patel 100 Rajinder Singh Hans 9/152
112 (56.2 overs) Shashikant Srivastava 22 B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/24

Karnataka won by an innings and 193 runs
Narendra Mohan Sports Stadium, Mohan Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
Umpires: P. D. Reporter and Har Prasad Sharma

Uttar Pradesh won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1977/78 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1977/78 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
^ Gujarat v Bombay, Bulsar, 1977/78
^ Baroda v Bombay, Solapur, 1957/58
^ Karnataka v Kerala, Chickmagalur, 1977/78
^ Haryana v Jammu Kashmir, Rai, 1977/78

External links

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1977/78 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1977/78 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014.

[3] Gujarat v Bombay, Bulsar, 1977/78

[4] Baroda v Bombay, Solapur, 1957/58

[5] Karnataka v Kerala, Chickmagalur, 1977/78

[6] Haryana v Jammu Kashmir, Rai, 1977/78

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