2021–22 Ranji Trophy

The 2021–22 Ranji Trophy, is the 87th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India.[1][2] The tournament has been split into two phases, with the league stage being played from 17 February to 15 March 2022,[3] and the knockout phase played from 4 to 24 June 2022.[4][5] Due to the delayed start of the tournament because of the COVID-19 pandemic, teams were split into eight Elite groups, instead of five as per previous editions, and the Plate Group.[6] The seven teams that won their Elite Group with the best points progressed to the knockout phase. They were joined by the winner of the pre-quarter-final match between the Elite Group winning team with the fewest points and the winner of the Plate Group.[7]

2021–22 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, awarded to the winners
Dates17 February – 24 June 2022
Administrator(s)BCCI
Cricket formatFirst-class cricket
Tournament format(s)Round-robin then knockout
Host(s) India
Participants38
Matches65
2021–22 Indian domestic cricket season
Men
Women

In the opening round of fixtures, Sakibul Gani of Bihar became the first player to score a triple century on their first-class debut.[8] In their Plate Group match against Mizoram, he scored 341 runs.[9]

Following the conclusion of the group stage, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Karnataka, Mumbai, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh had all won their respective groups to qualify for the quarter-finals. Jharkhand won Group H and Nagaland won the Plate Group to advance to the preliminary quarter-final match.[10] In the first innings of the preliminary quarter-final, Jharkhand were bowled out for 880 runs, the fourth-highest team total in the Ranji Trophy.[11] Jharkhand then extended their lead to 1,008 runs, the biggest ever lead in first-class cricket, progressing to the quarter-finals based on their first innings lead.[12]

Background

The 2021–22 Ranji Trophy was initially scheduled to take place from 13 January to 20 March 2022.[13] The previous edition of the tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[14] However, on 4 January 2022, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that the tournament had been postponed due to an increase of COVID-19 cases in India.[15][16] The BCCI announced that they would try to host the league stage of the Ranji Trophy before the start of the 2022 Indian Premier League in April.[17] Later in January 2022, the BCCI said that they were looking at the possibility of holding the tournament in two phases, from February to March, and June to July.[18]

Originally, the tournament was scheduled to start on 16 November 2021,[1] but was later postponed to 5 January 2022[19] and again to 13 January 2022.[13] As per previous editions, the tournament would have been divided into six groups, with six teams in five Elite Groups and eight teams in the Plate Group.[20] The winners of each Elite Group would have progressed directly to the quarter-finals, with the second-placed teams and the winner of the Plate Group playing in pre-quarters matches to determine the final eight teams.[21]

Teams

The teams were placed in the following groups:[22]

Group A (Rajkot) Group B (Cuttack) Group C (Chennai) Group D (Ahmedabad) Group E (Trivandrum)
Group F (Delhi) Group G (Haryana) Group H (Guwahati) Plate Group (Kolkata)

League stage

Knockout stage
Preliminary QF Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
H1 Jharkhand
H1 Jharkhand 880 & 417/6 B1 Bengal
P1 Nagaland 289  
 
F1 Punjab
A1 Madhya Pradesh
 
 
D1 Mumbai
E1 Uttarakhand
 
 
C1 Karnataka
G1 Uttar Pradesh

Preliminary quarter-final
12–16 March 2022
Scorecard
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880 (203.4 overs)
Kumar Kushagra 266 (269)
Imliwati Lemtur 4/179 (51.4 overs)
289 (103.3 overs)
Chetan Bist 122* (253)
Shahbaz Nadeem 3/70 (36.3 overs)
417/6 (90.3 overs)
Anukul Roy 153 (164)
Rongsen Jonathan 3/109 (23.3 overs)
Match drawn
Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Umpires: Ganesh Charhate and Manish Jain
  • Nagaland won the toss and elected to field.
  • Kumar Kushagra (Jharkhand) scored his maiden century and his maiden double century in first-class cricket.[23]
  • Jharkhand made their highest team total in a first-class cricket match.[24]

Quarter-finals
4–8 June 2022
1st Quarter-final
Scorecard
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4–8 June 2022
2nd Quarter-final
Scorecard
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4–8 June 2022
3rd Quarter-final
Scorecard
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4–8 June 2022
4th Quarter-final
Scorecard
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Semi-finals
12–16 June 2022
1st Semi-final
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD
12–16 June 2022
2nd Semi-final
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD

Final
20–24 June 2022
Final
Scorecard
TBD
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TBD

References
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