All You Need To Know About Ranji Trophy Series

Introduction

Ranji Trophy is domestic cricket tournament played in India between multiple teams both regional and state wise. Series is known after cricket Ranjitsinhji who was the first Indian cricketer who played international cricket.

First match competition was held in 1934 between Madras and Mysore in Madras. Currently 38 teams are participating both state wise and region wise. There are more 14 teams which was part of ranji trophy but no longer exists now.

Ranji Trophy Teams

Teams are divided into four groups, Elite Group A, Elite Group B, Elite Group C and Plate Group. So, group A and B are top tier groups with 9 teams and then comes group c with 10 teams and finally plate group is low tier group with again 10 teams.

Format of Ranji Trophy

Ranji trophy follows Round-robin and Knockout format. Round-robin format is where players have rounds of matches to play against each other. Knockout format is where the winners of 2 teams paly against each other to enter the semifinals. Round-robin format matches are for 4 days and Knockout format matches are for 5 days.

Winners

Mumbai team has won most of the matches (41 times) back to back matches from year 1958-59 to 1972-73. Apart from Mumbai team Karnataka/ Mysore team have also won for 8 times. Delhi team won for 7 times. Baroda team won for 5 times and Madhya Pradesh/ Holkar team won for 4 times. Rest of the teams have won for twice, once or none.

Ranji Series Date

There will be 9 rounds of matches and then quarter finals, semi finals and finals.

Ranji Trophy Series 2019-20 has just started from 9 Dec 2019 and will be held till 13 March 2020.

Round 1 of match will be held from 9 Dec 2019 to 12 Dec 2019.

Round 2 of match will be held from 17 Dec 2019 to 20 Dec 2019.

Round 3 of match will be held from 25 Dec 2019 to 28 Dec 2019.

Round 4 of match will be held from 3 Jan 2020 to 6 Jan 2020.

Round 5 of match will be held from 11 Jan 2020 to 14 Jan 2020.

Round 6 of match will be held from 19 Jan 2020 to 22 Jan 2020.

Round 7 of match will be held from 27 Jan 2020 to 30 Jan 2020.

Round 8 of match will be held from 4 Feb 2020 to 7 Feb 2020.

Round 9 of match will be held from 12 Feb 2020 to 15 Feb 2020.

Quarter Finals from 20 Feb 2020 to 24 Feb 2020.

Semi Finals from 29 Feb 2020 to 4 March 2020.

Finals from 9 March 2020 to 13 March 2020.

For more details about the schedule and squads here –

https://www.my11circle.com/ranji-trophy-series.html

Ashwin’s Controversy For Mankading Buttler

IPL fever is on. We are done with the three matches so far. Chennai Super King (CSK) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) was the first match where CSK won against RCB by seven wickets. In second match Kolkata Knight Riders won the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets. Match was interesting, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) was moving towards the win but Andre Russell and Nitish Rana of (KKR) turned the game on their side and Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 6 wickets. Third match was between Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) and Rajasthan Royals (RR). In yesterday’s match (25^th March 2019), Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) was the winner against Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 14 runs but the match was in controversy for the captain R Ashwin mankading Jos Buttler.

R Ashwin has been facing criticism for mankading Buttler, without giving him a warning. Let see what happens in mankading. In mankading the batsman at non striker’s end is run out when he leaves the crease before the ball is released from the bowler’s hand.

Many cricketers have shared their views for Ashwin’s this act. According to some cricketers Ashwin should have warned Buttler before mankading. While some other cricketers were supporting Ashwin as it was within the law of cricket. Jos Buttler was going strong at 69 off 43 balls and this happen. Ashwin has defended himself saying what he did was within the cricket laws. It was not planned. He said he didn’t load, he was not even at the crease and buttler left the crease. Buttler was not even looking at him.

As per one of the senior BCCI official, what Ashwin did was not wrong and is permissible within the rules of the game. As far as Shane Warne is concerned, he is brand ambassador of Rajasthan Royals (RR) and not a neutral observer.

Upcoming Cricket Matches of India 2019 IPL / ICC World Cup Schedule

Test cricket was played since 1877. It is traditional form of cricket played for 5 days with 2 innings each. Test matches are best format of cricket as it shows the capability of team and players based on their performance of playing for longer period.

ODIs (One Day Internationals) started in 1971 and became popular from 1980’s onwards. This format has 1 inning matches of 50 overs on each side.

Twenty20 are the shortest and fastest format of cricket with 20 overs per side. This format is played with huge hitting, good bowling skills and good fielding. Matches of this format usually takes 3 hours to get completed hence it is shortest format of cricket.

Upcoming Cricket Matches of India:

IPL Twenty20 (T20) –

It will start from 23^rd March 2019 with Chennai Super King vs Royal Challengers Bangalore. First day match will start from 8 pm onwards. Details for matches from 23^rd March to 5^th April are revealed for now but the complete schedule for all the IPL matches is yet to be released by BCCI. There is a delay due to general elections which might clash with the cricket tournament. Entire tournament schedule is expected to be announced by EOD today (18 March).

