1973–74 Ranji Trophy

The 1973–74 Ranji Trophy was the 40th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka ended Bombay's sequence of 15 consecutive titles by defeating them on first innings in the semifinal. They defeated Rajasthan by 185 runs in the final to win their first Ranji Trophy.

1973-74 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)League and knockout
ChampionsKarnataka (1st title)
Participants24
Most runsHemant Kanitkar (Maharashtra) (629)[1]
Most wicketsB. S. Chandrasekhar (Karnataka) (55)[2]

Group stage

Knockout stage
 
Pre-Quarter-finalsQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinals
 
              
 
 
 
 
01 Mar 1974 — Hyderabad
 
 
Hyderabad493
 
22 Feb 1974 — Calcutta
 
Maharashtra254 & 429/9
 
Bengal143 & 161/3
 
15 Mar 1974 — Hyderabad
 
Maharashtra197 & 199
 
Hyderabad276 & 155
 
 
Rajasthan196 & 247
 
 
01 Mar 1974 — Delhi
 
 
Railways246 & 127/4
 
 
Rajasthan255 & 281
 
 
23 Mar 1974 — Jaipur
 
 
Rajasthan176 & 127
 
 
Karnataka276 & 212
 
 
01 Mar 1974 — Bangalore
 
 
Karnataka338 & 265
 
 
Delhi206 & 174
 
 
15 Mar 1974 — Bangalore
 
 
Karnataka385 & 279/8d
 
22 Feb 1974 — Jamshedpur
 
Bombay207 & 84/0
 
Bihar105 & 334/6d
 
01 Mar 1974 — Jamshedpur
 
Uttar Pradesh169 & 171
 
Bihar302 & 122
 
 
Bombay200 & 283
 
 
 
 

Semi-finals
15–18 March 1974
1st Semi-final
Scorecard
v
196 (82.2 overs)
Parthasarathy Sharma 86
Naushir Mehta 6/74 (29.2 overs)
276 (94.1 overs)
Abdul Hai 135
Suresh Shastri 4/55 (21 overs)
247 (100.1 overs)
Nazmul Hussain 72
MV Narasimha Rao 5/24 (14.1 overs)
155 (67.3 overs)
Mumtaz Hussain 32
Gajendra Singh Shaktawat 6/34 (20.3 overs)
Rajasthan won by 12 runs
Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad
Umpires: Ahmed Mamsa and Ram Punjabi
  • Sunil Benjamin (Rajasthan) passed 1,000 runs and Abbas Ali Baig (Hyderabad) passed 12,000 runs in first-class cricket.
  • ML Jaisimha (Hyderabad) reached 400 wickets in first-class cricket.
15–18 March 1974
2nd Semi-final
Scorecard
v
385 (152 overs)
Gundappa Viswanath 162
Padmakar Shivalkar 4/94 (43 overs)
307 (135 overs)
Ashok Mankad 84
EAS Prasanna 5/117 (63 overs)
279/9d (107.1 overs)
Brijesh Patel 63
Rakesh Tandon 4/114 (42 overs)
84/0 (34 overs)
Ramnath Parkar 49*
Gundappa Viswanath 0/7 (2 overs)
Match drawn (Karnataka won on first innings)
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Umpires: Sunil Banerjee and Bhairab Ganguli
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Brijesh Patel (Karnataka) passed 2,000 runs in first-class cricket.
  • Padmakar Shivalkar (Bombay) reached 300 wickets in first-class cricket.

Final
23–27 March 1974
Scorecard
v
276 (101.3 overs)
B. Vijayakrishna 71
Chandrasekhar Joshi 3/53 (19 overs)
176 (89.1 overs)
Hanumant Singh 83
V. S. Vijay Kumar 4/9 (7.1 overs)
212 (85 overs)
A. V. Jayaprakash 64*
Kailash Gattani 4/41 (19 overs)
127 (50.3 overs)
Parthasarathy Sharma 51
EAS Prasanna 5/45 (21 overs)
Karnataka won by 185 runs
Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
Umpires: Madhav Gothoskar and Judah Reuben
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.

Scorecards and averages

References
  1. "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
  2. "Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 13 December 2014.
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