Cricket tournament
 The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners | |
| Dates | 1 October 2015 (2015-10-01) – 4 December 2015 (2015-12-04) |
|---|---|
| Administrator(s) | BCCI |
| Cricket format | First-class cricket |
| Tournament format(s) | Round-robin |
| Host(s) |  India |
| Participants | 9 |
| Matches | 36 |
| ← 2014–152016–17 → | |
The 2015–16 Ranji Trophy is the 82nd season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India. It is being contested by 27 teams divided into three groups of nine teams each.
- Top three teams advance to knockout stage and ninth place team will be relegated to Group C for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy.
Squads
| Assam | Bengal | Delhi | Haryana | Karnataka |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maharashtra | Odisha | Rajasthan | Vidarbha |
|---|---|---|---|
Points table
| Team | Pld | W | L | D | A | WI | FI | Pts | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vidarbha | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | +0.047 |
| Bengal | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 28 | +0.110 |
| Assam | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 26 | -0.304 |
| Delhi | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 | +0.215 |
| Karnataka | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 24 | +0.336 |
| Rajasthan | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | -0.313 |
| Maharashtra | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | +0.301 |
| Odisha | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | +0.016 |
| Haryana | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | -0.406 |
- Top three teams advance to knockout stage.
- Bottom place team will be relegated to Group C for 2016–17 Ranji Trophy.
Fixtures
Round 1
| 1–4 October Scorecard |
| Vidarbha (H) | v | Odisha |
| 467 (143.4 overs) Umesh Yadav 128* (119) Basant Mohanty 3/65 (28 overs) |
274 (94.3 overs) Govinda Podder 148* (254) Akshay Wakhare 4/84 (30 overs) | |
| 230/6 (f/o) (105 overs) Anurag Sarangi 92 (178) Akshay Wakhare 5/77 (37 overs) |
| Match drawn VCA Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Akshay Wakhare (Vidarbha) |
- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat
- Rajesh Dhuper (Odisha), Aditya Shanware and Jitesh Sharma (Vidarbha) made their first-class debuts.
- Points: Vidarbha 3, Odisha 1
| 1–4 October Scorecard |
| Haryana | v | (H) Maharashtra |
| 335 (106.1 overs) Himanshu Rana 157 (271) Nikit Dhumal 3/55 (18.1 overs) |
570/6 (150 overs) Ankit Bawne 172 (291) Ashish Hooda 2/75 (25 overs) | |
| Match drawn MCA Cricket Stadium, Pune Umpires: Sudhir Asnani (Ind) and Puttarangaiah Jayapal (Ind) Player of the match: Ankit Bawne (Maharashtra) |
- Haryana won the toss and elected to bat
- Chaitanya Bishnoi, Rahul Dagar and Sanjay Pahal (Haryana) made their first-class debuts.
- Points: Maharashtra 3, Haryana 1
| 1–4 October Scorecard |
| Delhi | v | (H) Rajasthan |
| 138 (47 overs) Sumit Narwal 25 (36) Deepak Chahar 5/60 (15 overs) |
240 (75.4 overs) Deepak Chahar 50 (48) Sumit Narwal 3/47 (19 overs) | |
| 437/9d (124.5 overs) Sumit Narwal 106* (94) Nathu Singh 7/87 (31.5 overs) |
186/3 (91 overs) Vineet Saxena 80* (274) Pawan Suyal 2/23 (18 overs) |
| Match drawn Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Nand Kishore (Ind) and Pashchim Pathak (Ind) Player of the match: Deepak Chahar (Rajasthan) |
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field
- Mohit Ahlawat (Delhi) and Nathu Singh (Rajasthan) made their first-class debuts.
