1962–63 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class
Tournament format(s)Knockout
ChampionsBombay (14th title)
Participants21
Most runsPankaj Roy (Bengal) (662)[1]
Most wicketsBaloo Gupte (Bombay) (38)[2]

The 1962–63 Ranji Trophy was the 29th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final. The tournament was severely impacted by the Chinese Aggression of 1962. Services and Railways pulled out of the tournament after playing one game each. Being so close to the action Assam and Odisha had to pull out of the tournament. When the ceasefire was ordered, the invaders were only a few kilometres away from Tezpur, which was the headquarters of Assam cricket. Bihar played one match and then closed their season as most of their players were employed in firms and factories which were pressed into defence production.

Highlights

  • 8-ball overs were used for the only time in Ranji Trophy.
  • Following India's 0–5 loss to West Indies in the 1961–62 away series, BCCI contracted four West Indian fast bowlers to play in the Ranji Trophy. Thus Charlie Stayers played for Bombay, Roy Gilchrist for Hyderabad, Lester King for Bengal and Chester Watson for Delhi.
  • Subhash Gupte took 15 for 104 for Rajasthan v Vidarbha.[3] This was the best bowling in a match in Ranji Trophy till 1985–86.[4]
  • Rajinder Goel took 6 for 6 in four overs for Northern Punjab v Southern Punjab.[5]
  • Pankaj Roy scored hundreds in both innings for Bengal v Hyderabad in the quarter-final.[6] This match involved fiery bowling by the West Indian fast bowlers Roy Gilchrist and Lester King
  • G. S. Ramchand scored a hundred in his third successive Ranji final, a unique feat.

Group stage

Knockout stage

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
15 Feb 1963 – Delhi
 
 
Delhi204 & 146
 
 
Rajasthan220 & 133/5
 
 
9 Mar 1963 – Jaipur
 
 
Rajasthan196 & 336
 
22 Feb 1963 – Calcutta
 
Bombay551/6d
 
Bengal386 & 280
 
2 Mar 1963 – Calcutta
 
Hyderabad361 & 121/8
 
Bengal322 & 199
 
 
Bombay552
 
 
 
 

Final

9–13 Mar 1963
Scorecard
v
551/6 decl (117 overs)
R. G. Nadkarni 219, Ramakant Desai 107, G. S. Ramchand 102
G. R. Sunderam 3/73
196 (55.2 overs)
Kishan Rungta 64
Charlie Stayers 6/36
336 (95 overs, follow on)
Vijay Manjrekar 108
Charlie Stayers 3/85
Bombay won by an innings and 19 runs
Maharaja College Ground, Jaipur
Umpires: Sunil Banerjee and Samar Roy
  • Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field

Notes

  1. ↑ Orissa's match against Bihar was not played.
  2. ↑ Orissa's match against Bihar was not played.
  3. ↑ Railways's only match was against Jammu & Kashmir.
  4. ↑ Services's only match was against Jammu & Kashmir.

Scorecards and averages

References

  1. ↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1962/63 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  2. ↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1962/63 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Rajasthan v Vidarbha
  4. ↑ Most wickets in a match in Ranji Trophy
  5. ↑ Southern Punjab v Northern Punjab
  6. ↑ Bengal v Hyderabad, Quarter-final
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