1959–60 Ranji Trophy

1959–60 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (11th title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Rusi Surti (Rajasthan) (539)
Most wickets	B. Y. Alva (Mysore) (36)

The 1959–60 Ranji Trophy was the 26th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Mysore in the final.

Highlights

Asif Iqbal made his first class debut for Hyderabad against Kerala.^[3] He moved to Pakistan two years later and captained them in Test cricket.

Group stage

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Mysore	4	4	0	0	34	2.184
Hyderabad	4	3	1	0	26	1.432
Madras	4	2	2	3	19	1.081
Kerala	4	0	3	1	6	0.538
Andhra	4	0	3	1	3	0.489

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	1	0	2	18	1.588
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	1	1	14	1.224
Vidarbha	3	1	1	1	11	0.784
Uttar Pradesh	3	0	1	2	8	0.681

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Services	5	3	0	2	36	2.479
Delhi	5	3	0	2	35	1.629
Railways	5	3	1	1	30	1.851
Eastern Punjab	5	1	2	2	17	1.090
Southern Punjab	5	1	3	1	15	0.643
Jammu & Kashmir	5	0	5	0	0	0.110

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	3	0	1	32	3.065
Baroda	4	2	0	2	27	1.211
Maharashtra	4	2	1	1	21	1.061
Gujarat	4	0	3	1	6	0.625
Saurashtra	4	1	3	0	3	0.463

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bihar	3	2	0	1	21	1.578
Bengal	3	2	1	0	18	2.046
Orissa	3	0	1	2	10	0.825
Assam	3	0	2	1	3	0.310

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

26 Feb 1960 – Delhi

Services	318 & 220/6
		3 Mar 1960 – Delhi
Rajasthan	289 & 317/6d
		Services	146 & 346/6d

		Bombay	416/9d & 32/1

				10 Mar 1960 – Bombay

				Bombay	504

				Mysore	221 & 261

		26 Feb 1960 – Jamshedpur

		Bihar	307 & 146

		Mysore	314 & 316

Final

10–13 Mar 1960
Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Mysore
504 (141.3 overs) Manohar Hardikar 145 Deepak Das Gupta 4/77 (22.3 overs)		221 (93.4 overs) KS Viswanath 51 Ghulam Guard 5/66 (25.4 overs)
		261 (90.1 overs, follow-on) V. Subramanya 103 Ghulam Guard 4/69 (25 overs)

Bombay won by an innings and 22 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: I. Gopalakrishnan and Sambhu Pan

Bombay won the toss and elected to bat.

Scorecards and averages

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1959/60 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1959/60 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ Hyderabad v Kerala, Hyderabad, 1959/60

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1959/60 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1959/60 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[3] Hyderabad v Kerala, Hyderabad, 1959/60

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