- Points: Rajasthan 3, Delhi 1
| 1–4 October Scorecard |
| Karnataka | v | (H) Assam |
| 187 (75.2 overs) Shishir Bhavane 65 (143) Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 7/44 (18.2 overs) |
194 (78.5 overs) Amit Verma 57 (125) 2/20 (16.5 overs) | |
| 394/8d (94 overs) Ravikumar Samarth 131 (199) Swarupam Purkayastha 3/78 (17) |
259/5 (102 overs) Arun Karthik 115 (258) Jagadeesha Suchith 2/60 (26 overs) |
| Match drawn Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Rajesh Deshpande (Ind) and Nitin Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Jagadeesha Suchith (Assam) |
- Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat
- Points: Assam 3, Karnataka 1
Round 2
| 8–11 October Scorecard |
| Maharashtra | v | Odisha (H) |
| 281 (101.2 overs) Harshad Khadiwale 74 (164) Suryakant Pradhan 4/90 (28 overs) |
267 (103.5 overs) Govinda Podder 100 (205) Shrikant Mundhe 6/62 (31 overs) | |
| 289/4d (92.1 overs) Kedar Jadhav 100* (133) Basant Mohanty 2/58 (21 overs) |
129/5 (55 overs) Girjia Rout 31 (111) Anupam Sanklecha 2/11 (7 overs) |
| Match drawn Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Puttarangaiah Jayapal (Ind) and Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) Player of the match: Shrikant Mundhe (Maharashtra) |
- Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
| 8–11 October Scorecard |
| Rajasthan | v | Assam (H) |
| 186 (83.4 overs) Vineet Saxena 42 (143) Krishna Das 5/32 (17.4 overs) |
422/9d (151 overs) Arun Karthik 151 (315) Kukna Ajay Singh 5/116 (39.5 overs) | |
| 84 (28.4 overs) Ashok Menaria 21 (27) Krishna Das 5/23 (12 overs) |
| Assam won by an innings and 152 runs Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Belur Ravi (Ind) and Ravi Subramanian (Ind) Player of the match: Krishna Das (Assam) |
- Assam won the toss and elected to field.
- Kukna Ajay Singh (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
| 8–11 October Scorecard |
| Bengal | v | Karnataka (H) |
| 312 (88.2 overs) Sudip Chatterjee 145 (247) Vinay Kumar 4/80 (22.2 overs) |
537/9d (150.4 overs) Shreyas Gopal 139 (265) Veer Pratap Singh 4/86 (24 overs) | |
| 249/4 (86 overs) Manoj Tiwary 103* (197) Jagadeesha Suchith 1/27 (12 overs) |
| Match drawn M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Pashchim Pathak (Ind) Player of the match: Manoj Tiwary (Bengal) |
- Karnataka won the toss and elected to field.
- Naved Ahmed (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
| 8–11 October Scorecard |
| Vidarbha | v | Delhi (H) |
| 298 (117 overs) Faiz Fazal 56 (148) Ishant Sharma 6/36 (23 overs) |
302 (123.3 overs) Gautam Gambhir 96 (236) Akshay Wakhare 5/113 (44.3 overs) | |
| 98 (55.1 overs) Aditya Shanware 25 (87) Ishant Sharma 3/11 (11 overs) |
96/0 (14.1 overs) Unmukt Chand 51* (41) |
| Delhi won by 10 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: KN Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Manan Sharma (Delhi) |
- Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
- Nitish Rana and Sarang Rawat (both Delhi) made their first-class debuts.
Round 3
| 15–18 October Scorecard |
| Assam | v | Odisha (H) |
| 92 (52.4 overs) Amit Verma 20 (66) Basant Mohanty 5/24 (14.4 overs) |
88 (41 overs) Anurag Sarangi 27 (119) Krishna Das 7/21 (16 overs) | |
| 137 (75.3 overs) Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 42* (164) Suryakant Pradhan 5/27 (15.3 overs) |
142/2 (35 overs) Govinda Podder 77* (77) Pritam Das 1/42 (9 overs) |
| Odisha won by 8 wickets Barabati Stadium, Cuttack Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Basant Mohanty (Odisha) |
- Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
| 15–18 October Scorecard |
| Rajasthan | v | Bengal (H) |
| 198 (95.5 overs) Vineet Saxena 66* (271) Pragyan Ojha 4/49 (37 overs) |
282 (90.3 overs) Manoj Tiwary 83 (173) Kukna Ajay Singh 3/72 (25.3 overs) | |
| 146/5 (57 overs) Ashok Menaria 69* (174) Ashok Dinda 2/21 (9 overs) |
| Match drawn Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Rajesh Deshpande (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Manoj Tiwary (Bengal) |
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat.
