2019–20 Ranji Trophy Group A
Dates | 9 December 2019 | – 15 February 2020
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Administrator(s) | BCCI |
Cricket format | First-class cricket |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin |
Host(s) | India |
Participants | 9 |
2019–20 Indian domestic cricket season |
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The 2019–20 Ranji Trophy was the 86th season of the Ranji Trophy, the first-class cricket tournament that took place in India.[1] It was contested by 38 teams, divided into four groups, with nine teams in Group A.[2] The group stage ran from 9 December 2019 to 15 February 2020.[2] The top five teams across Group A and Group B progressed to the quarter-finals of the competition.[3]
Ahead of the final round of group stage matches, Gujarat and Andhra had qualified for the quarter-finals from Group A.[4] Bengal were the third and final team from Group A to progress, after beating Punjab by 48 runs in their final match.[5] Kerala and Hyderabad finished in the last two places across groups A and B and were relegated for the next season.[6][7]
Points table[]
Pos | Pld | W | L | D | T | NR | Pts | Quot | |
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1 | Gujarat | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1.235 |
2 | Bengal | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 1.470 |
5 | Andhra | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 1.175 |
6 | Punjab | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 1.280 |
7 | Vidarbha | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1.159 |
8 | Delhi | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 1.007 |
12 | Rajasthan | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0.842 |
17 | Kerala | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.772 |
18 | Hyderabad | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0.509 |
- Top five teams across Groups A and B advance to the knockout stage.
- Bottom two teams across Groups A and B relegated to the Elite Group C for the next season.
Fixtures[]
Round 1[]
9–12 December 2019
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Delhi
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142 (62.4 overs)
Navdeep Saini 25 (42) Jalaj Saxena 6/63 (24 overs) | ||
- Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
- KM Asif (Kerala) and Tejas Baroka (Delhi) both made their first-class debuts.
9–12 December 2019
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Rajasthan
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Punjab
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68/0 (11.4 overs)
Shubman Gill 36* (28) |
- Punjab won the toss and elected to field.
- Ashwani Kumar, Sharad Lumba and Anmol Malhotra (Punjab) all made their first-class debuts.
9–12 December 2019
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Andhra
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211 (74 overs)
Hanuma Vihari 83 (155) Aditya Sarwate 4/50 (18 overs) |
441 (147.3 overs)
Ganesh Satish 237 (397) Cheepurapalli Stephen 5/110 (37 overs) | |
314/3 (103.4 overs)
Srikar Bharat 102* (208) Rajneesh Gurbani 2/63 (22 overs) |
9–12 December 2019
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Gujarat
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233 (88 overs)
Kolla Sumanth 69* (189) Piyush Chawla 3/61 (16 overs) |
313 (88 overs)
Manprit Juneja 94 (145) Mehdi Hasan 4/78 (25 overs) | |
266 (90.1 overs)
Tanmay Agarwal 96 (170) Roosh Kalaria 5/45 (16.1 overs) |
187/2 (36.4 overs)
Priyank Panchal 90 (80) Ravi Kiran 1/12 (5 overs) |
- Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
- Shashidhar Reddy (Hyderabad) made his first-class debut.
Round 2[]
17–20 December 2019
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Rajasthan
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- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rajat Choudhary (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
17–20 December 2019
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Delhi
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Andhra
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215 (70.5 overs)
Nitish Rana 51 (51) KV Sasikanth 5/38 (20.1 overs) |
368 (127 overs)
Ricky Bhui 144* (313) Navdeep Saini 5/86 (36 overs) | |
169 (72.2 overs)
Lalit Yadav 55 (145) KV Sasikanth 5/41 (24 overs) |
- Andhra won the toss and elected to field.
17–20 December 2019
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Bengal
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- Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
- Sudhesan Midhun (Kerala) made his first-class debut.
17–20 December 2019
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Punjab
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242 (81 overs)
Himalay Agarwal 68 (132) Gurkeerat Singh Mann 4/34 (11 overs) |
443/6d (108 overs)
Mandeep Singh 204* (301) Mohammed Siraj 4/77 (19 overs) | |
- Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.
- Akul Pandove, Karan Kaila (Punjab) and Yudhvir Singh (Hyderabad) all made their first-class debuts.
