1955–56 Ranji Trophy
Appearance
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![]() The Ranji Trophy | |
Administrator(s) | BCCI |
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Cricket format | First-class |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Bombay (8th title) |
Participants | 22 |
Most runs | Polly Umrigar (Bombay) (595)[1] |
Most wickets | Premangsu Chatterjee (Bengal) (26)[2] |
The 1955–56 Ranji Trophy was the 22nd season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Bengal in the final.
Zonal Matches
[edit]North Zone
[edit]Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
17 Jan 1956 – Delhi | ||||||
Delhi | 429 & 262/5d | |||||
18 Feb 1956 – Delhi | ||||||
Patiala | 143 & 125 | |||||
Delhi (T) | 412 | |||||
1 Dec 1955 – Delhi | ||||||
Services | 385/7 | |||||
Services | 424 | |||||
Eastern Punjab | 158 & 174 | |||||
(T) – Advanced to next round by spin of coin.
South Zone
[edit]Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||||
10 Dec 1955 – Bangalore | ||||||||||
Mysore | 338 & 248/5d | |||||||||
Hyderabad | 171 & 264/6 | |||||||||
4 Feb 1956 – Bangalore | ||||||||||
Mysore | 249 & 186/6d | |||||||||
Madras | 281 & 145/7 | |||||||||
13 Jan 1956 – Madras | ||||||||||
Madras | 507/9d | |||||||||
31 Dec 1955 – Trivandrum | ||||||||||
Andhra | 275 & 160/8 | |||||||||
Travancore-Cochin | 135 & 142 | |||||||||
Andhra | 462/9d | |||||||||
West Zone
[edit]Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||||
14 Jan 1956 – Rajkot | ||||||||||
Saurashtra | 240 & 192/7d | |||||||||
Gujarat | 266 & 123/2 | |||||||||
18 Feb 1956 – Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
Gujarat | 232 & 100/6 | |||||||||
Bombay | 337 | |||||||||
4 Feb 1956 – Sholapur | ||||||||||
Maharashtra | 412 | |||||||||
11 Dec 1955 – Bombay | ||||||||||
Bombay | 481/5d | |||||||||
Bombay | 307/6 | |||||||||
Baroda | 306 | |||||||||
Central Zone
[edit]Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
16 Dec 1955 – Indore | ||||||
Madhya Bharat | 251 | |||||
4 Feb 1956 – Nagpur | ||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 327 & 103/3 | |||||
Madhya Pradesh | 215 & 152 | |||||
15 Jan 1956 – Udaipur | ||||||
Uttar Pradesh | 95 & 213 | |||||
Rajputana | 337 & 267/7d | |||||
Uttar Pradesh | 388 & 103/0 | |||||
East Zone
[edit]Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
13 Jan 1956 – Jamshedpur | ||||||
Bihar | 60 & 135 | |||||
11 Feb 1956 – Calcutta | ||||||
Bengal | 157 & 39/1 | |||||
Bengal | 373 | |||||
13 Jan 1956 – Gauhati | ||||||
Orissa | 143 & 174 | |||||
Assam | 115 & 213/7 | |||||
Orissa | 333 | |||||
Inter-Zonal Knockout matches
[edit]Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
3 Mar 1956 – Calcutta | ||||||||||
Bengal | 289 & 23/0 | |||||||||
Madhya Pradesh | 155 & 155 | |||||||||
30 Mar 1956 – Calcutta | ||||||||||
Bengal | 255 & 179 | |||||||||
Bombay | 307 & 129/2 | |||||||||
11 Mar 1956 – Madras | ||||||||||
Madras | 124 & 89 | |||||||||
3 Mar 1956 – Delhi | ||||||||||
Bombay | 457 | |||||||||
Delhi | 273 | |||||||||
Bombay | 274/4 | |||||||||
Final
[edit]30 March – 2 April 1956
Scorecard |
Bengal (H)
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129/2 (42.3 overs)
Yatin Rele 49* K. K. Biswas 1/9 |
- Toss not known
Scorecards and averages
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ranji Trophy, 1955/56 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
- ^ "Ranji Trophy, 1955/56 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.