Below are the details for IPL matches from 23^rd March 2019 to 5^th April 2019:

Date – 23^rd March 2019

Match – Chennai Super King vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 24^th March 2019

Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers

Starting Time – 4 pm

Match – Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 25^th March 2019

Match – Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 25^th March 2019

Match – Rajasthan Royals vs Kings XI Punjab

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 26^th March 2019

Match – Delhi Capitals vs Chennai Super Kings

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 27^th March 2019

Match – Kolkata Knight Riders vs Kings XI

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 28^th March 2019

Match – Royal Challengers vs Mumbai Indians

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 29^th March 2019

Match – Sunrisers vs Rajasthan Royals

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 30^th March 2019

Match – Kings XI vs Mumbai Indians

Starting Time – 4 pm

Match – Delhi Capitals vs Kolkata Knight Riders

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 31^st March 2019

Match – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Royal Challengers

Starting Time – 4 pm

Match – Super Kings vs Rajasthan Royals

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 1^st April 2019

Match – Kings XI vs Delhi Capitals

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 2^nd April 2019

Match – Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 3^rd April 2019

Match – Mumbai Indians vs Chennai Super Kings

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 4^th April 2019

Match – Delhi Capitals vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

Starting Time – 8 pm

Date – 5^th April 2019

Match – Royal Challengers vs Kolkata Knight Riders

Starting Time – 8 pm

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 (ODI Matches) - It will start from 30^th May to 14^th Jul 2019 with 48 ODIs. Below is the schedule for matches of India. Match Timings 3 pm (09:30 AM GMT / 10:30 AM LOCAL)

Date – 5^th Jun 2019

Match - South Africa vs India

Date – 9^th Jun 2019

Match – India vs Australia

Date – 13^th Jun 2019

Match – India vs New Zealand

Date – 16^th Jun 2019

Match – India vs Pakistan

Date – 22^nd Jun 2019

Match – India vs Afghanistan

Date – 27^th Jun 2019

Match – West Indies vs India

Date – 30^th Jun 2019

Match – England vs India

Date – 2^nd Jul 2019

Match – Bangladesh vs India

Date – 6^th Jul 2019

Match – Sri Lanka vs India

Most Loved Cricketers Of Indian Cricket Team

Cricket is the most loved sports in India since years. As per one research by ICC, cricket has 1 billion fans globally out of which India constitute more than 90%. Yes, people in India are crazy about cricket. Whenever there is matches going on, people spend their time watching it on TV or mobile. Those who can’t reach TV or mobile love to hear cricket podcasts. Cricket unites people together in India. Either people watch it with their family or with their relatives and friends. So, when cricket season is on, there are mini parties with drinks, chips and much more. People are that interested towards cricket even if they are not playing, seeing their favorite batsman playing on field they feel themselves playing on field. They get that involved towards matches.

Indian cricket is becoming better and better day by day. Our players together have made cricket worth playing for India. India ranks 1^st as per ICC Test ranking, 2^nd as per ICC ODI ranking and ICC T20 ranking.

India team has got really good players which has contributed a lot in team’s continuous success. There is a huge effort from each of cricketers whenever they play for team India and almost all are the heroes of the Indian team as each and everyone have given their beast at their part. But there are players who have huge fan following among all. Let’s look at most loved cricketer in India:

Sachin Tendulkar – Whenever we talk about cricket, the first name which comes to our mind is Sachin Tendulkar. He is called “God of Cricket” by people in India. Sachin is top batsman in Indian team. He started playing cricket at the age of 16 and from then he has served India with his remarkable performance. He is the only player with record of 100 centuries in international cricket.

Sunil Gavaskar – He was the greatest batsman and was known for his great opening during match. He played from early 1970s to late 1980s and had created several records. He was known for batting against fast bowlers.

Kapil Dev – Most loved all-rounder player. Kapil Dev was fast bowler and the only player to score over 5000 test runs with over 400 test wickets. He won world cup in 1983.

Saurav Ganguly - Popularly known as Dada, Bengal Tiger has been claimed as one of the successful captains. He has been received Padma Shri by Government of India.

Rahul Dravid – He was known for his technical batting against bowlers. He always played with dignity and he has always proved to be a strong wall in tough times.

Virender Sehwag – Sehwag was aggressive opening batsmen. He was known for his style of batting. People use to expect continuous 6s whenever he was batting on field.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Well he is the most loved cricketer along with Sachin Tendulkar as of now. His most cool attitude and strategies of winning has almost won people’s heart. He has proved to be a good captain. He won 2007 worldtwenty20 and world cup in 2011. He is not only good at batting but also a good wicket keeper.

Virat Kohli – Virat’s fan base is large in numbers. He is considered one of the greatest batsman like Sachin. It is believed that if he keeps playing the way he is, he will be one of the best batsman in the world.

Cricket - Most Loved Sports in India

Cricket is no new in India. It is one of the most loved sports by Indians from long time. Cricket – this game is played from pre-independence, and love towards it continues ever lastingly. This bat and ball game has created passion among many Indians. And the game has seen spontaneous success over years and years. Earlier Indian cricket team was among one of the weaker teams in its first 50 years of international cricket and it took almost 20 years for Indian cricket team to achieve its first test victory.

Later, Indian cricket started seeing good movements and then huge improvements in presence of great talented cricketers like Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Bishan Sign Bedi, Lala Amarnath, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Virendra Sehwag, Ms Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh and many more.

India has given many talented players to cricket sports industry and it is one of the strongest team now. Indian team has won world cup twice, once in 1983 under captaincy of Kapil Dev and other in year 2011 under captaincy of MS Dhoni. In 2007 Indian team has also won ICC World Twenty20 and ICC Champions Trophy in 2013. Currently India ranks 1^st for Test, 2^nd for ODI and 2^nd for T20 as per ICC rankings.

Cricket is most loved and played game in India. Most of us have seen and played cricket since childhood. Our youths admire cricket a lot and in every corner of the India there is at least one player who wants to be a big cricketer and want to play for Indian team. And why not they? We have such great cricket legends in front of us as an inspiration.

These leaders have shown us that cricket can be played by anyone who has true love and determination towards it. The one who has true passion and dedication towards it. Doesn’t matter from which city or state you are your love towards cricket will take you high.

Females are no way behind when it comes to cricket. As per ICC rankings women Indian cricket team ranks 1^st in ODI, 5^th in T20I.