The 2021–22 Ranji Trophy was the 87th season of the

Ranji Trophy The Ranji Trophy is a premier domestic first-class cricket championship played in India and organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The teams representing regional and state cricket associations participate. BCCI ...

, the premier

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ...

tournament in India. It was contested by 38 teams, divided into eight elite groups, with six teams in Plate group . All the Plate Group league matches took place in

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. The tournament was announced by the

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(BCCI) on 3 July 2021. In the opening round of fixtures, Sakibul Gani of

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became the first player to score a triple century on their first-class debut, scoring 341 runs.

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won the Plate Group to progress to the

knockout stage A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

of the tournament.

Points table

Fixtures

Round 1

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Round 2

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Round 3

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References

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