1961–62 Ranji Trophy

1961–62 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (13th title)
Participants	23
Most runs	Harcharan Singh (Southern Punjab) (495)
Most wickets	P. Sitaram (Delhi) (40)

The 1961–62 Ranji Trophy was the 28th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final.

Highlights

Prakash Bhandari scored a hundred in 60 minutes against Rajasthan in the semifinal which was then the fastest hundred in Ranji trophy.^[3]

Group stage

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Madras	3	2	0	1	22	2.170
Mysore	3	1	0	2	18	1.526
Hyderabad	3	0	1	2	5	0.619
Kerala	3	0	2	1	2	0.324

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	3	0	1	33	2.464
Maharashtra	4	3	1	0	25	0.941
Baroda	4	1	2	1	13	1.150
Saurashtra	4	1	2	1	12	0.683
Gujarat	4	0	3	1	5	0.606

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	1	0	2	16	1.150
Uttar Pradesh	3	0	0	3	15	0.902
Vidarbha	3	0	1	2	12	1.059
Madhya Pradesh	3	0	0	3	11	0.914

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	2	0	1	24	2.908
Assam	3	0	0	3	13	0.993
Bihar	3	1	1	1	12	0.773
Orissa	3	0	2	1	3	0.452

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Delhi	5	4	0	1	41	1.941
Railways	5	4	1	0	36	1.842
Services	5	1	1	3	23	1.080
Southern Punjab	5	1	2	2	17	1.047
Northern Punjab	5	1	2	2	17	0.913
Jammu & Kashmir	5	0	5	0	0	0.193

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

26 Jan 1962 – Madras

Madras	182 & 203
		17 Feb 1962 – Delhi
Delhi	385 & 136
		Delhi	149 & 267

		Bombay	290 & 116/2

				20 Mar 1962 – Bombay

				Bombay	539

				Rajasthan	157 & 95

		16 Feb 1962 – Udaipur

		Rajasthan	392 & 195/5

		Bengal	292 & 291/3d

Final

20–22 Mar 1962
Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Rajasthan
539 (140.2 overs) Ajit Wadekar 235, G. S. Ramchand 100 Raj Singh 4/86		157 (62.4 overs) Suryaveer Singh 32 Sharad Diwadkar 5/68
		95 (34.4 overs, follow on) Hanumant Singh 48* G. S. Ramchand 2/16

Bombay won by an innings and 287 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: Sukken Bhattacharya and Narayan Sane

Bombay won the toss and elected to bat

Scorecards and averages

CricketArchive

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1961/62 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1961/62 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ Rajasthan v Bengal, Udaipur, 1961/62

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1961/62 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1961/62 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[3] Rajasthan v Bengal, Udaipur, 1961/62

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