1968–69 Ranji Trophy

1968–69 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay (20th title)
Participants	23
Most runs	Vijay Bhosle (Bombay) (507)
Most wickets	E. A. S. Prasanna (Mysore) (39)

The 1968–69 Ranji Trophy was the 35th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay retained the title defeating Bengal in the final.

Highlights

M. V. Nagendra was an umpire in the final between Bombay and Bengal, emulating his father M. G. Vijayasarathi who stood in the 1940–41 final.

Group stage

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Delhi	4	2	0	2	25	1.815
Railways	4	1	0	3	24	1.799
Services	4	1	1	2	17	1.358
Punjab	4	1	1	2	15	0.890
Jammu & Kashmir	4	0	3	1	3	0.171

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	1	0	3	25	1.540
Gujarat	4	2	0	2	24	1.051
Maharashtra	4	1	0	3	17	1.049
Baroda	4	0	1	3	11	0.802
Saurashtra	4	0	3	1	5	0.771

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	3	0	24	2.704
Bihar	3	2	1	16	1.934
Assam	3	1	2	8	0.497
Orissa	3	0	3	0	0.394

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Mysore	4	3	0	1	31	1.983
Hyderabad	4	3	0	1	29	1.760
Madras	4	2	2	0	18	1.654
Andhra	4	0	3	1	5	0.565
Kerala	4	0	3	1	3	0.318

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	2	0	1	21	1.645
Vidarbha	3	1	0	2	16	1.364
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	1	1	11	0.951
Uttar Pradesh	3	0	3	0	0	0.497

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

11 Jan 1969 – Delhi

Delhi	187 & 241/4
		31 Jan 1969 – Udaipur
Rajasthan	473 & 190/6d
		Rajasthan	226 & 377/2

		Bombay	559

				15 Feb 1969 – Bombay

				Bombay	469 & 77/3

				Bengal	387 & 261/7d

		31 Jan 1969 – Bangalore

		Mysore	188 & 106

		Bengal	251 & 158

Final

15–19 February 1969
Scorecard

Bengal	v	Bombay (H)
387 (157.3 overs) Chuni Goswami 96 Eknath Solkar 3/63, Milind Rege 3/63		469 (156.2 overs) Ajit Wadekar 133 Gopal Bose 3/88
261/7 decl (122.2 overs) Chuni Goswami 84 Ambar Roy 1/9		77/3 (17 overs) Eknath Solkar 36 Ramakant Desai 2/48

Bombay won on first innings lead
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: M. V. Nagendra and S. K. Raghunatha Rao

Bengal won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

CricketArchive

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1968/69 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1968/69 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1968/69 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1968/69 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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