The 2013 Irani Cup, also called 2013 Irani Trophy, was the 51st season of the

Irani Cup Irani Trophy or Irani Cup also known as the Mastercard Irani Trophy due to sponsorship reasons, is a first-class cricket tournament organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) ...

, a first-class

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competition in India. It was a one-off match which was played from 6 February 2013 to 10 February 2013 between the 2012–13 Ranji champions

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and the Rest of India team. Wankhede Stadium, the home ground of Mumbai, hosted the match. The match was drawn and Rest of India retained the Irani Cup by virtue of their first innings lead.

Squads

Lead-up

Mumbai captain

Ajit Agarkar Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar (born 4 December 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and a commentator. He has represented India in more than 200 international matches in all three formats of the game. He is the third highest wicket-taker for India i ...

was ruled out of the Irani Cup due to a groin injury. Allrounder

Abhishek Nayar Abhishek Mohan Nair (born 8 October 1983) is a former Indian international cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. He played first class cricket for Mumbai and also represented Mumbai Indians, Kings ...

was named the captain of the side. A stomach bug forced the RoI captain

Virender Sehwag Virender Sehwag (born 20 October 1978) is a former Indian cricketer who represented India from 1999 to 2013. Widely regarded as one of the most destructive opener, he played for Delhi Capitals in IPL and Delhi and Haryana in Indian domestic c ...

to sit out for the match, and

Harbhajan Singh Harbhajan Singh (born 3 July 1980) is a member of parliament in Rajya Sabha and an Indian retired cricketer and cricket commentator, who played for the Indian national cricket team from 1998 - 2016. Singh was a right-arm spin bowler. In India ...

lead the team instead.

Scorecard

;Innings 1 Fall of wickets: 1–144 (Dhawan, 38.1 ov), 2–222 (Tiwary, 58.6 ov), 3–231 (Vijay, 62.6 ov), 4–309 (Rayudu, 83.2 ov), 5–330 (Saha, 88.5 ov), 6–352 (Harbhajan, 94.4 ov), 7–505 (Mithun, 122.4 ov), 8–506 (Ojha, 123.6 ov), 9–512 (Raina, 124.4 ov), 10–526 (Pandey, 130.1 ov) ;Innings 2 Fall of wickets: 1–14 (Tare, 3.3 ov), 2–146 (Jaffer, 39.2 ov), 3–161 (Thakur, 44.1 ov), 4–234 (Rahane, 64.5 ov), 5–254 (Sharma, 70.4 ov), 6–257 (Nayar, 73.4 ov), 7–360 (Chavan, 99.4 ov), 8–399 (Kulkarni, 110.4 ov), 9–409 (Khan, 113.5 ov), 10–409 (Dabholkar, 114.1 ov) ;Innings 3 Fall of wickets: 1–0 (Dhawan, 0.6 ov), 2–55 (Sreesanth, 17.6 ov), 3–67 (Vijay, 23.1 ov), 4–207 (Tiwary, 72.2 ov), 5–352 (Raina, 106.5 ov) ;Innings 4 Fall of Wickets:1-36 (Tare, 13.3 ov), 2-89 (Rahane, 27.3 ov), 3-104 (Sharma, 30.3 ov), 4-123 (Nayar 41.5 ov) Result: Match Drawn; Rest of India won on 1st innings

References

External links

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