- Aamir Gani and Pankaj Shaw (both Bengal) made their first-class debuts.
| 15–18 October Scorecard |
| Haryana | v | Delhi (H) |
| 195 (78.1 overs) Jayant Yadav 41 (98) Manan Sharma 5/57 (27.1 overs) |
237 (73.4 overs) Unmukt Chand 68 (132) Jayant Yadav 4/78 (22.4 overs) | |
| 265 (93.4 overs) Virender Sehwag 51 (88) Manan Sharma 6/105 (40.4 overs) |
225/6 (68. overs) Unmukt Chand 99 (143) Harshal Patel 4/76 (22 overs) |
| Delhi won by 4 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: Ravi Subramaniam Iyer (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Unmukt Chand (Delhi) |
- Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
| 15–18 October Scorecard |
| Karnataka (H) | v | Vidarbha |
| 350 (102.4 overs) Manish Pandey 104 (163) Ravikumar Thakur 4/50 (27.4 overs) |
310 (118.4 overs) S Badrinath 92 (216) Sreenath Aravind 4/46 (23.4 overs) | |
| 331/3d (112 overs) Ravikumar Samarth 121* (151) Swapnil Bandiwar 2/50 (18 overs) |
17/0 (11 overs) Aditya Shanware 7* (31) |
| Match drawn M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Pashchim Pathak (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Manish Pandey (Karnataka) |
- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field.
Round 4
| 22–25 October Scorecard |
| Rajasthan (H) | v | Maharashtra |
| 318 (102.1 overs) Ashok Menaria 84 (125) Samad Fallah 3/77 (26 overs) |
409 (120.5 overs) Rahul Tripathi 119 (250) Kukna Ajay Singh 4/87 (21 overs) | |
| 334/5d (115.3 overs) Ashok Menaria 150* (304) Shrikant Mundhe 2/51 (18 overs) |
17/0 (5.3 overs) Swapnil Gugale 14* (20) |
| Match drawn Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Sivasubramaniyan Shankar (Ind) Player of the match: Rahul Tripathi (Maharashtra) |
- Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field.
| 22–25 October Scorecard |
| Assam | v | Vidarbha (H) |
| 206 (87 overs) Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad 69 (139) Akshay Wakhare 4/47 (30 overs) |
154 (74 overs) Ganesh Satish 67 (159) Swarupam Purkayastha 4/47 (21 overs) | |
| 160 (81.3 overs) Swarupam Purkayastha 35 (57) Aditya Sarwate 6/64 (33 overs) |
215/7 (74 overs) Wasim Jaffer 71 (119) Amit Verma 3/55 (24 overs) |
| Vidarbha won by 3 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Ravi Subramanian (Ind) Player of the match: Wasim Jaffer (Vidarbha) |
- Assam won the toss and elected to bat.
- Aditya Sarwate (Vidarbha) made his first-class debut.
| 22–25 October Scorecard |
| Bengal | v | Delhi (H) |
| 357 (135.5 overs) Sudip Chatterjee 116 (243) Pradeep Sangwan 4/48 (25.5 overs) |
249 (101.2 overs) Milind Kumar 77 (193) Pragyan Ojha 4/77 (27 overs) | |
| 217/5d (73.2 overs) Manoj Tiwary 97 (199) Sumit Narwal 2/37 (15.2 overs) |
161/4 (37 overs) Rishabh Pant 57 (71) Aamir Gani 3/47 (9 overs) |
| Match drawn Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Umpires: C. K. Nandan (Ind) and Krishnaraj Srinath (Ind) Player of the match: Sudip Chatterjee (Bengal) |
- Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
- Rishabh Pant (Delhi) made his first-class debut.
