1978–79 Ranji Trophy

1978-79 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Delhi (1st title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Brijesh Patel (Karnataka) (850)
Most wickets	Rajinder Goel (Haryana) (41)
	← 1977–78 1979–80 →

The 1978–79 Ranji Trophy was the 45th season of the Ranji Trophy. Delhi won their first title defeating Karnataka.

Group stage[edit]

North Zone[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Delhi	4	3	0	1	31	2.391
Haryana	4	3	1	0	25	1.570
Punjab	4	1	1	2	17	1.173
Services	4	0	2	2	8	0.711
Jammu and Kashmir	4	0	3	1	3	0.307

West Zone[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	2	0	2	27	2.607
Baroda	4	1	0	3	19	0.901
Gujarat	4	1	1	2	18	1.002
Maharashtra	4	1	1	2	14	0.781
Saurashtra	4	0	3	1	3	0.645

South Zone[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Tamil Nadu	4	2	0	2	25	2.114
Karnataka	4	2	0	2	25	1.890
Hyderabad	4	2	0	2	24	1.483
Kerala	4	1	3	0	8	0.493
Andhra	4	0	4	0	0	0.410

Central Zone[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Uttar Pradesh	4	2	0	2	27	1.764
Madhya Pradesh	4	1	0	3	21	1.017
Rajasthan	4	1	0	3	16	1.196
Vidarbha	4	0	1	3	8	0.448
Railways	4	0	3	1	5	0.793

East Zone[edit]

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	3	0	0	24	1.501
Bihar	3	2	1	0	16	1.509
Orissa	3	0	2	1	2	0.717
Assam	3	0	2	1	2	0.469

Knockout stage[edit]

Pre-Quarter-finals

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Finals

24 Feb 1979 — Bangalore

Karnataka

371 & 265/4d

12 Feb 1979 — Calcutta

Bengal

128 & 272

Bengal

245 & 162/4

9 Mar 1979 — Bangalore

Haryana

253 & 152

Karnataka

582/8d

Baroda

237 & 322

24 Feb 1979 — Baroda

Baroda

346

Madhya Pradesh

193 & 150

17 Mar 1979 — Bangalore

Karnataka

411 & 122

21 Feb 1979 — Bombay

Delhi

516 & 416/8d

Bombay

577/9d

24 Feb 1979 — Bombay

Bihar

284 & 180

Bombay

565

Uttar Pradesh

154 & 165

8 Mar 1979 — Bombay

Bombay

329

Delhi

359 & 436/6

24 Feb 1979 — Delhi

Delhi

316 & 92/5

Tamil Nadu

197 & 210

Final[edit]

24–29 March 1979
Scorecard

Delhi	v	Karnataka (H)
516 (165.1 overs) Surinder Amarnath 132, Surinder Khanna 111 A. V. Jayaprakash 3/38		411 (99 overs) Brijesh Patel 166 Madan Lal 3/50
416/8 decl (132 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 178*, Surinder Khanna 128 B. Vijayakrishna 2/100		122 (34 overs) Syed Kirmani 33 Madan Lal 5/30

Delhi won by 399 runs
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Dara Dotiwalla and Jiban Ghosh

Delhi won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages[edit]

CricketArchive

References[edit]

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1978/79 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1978/79 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014.

This article related to an Indian domestic cricket competition is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1978/79 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1978/79 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014.

[1]

[2]

v t e Ranji Trophy
Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Current teams	Andhra Arunachal Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Mumbai Nagaland Odisha Pondicherry Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Nawanagar Northern India Northern Punjab North West Frontier Province Patiala Sind Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks