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{{Short description|Indian cricket tournament}}
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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 1937–38 Ranji Trophy
| image = Ranji_trophy.jpg
| imagesize = 350px
| caption = The Ranji Trophy
| administrator = [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]
| cricket format = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| tournament format = [[Single-elimination tournament|Knockout]]
| fromdate = 17 October 1937
| todate = 24 February 1938
| champions = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| count = 1
| participants = 18
| matches = 18
| most runs = [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]] (Nawanagar) (370)<ref>{{cite web |title=Most runs |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1937-38/Batting_by_Runs.html |access-date=6 August 2014}}</ref>
| most wickets = [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]] (Nawanagar) (24)<ref>{{cite web |title=Most wickets |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1937-38/Bowling_by_Wickets.html |access-date=6 August 2014}}</ref>
| previous_year = 1936–37
| previous_tournament = 1936–37 Ranji Trophy
| next_year = 1938–39
| next_tournament = 1938–39 Ranji Trophy
| website = http://www.bcci.tv
}}
The '''1937–38 Ranji Trophy''' was the fourth edition of the [[Ranji Trophy]], an annual [[first-class cricket]] tournament in India. Matches were played from 17 October 1937 to 24 February 1938 with a total of 18 teams participating. The sides were divided into four zonal groups, but the tournament utilised a knockout format. [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] defeated the defending champions [[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]] in the final.

==Teams==
Although the tournament ran in a knockout format, the [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]] (BCCI) organised the teams by zone. [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] were absent from North Zone but [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]] returned and [[North West Frontier Province cricket team|North West Frontier Province]] made their debut. South Zone was reduced to three teams after [[Central Provinces and Berar cricket team|Central Provinces and Berar]] withdrew. West Zone had seven teams with [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]] making their debut. The eighteen teams are listed alphabetically by zone and the sides that won each zonal title are in '''bold'''.
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* '''East Zone'''
* '''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''
* [[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]
* [[Central India cricket team|Central India]] (now [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]])
* [[Rajputana cricket team|Rajputana]] (now [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]])
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* '''North Zone'''
* [[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]
* [[North West Frontier Province cricket team|North West Frontier Province]]
* '''[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]''' (now [[Punjab cricket team (India)|Punjab]])
* [[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]])
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* '''South Zone'''
* '''[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]'''
* [[Madras cricket team|Madras]] (now [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]])
* [[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]] (now [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]])
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* '''West Zone'''
* [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]
* [[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]] (now [[Mumbai cricket team|Mumbai]])
* [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
* [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]
* '''[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]'''
* [[Sind cricket team|Sind]]
* [[Western India cricket team|Western India]]
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==Highlights==
* Hyderabad qualified for the final after getting [[walkover]]s in the previous two rounds when their opposition failed to appear. The Ranji final was the only match they played in this season.
* Hyderabad's feat of winning the Ranji Trophy after winning only one match is a rare feat: Maharashtra in [[1940–41 Ranji Trophy|1940–41]], Bombay in [[1967–68 Ranji Trophy|1967–68]], Hyderabad again in [[1986–87 Ranji Trophy|1986–87]] and Bengal in [[1989–90 Ranji Trophy|1989–90]] all won only one match outright when winning the title.
* [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]] topped the batting and bowling aggregates for the season. He scored 370 runs and took 24 wickets in four matches.
* Against Bombay in the decisive match in the West Zone, Amar Singh scored 140* and took 6/22 in the first innings, bowling Bombay out for 45. Against Baroda he scored 66 and took 6 wickets in the match, and against Sind 86 and 10 wickets for 61 (3/35 and 7/26).
* Nawanagar defeated Baroda by an innings and 275 runs, Sind by an innings and 144 runs and Bombay by an innings and 130 runs before losing the final.

==Zonal matches==
===East Zone===
{{Round4

| seed-width = 25px
| team-width = 150px
| score-width = 80px

|4 Dec 1937 – Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''372'''|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]|99 & 107
|17 Oct 1937– Indore|'''[[Central India cricket team|Central India]]'''|'''101 & 83/8'''|[[Rajputana cricket team|Rajputana]]|108 & 72

|29 Jan 1938 – Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''110 & 217'''|[[Central India cricket team|Central India]]|154 & 145
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}

===North Zone===
{{Round4

| seed-width = 25px
| team-width = 175px
| score-width = 80px

|19 Oct 1937 – Patiala|'''[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]'''|'''216 & 36/0'''|[[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team|North West Frontier Province]]|165 & 85
|22 Oct 1937 – Patiala|'''[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'''|'''173 & 180'''|[[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]]|115 & 154

|25 Oct 1937 – Patiala|'''[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]'''|'''241 & 242'''|[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]|281 & 149
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}