| 22–25 October Scorecard |
| Haryana | v | Karnataka (H) |
| 331 (90.1 overs) Virender Sehwag 136 (170) H. S. Sharath 5/48 (19.4 overs) |
221 (75.4 overs) Lokesh Rahul 63 (103) Rahul Dagar 3/10 (5.4 overs) | |
| 262/9d (91 overs) Nitin Saini 52 (121) Shreyas Gopal 4/53 (18 overs) |
202/8 (98 overs) Robin Uthappa 66 (194) Jayant Yadav 6/65 (39 overs) |
| Match drawn Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Stadium, Mysore Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Pashchim Pathak (Ind) Player of the match: Jayant Yadav (Haryana) |
- Haryana won the toss and elected to bat.
- David Mathias (Karnataka) made his first-class debut.
Round 5
| 30 October–2 November Scorecard |
| Delhi | v | Odisha (H) |
| 311 (136.1 overs) Milind Kumar 59 (138) Suryakant Pradhan 4/119 (40.5 overs) |
217 (75.5 overs) Anurag Sarangi 76 (186) Pradeep Sangwan 7/38 (18.5 overs) | |
| 193/9d (31.3 overs) Dhruv Shorey 62 (66) Basant Mohanty 6/39 (9.3 overs) |
88/3 (38 overs) Natraj Behera 35 (61) Pulkit Narang 2/29 (13 overs) |
| Match drawn KIIT Stadium, Bhubaneswar Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh (Ind) and C. K. Nandan (Ind) Player of the match: Pradeep Sangwan (Delhi) |
- Odisha won the toss and elected to field.
- Suboth Bhati, Pulkit Narang and Dhruv Shorey (Delhi) all made their first-class debuts.
| 30 October–2 November Scorecard |
| Vidarbha (H) | v | Maharashtra |
| 332 (125 overs) Faiz Fazal 120 (273) Shrikant Mundhe 3/60 (22 overs) |
237 (90.1 overs) Chirag Khurana 74 (130) Aditya Sarwate 3/41 (21.1 overs) | |
| 149 (48 overs) Amol Ubarhande 47 (40) Akshay Darekar 5/78 (20 overs) |
162 (46.3 overs) Harshad Khadiwale 55 (61) Akshay Wakhare 6/58 (22 overs) |
| Vidarbha won by 82 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and R. Sundar (Ind) Player of the match: Faiz Fazal (Vidarbha) |
- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.
| 30 October–2 November Scorecard |
| Karnataka | v | Rajasthan (H) |
| 281 (94 overs) Mayank Agarwal 66 (133) Aniket Choudhary 5/77 (24 overs) |
242 (91.4 overs) Rajat Bhatia 99 (171) Vinay Kumar 3/42 (22 overs) | |
| 318/5d (63 overs) Robin Uthappa 160 (128) Rajat Bhatia 2/44 (17 overs) |
265 (82.2 overs) Pranay Sharma 114 (190) David Mathias 3/53 (13 overs) |
| Karnataka won by 92 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Rohan Pandit (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) |
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.
| 30 October–2 November Scorecard |
| Bengal | v | Haryana (H) |
| 329 (103.3 overs) Pramod Chandila 65 (79) Sachin Rana 5/46 (16.3 overs) |
225 (83.4 overs) Rohit Sharma 78 (153) Mukesh Kumar 4/53 (19 overs) | |
| 211/8d (93.5 overs) Pankaj Shaw 61 (148) Ashish Hooda 4/65 (25 overs) |
195/6 (62 overs) Rohit Sharma 50 (98) Ashok Dinda 3/52 (16 overs) |
| Match drawn Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) Player of the match: Pankaj Shaw (Bengal) |
- Haryana won the toss and elected to field.
- Pramod Chandila, Mukesh Kumar (Bengal) and Rohit Sharma (Haryana) all made their first-class debuts.
