1977–78 Ranji Trophy

1977-78 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Karnataka
Most runs	Venkat Sunderam (Delhi) (608)^[1]
Most wickets	Rajinder Singh Hans (Uttar Pradesh) (52)^[2]

The 1977–78 Ranji Trophy was the 44th season of the Ranji Trophy. Karnataka won their second title defeating Uttar Pradesh.

Highlights

Bombay finished third in the West Zone and failed to qualify for the knockout stage. Gujarat won all their four matches in the West Zone, a rare feat.
Bombay were dismissed for 42 by Gujarat.^[3] This is their lowest total in Ranji Trophy.
The loss against Gujarat ended a sequence of 124 matches without defeat for Bombay. Their previous defeat was against Baroda in 1957/58.^[4] During these twenty years, Bombay won the Ranji Trophy 18 times.
Karnataka defeated Kerala without losing a wicket. Kerala scored 141 and 124, and Karnataka 451/0 decl.^[5] The partnership between Sanjay Desai and Roger Binny was then an Indian record for the first wicket.
Rajinder Goel took 7 wickets for 4 runs in the second innings as Haryana bowled out Jammu Kashmir for 23. Goel's match figures were 13 for 29.^[6]

4–6 April 1978
Scorecard

Uttar Pradesh (H)	v	Karnataka
129 (50.5 overs) Anand Shukla 32 B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/57		434 (136.4 overs) G. R. Viswanath 247, Brijesh Patel 100 Rajinder Singh Hans 9/152
112 (56.2 overs) Shashikant Srivastava 22 B. S. Chandrasekhar 6/24

Ranji Trophy
Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18
Current teams	Andhra Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Mumbai Odisha Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Bihar Eastern Punjab Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

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