2022–23 Ranji Trophy

The 2022–23 Ranji Trophy was the 88th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India.[1] It was played from 13 December 2022 and was finished on 19 February 2023.[2] Madhya Pradesh were the defending champions, winning their first Ranji Trophy title previous season.[n 1][3][4]

2022–23 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates13 December 2022 – 20 February 2023
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)Round-robin then knockout
Host(s) India
ChampionsSaurashtra (2nd title)
Runners-upBengal
Participants38
Matches138
Player of the seriesArpit Vasavada (Saurashtra)
Most runsMayank Agarwal (Karnataka) (990)
Most wicketsJalaj Saxena (Kerala) (50)

During this season, Sikkim hosted Ranji Trophy matches for the first time.[5] Narayanan Janani, Vrinda Rathi and Gayathri Venugopalan became the first female umpires to officiate in the Ranji Trophy.[6]

In the final, Saurashtra defeated Bengal by 9 wickets to win their second title.[7]

Format

Unlike the last season, where all teams competed for the same trophy, this season BCCI enforced the Promotion and relegation format. This Ranji trophy had two winners to improve the standard and competitiveness of the tournament. The teams were divided into two categories named as Elite category having 32 teams split into four groups, with Plate category having 6 teams.[8] The Elite group teams played each other once, with the top two teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals. In the Plate Group also teams played each other once, but the top four teams qualified for the plate group knockouts, with the bottom two teams playing for the fifth and sixth positions, and another playoff for the third and fourth positions took place.[9] The two Plate finalists will be promoted to the Elite group for the next season, 2023-24, while the bottom two teams of all the four Elite groups combined - factoring in both points and the quotient will be relegated to Plate group.[9]

The teams were placed in the following groups:[10]

Group A Group B Group C Group D Plate Group

League stage

Plate Knockouts
17–19 January 2023
5th-Place Plate Play-offs
Scorecard
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199 (87.2 overs)
Akhilesh Sahani 31* (28)
Remruatdika Ralte 2/29 (12 overs)
485 (123 overs)
Taruwar Kohli 144 (223)
Akhilesh Sahani 5/91 (26.5 overs)
259 (61.3 overs)
Rahul Dalal 107 (91)
Avinash Yadav 6/99 (25.3 overs)
Mizoram won by an innings and 27 runs
Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
Umpires: Navdeep Singh and KR Vasuki
Player of the match: Avinash Yadav (Mizoram)
  • Arunachal Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Ajoy Sarkar (Arunachal Pradesh) and Lalrinchhana (Mizoram) both made their first-class debuts.

Plate Semi-finals
Plate Semi-finals Plate Final
      
P4 Bihar 428 & 164
P1 Meghalaya 134 & 156
P4 Bihar 546 & 335
P3 Manipur 337 & 324
P2 Sikkim 229 & 273
P3 Manipur 166 & 340/8
17–21 January 2023
1st Plate Semi-final
Scorecard
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428 (105.3 overs)
Bipin Saurabh 177 (183)
Arbin Singh 3/101 (30 overs)
134 (33.5 overs)
Rajesh Bishnoi 40* (46)
Ashutosh Aman 4/21 (11.5 overs)
164 (66.3 overs)
Babul Kumar 51 (132)
Rajesh Bishnoi 6/30 (25 overs)
156 (47.1 overs)
Raj Biswa 28 (59)
Ashutosh Aman 4/35 (8.1 overs)
Bihar won by 302 runs
Meghalaya Cricket Association Ground, Shillong
Umpires: Premdip Chatterjee and Vineet Kulkarni
Player of the match: Bipin Saurabh (Bihar)
  • Meghalaya won the toss and elected to field.
  • Nawaz Khan (Bihar) and Rohit Shah (Meghalaya) both made their first-class debuts.
17–21 January 2023
2nd Plate Semi-final
Scorecard
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229 (71.4 overs)
Nilesh Lamichaney 83 (159)
Pheiroijam Singh 4/33 (16 overs)
166 (63.4 overs)
Basir Rahman 31 (95)
Bijay Prasad 4/18 (10 overs)
273 (83.5 overs)
Sumit Singh 168 (164)
Pheiroijam Singh 5/62 (23.5 overs)
340/8 (96.3 overs)
Basir Rahman 75 (135)
Sumit Singh 6/60 (15.3 overs)
Manipur won by 2 wickets
Lalabhai Contractor Stadium, Surat
Umpires: Madanagopal Kuppuraj and Rohan Pandit
Player of the match: Sumit Singh (Sikkim)
  • Manipur won the toss and elected to field.

