1963–64 Ranji Trophy

1963–64 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay (15th title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Vijay Mehra (Delhi) (601)
Most wickets	Vijay Sondhi (Delhi) (32)
	← 1962–63 1964–65 →

The 1963–64 Ranji Trophy was the 30th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final. This was the fourth consecutive final between the two teams, all of which were won by Bombay

Highlights

On a rain affected wicket in Bangalore against Mysore, Kerala got all out for 27 in two hours. Kerala lost the first four wickets for zero runs and first nine for 12. TK Madhavan batting at No.11 top scored with 11 and the last wicket more than doubled the score.
Delhi and Jammu Kashmir played the second shortest match in Ranji trophy. Jammu & Kashmir finished the first day on 37 for 9 in the second innings, and were all out for 38 early on the second day to lose by an innings.
Jammu and Kashmir failed to reach 100 in the eight innings in their last four matches.
Joginder Rao of Services took a hat-trick on his debut against Jammu and Kashmir.^[3]
In his second match, against Northern Punjab, Rao took two hat-tricks in the same innings. Three hat-tricks in two matches is a unique feat. Albert Trott is the only other bowler to take two hat-tricks in the same innings.^[3]

Group stage

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Mysore	4	3	0	1	31	2.984
Madras	4	2	0	2	23	1.529
Hyderabad	4	2	1	1	20	1.251
Kerala	4	1	3	0	8	0.468
Andhra	4	0	4	0	0	0.481

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Delhi	5	4	0	1	49	2.236
Services	5	3	0	2	33	1.782
Railways	5	2	1	2	25	2.108
Northern Punjab	5	2	3	0	17	0.835
Southern Punjab	5	1	3	1	13	0.657
Jammu & Kashmir	5	0	5	0	0	0.175

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	1	0	2	19	2.139
Bihar	3	1	0	2	15	1.210
Orissa	3	0	1	2	10	0.625
Assam	3	0	1	2	6	0.654

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	2	0	2	27	2.160
Maharashtra	4	1	0	3	21	1.852
Baroda	4	1	1	2	16	0.713
Gujarat	4	0	1	3	11	0.720
Saurashtra	4	0	2	2	6	0.526

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	2	0	1	22	2.264
Vidarbha	3	1	1	1	11	0.497
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	2	0	9	0.925
Uttar Pradesh	3	1	2	0	8	0.998

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final




		6 Mar 1964 – Bangalore

		Mysore	155 & 256

		Bombay	299 & 113/3

				20 Mar 1964 – Bombay

				Bombay	526 & 21/1

				Rajasthan	108 & 438

		13 Mar 1964 – Jaipur

		Rajasthan	231 & 236/5
6 Mar 1964 – Delhi
		Delhi	126 & 330
Delhi	524 & 174

Bengal	308 & 149/4

Final

20–24 Mar 1964
Scorecard

Bombay (H)	v	Rajasthan
526 (150 overs) Sharad Diwadkar 177 G. R. Sunderam 4/71		108 (57 overs) Salim Durani 30 Ramakant Desai 3/18
21/1 (4.3 overs) Ashok Mankad 18* G. R. Sunderam 1/7		438 (163.5 overs, follow on) Hanumant Singh 128, Salim Durani 118, Vijay Manjrekar 105 Arun Varde 3/69

Bombay won by 9 wickets
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: Santosh Ganguli and B. Satyaji Rao

Rajasthan won the toss and elected to field

Scorecards and averages

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1963/64 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1963/64 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Has anyone taken two hat-tricks in one first-class innings?". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

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[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1963/64 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1963/64 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 14 November 2014.

[JR-3] "Has anyone taken two hat-tricks in one first-class innings?". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 February 2020.

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