1967–68 Ranji Trophy

1967–68 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay (19th title)
Participants	22
Most runs	K. R. Rajagopal (Madras) (729)
Most wickets	S. Venkataraghavan (Madras) (46)
	← 1966–67 1968–69 →

The 1967–68 Ranji Trophy was the 34th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won their tenth title in a row defeating Madras in the final.

Highlights

Madras won all their six matches going in to the final. Bombay won outright only one of their six matches in the tournament
Gundappa Viswanath made his debut in first class cricket on 11 November scoring 230 for Mysore against Andhra.
Vikram Thambuswamy took 8 wickets for 37 runs in an innings for Madras v Andhra. But it would be his only first class match
In all their matches, Madhya Pradesh's middle order was constituted by Vijay Nayudu, Ashok Jagdale and Gulrez Ali who were respectively the grandson of C. K. Nayudu, and the sons of Madhavsinh Jagdale and Mushtaq Ali.

Group stage

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Madras	4	4	0	0	33	1.983
Hyderabad	4	2	1	1	23	1.760
Mysore	4	1	1	2	17	1.654
Andhra	4	1	2	1	11	0.565
Kerala	4	0	4	0	0	0.318

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Q
Madhya Pradesh	2	2	0	16	1.223
Rajasthan	2	1	1	8	1.306
Vidarbha	2	0	2	0	0.597

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	2	0	1	22	2.260
Bihar	3	2	0	1	21	1.993
Orissa	3	0	2	1	5	0.378
Assam	3	0	2	1	3	0.666

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	1	0	3	26	1.953
Maharashtra	4	2	0	2	26	1.487
Gujarat	4	2	0	2	22	1.193
Saurashtra	4	1	3	0	8	0.714
Baroda	4	0	3	1	3	0.456

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Services	4	2	0	2	25	1.534
Railways	4	2	0	2	24	1.318
Delhi	4	0	1	3	11	0.849
Southern Punjab	4	0	1	3	11	0.758
Northern Punjab	4	0	2	2	10	0.733

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final




		2 Feb 1968 – Calcutta

		Bengal	186 & 287

		Bombay	436/9d & 4/1

				16 Feb 1968 – Bombay

				Bombay	312 & 225/5
19 Jan 1968 – Madras
				Madras	258 & 302
Madras	348 & 357/9d
		2 Feb 1968 – Madras
Madhya Pradesh	259 & 167
		Madras	286 & 76/3

		Services	213 & 145

Final

16–20 February 1968
Scorecard

Madras	v	Bombay (H)
258 (89.3 overs) C. K. Bhaskaran 76* Arun Varde 4/45		312 (141.1 overs) Ashok Mankad 112 C. K. Bhaskaran 4/68
302 (143.4 overs) K. R. Rajagopal 73 Padmakar Shivalkar 3/86		225/5 (119 overs) Manohar Hardikar 62* V. V. Kumar 2/81

Bombay won on first innings lead
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: S. K. Bhattacharya and Sambhu Pan

Bombay won the toss and decided to field

Scorecards and averages

CricketArchive

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1967/68 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1967/68 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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