Vijay Hazare Trophy

The Vijay Hazare Trophy, (officially known as Mastercard Vijay Hazare trophy for sponsorship reasons) also known as the Ranji One-Day Trophy, is an annual limited-overs cricket domestic competition involving state teams from the Ranji Trophy plates organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The tournament was started in the 2002-03 season and is named after the legendary twentieth-century Indian cricketer Vijay Hazare.^[1]

Vijay Hazare Trophy

Countries	India
Administrator	BCCI
Format	List A cricket
First edition	2002–03
Latest edition	2022–23
Tournament format	Round robin and Playoff
Number of teams	38
Current champion	Saurashtra cricket team (2nd title)
Most successful	Tamil Nadu (5 titles)
Most runs	Yashpal Singh (3193 Runs)
2022–23 Vijay Hazare Trophy
Website	Vijay Hazare Trophy

Tamil Nadu is the most successful team having won the trophy five times. Saurashtra cricket team are the current champions, defeating Maharashtra in the (2022-23 Vijay Hazare Trophy) to win their second title.^[2]

In January 2021, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced that the tournament would take place despite the 2020–21 Ranji Trophy being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India.^[3][4]

Format

Until the 2014–15 season, 28 teams are split into 5 zonal groups as follows:

Zone	Teams	No. of Teams
Central	Madhya Pradesh, Railways, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha	5
East	Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Tripura	6
North	Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Services	6
South	Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Hyderabad, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu	6
West	Baroda, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Saurashtra	5

After playing each team in the group once, the five winners and the best performing runner-up qualify for the quarter final stage directly, while the four other runners-up play in the preliminary quarter finals. The two winners of pre-quarter finals join the remaining six teams in the quarter final stage. From the 2015–16 to 2017–18 season, the zonal groups were replaced with 4 groups of 7 each.^{[citation needed]}

From 2018 to 2019 season, the teams were divided into 3 elite groups and 1 plate group. The 2 top elite group had 9 teams while 3rd elite group has 10 team. Plate group consists of 9 new teams. Teams are grouped based on average points in preceding 3 seasons.^{[citation needed]}

Tournament history

From the tournament's inaugural edition during the 1993–94 season through to the 2001–02 season, no finals were held, and teams consequently played only within their zones, with no overall winner named.

Year	Zone winners					Most runs	Most wickets	Ref
	Central	East	North	South	West
1993–94	Uttar Pradesh	Bengal	Haryana	Karnataka	Bombay	R. Dravid (Karnataka)	D. Singh (Haryana)	^[5]
1994–95	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Punjab	Hyderabad	Maharashtra	A. Sharma (Delhi)	A. Sarkar (Bengal)	^[6]
1995–96	Uttar Pradesh	Bengal	Haryana	Karnataka	Bombay	S. Ramesh (Tamil Nadu)	K. Ananthapadmanabhan (Kerala) S. Joshi (Karnataka) S. Mukherjee (Bengal) S. Sharma (Punjab)	^[7]^[8]
1996–97	Madhya Pradesh	Assam	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	S. Manjrekar (Mumbai)	H. Ramkishen (Andhra Pradesh)	^[9]
1997–98	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	S. Somasunder (Karnataka)	R. Sanghvi (Karnataka)	^[10]
1998–99	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Punjab	Karnataka	Mumbai	V. Bharadwaj (Karnataka)	J. Rai (Himachal Pradesh) N. Singh (Hyderabad)	^[11]
1999–00	Madhya Pradesh	Bengal	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	M. Azharuddin (Hyderabad)	T. Pawan Kumar (Hyderabad)	^[12]
2000–01	Madhya Pradesh	Orissa	Punjab	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai	A. Pathak (Andhra Pradesh)	V. Raju (Hyderabad) R. Sanghvi (Delhi)	^[13]
2001–02	Railways	Orissa	Punjab	Karnataka	Mumbai	S. Sharma (Himachal Pradesh)	A. Dave (Rajasthan) J. Gokulakrishnan (Assam) L. Patel (Gujarat) V. Sharma (Punjab)	^[14]

During the 2002–03 and 2003–04 seasons, a final round-robin stage was held for the top teams in each zone. Since the 2004–05 tournament, a playoff format including semi-finals and a final has been held, with varying formats.

Year	Final host	Winner	Runner-up	Most runs	Most wickets	Ref
2002–03	No final	Tamil Nadu	Punjab	Niranjan Godbole (Maharashtra)	Iqbal Siddiqui (Maharashtra)	^[15]
2003–04	No final	Mumbai	Bengal	Devang Gandhi (Bengal)	Sarandeep Singh (Delhi)	^[16]
2004–05	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Shared: Tamil Nadu (2) and Uttar Pradesh		V. Sivaramakrishnan (Tamil Nadu)	Ranadeb Bose (Bengal) Praveen Kumar (Uttar Pradesh)	^[17]
2005–06	Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai	Railways	Uttar Pradesh	Dinesh Mongia (Punjab)	Sankalp Vohra (Baroda)	^[18]
2006–07	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	Mumbai (2)	Rajasthan	Wasim Jaffer (Mumbai)	Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran (Tamil Nadu)	^[19]
2007–08	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam	Saurashtra	Bengal (2)	Ajinkya Rahane (Mumbai)	Vishal Bhatia (Himachal Pradesh)	^[20]
2008–09	Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium, Agartala	Tamil Nadu (3)	Bengal (3)	Virat Kohli (Delhi)	Shoaib Ahmed (Hyderabad)	^[21]
2009–10	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Tamil Nadu (4)	Bengal (4)	Shreevats Goswami (Bengal)	Yo Mahesh (Tamil Nadu)	^[22]
2010–11	Holkar Stadium, Indore	Jharkhand	Gujarat	Ishank Jaggi (Jharkhand)	Amit Mishra (Haryana)	^[23]
2011–12	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi	Bengal	Mumbai	Wriddhiman Saha (Bengal)	Parvinder Awana (Delhi)	^[24]
2012–13	Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam	Delhi	Assam	Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)	Pritam Das (Assam)	^[25]
2013–14	Eden Gardens, Kolkata	Karnataka	Railways	Robin Uthappa (Karnataka)	Vinay Kumar (Karnataka)	^[26]
2014–15	Sardar Patel Stadium, Ahmedabad	Karnataka (2)	Punjab (2)	Manish Pandey (Karnataka)	Abhimanyu Mithun (Karnataka)	^[27]
2015–16	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru	Gujarat	Delhi	Mandeep Singh (Punjab)	Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat)	^[28]
2016–17	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi	Tamil Nadu (5)	Bengal (5)	Dinesh Karthik (Tamil Nadu)	Aswin Crist (Tamil Nadu)	^[29]
2017–18	Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi	Karnataka (3)	Saurashtra	Mayank Agarwal (Karnataka)	Mohammed Siraj (Hyderabad)	^[30]
2018–19	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru	Mumbai (3)	Delhi (2)	Abhinav Mukund (Tamil Nadu)	Shahbaz Nadeem (Jharkhand)
2019–20	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru	Karnataka (4)	Tamil Nadu	Devdutt Padikkal (Karnataka)	Pritam Das (Assam)
2020–21	Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi	Mumbai (4)	Uttar Pradesh	Prithvi Shaw (Mumbai)	Shivam Sharma (Uttar Pradesh)
2021–22	Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur	Himachal Pradesh	Tamil Nadu	Ruturaj Gaikwad (Maharashtra)	Yash Thakur (Vidarbha)
2022–23	Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad	Saurashtra (2)	Maharashtra	Narayan Jagadeesan (Tamil Nadu)	Vasuki Koushik (Karnataka)

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