2017–18 Ranji Trophy Group A

2017-18 Ranji Trophy Group A
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) – 28 November 2017 (2017-11-28)
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)Round-robin
Host(s) India
Participants7
2017–18 Indian domestic cricket season
Men
Women

The 2017–18 Ranji Trophy was the 84th season of the Ranji Trophy, the first-class cricket tournament in India. It was contested by 28 teams divided into four groups, each containing seven teams.[1] The top two teams from Group A progressed to the quarterfinals of the competition.[2] Both of Hyderabad's first two matches were abandoned due to rain.[3] Following the conclusion of the sixth round of fixtures, both Karnataka and Delhi had progressed to the knockout stage of the competition.[4]

Teams

The following teams were placed in Group A, based on their average points in the previous three years:[5]

Points table

Team[6] Pld W L D A Pts NRR
Karnataka 6 4 0 2 0 32 +0.479
Delhi 6 3 0 3 0 27 +0.333
Maharashtra 6 2 2 1 1 16 +0.084
Hyderabad 6 2 1 1 2 16 –0.156
Railways 6 2 3 1 0 14 –0.312
Uttar Pradesh 6 0 3 2 1 5 +0.508
Assam 6 0 4 2 0 2 –0.977
  •   Top two teams advanced to the knockout stage

Fixtures

Round 1

6–9 October 2017
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258 (95 overs)
Swarupam Purkayastha 66 (133)
Ishant Sharma 5/38 (20 overs)
435 (135.3 overs)
Gautam Gambhir 137 (249)
Abu Nechim 7/68 (23.3 overs)
255 (108.4 overs)
Sibsankar Roy 87 (222)
Manan Sharma 3/58 (21 overs)
49/2 (8 overs)
Unmukt Chand 25* (22)
Krishna Das 2/22 (4 overs)
Match drawn
Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi
Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan and Krishnaraj Srinath
Player of the match: Gautam Gambhir (Delhi)
6–9 October 2017
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  • No toss.
  • No play was possible due to rain.
6–9 October 2017
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182 (76 overs)
Ashish Yadav 53* (85)
Ankit Rajpoot 3/30 (19 overs)
250 (85.5 overs)
Akshdeep Nath 75 (160)
Anureet Singh 3/42 (22 overs)
161 (63.3 overs)
Arindam Ghosh 57 (160)
Ankit Rajpoot 4/34 (19.3 overs)
72 (26 overs)
Suresh Raina 29 (44)
Ashish Yadav 4/26 (9 overs)
Railways won by 21 runs
Ekana International Cricket Stadium, Lucknow
Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Nand Kishore
Player of the match: Ashish Yadav (Railways)
  • Railways won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Kartik Tyagi and Zeeshan Ansari (Uttar Pradesh) both made their first-class debuts.
  • Railways defended a total of 94 in the fourth innings, the second-lowest successfully defended target in the history of the Ranji Trophy.[7]

Round 2

14–17 October 2017
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  • No toss.
  • No play was possible due to rain.
14–17 October 2017
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447 (144.5 overs)
Manan Sharma 136 (216)
Anureet Singh 4/92 (34 overs)
136 (59.4 overs)
Shivakant Shukla 29 (99)
Manan Sharma 4/50 (19 overs)
206 (78.5 overs) (f/o)
Nitin Bhille 72 (204)
Vikas Mishra 4/37 (19.5 overs)
Delhi won by an innings and 105 runs
Karnail Singh Stadium, Delhi
Umpires: Belur Ravi and Chirra Ravikanthreddy
Player of the match: Manan Sharma (Delhi)
  • Delhi won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Himmat Singh (Delhi) made his first-class debut.
  • Manan Sharma (Delhi) scored his maiden first-class century.[3]
14–17 October 2017
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145 (59.1 overs)
Gokul Sharma 55 (114)
Shreyas Gopal 3/43 (13 overs)
469/7d (126.4 overs)
Krishnappa Gowtham 149 (170)
Arup Das 4/113 (41 overs)
203 (73.1 overs)
Gokul Sharma 66 (124)
Vinay Kumar 4/31 (14.1 overs)
Karnataka won by an innings and 121 runs
Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering Ground, Mysore
Umpires: Umesh Dubey and Nitin Pandit
Player of the match: Krishnappa Gowtham (Karnataka)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to field.
  • Krishnappa Gowtham (Karnataka) scored his maiden first-class century.[8]

