Stats highlights from the sixth round of Ranji Trophy 2015-16 matches
Bharath Seervi10-Nov-20150:54
Ojha claims 11, while Prem becomes season’s top-scorer
10,005 Runs by Wasim Jaffer in the Ranji Trophy. He became the first batsman to complete 10,000 runs in the history of Ranji Trophy in Vidarbha’s first innings against Bengal. He reached the milestone when he scored his seventh run of the innings. At the end of the sixth round, Jaffer has aggregated 10,005 runs in 197 innings at an average of 57.50, with 35 centuries and 41 half-centuries. He scored 9759 of his Ranji runs for Mumbai from 1996-97 to 2014-15, and 246 runs for Vidarbha in this season. The next highest run-scorer in the tournament is Amol Muzumdar with 9202 runs at an average of 51.40 – he retired after the 2013-14 season. Mithun Manhas comes next with 8345 runs at average of 49.37 – he is still active on the domestic circuit.7 Number of double-centuries for Paras Dogra in the Ranji Trophy. He equalled Ajay Sharma’s record of most double-centuries in the Ranji Trophy with his knock of 227 for Himachal Pradesh against Services . Surendra Bhave, Abhinav Mukund and Ashok Malhotra come second with six double-centuries. Dogra scored his maiden double-century in the 2011-12 Ranji season, scoring his seven across just five seasons. In these five seasons, no other batsman has scored more than three 200s – Cheteshwar Pujara, Abhinav Mukund and Ravindra Jadeja scored three each.2 Number of Ranji Trophy seasons in which Paras Dogra has scored two or more double-centuries. He has scored two double-hundreds this season (209* and 227), and he did so in the last season as well (230* and 204*). He is only the second player after WV Raman to score two or more double-centuries in two different Ranji Trophy seasons. Raman scored three (313, 200* and 238) in 1989-90 season and two (206 and 226) in 1991-92. Dogra will enter another exclusive club is he scores another double-century in this season. Only Raman and Dheeraj Jadhav (2003-04) have scored three double-centuries in the same Ranji Trophy season previously.16-154 Jalaj Saxena’s match figures for Madhya Pradesh against Railways. He took 8 for 96 in the first innings and 8 for 58 in the second innings. His figures of 16 for 154 are the joint second-best figures in the history of the Ranji Trophy. The best figures are 16 for 99 by Anil Kumble for Karnataka against Kerala in 1994-95. Pradeep Sunderam also took 16 for 154 for Rajasthan against Vidarbha in 1985-86. This was the third time Jalaj Saxena took 10 or more wickets in a match in his first-class career, and he has 11 centuries as well. He averages 38.68 with bat and 32.38 with ball in first-class cricket.7-58 Pragyan Ojha’s figures for Bengal against Vidarbha. These are his best innings figures in the Ranji Trophy, and in first-class cricket overall. His previous best figures were 7 for 114 for Hyderabad against Rajasthan in 2006-07. He took 4 for 60 in the second innings to finish with match figures of 11 for 118, which are his best match figures in first-class cricket and his maiden ten-for in the Ranji Trophy. He took two ten-fors previously in his first-class career: 10 for 89 for India against West Indies in Mumbai in 2013-14 (and he hasn’t played any Test match since then) and 10 for 90 for Surrey against Derbyshire in 2011.8053 Runs scored by Robin Uthappa in his first-class career. He reached 8000 first-class runs during his innings of 148 for Karnataka against Odisha. His 8053 runs have come in 119 first-class matches (199 innings) at an average of 41.51. This was his 19th first-class century.6-32 Navdeep Saini’s figures for Delhi against Maharashtra, his maiden five-wicket haul in the Ranji Trophy, in 10 matches. His previous best figures were 4 for 48 for Delhi against Rajasthan earlier this season.6-39 Arup Das’ figures for Assam against Haryana. He bettered his previous best first-class figures of 6 for 87 for Assam against Jammu & Kashmir in the 2012-13 season.40 Number of wickets taken by Vidarbha’s Akshay Wakhare this Ranji Trophy season. He has surpassed Ravindra Jadeja’s 38 wickets to become the leading wicket-taker this season. The last bowler to take 50 or more wickets in a Ranji Trophy season was Ranadeb Bose (57 wickets) in 2006-07. Vidarbha have two more matches before the knockouts, meaning Wakhare has the chance to reach 50 wickets even if his team doesn’t qualify for the next stage.200 Number of Ranji Trophy wickets for Rishi Dhawan, and first-class wickets for Kamlesh Makwana. Dhawan got to this landmark playing while for Himachal Pradesh against Services, and Makwana for Saurashtra against Goa.38 Number of times Vinay Kumar has captained Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy. He eclipsed Erapalli Prasanna’s feat of captaining Karnataka the most times in Ranji Trophy (37). Prasanna led Karnataka to 18 wins, compared to Vinay’s 17, but Karnataka have lost only two matches under Vinay compared to four under Prasanna. Both Vinay and Prasanna have lead Karnataka to two Ranji Trophy titles.2008-09 The last time Delhi were unbeaten throughout a Ranji Trophy season. In six matches this season, Delhi have won three and drawn three, and are toppers in Group A. They have two more matches to play in their group. In the 2008-09 season, they won two matches and drew five of the seven group games and couldn’t qualify for the knockouts. In the season prior to that (2007-08), they had lifted the trophy without losing any match throughout the season.