Round 6
| 7–10 November Scorecard |
| Odisha | v | Karnataka (H) |
| 232 (84.1 overs) Govinda Poddar 153 (230) Shreyas Gopal 4/75 (29.1 overs) |
400/9d (128 overs) Robin Uthappa 148 (257) Suryakant Pradhan 3/94 (28 overs) | |
| 104 (36.1 overs) Anurag Sarangi 44 (75) Stuart Binny 4/34 (11 overs) |
| Karnataka won by an innings and 64 runs Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Stadium, Mysore Umpires: Nitin Pandit (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Robin Uthappa (Karnataka) |
- Odisha won the toss and elected to bat.
- Amit Das and Ranjit Singh (both Odisha) made their first-class debuts.
| 7–10 November Scorecard |
| Maharashtra | v | Delhi (H) |
| 80 (25.4 overs) Harshad Khadiwale 21 (36) Navdeep Saini 6/32 (11 overs) |
230 (68.1 overs) Dhruv Shorey 104* (176) Samad Fallah 5/45 (19.1 overs) | |
| 176 (56 overs) Sangram Atitkar 30 (103) Manan Sharma 4/47 (16 overs) |
30/1 (14 overs) Unmukt Chand 12* (43) Akshay Darekar 1/9 (7 overs) |
| Delhi won by 9 wickets Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi Umpires: Abhijit Deshmukh (Ind) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Dhruv Shorey (Delhi) |
- Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
| 7–10 November Scorecard |
| Haryana (H) | v | Assam |
| 168 (70.5 overs) Himanshu Rana 56 (119) Krishna Das 6/56 (26.5 overs) |
120 (52.2 overs) Gokul Sharma 43 (91) Ashish Hooda 4/27 (13.2 overs) | |
| 111 (50.3 overs) Himanshu Rana 27 (68) Arup Das 6/39 (19.3 overs) |
160/4 (54.1 overs) Amit Verma 51* (115) Ashish Hooda 2/62 (15 overs) |
| Assam won by 6 wickets Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) and Krishnamachari Srinivasan (Ind) Player of the match: Krishna Das (Assam) |
- Haryana won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rahul Hazarika (Assam) made his first-class debut.
| 7–10 November Scorecard |
| Bengal (H) | v | Vidarbha |
| 334 (115.4 overs) Sudip Chatterjee 116 (200) Akshay Wakhare 4/85 (31 overs) |
202 (69.1 overs) Faiz Fazal 63 (120) Pragyan Ojha 7/58 (24.5 overs) | |
| 164 (62.5 overs) Manoj Tiwary 63 (127) Akshay Wakhare 5/61 (22 overs) |
191 (91.1 overs) Ganesh Satish 96 (201) Pragyan Ojha 4/60 (34 overs) |
| Bengal won by 105 runs Jadavpur University Campus 2nd Ground, Jadavpur Umpires: Anil Dandekar (Ind) and Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) Player of the match: Pragyan Ojha (Bengal) |
- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field.
- Sayan Ghosh (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
Round 7
| 15–18 November Scorecard |
| Odisha | v | Haryana (H) |
| 529/6d (163 overs) Natraj Behera 255* (453) Harshal Patel 2/94 (28 overs) |
216 (85.5 overs) Nitin Saini 51 (146) Basant Mohanty 3/51 (22 overs) | |
| 250/4 (103 overs) f/o Chaitanya Bishnoi 86* (259) Suryakant Pradhan 2/56 (21 overs) |
| Match drawn Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Natraj Behera (Odisha) |
- Odisha won the toss and elected to bat.
| 15–18 November Scorecard |
| Bengal | v | Maharashtra (H) |
| 528/8d (180 overs) Sudip Chatterjee 147 (311) Chirag Khurana 4/141 (41 overs) |
406 (129.2 overs) Rahul Tripathi 132 (275) Pragyan Ojha 3/71 (22.2 overs) | |
| 100/1 (33 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 53* (103) |
| Match drawn Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune Umpires: Sanjeev Dua (Ind) and Kamlesh Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Sudip Chatterjee (Bengal) |
- Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field.
