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රටවල්	ඉන්දියාව
පරිපාලක	ඉන්දීය ක්‍රිකට් පාලක මණ්ඩලය
ආකෘතිය	මුල් පෙළ ක්‍රිකට්
පළමු තරගාවලිය	1934
තරගාවලි ආකෘතිය	රොබින් වටය නොකවුට් වටය
කණ්ඩායම් ගණන	28
වත්මන් ශූරයා	ගුජරාට් (පළමු වතාවට)
වඩාත් ජයග්‍රාහී	මුම්බායි (41 වතාවක්)
යෝග්‍යතාව	ඉරානි කුසලානය
වඩාත් ලකුණු	වසිම් ජැෆර් (10143) 1996–වර්තමානය
වඩාත් කඩුළු	රජින්දර් ගෝල් (640) 1958–1985
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2017–18 රංජි කුසලානය

රංජි කුසලානය is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between teams representing regional cricket associations. The competition currently consists of 28 teams, with 21 of the 29 states in India and Delhi having at least one representation. The competition is named after first Indian cricketer who played international cricket, Ranjitsinhji.

ඉතිහාසය

Ranjitsinhji, after whom the tournament is named

The competition was launched in following a meeting of the in July 1934, with the first fixtures taking place in 1934–35. The trophy was donated by Ranjiy . The first match of the competition was held on 4 November 1934 between madras and mysore at . M. J. Gopalan of Madras bowled the first ball to. The first Ranji Trophy Championship was won by after they defeated in the final. Mumbai have won the tournament the most number of times with 69 wins including 15 back-to-back wins from 1958–59 to 1972–73.

සහභාගීවන්නන්

State teams and cricket associations and clubs with first-class status are qualified to play in the Ranji Trophy. While most associations are regional, like the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association and Mumbai Cricket Association, two, Railways and Services, are pan-Indian

කණ්ඩායම්

The following 28 teams currently participate in the Ranji Trophy:

• Andhra
• Assam
• Baroda
• Bengal
• Chhattisgarh
• Delhi
• Goa
• Gujarat
• Haryana
• Himachal Pradesh
• Hyderabad
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Jharkhand
• Karnataka (Mysore)
• Kerala (Travancore-Cochin)
• Madhya Pradesh (Madhya Bharat / Holkar / Central India)
• Maharashtra
• Mumbai (Bombay)
• Odisha
• Punjab
• Railways
• Rajasthan (Rajputana)
• Saurashtra (Nawanagar)
• Services (Army)
• Tamil Nadu (Madras)
• Tripura
• Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces)
• Vidarbha

Chhattisgarh played in the tournament for the first time in 2016–17.

Defunct teams

The following teams have appeared in the Ranji Trophy, but no longer do so:

• Central Provinces and Berar (1934/35 – 1949/50)
• Northern India (1934/35 – 1946/47)
• Sind (1934/35 – 1947/48)
• Southern Punjab (1934/35 – 1951/52, 1959/60 – 1967/68)
• Western India (1934/35 – 1945/46)
• Bihar (1936–37 – 2003–04)
• North West Frontier Province (1937/38 – 1946/47)
• Holkar (1941/42 – 1954/55)
• Gwalior (1943/44)
• Kathiawar (1946/47 – 1949/50)
• Patiala/Patiala and Eastern Punjab States Union (1948/49, 1953/54 – 1958/59)
• Eastern Punjab (1950/51 – 1959/60)
• Travancore-Cochin (1951/52 – 1956/57)
• Madhya Bharat (1955/56 – 1956/57)
• Northern Punjab (1960/61 – 1967/68)

Format

From its inception until the 2001–02 season, the teams were grouped geographically into four or five zones – North, West, East, and South, with Central added in 1952–53. Initial matches were played within the zones on a knock-out basis until 1956–57, and thereafter on a league basis, to determine a winner; then, the five individual zone winners competed in a knock-out tournament, leading to a final which decided the winner of the Ranji Trophy. From the 1970–71 season, the knock-out stage was expanded to the top two teams from each zone, a total of ten qualifying teams. This was expanded again to the top three from each zone in 1992–93, a total of fifteen qualifying teams; between 1996–97 and 1999–2000, the fifteen qualifying teams competed in a secondary group stage, with three groups of five teams, and the top two from each group qualified for a six-team knock-out stage; in all other years until 2001–02, a full fifteen-team knock-out tournament was held.

