1958–59 Ranji Trophy

1958–59 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (10th title)
Participants	23
Most runs	Pankaj Roy (Bengal) (605)
Most wickets	Ramakant Desai (Bombay) (50)

The 1958–59 Ranji Trophy was the 25th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Bengal in the final. This started a sequence of 15 consecutive Ranji titles for Bombay.

Group stage

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	2	0	2	29	2.325
Baroda	4	2	0	2	27	1.514
Maharashtra	4	0	0	4	15	1.057
Saurashtra	4	1	1	2	14	0.708
Gujarat	4	0	3	1	3	0.439

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	3	0	26	3.600
Bihar	3	2	1	17	0.963
Assam^{[n 1]}	3	1	2	8	0.498
Orissa	3	0	3	0	0.272

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Services	4	4	0	0	34	2.966
Railways	4	1	1	2	20	1.657
Delhi	4	2	1	1	20	1.222
Eastern Punjab	4	0	2	2	8	0.443
Patiala	4	0	3	1	3	0.375

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Madras	4	2	0	2	30	1.733
Hyderabad	4	2	0	2	23	1.317
Mysore	4	1	0	3	22	1.332
Andhra	4	0	2	2	9	0.598
Kerala	4	0	3	1	3	0.543

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	2	0	1	19	1.996
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	0	2	14	1.126
Uttar Pradesh	3	1	1	1	13	0.993
Vidarbha	3	0	3	0	0	0.527

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

21 Feb 1959 – Madras

Madras	93 & 298
		27 Feb 1959 – Bombay
Bombay	389 & 4/0
		Bombay	438 & 33/0

		Services	211 & 259

				7 Mar 1959 – Bombay

				Bombay	294 & 536/9d

				Bengal	176 & 234

		14 Feb 1959 – Calcutta

		Bengal	293 & 169/1

		Rajasthan	198 & 263

Final

7–11 Mar 1959
Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Bengal
294 (107.5 overs) H. D. Amroliwala 139 Premangsu Chatterjee 6/76		176 (72.4 overs) Pankaj Roy 51 Manohar Hardikar 4/24
536/9 decl (141 overs) Madhav Apte 157, Ramnath Kenny 111 Sujit Bose 3/125		234 (70.3 overs) Pankaj Roy 95 Ramakant Desai 4/37

Bombay won by 420 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: Mohammad Yunus and Narayan Sane

Bombay won the toss and elected to bat

Scorecards and averages

Notes

^ The match between Assam and Orissa was not played. Assam were declared winners

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[3] The match between Assam and Orissa was not played. Assam were declared winners

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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