Round 3

24–27 October 2017
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312 (106.1 overs)
Ankit Bawne 119 (223)
Saurabh Kumar 7/110 (42.1 overs)
271 (82.2 overs)
Eklavya Dwivedi 71 (131)
Chirag Khurana 6/53 (22.2 overs)
282/7d (84 overs)
Rahul Tripathi 91 (121)
Saurabh Kumar 4/105 (36 overs)
292 (68 overs)
Rinku Singh 122 (136)
Chirag Khurana 131 (34 overs)
Maharashtra won by 31 runs
Ekana International Cricket Stadium, Lucknow
Umpires: Yeshwant Barde and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
Player of the match: Chirag Khurana (Maharashtra)
  • Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Vineet Panwar (Uttar Pradesh) and Jagdish Zope (Maharashtra) both made their first-class debuts.
24–27 October 2017
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244 (93.2 overs)
Tarjinder Singh 43 (139)
Deepak Bansal 4/61 (25 overs)
483/7d (138.4 overs)
Arindam Ghosh 109 (192)
Dhiraj Goswami 2/93 (28 overs)
55 (32.3 overs)
Kunal Saikia 16 (55)
Anureet Singh 5/28 (13.3 overs)
Railways won by an innings and 184 runs
Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Nand Kishore
Player of the match: Anureet Singh (Railways)
  • Railways won the toss and elected to field.
  • Anureet Singh (Railways) took his fifteenth five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.[9]
24–27 October 2017
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183 (62.2 overs)
Stuart Binny 61 (88)
Mohammed Siraj 4/42 (15 overs)
136 (64.4 overs)
Kolla Sumanth 68 (150)
Shreyas Gopal 5/27 (9.4 overs)
332 (105.4)
Karun Nair 134 (229)
Mehdi Hasan 5/88 (36 overs)
320 (109.4 overs)
Bavanaka Sandeep 80 (205)
Shreyas Gopal 4/91 (18.4 overs)
Karnataka won by 59 runs
KSCA Navule Stadium, Shimoga
Umpires: Navdeep Singh and Pashchim Pathak
Player of the match: Karun Nair (Karnataka)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.

Round 4

1–4 November 2017
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474/9d (151 overs)
Ambati Rayudu 112 (189)
Manish Rao 3/76 (19 overs)
246 (94.2 overs)
Anureet Singh 60 (95)
Ravi Teja 5/49 (18.2 overs)
23/0 (5.2 overs)
Tanmay Agarwal 15* (16)
250 (72 overs) (f/o)
Manish Rao 85* (128)
Mehdi Hasan 4/35 (17 overs)
Hyderabad won by 10 wickets
Karnail Singh Stadium, Delhi
Umpires: Stephen Harris and Pashchim Pathak
Player of the match: Ravi Teja (Hyderabad)
1–4 November 2017
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245 (55 overs)
Rahul Tripathi 120 (114)
Vinay Kumar 6/59 (14 overs)
628/5d (176 overs)
Mayank Agarwal 304* (494)
Chirag Khurana 3/147 (39 overs)
247 (66.2 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad 65 (130)
Abhimanyu Mithun 5/66 (18 overs)
Karnataka won by an innings and 136 runs
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh and Martin Saggers
Player of the match: Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to field.
  • Dega Nischal (Karnataka) made his first-class debut.
  • Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) scored his maiden triple century in first-class cricket.[10] It was also the 50th triple century scored in first-class cricket in India.[11]
1–4 November 2017
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291 (89.5 overs)
Mohammad Saif 83 (169)
Ishant Sharma 3/38 (18 overs)
269 (87 overs)
Dhruv Shorey 98* (200)
Saurabh Kumar 4/87 (31 overs)
229 (67.5 overs)
Akshdeep Nath 110 (178)
Navdeep Saini 4/46 (15.5 overs)
256/6 (72.1 overs)
Nitish Rana 67 (110)
Mohammad Saif 2/20 (6.1 overs)
Delhi won by 4 wickets
Palam A Ground, Model Sports Complex, Delhi
Umpires: Umesh Dubey and Rohan Pandit
Player of the match: Akshdeep Nath (Delhi)
  • Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
  • Play was stopped towards the end of day 3 after a man drove his car onto the pitch.[12]