The format was changed in the 2002–03 season with the zonal system abandoned and a two-division structure adopted – the Elite Group, containing fifteen teams, and the Plate Group, containing the rest. Each group had two sub-groups which played a round-robin; the top two from each Elite sub-group then contested a four-team knock-out tournament to determine the winner of the Ranji Trophy. The team which finished last in each Elite sub-group was relegated, and both Plate Group finalists were promoted for the following season. For the 2006–07 season, the divisions were re-labelled the Super League and Plate League respectively.

In the 2008–09 season, this format was adjusted to give both Super League and Plate League teams an opportunity to contest the Ranji Trophy. The top two from each Plate sub-group contested semi-finals; the winners of these two matches then joined the top three from each Super League sub-group in an eight-team knock-out tournament. The winner of this knock-out tournament then won the Ranji Trophy. Promotion and relegation between Super League and Plate League continued as before. In the 2010–11 season, Rajasthan won the Ranji Trophy after beginning the season in the Plate League.

From the 2012–13 season, this format was adjusted slightly. The Super League and Plate League names were abandoned, but the two-tier system remained. The top tier expanded from fifteen teams to eighteen teams, in two sub-groups of nine (known as Group A and Group B, and considered equal in status); and the second tier was reduced to nine teams in a single group (known as Group C). The top three teams from Groups A and B and the top two from Group C contest the knockout phase. The lowest placed team in each of Group A and Group B is relegated to Group C, and the top two from Group C are promoted to the top tier.

Round-robin matches are four days in length; knockout matches are played for five days. Throughout its history, if there is no outright result in a Ranji Trophy knock-out match, the team leading after the first innings is the winner.

Prior to the 2016–17 season matches were played at the home ground of one of the two teams taking part. For the 2016–17 competition the BCCI decided that all games would be staged at a neutral venue.

Tournament records

ප්‍රධාන ලිපිය: List of Ranji Trophy records

Team records
Most wins	41	Mumbai
Highest team score	944/6 decl.	Hyderabad v Andhra	1993–94
Lowest team score	21	Hyderabad v Rajasthan	2010

Individual match records
Highest individual innings	443*	B. B. Nimbalkar	Maharashtra v Kathiawar	1948–49
Best innings bowling	10/20	Premangsu Chatterjee	Bengal v Assam	1956–57
Best match bowling	16/99	Anil Kumble	Karnataka v Kerala	1994–95

Individual season records
Most runs in a season	1415	V. V. S. Laxman	Hyderabad	1999–2000
Most centuries in a season	8	V. V. S. Laxman	Hyderabad	1999–2000
Most wickets in a season	64	Bishan Bedi	Delhi	1974–75

Individual career records
Most career runs	10143	Wasim Jaffer	1996–present
Most career centuries	32	Wasim Jaffer	1996–present
Highest career batting average	98.35	Vijay Merchant	1934–51
Most career wickets	637†	Rajinder Goel	1958–85

^† Some sources credit Goel with 636 or 640 wickets instead – see Rajinder Goel article for details.

