1958–59 Ranji Trophy

1958–59 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (10th title)
Participants	23
Most runs	Pankaj Roy (Bengal) (605)
Most wickets	Ramakant Desai (Bombay) (50)
	← 1957–58 1959–60 →

The 1958–59 Ranji Trophy was the 25th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Bengal in the final. This started a sequence of 15 consecutive Ranji titles for Bombay.

Group stage

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	2	0	2	29	2.325
Baroda	4	2	0	2	27	1.514
Maharashtra	4	0	0	4	15	1.057
Saurashtra	4	1	1	2	14	0.708
Gujarat	4	0	3	1	3	0.439

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	3	0	26	3.600
Bihar	3	2	1	17	0.963
Assam^{[n 1]}	3	1	2	8	0.498
Orissa	3	0	3	0	0.272

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Services	4	4	0	0	34	2.966
Railways	4	1	1	2	20	1.657
Delhi	4	2	1	1	20	1.222
Eastern Punjab	4	0	2	2	8	0.443
Patiala	4	0	3	1	3	0.375

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Madras	4	2	0	2	30	1.733
Hyderabad	4	2	0	2	23	1.317
Mysore	4	1	0	3	22	1.332
Andhra	4	0	2	2	9	0.598
Kerala	4	0	3	1	3	0.543

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	2	0	1	19	1.996
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	0	2	14	1.126
Uttar Pradesh	3	1	1	1	13	0.993
Vidarbha	3	0	3	0	0	0.527

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

21 Feb 1959 – Madras

Madras	93 & 298
		27 Feb 1959 – Bombay
Bombay	389 & 4/0
		Bombay	438 & 33/0

		Services	211 & 259

				7 Mar 1959 – Bombay

				Bombay	294 & 536/9d

				Bengal	176 & 234

		14 Feb 1959 – Calcutta

		Bengal	293 & 169/1

		Rajasthan	198 & 263

Final

7–11 Mar 1959
Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Bengal
294 (107.5 overs) H. D. Amroliwala 139 Premangsu Chatterjee 6/76		176 (72.4 overs) Pankaj Roy 51 Manohar Hardikar 4/24
536/9 decl (141 overs) Madhav Apte 157, Ramnath Kenny 111 Sujit Bose 3/125		234 (70.3 overs) Pankaj Roy 95 Ramakant Desai 4/37

Bombay won by 420 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: Mohammad Yunus and Narayan Sane

Bombay won the toss and elected to bat

Scorecards and averages

Notes

^ The match between Assam and Orissa was not played. Assam were declared winners

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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[3] The match between Assam and Orissa was not played. Assam were declared winners

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1958/59 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

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