1959–60 Ranji Trophy

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1959–60 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class
Tournament format(s)Knockout
ChampionsBombay (11th title)
Participants24
Most runsRusi Surti (Rajasthan) (539)[1]
Most wicketsB. Y. Alva (Mysore) (36)[2]

The 1959–60 Ranji Trophy was the 26th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Mysore in the final.

Highlights[edit]

  • Asif Iqbal made his first class debut for Hyderabad against Kerala.[3] He moved to Pakistan two years later and captained them in Test cricket.

Group stage[edit]

Knockout stage[edit]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
26 Feb 1960 – Delhi
 
 
Services318 & 220/6
 
3 Mar 1960 – Delhi
 
Rajasthan289 & 317/6d
 
Services146 & 346/6d
 
 
Bombay416/9d & 32/1
 
 
10 Mar 1960 – Bombay
 
 
Bombay504
 
 
Mysore221 & 261
 
 
26 Feb 1960 – Jamshedpur
 
 
Bihar307 & 146
 
 
Mysore314 & 316
 
 
 
 

Final[edit]

10–13 Mar 1960
Scorecard
Bombay (H)
v
504 (141.3 overs)
Manohar Hardikar 145
Deepak Das Gupta 4/77 (22.3 overs)
221 (93.4 overs)
KS Viswanath 51
Ghulam Guard 5/66 (25.4 overs)
261 (90.1 overs, follow-on)
V. Subramanya 103
Ghulam Guard 4/69 (25 overs)
Bombay won by an innings and 22 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: I. Gopalakrishnan and Sambhu Pan
  • Bombay won the toss and elected to bat.

Scorecards and averages[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Ranji Trophy, 1959/60 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Ranji Trophy, 1959/60 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  3. ^ Hyderabad v Kerala, Hyderabad, 1959/60