Round 3[]
25–28 December 2019
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Gujarat
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70 (35.5 overs)
Robin Uthappa 26 (67) Roosh Kalaria 4/20 (13 overs) | ||
117 (50.3 overs)
Sanju Samson 78 (82) Axar Patel 4/50 (17.3 overs) |
- Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
25–28 December 2019
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Punjab
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408/5 (97.5 overs)
Gurkeerat Singh 149 (101) Rajneesh Gurbani 2/62 (16 overs) | ||
- Punjab won the toss and elected to field.
- No play was possible on day 2.
- Arshdeep Singh (Punjab) made his first-class debut.
25–28 December 2019
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Bengal
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Andhra
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46/0 (21 overs)
Abhishek Raman 27* (63) |
- Andhra won the toss and elected to field.
- Akash Deep (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
25–28 December 2019
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Delhi
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284 (71.4 overs)
Shikhar Dhawan 140 (207) Ravi Kiran 4/59 (17.3 overs) |
69 (29 overs)
Bavanaka Sandeep 16 (22) Ishant Sharma 4/19 (10 overs) | |
84/3 (27.5 overs)
Dhruv Shorey 32* (63) Ravi Kiran 2/29 (11 overs) |
- Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.
- Chaitanya Reddy (Hyderabad) made his first-class debut.
Round 4[]
3–6 January 2020
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Rajasthan
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Andhra
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152/4 (49.5 overs)
Hanuma Vihari 52* (107) Aniket Choudhary 2/17 (9 overs) |
- Andhra won the toss and elected to field.
- Yash Kothari (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
3–6 January 2020
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Gujarat
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Bengal
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- Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
- No play was possible on day 1.
- Ritwik Roy Chowdhury (Bengal) and Tejas Patel (Gujarat) both made their first-class debuts.
3–6 January 2020
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228 (76.5 overs)
Kolla Sumanth 111* (184) Sandeep Warrier 5/68 (21.5 overs) | ||
155/4 (46 overs)
Jamalpur Mallikarjun 38 (70) Sandeep Warrier 1/26 (10 overs) Basil Thampi 1/26 (10 overs) |
- Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
- Jamalpur Mallikarjun and Jaweed Ali (Hyderabad) both made their first-class debuts.
- Kolla Sumanth (Hyderabad) scored his maiden century in first-class cricket.[10]
3–6 January 2020
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Punjab
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Delhi
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339 (115.5 overs)
Dhruv Shorey 96 (186) Arshdeep Singh 3/73 (26 overs) | ||
44/4 (13 overs)
Gurkeerat Singh Mann 15 (23) Simarjeet Singh 2/21 (6 overs) |
- Punjab won the toss and elected to bat.
Round 5[]
11–14 January 2020
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Andhra
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225 (77.5 overs)
Jaweed Ali 98 (161) KV Sasikanth 5/60 (20 overs) |
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- Andhra won the toss and elected to field.
11–14 January 2020
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Punjab
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218 (65.4 overs)
Mandeep Singh 71* (143) MD Nidheesh 7/88 (21 overs) | ||
136 (39.5 overs)
Akshay Chandran 31 (56) Siddarth Kaul 5/39 (7.5 overs) |
- Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rohan Marwaha (Punjab) made his first-class debut.
11–14 January 2020
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Gujarat
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Rajasthan
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360/9d (133.4 overs)
Ashok Menaria 119* (185) Arzan Nagwaswalla 4/71 (27.4 overs) | ||
216/1 (56.2 overs)
Priyank Panchal 105* (158) Aniket Choudhary 1/20 (8 overs) |
- Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.
