2014–15 Ranji Trophy

{{Infobox cricket tournament

| name = 2014–15 Ranji Trophy

| image = Ranji_trophy.jpg

| imagesize = 285px

| fromdate = 7 December 2014

| todate = 12 March 2015

| caption = The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners

| administrator = BCCI

| cricket format = First-class cricket

| tournament format = Round-robin then knockout

| champions = Karnataka

| count = 8

| participants = 27

| matches = 115

| most runs = Robin Uthappa (912) (Karnataka)

| most wickets = Vinay Kumar (48) (Karnataka)

| previous_year = 2013–14

| previous_tournament = 2013–14 Ranji Trophy

| next_year = 2015–16

| next_tournament = 2015–16 Ranji Trophy

}}

The 2014–15 Ranji Trophy was the 81st edition 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 quarter-finals with the top two teams from Group C. Karnataka retained the title won during the 2013–14 season. In the final, Karun Nair scored 328 runs, the highest total in the final of the Ranji Trophy.{{cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149428.html |title=The most exhilarating ODI of them all |access-date=14 March 2018 |work=ESPNcricinfo}}

Points system

The 27 teams are divided into three groups of nine teams each. The top three teams from Groups A and B advance to the quarterfinals along with the top two teams from Group C. The winner of this knock-out tournament wins the Ranji Trophy. These knock-out matches are decided on the first innings result if the final result is a draw.

Points in the group stage of the tournament are awarded as follows:

Scenario	Points
class="wikitable"
Outright win	6
Bonus point (for innings and 10 wicket wins)	1
1st innings lead (in case of draw)	3
1st innings deficit (in case of draw)	1
No result	1
Outright defeat	none

Groups

The groups drawn are as follows:{{cite web|title=J&K to play Ranji matches away from home|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/story/803141.html|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=6 December 2014}}

Group A

Group B

Group C

Points table

Source:{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2014-15/engine/series/775441.html?view=pointstable|title=League Points Table|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=10 December 2014}}

Group A

style="width:150px"\|Team ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|W\|Won}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|D\|Draw}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|NR\|No Result}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|Pts\|Points}} ! style="width:50px"\|{{Abbr\|Q\|Quotient}}
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Karnataka	8	4	0	0	4	0	33	1.633
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Tamil Nadu	8	4	1	0	3	0	29	1.244
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Mumbai	8	2	2	0	4	0	20	0.937
Madhya Pradesh	8	1	1	0	6	0	19	1.143
Baroda	8	1	2	0	5	0	18	1.078
Railways	8	0	2	0	6	0	16	0.922
Uttar Pradesh	8	2	3	0	3	0	15	0.760
Bengal	8	0	1	0	7	0	13	0.921
-bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| Jammu and Kashmir	8	1	0	3	4	0	12	0.601

{{plainlist|

{{Color box|#cfc|border=darkgray}} Advanced to knockout stage.
{{Color box|#fcc|border=darkgray}} Relegated to Group C for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

}}

Group B

style="width:150px"\|Team ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|W\|Won}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|D\|Draw}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|NR\|No Result}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|Pts\|Points}} ! style="width:50px"\|{{Abbr\|Q\|Quotient}}
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Delhi	8	5	1	0	2	0	37	1.471
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Maharashtra	8	3	2	0	3	0	26	1.269
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Vidarbha	8	2	1	0	5	0	24	1.675
Gujarat	8	2	2	0	4	0	24	0.965
Odisha	8	3	3	0	2	0	20	0.965
Punjab	8	2	3	0	3	0	19	0.947
Rajasthan	8	2	3	0	3	0	18	0.821
Haryana	8	2	4	0	2	0	17	0.875
-bgcolor="#ffcccc" \| Saurashtra	8	1	3	0	4	0	10	0.688

{{plainlist|

{{Color box|#cfc|border=darkgray}} Advanced to knockout stage.
{{Color box|#fcc|border=darkgray}} Relegated to Group C for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

}}

Group C

style="width:150px"\|Team ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|Pld\|Played}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|W\|Won}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|L\|Lost}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|T\|Tied}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|D\|Draw}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|NR\|No Result}} ! style="width:25px"\|{{abbr\|Pts\|Points}} ! style="width:50px"\|{{Abbr\|Q\|Quotient}}
class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Assam	8	5	1	0	2	0	38	1.325
-bgcolor="#ccffcc" \| Andhra	8	4	1	0	3	0	29	1.454
Himachal Pradesh	8	2	0	0	6	0	28	1.677
Jharkhand	8	2	1	0	5	0	21	1.171
Hyderabad	8	1	1	0	6	0	20	1.123
Kerala	8	1	1	0	6	0	20	0.908
Tripura	8	0	3	0	5	0	9	0.635
Services	8	0	4	0	4	0	8	0.779
Goa	8	0	3	0	5	0	5	0.664

{{plainlist|

{{Color box|#cfc|border=darkgray}} Advanced to knockout stage and promoted to Group A and B respectively for 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

