Gud evening , friends

The ranji trophy match is still goin on ,this is the final match match between

Uttar pradesh and mumbai.this match will decide the ranji champion of this season 2008-09

up team is still struggling against mumbai but cricket is the game of uncertainty ......

Here i m not discussing about the champion of this season .

I want to share some fact about ranji trophy.....

The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between different city and state sides, equivalent to the County Championship in England and the Sheffield Shield in Australia. The competition is named after Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji (Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, also known as "Ranji").

Ranji Trophy
Country(ies)
India
Administrator(s)
BCCI
Cricket format
Test Cricket
First tournament
1934
Tournament format(s)
Round Robin,then knockout
Total participants
27
Current champion
Delhi
Most successful
Mumbai (37)
Most runs
Amarjit Kaypee (7623)1980-2000
Most wickets
Rajinder Goel (640)1958-1985
Current Season
Ranji Trophy 2008-09

History
The competition was launched as "The Cricket Championship of India" following a meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in July 1934, with the first fixtures taking place in 1934-35. The trophy was donated by Bhupinder Singh, the Maharajah of Patiala. The first Ranji Trophy Championship was won by Bombay after they defeated North India in the final. Syed Mohammed Hadi of Hyderabad was the first batsman to score a century in the tournament.
Mumbai (formerly Bombay) have been the dominant team in the Championship so far, with 37 wins, including 15 back-to-back wins from 1958-59 to 1972-73.

Format
Most of the teams playing in the Ranji Trophy represent states of India. However, there are teams that represent individual cities such as Mumbai or Hyderabad. The competition also includes teams that have no regional affiliations, such as Railways and Services.
Up until the 2002-03 season, the teams were grouped into five zones - North, West, East, Central and South - and initial matches were played within the zones on a league basis. The top teams (two until 1991-92, three after that) from each zone played in a national knock-out competition, leading to a final which decided the winner of the tournament.
Starting with the 2002-03 season, the zonal system was abandoned and a two-division structure was adopted: the Elite Group and the Plate Group. For the 2006-07 season, the divisions were re-labelled the Super League and Plate League respectively.
The Super League is divided into two groups of eight and seven teams, while the Plate League is divided into two groups of six teams each. In both divisions, the top two teams from each group advance to the knock-out phase. The finalists from the Plate League are promoted to the Super League the next year while the two teams at the bottom of the Super League are relegated.

Points summary
Points in the league stages of both divisions are awarded as follows :

Scenario points
Win Outright
5
Bonus Point (for innings and 10 wicket wins)
1
1st Innings Lead
3 *
No Result
1
1st Innings Deficit
1 *
Lost Outright
0

note* - If match ends in a draw

Teams
The teams listed below are competing in the Ranji Trophy for the 2008-09 season. For a complete list of teams which have played in the competition at some point during its history, see Ranji Trophy - Historical Note.

Super League
Group A
Delhi
Gujarat
Hyderabad
Mumbai
Orissa
Punjab
Rajasthan (Demoted to Plate Group)
Saurashtra

Group B
Andhra Pradesh (Demoted to Plate Group)
Baroda
Karnataka
Maharashtra
Railways
Tamil Nadu
Uttar Pradesh

Plate League
Group A
Goa
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh (Promoted to Super Group)
Jammu & Kashmir
Jharkhand
Kerala

Group B
Assam
Bengal (Promoted to Super Group)
Madhya Pradesh
Services
Tripura
Vidarbha

Tournament records
Main article: List of Ranji Trophy records

Team records
Most wins
37
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)

Highest team score
944/6 decl.
Hyderabad v Andhra 1993-94

Lowest team score
22
Southern Punjab v Northern India 1934-35

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
7623
Amarjit Kaypee 1980-2000

Most career centuries
31
Ajay Sharma 1984-2000

Highest career batting average
98.35
Vijay Merchant 1934-1951

Most career wickets
640
Rajinder Goel 1958-1985
† Some sources credit Goel with 636 or 637 wickets instead — see Rajinder Goel article for details.

Past winners
Season 1934-35
Winner -Bombay

Runner up-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 vs Uttar Pradesh

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