THE RANJI TROPHY



            THE RANJI TROPHY
                                                              -AACHAL BURANDE
           The tournament started off with the name The Cricket Championship of India after a meeting held in 1934 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. It started officially during the 1934-35 season. The donor of the trophy was Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, the monarch of Patiala. Bombay, known nowadays as Mumbai, was the first team to land the trophy after defeating North India in the decisive match. Syed Mohammed Hadi from the Hyderabad team was the first batsman to have scored a century.
          
 Till date, Mumbai have been the most prominent team in the championship with 40 wins. Their sheer dominance can be understood from the fact that they won 15 straight times between the 1958-59 and 1972-73 season. To start with state teams, clubs and cricket associations that had first class status were allowed to take part in the tournament. For example, the Cricket Association of Bengal and the Delhi District Cricket Association are regional teams while Services and Railways are all Indian entities that were given the permission to take part. Over the years the participants of this coveted trophy have changed. Following are some teams that used to participate in past: Army, Northern Punjab, Central India, North Western Frontier Province, East Punjab, Sind, Holkar, Southern Punjab, Northern India. While teams such as Army, Holkar, Central India, Northern India, East Punjab and Northern Punjab were ultimately let go, teams like the North Western Frontier Province, Southern Punjab and Sind were not considered eligible anymore after the partition and consequent independence of India.
           During the 1970-71 season, the knock out stage started to feature the top two teams from each zone and from the 1992-93 season the number went up to 3. From 1996-97 to 1999-2000 the 15 teams took part in a second level group stage where there were 3 groups of 5 teams. The top 2 from each of these groups then went on to feature in the knock out stage. The present format for the Ranji Trophy was adopted in the 2002-03 season.
            The record Ranji Trophy champions got their hands on the trophy for the first time in three seasons and now they have 41 titles to their name in 45 finals with 10 of them being an innings victory. 

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