Plate Final
25–29 January 2023
Plate Final
Scorecard
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546 (124.4 overs)
Sakibul Gani 205 (238)
Kishan Singha 4/141 (39.4 overs)
337 (94.3 overs)
Prafullomani Singh 82 (77)
Nawaz Khan 5/82 (20 overs)
335 (102 overs)
Sachin Kumar 132 (152)
Kishan Singha 7/94 (43 overs)
324 (82.1 overs)
Langlonyamba Keishangbam 117 (206)
Nawaz Khan 5/95 (28 overs)
Bihar won by 220 runs
Moin-ul-Haq Stadium, Patna
Umpires: Nand Kishore and Krishnamachari Srinivasan
Player of the match: Sakibul Gani (Bihar)
  • Bihar won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Bihar and Manipur were promoted to the Elite group and will replace Nagaland and Hyderabad for the 2023–24 season

Knockout stage
Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
         
A1 Bengal 328 & 69/1
C2 Jharkhand 173 & 221
A1 Bengal 438 & 279
D1 Madhya Pradesh 170 & 241
D1 Madhya Pradesh 228 & 245/5
B2 Andhra 379 & 93
A1 Bengal 174 & 241
B1 Saurashtra 404 & 14/1
B1 Saurashtra 303 & 379
D2 Punjab 431 & 180
B1 Saurashtra 527 & 117/6
C1 Karnataka 407 & 234
C1 Karnataka 606
A2 Uttarakhand 116 & 209

Quarter-finals
31 January–4 February 2023
1st Quarter-final
Scorecard
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173 (66.2 overs)
Kumar Suraj 89* (175)
Akash Deep 4/62 (21 overs)
328 (108 overs)
Shahbaz Ahmed 81 (120)
Ashish Kumar 3/89 (33 overs)
221 (63.5 overs)
Aryaman Sen 64 (132)
Akash Ghatak 3/21 (7.5 overs)
69/1 (12.4 overs)
Abhimanyu Easwaran 28* (31)
Rahul Shukla 1/24 (4 overs)
Bengal won by 9 wickets
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Vinod Seshan and Akshay Totre
Player of the match: Akash Deep (Bengal)
  • Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
31 January–4 February 2023
2nd Quarter-final
Scorecard
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303 (87 overs)
Parth Bhut 111* (155)
Mayank Markande 4/84 (29.2 overs)
431 (124.3 overs)
Naman Dhir 131 (180)
Dharmendrasinh Jadeja 5/109 (41.3 overs)
379 (120.1 overs)
Prerak Mankad 88 (137)
Vinay Choudhary 7/179 (49.1 overs)
180 (89.1 overs)
Mandeep Singh 45 (128)
Parth Bhut 5/89 (33 overs)
Saurashtra won by 71 runs
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot
Umpires: Saiyed Khalid and Nikhil Patwardhan
Player of the match: Parth Bhut (Saurashtra)
  • Saurashtra won the toss and elected to bat.
  • Pukhraj Mann (Punjab) made his first-class debut.
31 January–4 February 2023
3rd Quarter-final
Scorecard
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116 (55.4 overs)
Kunal Chandela 31 (103)
M Venkatesh 5/36 (14 overs)
606 (162.5 overs)
Shreyas Gopal 161* (288)
Abhay Negi 4/109 (33.5 overs)
209 (73.4 overs)
Swapnil Singh 51 (100)
Shreyas Gopal 3/26 (12.4 overs)
Karnataka won by an innings and 281 runs
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Umpires: Saidharshan Kumar and Nitin Pandit
Player of the match: Shreyas Gopal (Karnataka)
  • Karnataka won the toss and elected to field.
  • M Venkatesh (Karnataka) made his first-class debut.
31 January–4 February 2023
4th Quarter-final
Scorecard
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379 (127.1 overs)
Ricky Bhui 149 (250)
Anubhav Agarwal 4/72 (22 overs)
228 (69.1 overs)
Shubham Sharma 51 (88)
Prithvi Raj 5/26 (14.1 overs)
93 (32.3 overs)
Ashwin Hebbar 35 (65)
Avesh Khan 4/24 (10 overs)
245/5 (77 overs)
Yash Dubey 58 (128)
Prithvi Raj 2/50 (20 overs)
Madhya Pradesh won by 5 wickets
Holkar Stadium, Indore
Umpires: Rohan Pandit and Tapan Sharma
Player of the match: Prithvi Raj (Andhra)
  • Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field.