=== South Zone ===
{{Round4

| seed-width = 25px
| team-width = 150px
| score-width = 80px

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|28 Dec 1937 – Bangalore|[[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]]|180 & 101|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''106 & 176/7'''

||'''[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]'''|'''Walkover'''|[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]|

|skipmatch01=yes|skipmatch02=no
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}

=== West Zone ===
{{Round8

| seed-width = 25px
| team-width = 150px
| score-width = 80px

|30 Oct 1937 – Jamnagar|'''[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]'''|'''397'''|[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]|37 & 85
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|24 Oct 1937 – Jamnagar|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''108 & 267'''|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]|133 & 164
|27 Oct 1937 – Jamnagar|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''115 & 152/7'''|[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]|166 & 98

|7 Nov 1937 – Jamnagar|'''[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]'''|'''367'''|[[Sind cricket team|Sind]]|112 & 111
|2 Nov 1937 – Jamnagar|[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]|153 & 279|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''250 & 217'''

|11 Jan 1938 – Jamnagar|'''[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]'''|'''289'''|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]|45 & 114

|skipmatch01=no|skipmatch02=yes|skipmatch03=no|skipmatch04=no
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2|RD3 = Round 3}}

==Inter-zonal knockout matches==
{{Round4

| seed-width = 25px
| team-width = 150px
| score-width = 80px

||'''[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]'''|'''Walkover'''|[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]|
||'''[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]'''|'''Walkover'''|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]|

|22 Feb 1938 – Bombay|'''[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]'''|'''113 & 310/9'''|[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]|152 & 270
}}

==Final==
{{Test match
| date = 22–24 February 1938
| team1 = [[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]
| team2 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| score-team1-inns1 = 152 (54.4 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Nariman Marshall]] 36
| wickets-team1-inns1 = Hyder Ali 4/55 (22.4 overs)
| score-team2-inns1 = 113 (31.2 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Mohammad Hussain (cricketer, born 1909)|Mohammad Hussain]] 36
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Shute Banerjee]] 4/34
| score-team1-inns2 = 270 (70.4 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Albert Wensley]] 67
| wickets-team1-inns2 = Hyder Ali 5/92 (23 overs)
| score-team2-inns2 = 310/9 (100.4 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Edulji Aibara]] 137[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Mubarak Ali (cricketer)|Mubarak Ali]] 3/48 (21 overs)
| result = Hyderabad won by 1 wicket
| venue = [[Brabourne Stadium]], [[Bombay]]
| umpires = [[Dattatraya Naik]] and [[Vali Ahmed]]
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1937-38/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/HYD_NAW_RJI-FINAL_22-24FEB1938.html Scorecard]
| toss = Nawanagar won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = The match was played in a neutral ground.
*''[[Nariman Marshall]] and [[Amar Singh (cricketer)|Amar Singh]] (both Nawanagar) passed 1,000 and 3,000 runs respectively in first-class cricket.''<ref>{{cite web |title=Ranji Trophy 1937/38 (Final) |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16507.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=27 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018213438/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/16/16507.html |archive-date=18 October 2012}}</ref>
*''[[Edulji Aibara]]'s (Hyderabad) 137 was the highest individual score in a successful chase in a Ranji Trophy final before it was surpassed by [[Parthiv Patel]] (143) in [[2016–17 Ranji Trophy#Final|2016–17]].''<ref>{{cite news |title=Ranji Trophy 2016/17, stats review: From Gujarat's highest successful chase in final to Rishab Pant's triple ton – Firstpost |url=https://www.firstpost.com/sports/ranji-trophy-201617-stats-review-from-gujarats-highest-successful-chase-in-final-to-rishab-pants-triple-ton-3205850.html |access-date=27 July 2018 |work=Firstpost |date=16 January 2017}}</ref>
*''Hyderabad's 310 was the highest fourth innings total to win a Ranji final before it was surpassed by Gujarat's 312 in 2016–17.''<ref>{{cite web |title=Stats: Priyank Panchal's season of reckoning |url=https://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/90106/ranji-trophy-2016-17-cricket-gujarat-ranji-trophy-final-indore-mumbai-priyank-panchals-season-of-reckoning |website=Cricbuzz |access-date=27 July 2018 |language=en |date=14 January 2017}}</ref>
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1930S/1937-38/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/ Ranji Trophy, 1937-38] at ESPNcricinfo
* {{CricketArchive|ref=Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1937-38|name=Ranji Trophy 1937/38}}

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