1960–61 Ranji Trophy

1960–61 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (12th title)
Participants	24
Most runs	R. G. Nadkarni (Bombay) (531)
Most wickets	Salim Durani (Rajasthan) (35)

The 1960–61 Ranji Trophy was the 27th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final.

Group stage

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	2	0	2	26	6.099
Baroda	4	2	0	2	26	1.996
Maharashtra	4	1	0	3	21	1.038
Gujarat	4	1	2	1	11	0.575
Saurashtra	4	0	4	0	0	0.328

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	3	0	0	27	2.039
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	1	1	13	1.192
Vidarbha	3	1	2	0	8	0.834
Uttar Pradesh	3	0	2	1	3	0.479

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	NR	Pts	Q
Delhi	5	4	0	1	0	40	1.629
Services	5	3	1	1	0	31	2.479
Railways	5	2	0	2	1	30	1.851
Northern Punjab	5	1	3	0	1	11	1.090
Southern Punjab^{[n 1]}	5	0	2	1	2	9	0.643
Jammu & Kashmir	5	0	4	1	0	3	0.196

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Madras	4	2	0	2	25	2.302
Hyderabad	4	2	1	1	20	1.527
Mysore	4	1	0	3	18	1.827
Kerala	4	1	2	1	12	0.703
Andhra	4	0	3	1	3	0.324

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	2	0	1	24	4.300
Bihar	3	1	0	2	14	0.700
Orissa	3	0	1	2	8	0.799
Assam	3	0	2	1	5	0.546

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final




		25 Feb 1961 – Madras

		Madras	328 & 116

		Rajasthan	301 & 210

				8 Mar 1961 – Udaipur

				Rajasthan	140 & 249

				Bombay	346 & 44/3

		24 Feb 1961 – Bombay

		Bombay	527
21 Jan 1961 – Calcutta
		Delhi	132 & 192
Bengal	297 & 38/0

Delhi	307 & 210

Final

8–10 Mar 1961
Scorecard

Rajasthan (H)	v	Bombay
140 (44 overs) Vijay Manjrekar 40 Ramakant Desai 7/46		346 (80.5 overs) G. S. Ramchand 118 Salim Durani 8/99
249 (78.2 overs) Vijay Manjrekar 68 Ramakant Desai 4/74		44/3 (9.3 overs) Manohar Hardikar 18* Raj Singh 2/20

Bombay won 7 wickets
Bhupal Noble's College Ground, Udaipur
Umpires: Sukken Bhattacharya and K. B. Saxena

Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat

Scorecards and averages

CricketArchive

Notes

^ Southern Punjab's matches against Northern Punjab and Railways ware not played.

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1960/61 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1960/61 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[3] Southern Punjab's matches against Northern Punjab and Railways ware not played.

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1960/61 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1960/61 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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