| 15–18 November Scorecard |
| Rajasthan | v | Vidarbha (H) |
| 216 (88.4 overs) Puneet Yadav 67 (114) Umesh Yadav 4/45 (17.4 overs) |
247 (99.3 overs) Aditya Sarwate 50 (116) Tanveer Ul-Haq 4/60 (24 overs) | |
| 226 (78.1 overs) Ashok Menaria 76 (92) Aditya Sarwate 5/58 (18.1 overs) |
199/2 (61.4 overs) Ganesh Satish 61* (119) Tanveer Ul-Haq 1/21 (9 overs) |
| Vidarbha won by 8 wickets Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Umpires: Rajesh Deshpande (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) |
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to bat.
- Sidhant Dobal (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
- Umesh Yadav (Vidarbha) took a hat-trick in the first innings.
| 15–18 November Scorecard |
| Delhi | v | Assam (H) |
| 149 (59.4 overs) Manan Sharma 46* (100) Krishna Das 4/38 (20 overs) |
157 (54.1 overs) Arun Karthik 81 (169) Manan Sharma 4/41 (18 overs) | |
| 172 (83.2 overs) Unmukt Chand 44 (64) Amit Verma 3/42 (21 overs) |
168/5 (56 overs) Rahul Hazarika 59 (132) Manan Sharma 2/51 (10 overs) |
| Assam won by 5 wickets Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Arun Karthik (Assam) |
- Assam won the toss and elected to field.
Round 8
| 23–26 November Scorecard |
| Bengal (H) | v | Odisha |
| 142 (47.3 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 88 (156) Dhiraj Singh 5/58 (20 overs) |
107 (29 overs) Arabind Singh 21 (17) Aamir Gani 6/34 (12 overs) | |
| 135 (55.2 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 39 (85) Basant Mohanty 5/16 (17 overs) |
37 (19.2 overs) Jayanta Behera 7* (22) Ashok Dinda 7/19 (10 overs) |
| Bengal won by 133 runs Bengal Cricket Academy Ground, Kalyani Umpires: Krishnamachari Bharatan (Ind) and R. Sundar (Ind) Player of the match: Abhimanyu Easwaran (Bengal) |
- Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
- Anurag Tiwari (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
- Odisha's second innings score of 37 all out is their second lowest score in the Ranji Trophy. Following the match, the club lodged a complaint stating that the pitch was "underprepared".
| 23–26 November Scorecard |
| Assam | v | Maharashtra (H) |
| 298 (105 overs) Arun Karthik 130 (283) Shrikant Mundhe 4/67 (25 overs) |
196 (69 overs) Rahul Tripathi 52 (111) Krishna Das 6/73 (30 overs) | |
| 135 (48.2 overs) Rahul Hazarika 31 (65) Domnic Muthuswami 4/21 (12.2 overs) |
82/3 (15 overs) Sangram Atitkar 40* (44) Abu Nechim 1/1 (1 over) |
| Match drawn Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune Umpires: Puttarangaiah Jayapal (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Arun Karthik (Assam) |
- Maharashtra won the toss and elected to field.
- No play on day 1.
| 23–26 November Scorecard |
| Haryana (H) | v | Rajasthan |
| 112 (52.2 overs) Virender Sehwag 29 (32) Pankaj Singh 4/10 (14.2 overs) |
279 (88.3 overs) Ashok Menaria 47 (79) Mohit Sharma 5/56 (26.3 overs) | |
| 324 (121.5 overs) Nitin Saini 146 (274) Pankaj Singh 5/85 (29.1 overs) |
161/1 (38.5 overs) Puneet Yadav 107* (115) Harshal Patel 1/27 (8 overs) |
| Rajasthan won by 9 wickets Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium, Rohtak Umpires: C. K. Nandan (Ind) and Alex Wharf (Eng) Player of the match: Pankaj Singh and Puneet Yadav (both Rajasthan) |
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.
