2015–16 Ranji Trophy

2015-16 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates	1 October 2015 (2015-10-01) – 28 February 2016 (2016-02-28)
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin then knockout
Host(s)	India
Champions	Mumbai (41st title)
Participants	27
Matches played	115
Most runs	Shreyas Iyer (1321)
Most wickets	Shahbaz Nadeem (51)

2015–16 Indian domestic cricket season

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.^[1]

The final was contested by Saurashtra and Mumbai, a repeat of the 2012–13 final.^[2] Mumbai won the match by an innings and 21 runs to claim their 41st title.^[3]

Personnel changes

Players

Player/Coach	From	To	Role
Sarfaraz Khan	Mumbai	Uttar Pradesh	Batsman^[4]
Tashuk ali	Delhi	Himachal Pradesh	All rounder ^[4]
Pragyan Ojha	Hyderabad	Bengal	Spinner^[4]
Wasim Jaffer	Mumbai	Vidarbha	Opening Batsman^[4]
Virender Sehwag	Delhi	Haryana	Opening Batsman^[5]
Mithun Manhas	Delhi	J&K	Batsman^[4]
RP Singh	Uttar Pradesh	Gujarat	Seam Bowler^[6]
Prasanth Parameswaran	Tamil Nadu	Goa	Seam Bowler
Amit Verma	Kerala	Assam	Batsman

Coaches

Coach	To	Role
Chandrakant Pandit	Mumbai	Coach ^[4]
Hrishikesh Kanitkar	Goa	Coach ^[4]
Dheeraj Jadhav	Goa	Asst. Coach ^[4]
Sairaj Bahutule	Bengal	Coach ^[4]
Ranadeb Boos	Bengal	Asst. Coach ^[4]
Lakshmipathy Balaji	Tamil Nadu	Bowling Coach
Rizwan Shamshad	Uttar Pradesh	Head Coach
Ajay Jadeja	Delhi	Head Coach

Teams

The groups drawn are as follows^[7]

Group A

Group B

Group C

Zone-wise

Group	North	West	South (2014-15 Duleep Runners-Up)	East	Central (2014-15 Duleep Winners)
A	Delhi (2014-15 Quarter-Finalist), Haryana	Maharashtra (2014-15 Semi-Finalist)	Karnataka (2014-15 Winner)	Assam (2014-15 Quarter-Finalist), Bengal, Odisha	Rajasthan, Vidarbha (2014-15 Quarter-Finalist)
B	Punjab	Baroda, Gujarat, Mumbai (2014-15 Semi-Finalist)	Andhra Pradesh (2014-15 Quarter-Finalist), Tamil Nadu (2014-15 Runner-Up)		Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Uttar Pradesh
C	Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Services	Saurashtra	Goa, Hyderabad, Kerala	Jharkhand, Tripura

Group A

Main article: 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Group A

Points table

Team^[8]	Pld	W	L	D	WI	FI	Pts	Q
Vidarbha	8	4	2	2	1	1	29	0.047
Bengal	8	2	0	6	0	5	28	0.110
Assam	8	3	2	3	1	2	26	-0.304
Delhi	8	3	1	4	1	1	25	0.215
Karnataka	8	2	1	5	1	3	24	0.336
Rajasthan	8	2	3	3	0	1	17	-0.313
Maharashtra	8	1	2	5	0	3	17	0.301
Odisha	8	1	3	4	0	1	12	0.016
Haryana	8	0	4	4	0	1	6	-0.406

Top three teams advanced to knockout stage.
Bottom placed team relegated to Group C for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy.

Group B

Main article: 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Group B

Points table

Team^[8]	Pld	W	L	D	WI	FI	Pts	Q
Mumbai	8	4	0	4	1	3	35	0.851
Punjab	8	3	2	3	1	2	26	0.045
Madhya Pradesh	8	3	2	3	1	1	24	-0.059
Gujarat	8	3	1	4	2	0	24	-0.092
Uttar Pradesh	8	2	1	5	0	2	21	-0.117
Tamil Nadu	8	2	2	4	0	1	18	-0.321
Baroda	8	2	3	3	2	0	17	-0.045
Railways	8	2	6	0	0	0	12	0.039
Andhra Pradesh	8	0	4	4	0	3	10	-0.459

Top three teams advanced to knockout stage.
Bottom placed team relegated to Group C for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy.

