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The Story of the Irani Trophy

Mohandas Menon

The Irani Cup tournament was started to mark the completion of 25 years of the Ranji Trophy championship and has been associated with the name of the late Z.R. Irani, who was connected with the Board of Control for Cricket in India from its inception in 1928, till his death in 1970. Before becoming its President in 1965-69, Mr. Irani was Board's Hon. Treasurer, except for one year, when he was one of the Vice-Presidents. In appreciation of his services to Indian Cricket, the Board instituted a trophy in his name, to be presented to the winners of a match to be played between the Ranji Trophy Championship of the preceding year and the Rest of India XI.

 Ranji Trophy Championship
Season Winners Runners-up Venue
1959-60 Bombay ROI Delhi
1960-61   No Play  
1961-62   No Play  
1962-63 Bombay ROI Bombay
1963-64 Bombay ROI Anantpur (Andhra)
1964-65   Match postponed  
1965-66 Bombay & Madras ROI  
1966-67 ROI Bombay Calcutta
1967-68 Bombay ROI Bombay
1968-69 ROI Bombay Bombay
1969-70 Bombay ROI Pune
1970-71 Bombay ROI Calcutta
1971-72 ROI Bombay Bombay
1972-73 Bombay ROI Pune
1973-74 ROI Bombay Bangalore
1974-75 Karnataka ROI Ahmedabad
1975-76 Bombay ROI Nagpur
1976-77 Bombay ROI Delhi
1977-78 ROI Bombay Bombay
1978-79 ROI Karnataka Bangalore
1979-80   No Play  
1980-81 Delhi ROI Delhi
1981-82 Bombay ROI Indore
1982-83 ROI Delhi Delhi
1983-84 Karnataka ROI Rajkot
1984-85 ROI Bombay Delhi
1985-86 Bombay ROI Nagpur
1986-87 ROI Delhi Jodhpur
1987-88 Hyderabad ROI Secunderabad
1988-89 Tamil Nadu ROI Madras
1989-90 Delhi ROI Bombay
1990-91 ROI Bengal Bangalore
1991-92 Haryana ROI Faridabad
1992-93 ROI Delhi Delhi
1993-94 ROI Punjab Ludhiana
1994-95 Bombay ROI Bombay
1995-96 Mumbai ROI Mumbai
1996-97 Karnataka ROI Bangalore
1997-98 Mumbai ROI Mumbai
1998-99 Karnataka ROI Bangalore
1999-00 ROI Karnataka Bangalore
2000-01 ROI Mumbai Mumbai

* title shared by both teams in 1965-66
* ROI - Rest of India

Irani Trophy winners:
Bombay/Mumbai and Rest of India - 15 times each
Karnataka - 4
Delhi -2
Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu & Haryana - 1

Top Run Getters in Irani Trophy (Qualification 500 runs)
Gundappa Vishwanath 

         Name                        Runs    Matches	    
     G.R.Vishwanath                  1001         9         
     D.B.Vengsarkar                   779         9     
     A.V.Mankad                       759        13     
     S.M.Gavaskar                     733        12     
     A.L.Wadekar                      717        11    
     R.J.Shastri                      609         6    
     W.V.Raman                        578         8    
     P.K.Amre                         503         4   

Top Wicket Takers in Irani Trophy (Qualification 20 wickets) 

B Chandrasekar
         Name                      Wickets    Matches
     P.K.Shivalkar                    51        10          
     BS Chandrasekar                  40         8    
     Maninder Singh                   35         7     
     S.Venkatraghvan                  34         8     
     Kapil Dev                        28         7     
     R.J.Shastri                      27         6     
     E.A.S.Prasanna                   25         6     
     A.Kumble                         24         3     
     S.V.Bahutule                     24         3     
     R.G.Nadkarni                     21         5     
     A.M.Ismail                       21         7     
     S.L.V.Raju                       20         5