2021–22 Ranji Trophy Group B

2021–22 Ranji Trophy Group B
Dates	17 February – 26 June 2022
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin then knockout
Participants	4
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The 2021–22 Ranji Trophy was the 87th season of the Ranji Trophy, the premier first-class cricket tournament in India.^[1]^[2] It was contested by 38 teams, divided into eight groups, with four teams in Group B.^[3] All the Group B league matches took place in Cuttack.^[4] The tournament was announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 3 July 2021.^[5] Bengal won Group B to progress to the knockout stage of the tournament.^[6]

Points table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	D	Pts	Quot
1	Bengal	3	3	0	0	18	1.308
2	Hyderabad	3	2	1	0	12	1.196
3	Baroda	3	0	2	1	3	0.938
4	Chandigarh	3	0	2	1	1	0.694

Updated to match(es) played on 6 March 2022. Source: ESPN Cricinfo

Advances to Quarter-final

Fixtures

Round 1

17–20 February 2022
Scorecard

Baroda	v	Bengal
181 (54.2 overs) Mitesh Patel 66 (104) Ishan Porel 4/40 (14 overs)		88 (34.3 overs) Abishek Porel 21 (19) Atit Sheth 5/44 (13.3 overs)
255 (85.1 overs) Mitesh Patel 57 (100) Akash Deep 3/69 (26.1 overs)		350/6 (91.3 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 79 (116) Abhimanyusingh Rajput 3/73 (17 overs)

Bengal won by 4 wickets
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Umpires: Arun Kumar Basa and Puttarangaiah Jayapal
Player of the match: Shahbaz Ahmed (Bengal)

Bengal won the toss and elected to field.
Abishek Porel (Bengal), Jyotsnil Singh and Pratyush Kumar (Baroda) all made their first-class debuts.

17–20 February 2022
Scorecard

Hyderabad	v	Chandigarh
347 (108.4 overs) Hanuma Vihari 59 (134) Jagjit Singh 4/80 (29 overs)		216 (72 overs) Manan Vohra 110 (167) Rakshann Readdi 5/61 (17.3 overs)
269/8d (62 overs) Hanuma Vihari 106 (149) Gaurav Gambhir 4/61 (17 overs)		183 (50.5 overs) Arslan Khan 68 (90) Ravi Teja 6/41 (17 overs)

Hyderabad won by 217 runs
Vikas Cricket Ground, Cuttack
Umpires: Vinod Seshan and VM Dhokre
Player of the match: Ravi Teja (Hyderabad)

Chandigarh won the toss and elected to field.
Arjit Pannu, Gaurav Puri, Raj Bawa (Chandigarh), Mickil Jaiswal and Rakshann Readdi (Hyderabad) all made their first-class debuts.

Round 2

24–27 February 2022
Scorecard

Bengal	v	Hyderabad
242 (70.2 overs) Abhishek Porel 73 (62) Tanay Thyagarajan 5/71 (18.2 overs)		205 (80 overs) Ravi Teja 81* (196) Mukesh Kumar 4/49 (24 overs)
201 (79 overs) Shahbaz Ahmed 51 (87) Tilak Varma 3/13 (3 overs)		166 (61.2 overs) Tilak Varma 90 (152) Akash Deep 4/41 (13.2 overs)

Bengal won by 72 runs
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Umpires: Arun Kumar Basa and Vineet Kulkarni
Player of the match: Shahbaz Ahmed (Bengal)

Hyderabad won the toss and elected to field.
B Punnaiah (Hyderabad) made his first-class debut.

24–27 February 2022
Scorecard

Chandigarh	v	Baroda
168 (62.3 overs) Manan Vohra 43 (45) Abhimanyusingh Rajput 5/47 (12.3 overs)		517 (132.2 overs) Vishnu Solanki 104 (165) Jagjit Singh 5/118 (34.2 overs)
473/7 (136 overs) Ankit Kaushik 105* (188) Bhargav Bhatt 3/133 (49 overs)

Match drawn
Vikas Cricket Ground, Cuttack
Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Vinod Seshan
Player of the match: Abhimanyusingh Rajput (Baroda)

Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
Amrit Lubana and Harnoor Singh (Chandigarh) both made their first-class debuts.

Round 3

3–6 March 2022
Scorecard

Bengal	v	Chandigarh
437 (115.3 overs) Abhimanyu Easwaran 114 (172) Jagjit Singh 5/87 (31.3 overs)		206 (68.2 overs) Ankit Kaushik 63 (113) Nilkantha Das 3/47 (18 overs)
181/8d (56.1 overs) Anustup Majumdar 43 (94) Jaskaran Singh 2/32 (9 overs)		260 (96.2 overs) Jaskaran Singh 80 (89) Ishan Porel 3/37 (15.2)

Bengal won by 152 runs
Barabati Stadium, Cuttack
Umpires: Sadashiv Iyer and Vineet Kulkarni
Player of the match: Abhimanyu Easwaran (Bengal)

Chandigarh won the toss and elected to field.

3–6 March 2022
Scorecard

Hyderabad	v	Baroda
197 (55.1 overs) Jaweed Ali 65 (90) Atit Sheth 5/53 (16.1 overs)		163 (47 overs) Vishnu Solanki 32 (44) Bhuvangagiri Punnaiah 4/35 (17 overs)
201 (72.2 overs) Ravi Teja 56 (123) Babashafi Pathan 4/35 (13 overs)		192 (53.4 overs) Babashafi Pathan 36 (21) Ravi Teja 4/70 (16 overs)

Hyderabad won by 43 runs
Vikas Cricket Ground, Cuttack
Umpires: VM Dhokre and Puttarangaiah Jayapal
Player of the match: Ravi Teja (Hyderabad)

Baroda won the toss and elected to field.
Alankrit Agarwal, Chandan Sahani and Surya Prasad (Hyderabad) all made their first-class debuts.

References

^ "Ranji Trophy returns as BCCI announces full 2021-22 domestic season". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ "BCCI announces India's domestic season for 2021-22". The Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ "BCCI unveils two-phased plan for Ranji Trophy". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
^ "65 matches, 9 venues, 2 phases: Ranji Trophy after 22 months". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
^ "BCCI announces India's domestic season for 2021-22". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ "Sarfaraz's century puts Mumbai in quarter-finals; Tamil Nadu knocked out". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 March 2022.

[START1-1] "Ranji Trophy returns as BCCI announces full 2021-22 domestic season". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[2] "BCCI announces India's domestic season for 2021-22". The Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[3] "BCCI unveils two-phased plan for Ranji Trophy". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 February 2022.

[4] "65 matches, 9 venues, 2 phases: Ranji Trophy after 22 months". The Indian Express. Retrieved 3 February 2022.

[5] "BCCI announces India's domestic season for 2021-22". Board of Control for Cricket in India. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[6] "Sarfaraz's century puts Mumbai in quarter-finals; Tamil Nadu knocked out". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 13 March 2022.

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