}}

Knockout stage

{{8TeamBracket

| seed-width = 25px

| team-width = 125px

| score-width = 80px

| RD3 = Final

| RD1-seed1 = C1

| RD1-team1 = Assam

| RD1-score1 = 185 & 338/4

| RD1-seed2 = A1

| RD1-team2 = Karnataka (F)

| RD1-score2 = 452 & 415/5d

| RD1-seed3 = B1

| RD1-team3 = Delhi

| RD1-score3 = 166 & 236

| RD1-seed4 = A3

| RD1-team4 = Mumbai

| RD1-score4 = 156 & 450

| RD1-seed5 = A2

| RD1-team5 = Tamil Nadu (F)

| RD1-score5 = 403 & 266

| RD1-seed6 = B3

| RD1-team6 = Vidarbha

| RD1-score6 = 259 & 142/8

| RD1-seed7 = C2

| RD1-team7 = Andhra

| RD1-score7 = 138 & 101

| RD1-seed8 = B2

| RD1-team8 = Maharashtra

| RD1-score8 = 91 & 223

| RD2-seed1 = A1

| RD2-team1 = Karnataka

| RD2-score1 = 202 & 286

| RD2-seed2 = A3

| RD2-team2 = Mumbai

| RD2-score2 = 44 & 332

| RD2-seed3 = A2

| RD2-team3 = Tamil Nadu (F)

| RD2-score3 = 549 & 119/0d

| RD2-seed4 = B2

| RD2-team4 = Maharashtra

| RD2-score4 = 454

| RD3-seed1 = A1

| RD3-team1 = Karnataka

| RD3-score1 = 762

| RD3-seed2 = A2

| RD3-team2 = Tamil Nadu

| RD3-score2 = 134 & 411

}}

(F) - Advanced to next round on First Innings Lead

=Quarter-finals=

{{Test match| date = {{anchor|match109}} 16–20 February | team2 = Assam | team1 = Karnataka

| score-team1-inns1 = 452 (144.2 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Robin Uthappa 153 (227)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Krishna Das 4/101 (37.2 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 185 (75 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Gokul Sharma 58 (168)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Sreenath Aravind 3/36 (17 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 415/5d (115 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Ravikumar Samarth 178 (298)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Arup Das 2/63 (19 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 338/4 (88 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Gokul Sharma 127* (191)

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Ravikumar Samarth 2/67 (15 overs)

| venue = Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore

| toss = Assam won the toss and elected to field

| umpires = Nitin Menon and Pashchim Pathak

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776171.html Scorecard]

| result = Match drawn

| notes = Karnataka won on 1st innings

| motm = Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)

}}

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{{Test match | date = {{anchor|match110}} 16–20 February | team2 = Delhi | team1 = Mumbai

| score-team1-inns1 = 156 (81 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Nikhil Patil 54* (116)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Sumit Narwal 3/37 (19 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 166 (54 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Virender Sehwag 49 (58)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Shardul Thakur 5/54 (16 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 450 (143.1 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Akhil Herwadkar 161 (272)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Manan Sharma 4/92 (30 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 236 (87 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Rajat Bhatia 49 (122)

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Balwinder Sandhu 3/35 (17 overs)

| venue = DRIEMS Ground, Cuttack

| toss = Delhi won the toss and elected to field

| umpires = Nand Kishore and Krishnaraj Srinath

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776173.html Scorecard]

| result = Mumbai won by 204 runs

| motm = Shardul Thakur (Mumbai)

}}

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{{Test match | date = {{anchor|match111}} 16–20 February | team1 = Tamil Nadu | team2 = Vidarbha

| score-team1-inns1 = 403 (169.5 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Vijay Shankar 111 (305)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Rakesh Dhurv 3/106 (35.4 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 259 (105.2 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Sachin Katariya 42 (152)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Malolan Rangarajan 3/42 (24.2 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 266 (98.2 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Vijay Shankar 82 (146)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Swapnil Bandiwar 3/42 (14 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 142/8 (49 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Ganesh Satish 59* (131)

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Baba Aparajith 3/41 (19 overs)

| venue = Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

| toss = Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field

| umpires = Anil Dandekar and Rajesh Deshpande

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776175.html Scorecard]

| result = Match drawn

| notes = Tamil Nadu won on 1st innings

| motm = Vijay Shankar (Tamil Nadu)

}}

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{{Test match | date = {{anchor|match112}} 16–20 February | team1 = Maharashtra | team2 = Andhra

| score-team1-inns1 = 91 (41.5 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Rohit Motwani 23 (66)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Siva Kumar 6/41 (16.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 138 (63.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Murumulla Sriram 31 (83)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Anupam Sanklecha 4/45 (18 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 223 (68.3 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Kedar Jadhav 81 (86)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Siva Kumar 6/79 (21.3 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 101 (46.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = AG Pradeep 25 (80)

