1968–69 Ranji Trophy

1968–69 Ranji Trophy

File:Ranji trophy.jpg The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay (20th title)
Participants	23
Most runs	Vijay Bhosle (Bombay) (507)
Most wickets	E. A. S. Prasanna (Mysore) (39)

The 1968–69 Ranji Trophy was the 35th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay retained the title defeating Bengal in the final.

Highlights

• M. V. Nagendra was an umpire in the final between Bombay and Bengal, emulating his father M. G. Vijayasarathi who stood in the 1940–41 final.

Group stage

North Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	T	NR	Pts	Q
Delhi	4	2	0	2	0	0	25	1.815
Railways	4	1	0	3	0	0	24	1.799
Services	4	1	1	2	0	0	17	1.358
Punjab	4	1	1	2	0	0	15	0.890
Jammu & Kashmir	4	0	3	1	0	0	3	0.171

West Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	T	NR	Pts	Q
Bombay	4	1	0	3	0	0	25	1.540
Gujarat	4	2	0	2	0	0	24	1.051
Maharashtra	4	1	0	3	0	0	17	1.049
Baroda	4	0	1	3	0	0	11	0.802
Saurashtra	4	0	3	1	0	0	5	0.771

East Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	T	NR	Pts	Q
Bengal	3	3	0	0	0	0	24	2.704
Bihar	3	2	1	0	0	0	16	1.934
Assam	3	1	2	0	0	0	8	0.497
Orissa	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0.394

South Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	T	NR	Pts	Q
Mysore	4	3	0	1	0	0	31	1.983
Hyderabad	4	3	0	1	0	0	29	1.760
Madras	4	2	2	0	0	0	18	1.654
Andhra	4	0	3	1	0	0	5	0.565
Kerala	4	0	3	1	0	0	3	0.318

Central Zone

Team	Pld	W	L	D	T	NR	Pts	Q
Rajasthan	3	2	0	1	0	0	21	1.645
Vidarbha	3	1	0	2	0	0	16	1.364
Madhya Pradesh	3	1	1	1	0	0	11	0.951
Uttar Pradesh	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	0.497

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	11 Jan 1969 – Delhi
	Delhi	187 & 241/4
					31 Jan 1969 – Udaipur
	Rajasthan	473 & 190/6d
					Rajasthan	226 & 377/2
					Bombay	559
									15 Feb 1969 – Bombay
									Bombay	469 & 77/3
									Bengal	387 & 261/7d
					31 Jan 1969 – Bangalore
					Mysore	188 & 106
					Bengal	251 & 158

Final

15–19 February 1969 Scorecard

Bengal	v	Bombay (H)
387 (157.3 overs) Chuni Goswami 96 Eknath Solkar 3/63, Milind Rege 3/63		469 (156.2 overs) Ajit Wadekar 133 Gopal Bose 3/88
261/7 decl (122.2 overs) Chuni Goswami 84 Ambar Roy 1/9		77/3 (17 overs) Eknath Solkar 36 Ramakant Desai 2/48

Bombay won on first innings lead Brabourne Stadium, Bombay Umpires: M. V. Nagendra and S. K. Raghunatha Rao

• Bengal won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

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