- Aditya Garhwal (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
11–14 January 2020
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Bengal
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170 (56 overs)
Manoj Tiwary 48 (80) Akshay Wakhare 5/56 (19 overs) |
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99 (26.1 overs)
Anustup Majumdar 29 (45) Aditya Sarwate 6/47 (13 overs) |
- Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
Round 6[]
19–22 January 2020
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Bengal
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635/7d (151.4 overs)
Manoj Tiwary 303* (414) Ravi Kiran 3/74 (26 overs) |
171 (46.3 overs)
Jaweed Ali 72 (108) Shahbaz Ahmed 4/26 (8.3 overs) | |
- Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
- Kazi Saifi (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
- Manoj Tiwary (Bengal) scored his maiden triple century in first-class cricket.[11]
19–22 January 2020
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Delhi
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179 (61.5 overs)
Wasim Jaffer 83 (131) Simarjeet Singh 4/39 (16.5 overs) |
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330/3d (76.5 overs)
Ganesh Satish 100* (92) Lalit Yadav 1/55 (12 overs) |
348/4 (73 overs)
Nitish Rana 105* (68) Akshay Wakhare 1/64 (9 overs) |
- Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
19–22 January 2020
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Gujarat
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Punjab
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109 (33.1 overs)
Gurkeerat Singh 34 (22) Arzan Nagwaswalla 5/50 (13.1 overs) |
- Gujarat won the toss and elected to bat.
- Kshitij Patel and Yash Gardharia (Gujarat) both made their first-class debuts.
19–22 January 2020
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Rajasthan
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- Kerala won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rohan Kunnummal (Kerala) and Chandrapal Singh (Rajasthan) both made their first-class debuts.
Round 7[]
27–30 January 2020
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Bengal
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Delhi
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318 (98.4 overs)
Anustup Majumdar 99 (189) Simarjeet Singh 4/77 (20.4 overs) |
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- Delhi won the toss and elected to field.
- Nilkantha Das (Bengal) made his first-class debut.
27–30 January 2020
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Gujarat
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- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to bat.
- Aniruddha Choudhari (Vidarbha) made his first-class debut.
27–30 January 2020
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Rajasthan
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135 (49.4 overs)
Ashok Menaria 42 (88) Ravi Kiran 4/46 (16 overs) | ||
156 (53.4 overs)
Akshath Reddy 71 (162) Aniket Choudhary 4/48 (20 overs) |
- Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.
27–30 January 2020
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Andhra
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135 (45 overs)
Rohan Prem 24 (48) Prithvi Raj 3/26 (9 overs) |
- Andhra won the toss and elected to field.
- Mohammad Rafi, Uppara Girinath, Nitish Kumar Reddy (Andhra) and Nedumankuzhy Basil (Kerala) all made their first-class debuts.
Round 8[]
4–7 February 2020
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Delhi
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Gujarat
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335 (85.2 overs)
Manprit Juneja 124 (190) Simarjeet Singh 5/75 (22.2 overs) | ||
128/2 (35 overs)
Manprit Juneja 51* (65) Siddhant Sharma 2/18 (9 overs) |
- Gujarat won the toss and elected to field.
- Siddhant Sharma (Delhi) made his first-class debut.
4–7 February 2020
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Andhra
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Punjab
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- Andhra won the toss and elected to bat.
- Krishan Alang (Punjab), Dasari Swaroop Kumar and Siraparapu Ashish (Andhra) all made their first-class debuts.
4–7 February 2020
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Rajasthan
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Bengal
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- Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
- Arafat Khan (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
4–7 February 2020
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326 (107.4 overs)
Darshan Nalkande 66* (65) MD Nidheesh 5/82 (30 overs) |
191/3 (54 overs)
Mohammed Azharuddeen 81 (98) Akshay Wakhare 2/41 (15 overs) | |
- Kerala won the toss and elected to field.
- No play was possible on day 3.
Round 9[]
12–15 February 2020
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244 (75.3 overs)
Kolla Sumanth 65* (123) Aditya Sarwate 7/121 (32.3 overs) |
116/3 (46 overs)
Ganesh Satish 47* (127) Ravi Kiran 1/22 (10 overs) |
- Vidarbha won the toss and elected to field.
- Prateek Reddy and Gangam Anikethreddy (Hyderabad) both made their first-class debuts.
12–15 February 2020
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Bengal
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Punjab
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- Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
- Ramandeep Singh (Punjab) and Ramesh Prasad (Bengal) both made their first-class debuts.
12–15 February 2020
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Delhi
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v
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Rajasthan
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299 (80.2 overs)
Ashok Menaria 119 (189) Simarjeet Singh 4/46 (15.2 overs) | ||
- Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field.
- Ramnivas Golada (Rajasthan) made his first-class debut.
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