1965–66 Ranji Trophy

The 1965–66 Ranji Trophy was the 32nd season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Rajasthan in the final.

1965–66 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Bombay (17th title)
Participants	24
Most runs	Ajit Wadekar (Bombay) (695)[1]
Most wickets	B. S. Chandrasekhar (Mysore) (37)[2]
← 1964–65 1966–67 →

Highlights

• R. G. Nadkarni captained Bombay to a win for the third season in a row. As of 2017, he is the only captain to win three consecutive Ranji titles.^[3]
• Ravinder Pal took a hat-trick for Delhi v Southern Punjab. This match was the first first class match played at Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh

Group stage

West Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bombay 4 2 0 2 0 0 29 2.039 Maharashtra 4 2 0 2 0 0 24 1.353 Baroda 4 0 0 4 0 0 16 0.899 Gujarat 4 1 2 1 0 0 11 0.807 Saurashtra 4 0 3 1 0 0 3 0.527 North Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Services 5 3 0 2 0 0 36 1.909 Railways 5 3 0 2 0 0 32 1.645 Delhi 5 1 0 4 0 0 24 1.270 Southern Punjab 5 2 2 1 0 0 21 1.023 Northern Punjab 5 1 3 1 0 0 11 0.730 Jammu & Kashmir 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0.305 East Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Bengal 3 2 0 1 0 0 19 2.415 Bihar 3 1 1 1 0 0 11 1.039 Orissa 3 1 1 1 0 0 11 0.918 Assam 3 0 2 1 0 0 5 0.566

South Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Mysore 4 3 0 1 0 0 31 2.423 Hyderabad 4 2 0 2 0 0 26 2.101 Madras 4 1 1 2 0 0 17 1.147 Kerala 4 1 2 1 0 0 11 0.381 Andhra 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0.360 Central Zone Team Pld W L D T NR Pts Q Rajasthan 3 2 0 1 0 0 22 1.873 Uttar Pradesh 3 0 0 3 0 0 9 0.597 Madhya Pradesh 3 0 1 2 0 0 8 0.994 Vidarbha 3 0 1 2 0 0 8 0.786

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
					5 Feb 1966 – Bangalore
					Mysore	397 & 243/7d
	28 Jan 1966 – Jaipur
					Rajasthan	458 & 183/9
	Rajasthan	330 & 97/3
									17 Feb 1966 – Jaipur
	Services	156 & 268
									Rajasthan	125 & 288
									Bombay	382 & 32/2
					29 Jan 1966 – Bombay
					Bombay	254 & 109/1
					Bengal	109 & 252

Final

17–20 February 1966 Scorecard

Rajasthan (H)	v	Bombay
125 (56.5 overs) Salim Durani 29 Manohar Hardikar 6/25		382 (112.3 overs) Ajit Wadekar 185 Chandrasekhar Joshi 6/83
288 (137 overs) Kailash Gattani 94 G. R. Sunderam 2/3		32/2 (6.4 overs) Ajit Wadekar 22* Ramakant Desai 4/72

Bombay won by eight wickets Railway Cricket Ground, Jaipur Umpires: Sunil Banerjee and Samar Roy

• Bombay won the toss and decided to field

• The match was played on a coir matting wicket.
• Wadekar (185) and Dilip Sardesai (99) added 212 runs in 220 minutes. Sardesai spent half an hour in the nineties, was dropped at extra cover and then stumped for 99 in 300 minutes with 9 fours. Wadekar hit 26 fours and a six off Sunderam.
• The Ranji trophy was presented by Gayatri Devi of Jaipur

Scorecards and averages

• ESPNcricinfo
• CricketArchive