- Mohit Hooda, Shamsher Yadav (Haryana) and Manender Singh (Rajasthan) all made their first-class debuts.
| 23–26 November Scorecard |
| Karnataka (H) | v | Delhi |
| 542 (149 overs) Robin Uthappa 148 (141) Navdeep Saini 3/85 (32 overs) |
301 (104.1 overs) Gautam Gambhir 75 (151) Sreenath Aravind 2/41 (17 overs) | |
| 290/2 (92 overs) Nitish Rana 132* (175) Sreenath Aravind 2/39 (19 overs) |
| Match drawn KSCA Rajnagar Stadium, Hubli Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and John Ward (Aus) Player of the match: Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka) |
- Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
Round 9
| 1–4 December Scorecard |
| Odisha | v | Rajasthan (H) |
| 151 (52.2 overs) Anurag Sarangi 43 (99) Aniket Choudhary 6/27 (14.2 overs) |
51 (27.2 overs) Vineet Saxena 12 (57) Alok Chandra Sahoo 6/33 (13.2 overs) | |
| 129 (39.2 overs) Alok Chandra Sahoo 31 (39) Aniket Choudhary 4/31 (10 overs) |
231/8 (65.5 overs) Puneet Yadav 59 (75) Basant Mohanty 3/65 (26 overs) |
| Rajasthan won by 2 wickets Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Aniket Choudhary (Rajasthan) |
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.
| 1–4 December Scorecard |
| Maharashtra (H) | v | Karnataka |
| 212 (62.4 overs) Ankit Bawne 87* (158) Sreenath Aravind 3/35 (16 overs) |
180 (67.4 overs) Mayank Agarwal 33 (74) Anupam Sanklecha 4/58 (25.4 overs) | |
| 260 (93 overs) Shrikant Mundhe 81 (150) Vinay Kumar 4/71 (27 overs) |
239 (72 overs) Chidhambaram Gautam 65* (104) Nikit Dhumal 5/78 (25 overs) |
| Maharashtra won by 53 runs Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune Umpires: Subrat Das (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Nikit Dhumal (Maharashtra) |
- Karnataka won the toss and elected to field.
| 1–4 December Scorecard |
| Bengal | v | Assam (H) |
| 444/6d (158) Shreevats Goswami 112* (253) Gokul Sharma 2/39 (24 overs) |
143 (54.4 overs) Tarjinder Singh 50 (128) Ashok Dinda 4/39 (14 overs) | |
| 143/8 (84 overs) Pallavkumar Das 55 (182) Aamir Gani 5/62 (32 overs) |
| Match drawn Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Cricket Stadium, Guwahati Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Anil Dandekar (Ind) Player of the match: Shreevats Goswami (Bengal) |
- Assam won the toss and elected to field.
- Wasiqur Rahman (Assam) made his first-class debut.
| 1–4 December Scorecard |
| Vidarbha (H) | v | Haryana |
| 504/7d (155 overs) Faiz Fazal 126 (266) Harshal Patel 2/70 (22 overs) |
241 (99.3 overs) Nitin Saini 67 (157) Ravi Jangid 4/44 (28 overs) | |
| 232 (103.1 overs) f/o Rohit Sharma 107 (241) Ravi Jangid 7/59 (41 overs) |
| Vidarbha won by an innings and 31 runs Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur Umpires: Belur Ravi (Ind) and R. Sundar (Ind) Player of the match: Ravi Jangid (Vidarbha) |
- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.
See also
References
- Ishant left out of Delhi Ranji squad
- Vidarbha cricket team
- "Ranji Trophy, 2015-16 Points table". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 3 October 2015.
- "Umesh hat-trick, Assam rout Delhi for 149". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- "Odisha complain against 'underprepared' pitch". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
External links
- Series home at ESPNcricinfo
- Series home at Bcci.tv Archived 2 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine