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1942–43 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Baroda (1st title)
Participants	13
Matches	12
Most runs	Vijay Hazare (Baroda) (398)
Most wickets	C. S. Nayudu (Baroda) (40)
← 1941–42 1943–44 →

The 1942–43 Ranji Trophy was the ninth season of the Ranji Trophy. Baroda won their first title defeating Hyderabad in the final. Only 13 teams took part, the lowest in the history of the Ranji Trophy. Teams like Bombay and Madras skipped the competition.

Highlights

Alimuddin who made his debut for Rajputana in the semifinal against Baroda was officially only 12 years and 43 days old. This makes him one of the youngest first-class cricketers.
Vijay Hazare took his 100th Ranji wicket in the final. He had already completed 1000 runs in the 1939–40 final.

Zonal Matches

North Zone

	Round 1

	20 Nov 1942 – Ajmer

	Rajputana	180 & 207

	Delhi	124 & 113

West Zone

Round 1		Round 2		Round 3




		18 Dec 1942 – Karachi

		Sind	118 & 106
28 Nov 1942 – Junagadh
		Western India	200 & 27/1
Western India	462
				29 Jan 1943 – Rajkot
Nawanagar	95 & 167
				Western India	168 & 208

				Baroda	245 & 135

		3 Jan 1943 – Baroda

		Baroda	308 & 186/2

		Maharashtra	262 & 224

East Zone

Round 1		Round 2

9 Jan 1943 – Lucknow

United Provinces	212 & 178
		6 Feb 1943 – Indore
Holkar	109 & 282/3
		Holkar	618
12 Dec 1942— Calcutta
		Bengal	221
Bengal	312 & 120/3

Bihar	271 & 176

South Zone

	Round 1

	9 Jan 1943 – Secunderabad

	Hyderabad	260 & 153

	Mysore	183 & 68

Inter-Zonal Knockout Matches

Semi-finals		Final

26 Feb 1943 – Secunderabad

Hyderabad	355 & 277
		26 Mar 1943 – Secunderabad
Holkar	268 & 177
		Hyderabad	215 & 107
26 Feb 1943 – Baroda
		Baroda	308 & 321
Baroda	543

Rajputana	54 & 133

Final

26–30 Mar 1943 (timeless match)
Scorecard

Baroda	v	Hyderabad (H)
308 (101.3 overs) Vijay Hazare 81 Ghulam Ahmed 6/114		215 (98.5 overs) B. C. Khanna 75 C. S. Nayudu 6/60
321 (115 overs) Vijay Hazare 87 S. R. Mehta 5/103		107 (64.2 overs) Eddie Aibara 43

Baroda won by 307 runs
Railway Recreation Club Ground, Secunderabad
Umpires: M.G. Bhave and T.A. Ramachandran

Baroda won the toss and elected to bat

Scorecards and averages

CricketArchive

References

"Ranji Trophy, 1942/43 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
"Ranji Trophy, 1942/43 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
"The second of the three Ws". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
Baroda v Rajputana
Hyderabad v Baroda
Maharashtra v United Provinces 1939-40

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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 1999–2000 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 2018–19 2019–20 ~~2020–21~~ 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Current teams	Andhra Arunachal Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Mumbai Nagaland Odisha Pondicherry Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Nawanagar Northern India Northern Punjab North West Frontier Province Patiala Sind Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

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