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Irani Trophy stats

September 23, 2008 11:57 IST

The Irani Trophy was instituted by the BCCI to honour Z R Irani in appreciation of his services to Indian cricket.

Mr Irani was connected with the board in various roles from 1928 to 1970.

The idea was to pit the Ranji Trophy champions against a combined eleven from rest of India. It started in 1959-60 and was played at the end of the season.

After five years it was shifted to the beginning of next season. In 1960-61, 1961-62, 1964-65 and 1979-80 the trophy could not be played.

Winners

Rest of India 19 + 1*
Bombay 14+ 1*
Karnataka 4
Delhi 2
Railways 2
Hyderabad 1
Tamil Nadu 1
Haryana 1

* Rest of India and Bombay shared the trophy in 1965-66

Highest team totals

Total For Vs Venue Season
737-7d Rest of India Bangalore Bangalore 1990-91
638 Rest of India Delhi Delhi 1992-93
637 Rest of India Delhi Jodhpur 1986-87
628-8d Delhi Rest of India Delhi 1980-81

Lowest team totals

Total For Vs Venue Season
83 Rest of India Bombay Anantapur 1963-64
91 Karnataka Rest of India Bangalore 1999-00
93 Bombay Rest of India Bombay 1997-98
96 Rest of India Bombay Pune 1996-70
99 Bombay Rest of India Calcutta 1966-67
99 Rest of India Bombay Bombay 1995-96

Highest individual innings

Runs Batsman Teams Venue Season
246 Pravin Amre + ROI v Ben Bangalore 1990-91
235* Surender Amarnath Del v ROI Delhi 1980-81
217 Ravi Shastri ROI v Ben Bangalore 1990-91
206 P Sharma ROI v Bom Bombay 1977-78
200* Gundappa Viswanath Kar v ROI Pune 1974-75

Most 100s in a career

100s Batsman Mts 100s Batsman Mts
4 Dilip Vengsarkar 9 2 Pravin Amre 4
4 Gundappa Viswanath 9 2 G Bose 4
3 Sunil Gavaskar 12 2 Vinod Kambli 5
2 Polly Umrigar 2 2 Ravi Shastri 6
2 Rahul Dravid 3 2 VVS Laxman 7
2 R Sudhakar Rao 3 2 WV Raman 8

Victims of 99

Batsman Teams Venue Season
Syed Kirmani + Kar v ROI Pune 1974-75
Yashpal Sharma ROI v Kar Bangalore 1978-79
VVS Laxman ROI v Bom Madras 2003-04

Leading run-scorers

Batsman Runs Mts Avg
Gundappa Viswanath 1001 9 77.00
Dilip Vengsarkar 779 9 59.92
Ashok Mankad 759 13 33.00
Sunil Gavaskar 733 12 40.72
Ajit Wadekar 717 11 37.73
VVS Laxman 659 7 54.91
Ravi Shastri 609 6 67.66
WV Raman 578 8 48.16
Wasim Jaffer 529 7 40.69
Pravin Amre 503 4 83.83

Best innings bowling

Figures Bowler Teams Venue Season
9-70 Murali Kartik + ROI v Bom Bombay 2000-01
9-101 Ravi Shastri + Bom v ROI Indore 1981-82
8-48 Baloo Gupte Bom v ROI Anantapur 1963-64
8-71 Sairaj Bahutule Bom v ROI Bombay 1997-98

Best match bowling

Figures Bowler Teams Venue Season
13-138 Anil Kumble + ROI v Del Delhi 1992-93
13-143 Murali Kartik + ROI v Bom Bombay 2000-01
13-168 Sairaj Bahutule Bom v ROI Bombay 1997-98
12-204 Gopal Sharma ROI v Rlys Madras 1988-89
+ on debut

Leading wicket-takers

Bowler Wkts Mts Avg
P Shivalkar 51 10 21.43
B Chandrasekhar 40 8 22.07
Maninder Singh 35 7 30.05
Sairaj Bahutule 34 5 20.08
S Venkataraghavan 34 8 22.88
Anil Kumble 28 4 18.82
Kapil Dev 28 7 23.64
Murali Kartik 27 5 18.25
Ravi Shastri 27 6 21.18
Erapally Prasanna 25 6 22.20

Most appearances

Player Mts
Ashok Mankad 13
Sunil Gavaskar 12
Ajit Wadekar 11
Padmakar Shivalkar 10

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