Round 5

9–12 November 2017
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349 (73.2 overs)
Saurabh Kumar 133 (118)
Rajjakuddin Ahmed 3/103 (21 overs)
318 (108.1 overs)
Sib Sankar Roy 72 (129)
Saurabh Kumar 5/54 (32 overs)
357/6d (86.4 overs)
Umang Sharma 148 (235)
Abu Nechim 2/58 (14.4 overs)
148/4 (55 overs)
Gokul Sharma 62 (103)
Saurabh Kumar 3/52 (21 overs)
Match drawn
Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Sivasubramaniyan Shankar
Player of the match: Saurabh Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)
9–12 November 2017
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649 (172.2 overs)
Mayank Agarwal 176 (250)
Manan Sharma 3/151 (37 overs)
301 (95 overs)
Gautam Gambhir 144 (244)
Abhimanyu Mithun 5/70 (23 overs)
235/3 (63 overs)
KL Rahul 92 (109)
Navdeep Saini 1/28 (9 overs)
Match drawn
KSCA Cricket Ground, Bengaluru
Umpires: Stephen Harris and Vineet Kulkarni
Player of the match: Stuart Binny (Karnataka)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
9–12 November 2017
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481 (155.5 overs)
Rohit Motwani 189 (328)
Amit Mishra 4/98 (32.5 overs)
381 (131.2 overs)
Pratham Singh 73 (154)
Chirag Khurana 2/58 (21 overs)
186/6d (37 overs)
Naushad Shaikh 40 (32)
Karan Thakur 3/43 (10 overs)
54/1 (18 overs)
Saurabh Wakaskar 23* (57)
Chirag Khurana 1/16 (7 overs)
Match drawn
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune
Umpires: Chirra Ravikanthreddy and Virender Sharma
Player of the match: Rohit Motwani (Maharashtra)

Round 6

17–20 November 2017
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655 (186.1 overs)
Manish Pandey 238 (301)
Imtiyaz Ahmed 6/110 (32.1 overs)
331 (84 overs)
Umang Sharma 89 (158)
Shreyas Gopal 3/63 (12 overs)
262/0 (59 overs)
Mayank Agarwal 133* (171)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Dega Nischal (Karnataka) scored his maiden first-class century.[13]
17–20 November 2017
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326 (90.4 overs)
Bavanaka Sandeep 84 (122)
Arup Das 5/112 (28.4 overs)
136 (48.5 overs)
Gokul Sharma 39 (72)
Mohammad Muddassir 5/36 (11.5 overs)
144/6 (39 overs)
Ambati Rayudu 52* (73)
Arup Das 2/21 (7 overs)
331 (109 overs) (f/o)
Amit Sinha 122 (233)
Sudeep Tyagi 3/34 (16 overs)
Hyderabad won by 4 wickets
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium, Guwahati
Umpires: Sudhir Asnani and Tapan Sharma
Player of the match: Ambati Rayudu (Hyderabad)
17–20 November 2017
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419 (111.1 overs)
Nitish Rana 174 (264)
Satyajeet Bachhav 4/87 (29 overs)
99 (35 overs)
Chirag Khurana 29 (31)
Ishant Sharma 3/14 (6 overs)
259 (63.3 overs) (f/o)
Rahul Tripathi 106 (78)
Navdeep Saini 4/57 (18 overs)
Delhi won by an innings and 61 runs
Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi
Umpires: Yeshwant Barde and Nand Kishore
Player of the match: Nitish Rana (Delhi)

Round 7

25–28 November 2017
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434 (111 overs)
Mayank Agarwal 173 (241)
Karan Thakur 3/91 (31 overs)
333 (98.4 overs)
Mahesh Rawat 124 (182)
Shreyas Gopal 4/102 (28.4 overs)
275/4d (71 overs)
Mayank Agarwal 134 (178)
Karan Thakur 2/68 (14 overs)
167 (63 overs)
Pratham Singh 36 (91)
Krishnappa Gowtham 7/72 (26 overs)
Karnataka won by 209 runs
Karnail Singh Stadium, Delhi
Umpires: Navdeep Singh and Rohan Pandit
Player of the match: Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Vinit Dhulap (Railways) made his first-class debut.
  • Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) scored his fifth first-class century of the season and scored his 1,000th run in a single month.[14][15]
25–28 November 2017
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279 (66.2 overs)
Gokul Sharma 87 (141)
Nikit Dhumal 5/94 (21 overs)
253 (68.2 overs)
Ruturaj Gaikwad 126 (210)
Rahul Singh 4/63 (14.2 overs)
189 (63.5 overs)
Rishav Das 35 (56)
Pradeep Dadhe 5/51 (17.5 overs)
216/3 (47.4 overs)
Naushad Shaikh 108* (105)
Rajat Khan 1/31 (3 overs)
Maharashtra won by 7 wickets
Pune Club Ground, Pune
Umpires: Puttarangaiah Jayapal and Chirra Ravikanthreddy
Player of the match: Naushad Shaikh (Maharashtra)
  • Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field.
  • Abhishek Thakuri (Assam) made his first-class debut.
  • Pradeep Dadhe (Maharashtra) took his maiden five-wicket haul in first-class cricket.[14]
25–28 November 2017
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415 (107.4 overs)
Himmat Singh 99 (151)
Mehdi Hasan 3/103 (27.2 overs)
205 (74.2 overs)
Tanmay Agarwal 63 (159)
Vikas Mishra 4/36 (10.2 overs)
442/8 (155.1 overs) (f/o)
Akshath Reddy 107 (235)
Vikas Mishra 5/116 (34 overs)

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