Winners

The following teams have won the tournament:

Season	Winner	Runner-up
1934–35	Bombay	Northern India
1935–36	Bombay	Madras
1936–37	Nawanagar	Bengal
1937–38	Hyderabad	Nawanagar
1938–39	Bengal	Southern Punjab
1939–40	Maharashtra	United Provinces
1940–41	Maharashtra	Madras
1941–42	Bombay	Mysore
1942–43	Baroda	Hyderabad
1943–44	Western India	Bengal
1944–45	Bombay	Holkar
1945–46	Holkar	Baroda
1946–47	Baroda	Holkar
1947–48	Holkar	Bombay
1948–49	Bombay	Baroda
1949–50	Baroda	Holkar
1950–51	Holkar	Gujarat
1951–52	Bombay	Holkar
1952–53	Holkar	Bengal
1953–54	Bombay	Holkar
1954–55	Madras	Holkar
1955–56	Bombay	Bengal
1956–57	Bombay	Services
1957–58	Baroda	Services
1958–59	Bombay	Bengal
1959–60	Bombay	Mysore
1960–61	Bombay	Rajasthan
1961–62	Bombay	Rajasthan
1962–63	Bombay	Rajasthan
1963–64	Bombay	Rajasthan
1964–65	Bombay	Hyderabad
1965–66	Bombay	Rajasthan
1966–67	Bombay	Rajasthan
1967–68	Bombay	Madras
1968–69	Bombay	Bengal
1969–70	Bombay	Rajasthan
1970–71	Bombay	Maharashtra
1971–72	Bombay	Bengal
1972–73	Bombay	Tamil Nadu
1973–74	Karnataka	Rajasthan
1974–75	Bombay	Karnataka
1975–76	Bombay	Bihar
1976–77	Bombay	Delhi
1977–78	Karnataka	Uttar Pradesh
1978–79	Delhi	Karnataka
1979–80	Delhi	Bombay
1980–81	Bombay	Delhi
1981–82	Delhi	Karnataka
1982–83	Karnataka	Bombay
1983–84	Bombay	Delhi
1984–85	Bombay	Delhi
1985–86	Delhi	Haryana
1986–87	Hyderabad	Delhi
1987–88	Tamil Nadu	Railways
1988–89	Delhi	Bengal
1989–90	Bengal	Delhi
1990–91	Haryana	Bombay
1991–92	Delhi	Tamil Nadu
1992–93	Punjab	Maharashtra
1993–94	Bombay	Bengal
1994–95	Bombay	Punjab
1995–96	Karnataka	Tamil Nadu
1996–97	Mumbai	Delhi
1997–98	Karnataka	Uttar Pradesh
1998–99	Karnataka	Madhya Pradesh
1999–00	Mumbai	Hyderabad
2000–01	Baroda	Railways
2001–02	Railways	Baroda
2002–03	Mumbai	Tamil Nadu
2003–04	Mumbai	Tamil Nadu
2004–05	Railways	Punjab
2005–06	Uttar Pradesh	Bengal
2006–07	Mumbai	Bengal
2007–08	Delhi	Uttar Pradesh
2008–09	Mumbai	Uttar Pradesh
2009–10	Mumbai	Karnataka
2010–11	Rajasthan	Baroda
2011–12	Rajasthan	Tamil Nadu
2012–13	Mumbai	Saurashtra
2013–14	Karnataka	Maharashtra
2014–15	Karnataka	Tamil Nadu
2015–16	Mumbai	Saurashtra
2016–17	Gujarat	Mumbai

Finals appearances by team

Team	Wins	Appearances	Win %	Last win
Bombay/Mumbai	41	46	89.1	2016
Karnataka/Mysore	8	14	57.1	2015
Delhi	7	14	50.0	2008
Baroda	5	9	55.6	2001
Madhya Pradesh/Holkar	4	11	36.4	1953
Bengal	2	13	15.4	1990
Tamil Nadu/Madras	2	12	16.7	1988
Rajasthan	2	10	20.0	2012
Hyderabad	2	5	40.0	1987
Maharashtra	2	5	40.0	1941
Railways	2	4	50.0	2005
Western India/Nawanagar/Saurashtra	2	4	50.0	1944
Uttar Pradesh/United Provinces	1	6	16.7	2006
Southern Punjab / Punjab	1	5	20.0	1993
Haryana	1	2	50.0	1991
Gujarat	1	2	50.0	2017
Services	0	2	00.0
Bihar	0	1	00.0
Northern India	0	1	00.0