Semi-finals
8–12 February 2023
1st Semi-final
Scorecard
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438 (141.3 overs)
Anustup Majumdar 120 (206)
Kumar Kartikeya 3/95 (36.3 overs)
170 (79 overs)
Saransh Jain 65 (169)
Akash Deep 5/42 (18 overs)
279 (119.4 overs)
Anustup Majumdar 80 (219)
Saransh Jain 6/103 (42 overs)
241 (39.5 overs)
Anubhav Agarwal 30* (12)
Pradipta Pramanik 5/51 (10.5 overs)
Bengal won by 306 runs
Holkar Stadium, Indore
Umpires: Anil Chaudhary and Virender Sharma
Player of the match: Akash Deep (Bengal)
  • Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
8–12 February 2023
2nd Semi-final
Scorecard
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407 (133.3 overs)
Mayank Agarwal 249 (429)
Chetan Sakariya 3/73 (29 overs)
527 (174.4 overs)
Arpit Vasavada 202 (406)
Vidhwath Kaverappa 5/83 (35.4 overs)
234 (58.2 overs)
Nikin Jose 109 (161)
Chetan Sakariya 4/45 (11 overs)
117/6 (34.2 overs)
Arpit Vasavada 47* (51)
Vasuki Koushik 3/32 (10.2 overs)
Saurashtra won by 4 wickets
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Umpires: Ulhas Gandhe and Sadashiv Iyer
Player of the match: Arpit Vasavada (Saurashtra)
  • Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field.

Final
16–19 February 2023
Final
Scorecard
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174 (54.1 overs)
Shahbaz Ahmed 69 (112)
Chetan Sakariya 3/33 (13 overs)
404 (110 overs)
Arpit Vasavada 81 (156)
Mukesh Kumar 4/111 (37 overs)
241 (53 overs)
Manoj Tiwary 68 (154)
Jaydev Unadkat 6/85 (22.4 overs)
14/1 (2.4 overs)
Vishvaraj Jadeja 10* (7)
Akash Deep 1/5 (1 over)
Saurashtra won by 9 wickets
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Jayaraman Madanagopal and Navdeep Singh
Player of the match: Jaydev Unadkat (Saurashtra)
  • Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field.
  • Sumanta Gupta (Bengal) made his first-class debut.

Statistics
  • On 2 January, Saurashtra bowler Jaydev Unadkat became the first player to take a hat-trick in the first over of a Ranji Trophy match.[11]
  • On 12 January, Mumbai batter Prithvi Shaw made second highest score in an inning in Ranji history by a batter. He scored 379 runs.[12]
  • On 19 January, Vidarbha defended a target of 73 runs against Gujarat, which is the lowest target defended in the Ranji Trophy.[13]

Notes
  1. Madhya Pradesh previously competed in the Ranji Trophy as Holkar cricket team, winning the tournament four times between 1945–46 and 1952–53. This was their first win as Madhya Pradesh.

References
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