Group C

Main article: 2015–16 Ranji Trophy Group C

Points table

Team^[8]	Pld	W	L	D	WI	FI	Pts	Q
Saurashtra	8	5	1	2	1	0	36	-0.061
Jharkhand	8	4	2	2	0	0	31	0.093
Himachal Pradesh	8	3	1	4	1	0	30	1.201
Services	8	3	1	4	0	1	27	0.473
Kerala	8	2	2	4	0	2	25	0.589
Goa	8	1	1	6	0	1	18	-0.206
Jammu & Kashmir	8	0	3	5	0	0	9	0.870
Hyderabad	8	0	2	6	0	0	8	-0.330
Tripura	8	0	5	3	0	0	3	-0.760

Top two teams advanced to knockout stage and promoted to Group A and Group B respectively for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy.

Knockout stage

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Vidarbha

151 & 139

Saurashtra

375

Saurashtra

353 & 24/0

Assam

234 & 139

Assam

323 & 101

Punjab

137 & 236

Saurashtra

235 & 115

Mumbai

371

Bengal

121 & 432

Madhya Pradesh

348 & 560/9d

Madhya Pradesh

227 & 361/5

Mumbai

371 & 426

Jharkhand

172 & 94

Mumbai

416 & 245

Quarter-finals

1st Quarter-final

3–7 February
Scorecard

Vidarbha	v	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)

Saurashtra won by an innings and 85 runs
ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam
Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Chirra Ravikanthreddy
Player of the match: Jaydev Unadkat (Saurashtra)

Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field.

2nd Quarter-final

3–7 February
Scorecard

Assam	v	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)

Assam won by 51 runs
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Stadium, Valsad
Umpires: Nitin Menon and Nitin Pandit
Player of the match: Arup Das (Assam)

Punjab won the toss and elected to field.

3rd Quarter-final

3–7 February
Scorecard

Madhya Pradesh	v	Bengal
348 (114.5 overs) Aditya Shrivastava 65 (142) Veer Pratap Singh 5/76 (23 overs)		121 (45.2 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 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 4/93 (22.4 overs)

Madhya Pradesh won by 355 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai
Umpires: Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande
Player of the match: Ishwar Pandey (Madhya Pradesh)

Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
Chandrakant Sakure (Madhya Pradesh) made his first-class debut.

4th Quarter-final

3–7 February
Scorecard

Mumbai	v	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)

Mumbai won by 395 runs
Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground, Mysore
Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh and Navdeep Singh
Player of the match: Akhil Herwadkar (Mumbai)

Mumbai won the toss and elected to bat.
Sufiyan Shaikh (Mumbai) made his first-class debut.

Semi-finals

1st Semi-final

13–17 February
Scorecard

Assam	v	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)

Saurashtra won by 10 wickets
Moti Bagh Stadium, Vadodara
Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
Player of the match: Jaydev Unadkat (Saurashtra)

Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field.

2nd Semi-final

13–17 February
Scorecard

Mumbai	v	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)

Match drawn (Mumbai won on 1st innings)
DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind)

Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.
Jagdeep Baweja (Madhya Pradesh) made his first-class debut.
Mumbai progressed to the final due to the first innings lead.^[2]
Shreyas Iyer (Mumbai) became the fifth player to score 1,200 runs in a single Ranji Trophy competition.^[9]

Final

24–28 February
Scorecard

Saurashtra	v	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)

Mumbai won by an innings and 21 runs
MCA Stadium, Pune
Umpires: C. K. Nandan and Chettithody Shamshuddin
Player of the match: Shreyas Iyer (Mumbai)

Mumbai won the toss and elected to field.
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, Dharamsala
Robin Bist	Right-handed Middle-order	Himachal Pradesh	220*	Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala

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
Suryakumar Yadav	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, Dharamsala

References

↑ "BCCI splits Ranji Trophy stages in rejig". espncricinfo.com. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
1 2 "Mumbai enter final on lead in Cuttack run fest". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
↑ "Mumbai seal 41st Ranji title with innings win". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Full list of transfers before the 2015-16 domestic season". espncricinfo.com. July 25, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
↑ "Sehwag joins Haryana Ranji team". bcci.tv. 22 August 2015. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
↑ RP Singh from Uttar Pradesh to Gujarat
↑ "Duleep Trophy omitted from 2015-16 calendar". espncricinfo.com. July 20, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
1 2 3 "Ranji Trophy, 2015-16 Points table". Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
↑ "Suryakumar, Tare tons set MP 571 target". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

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