Ranji Trophy 2022 2022

After weeks of speculation, Indian wicketkeeper-batter Wriddhiman Saha has finally received his No Objection Certificate from the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) after the veteran revealed that he was no longer interested in playing for Bengal.

Winning the Ranji Trophy for the very first time is a major effort, but what makes the Madhya Pradesh team's achievement even more telling is the effort put in by all the MP players, led by their own 'Alex Ferguson' — as called by Dinesh Karthik — in Chandrakant Pandit.

Madhya Pradesh scripted history as they romped 41-time winners Mumbai by six-wickets to clinch their maiden Ranji Trophy title at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday on Sunday. The second innings centurion Rajat Patidar smashed a boundary off Sarfaraz Ahmed's ball to win the game for MP.

Madhya Pradesh have one hand on their maiden Ranji Trophy title after Rajat Patidar’s classical 122-run knock on Day 4 of the final at M.

Madhya Pradesh have put themselves in strong position in Ranji Trophy final at M.

Sarfaraz Khan turned heads with yet another stunning century to propel Mumbai in a good stead on Day 2 of the Ranji Trophy final against Madhya Predesh on Thursday. He cracked 134 off 243 as 41-time champions managed a fighting 374 in their first innings after beginning the day at 248/5. The Sidhu Moosewala fan dedicated his ton to his father and made headlines with way he celebrated his stunning century.

Sarfaraz Khan completed his transformation from Mumbai cricket's resident 'enfant terrible' to 'Man Friday' with a superb hundred that kept his side ahead against Madhya Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy final on Thursday.

Mumbai's middle-order batter Sarfaraz Khan has scored yet another century in the Ranji Trophy, this time in the final against Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh's bowlers stuck to their plan and kept the star-studded Mumbai batters in check as the 41-time winners were made to toil their way to 248/5 on the first day of the Ranji Trophy final on Wednesday. Despite an opening stand of 87 between Prithvi Shaw (47, 79 balls) and Yashasvi Jaiswal (78, 163 balls), Mumbai failed to drive home the advantage on a pitch that wasn't conducive for strokeplay.

Only three half-centuries in five Ranji Trophy games doesn't match the lofty standards that he has set for himself but a pragmatic Mumbai captain Prithvi Shaw also knows that cricket is mirror image of life where the change in graph is the only constant thing.

There's a common adage in sport. "You never win a silver. You always lose a gold." Mumbai cricket has followed this old concrete jungle saying to the 'T' as its team now chases an unprecedented 42nd Ranji Trophy title. It now finds a bunch of bravehearts from Madhya Pradesh standing in its way with tricks of trade learnt from a Mumbaikar.

Groomed in an unforgiving 'gharana' where there is virtually no place for the second best, Chandrakant Pandit and Amol Muzumdar are both as tough as nails mentally.

The 41-time champions and the domestic giants Mumbai sauntered to Ranji Trophy final without toiling much by virtue of first innings lead on the final day of their last-four match against Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Making the Ranji Trophy final for the 47th time, Mumbai thoroughly dominated from the first ball of the game, which ended in a draw, at the Just Cricket Academy ground.

Kumar Kartikeya came between Bengal and Ranji final as he bowled out an under-pressure team to exactly half of the target to take Madhya Pradesh to Ranji Trophy final after 23 years on Saturday.

Yashasvi Jaiswal and Armaan Jaffer clobbered stunning centuries as dominant Mumbai put Uttar Pradesh on the back-foot by taking their overall lead past the 600-mark on Day 4 of their Ranji Trophy semi-final on Friday.

Manoj Tiwary hit a brilliant century under pressure in the ongoing Ranji Trophy 2022 semi-final against Madhya Pradesh.

It was the perfect combination of ice and fire as Mumbai openers took to the field against Uttar Pradesh on Day 3 of Ranji Trophy 2022 second semi-final.

Mumbai look in control in the Ranji Trophy 2022 second semi-final against Uttar Pradesh after Day 2's play.

The Day 2 of first semi-final of Ranji Trophy 2022 between Bengal and Madhya Pradesh witnessed a massive batting collapse and a game-changing partnership.

While lauding the Bengal team for their record smashing performance in the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals in Bangalore, CAB President Avishek Dalmiya urged the team to now focus on the semifinals and start preparing for that.