Wills Trophy

The Wills Trophy, formally named the Wills One-Day Trophy and named after sponsor Wills of ITC Limited), was an Indian List A cricket tournament organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Established in the 1977–78 season, it was played to find the best limited overs side of the domestic season as only the Ranji Trophy had inter-zonal finals. The annual tournament was played between seven sides, the five zonal winners and two composite teams, Wills XI (named after the title sponsor) and Indian Board President XI. Till the 1992–93 season, the team finishing first in each Zone of the Ranji Trophy qualified to play this tournament. Since the 1993–94 season, the team finishing first in each Zone of the Ranji One-Day Trophy qualified to play this tournament.

Wills Trophy
CountriesIndia India
AdministratorBCCI
FormatList A cricket
First edition1977-78
Latest edition1999-00
Tournament formatKnock out
Number of teams7
Most successfulBombay/Mumbai (8 titles)
QualificationRanji Trophy or Vijay Hazare Trophy

Tournament history
YearFinal hostWinnerRunner-upMost runsMost wicketsRef
1977-78MadrasWills XIIndian Board President XIDilip Vengsarkar (Wil-XI)Karsan Ghavri (IBP-XI)
Ashok Mankad (Wil-XI)
S. Venkataraghavan (Wil-XI)		[1]
1978-79MumbaiBombay & Delhi (shared)Surinder Amarnath (Del)Sunil Valson (Del)
Sandeep Patil (Bom)		[2]
1979-80not played
1980-81DelhiWills XI (2)Indian Board President XI (2)Anshuman Gaekwad (Wil-XI)Yograj Singh (IBP-XI)[3]
1981-82KanpurBombay (2)Indian Board President XI (3)Sunil Gavaskar (Bom)Ravi Shastri (Bom)[4]
1982-83CalcuttaBombay (3)DelhiKirti Azad (Del)Manoj Prabhakar (Del)[5]
1983-84BangaloreIndian Board President XIKarnatakaM. R. Srinivasaprasad (Kar)Roger Binny (Kar)
Sharad Rao (Kar)
Ranjit Khanwilkar (Kar)		[6]
1984-85MumbaiWills XI (3)Indian Board President XI (4)Padam Shastri (IBP-XI)Anshuman Gaekwad (Wil-XI)[7]
1985-86DelhiBombay (4)Delhi (2)Alan Sippy (Bom)Maninder Singh (Del)
Madan Lal (Del)		[8]
1986-87NagpurDelhi (2)MaharashtraShrikant Kalyani (Mah)Sunil Gudge (Mah)[9]
1987-88CalcuttaIndian Board President XI (2)Karnataka (2)W. V. Raman (IBP-XI)Ajay Sharma (IBP-XI)[10]
1988-89MadrasDelhi (3)RailwaysRaman Lamba (Del)Manoj Prabhakar (Del)[11]
1989-90MumbaiWills XI (4)Delhi (3)Navjot Sidhu (Wil-XI)Ravi Shastri (Wil-XI)[12]
1990-91DelhiBombay (5)Wills XIRavi Shastri (Bom)Raju Kulkarni (Bom)[13]
1991-92KanpurIndian Board President XI (3)Wills XI (2)Sachin Tendulkar (IBP-XI)Ravi Shastri (IBP-XI)[14]
1992-93GuwahatiDelhi (4) & Indian Board President XI (4) (shared)Ravi Sehgal (Del)B Iqbal Khan (Mum)
K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (IBP-XI)
Kirti Azad (Del)
Kartar Nath (Del)
Atul Wassan (Del)
Ravi Sehgal (Del)		[15]
1993-94not played
1994-95MadrasBombay (6)HaryanaSachin Tendulkar (Bom)Obaid Kamal (Wil-XI)[16]
1995-96MumbaiWills XI (5)BengalSachin Tendulkar (Wil-XI)Arindam Sarkar (Ben)[17]
1996-97MohaliMumbai (7)Haryana (2)Sanjay Manjrekar (Mum)Sairaj Bahutule (Mum)[18]
1997-98LucknowMumbai (8)Indian Board President XI (5)Vikram Rathour (IBP-XI)Sairaj Bahutule (Mum)
Sandeep Sharma (IBP-XI)		[19]
1998-99CalcuttaMadhya PradeshBengal (2)Amay Khurasiya (MP)Laxmi Ratan Shukla (Ben)
Harvinder Sodhi (MP)		[20]
1999-00VishakapatnamIndian Board President XI (5)Karnataka (3)Sanjay Bangar (IBP-XI)Murali Kartik (IBP-XI)[21]

Teams summary
Appearances Statistics
Team Total Champions Runners-up Mat. Won Lost Tie NR Win%*
Bombay / Mumbai 148-322461179.03
Indian Board President XI 21554124142162.50
Wills XI 21524023160058.97
Delhi 1343271692062.96
Madhya Pradesh 5109531061.11
Karnataka 8-316771150.00
Bengal 15-2248150134.87
Haryana 6-210460040.00
Railways 2-15320060.00
Maharashtra 4-17340042.86
Tamil Nadu 7--9171016.67
Hyderabad 5--6140120.00
Uttar Pradesh 12--13112007.69
Bihar 3--303000.00
Orissa 2--202000.00
Rajasthan 2--202000.00
Baroda 2--202000.00
Punjab 2--202000.00
Gujarat 1--101000.00
Andhra 1--101000.00
Assam 1--101000.00
Bangladesh Cricket Board XI 1--101000.00

See also

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