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Anupam Sanklecha 4/19 (11 overs)

| motm = Kedar Jadhav (Maharashtra)

| venue = Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak

| toss = Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat

| umpires = Krishnamachari Bharatan and Virender Sharma

| report =[http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776177.html Scorecard]

| result = Maharashtra won by 75 runs

}}

=Semi-finals=

{{Test match | date = {{anchor|match113}} 25 February-1 March | team1 = Karnataka | team2 = Mumbai

| score-team1-inns1 = 202 (60.2 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Robin Uthappa 68 (100)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Shardul Thakur 4/61 (18 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 44 (15.3 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Shreyas Iyer 15 (15)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Vinay Kumar 6/20 (8 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 286 (77.5 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Abhimanyu Mithun 89 (113)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Shardul Thakur 4/69 (17.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 332 (121.1 overs)

| runs-team2-inns2 = Aditya Tare 98 (207)

| wickets-team2-inns2 = Abhimanyu Mithun 4/69 (34 overs)

| venue = M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

| motm = Vinay Kumar (Karnataka)

| toss = Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat

| umpires = Vineet Kulkarni and Krishnamachari Srinivasan

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776179.html Scorecard]

| result = Karnataka won by 112 runs

| rain =

| notes = This is 2nd Lowest total(44) for Mumbai{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2014-15/content/story/838755.html|title=Karnataka dismantle Mumbai for 44 |publisher=ESPN |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date= 25 February 2015}}

}}

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{{Test match | date = {{anchor|match114}} 25 February-1 March | team1 = Tamil Nadu | team2 = Maharashtra

| score-team1-inns1 = 549 (226.4 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Dinesh Karthik 113 (304)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Anupam Sanklecha 3/115 (45 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 454 (142 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Swapnil Gugale 154 (282)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Aswin Crist 4/89 (34 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 119/0 d (46.2 overs)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Abhinav Mukund 66* (144)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Shrikant Mundhe 0/7 (6 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 =

| runs-team2-inns2 =

| wickets = team2-inns2 =

| venue = Eden Gardens, Kolkata

| motm = Vijay Shankar (Tamil Nadu)

| toss = Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat

| umpires = Anil Chaudhary and Pashchim Pathak

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776181.html Scorecard]

| result = Match drawn

| rain =

| notes = Tamil Nadu won on 1st innings

}}

=Final=

{{Test match | date = {{anchor|match115}} 8–12 March | team1 = Tamil Nadu | team2 = Karnataka

| score-team1-inns1 = 134 (62.4 overs)

| runs-team1-inns1 = Abhinav Mukund 35 (137)

| wickets-team1-inns1 = Vinay Kumar 5/34 (15.4 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 762 (231.2 overs)

| runs-team2-inns1 = Karun Nair 328 (560)

| wickets-team2-inns1 = Lakshmipathy Balaji 3/95 (34 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 411 (107.5 ov)

| runs-team1-inns2 = Dinesh Karthik 120 (112)

| wickets-team1-inns2 = Shreyas Gopal 4/126 (25 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 =

| runs-team2-inns2 =

| wickets = team2-inns2 =

| venue = Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

| motm = Karun Nair (Karnataka)

| toss = Karnataka won the toss and elected to field

| umpires = Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)

| report = [http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-domestic-2014-15/engine/match/776183.html Scorecard]

| result = Karnataka won by an innings and 217 runs

}}

Statistics

=Most runs=

class="wikitable sortable"
align="center" ! class="unsortable" \| Player ! class="unsortable" \| Team ! class="unsortable" \| Inns ! Runs ! Ave ! HS ! 100s ! 50s
align="center" \| Robin Uthappa	Karnataka	19	912	50.66	156	2	5
align="center" \| Dinesh Karthik	Tamil Nadu	19	884	55.25	129	4	2
align="center" \| Abhinav Mukund	Tamil Nadu	20	858	45.15	140	2	4
align="center" \| KL Rahul	Karnataka	9	838	93.11	337	2	3
align="center" \| Sheldon Jackson	Saurashtra	14	819	68.25	181*	3	3

=Most wickets=

class="wikitable"
align="center" ! Player ! Team ! Inns ! Wickets ! Ave. ! BBI ! BBM ! 5/i ! 10/m
align="center" \| Shardul Thakur	Mumbai	18	48	20.81	6/20	9/90	3	0
align="center" \| Vinay Kumar	Karnataka	19	48	18.72	6/53	9/123	5	0
align="center" \| Siva Kumar	Andhra	15	44	14.25	7/30	12/120	4	2
align="center" \| Sreenath Aravind	Karnataka	19	42	17.42	4/9	8/61	0	0
align="center" \| Rishi Dhawan	Himachal Pradesh	13	40	24.75	7/93	11/185	4	1

References

External links

[http://www.espncricinfo.com/ranji-trophy-2014-15/content/series/775441.html 2014–15 Ranji Trophy on ESPNcricinfo]

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