1999–2000 Ranji Trophy

1999–2000 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	League and knockout
Champions	Mumbai (34th title)
Participants	27
Most runs	V. V. S. Laxman (Hyderabad) (1415)[1]
Most wickets	Kanwaljit Singh (Hyderabad) (62)[2]

The 1999–2000 Ranji Trophy was the 66th season of the Ranji Trophy. Mumbai defeated Hyderabad by 297 runs in the final. V. V. S. Laxman set new seasonal records of 1415 runs and eight hundreds. Kanwaljit Singh's 62 wickets is the second best for a season, after Bishan Bedi's 64 wickets in 1974-75. During the tournament, Rajeev Nayyar made the longest innings in first-class cricket, batting for 1,015 minutes for Himachal Pradesh against Jammu & Kashmir.^[3]

Final

19–23 April 2000 Scorecard

Mumbai	v	Hyderabad
376 (113.2 overs) Vinod Kambli 108 (158) Venkatapathy Raju 4/110 (37.2 overs)		195 (64.4 overs) Mohammad Azharuddin 76 (139) Ajit Agarkar 3/26 (14.4 overs)
409 (89.3 overs) Sachin Tendulkar 128 (124) Venkatapathy Raju 5/123 (28.3 overs)		293 (98.2 overs) V. V. S. Laxman 111 (192) Rajesh Pawar 7/103 (34.2 overs)

Mumbai won by 297 runs Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Jasbir Singh, Narendra Menon

• Hyderabad won the toss and decided to field.

Scorecards and averages

• Ranji Trophy 1999-00 Archived 6 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine at BCCI
• Statistical highlights of Ranji Trophy 1999-2000 at ESPNcricinfo

References

1. "Ranji Trophy, 1999/00 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
2. "Ranji Trophy, 1999/00 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 25 July 2015.
3. "Three cricketers go to prison". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 3 November 2017.