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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 1973-74 Ranji Trophy
| image = Ranji_trophy.jpg
| imagesize = 285px
| fromdate =
| todate =
| caption = The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
| administrator = [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]
| cricket format = [[First-class cricket]]
| tournament format = League and [[Single-elimination tournament|knockout]]
| host =
| champions = [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]
| count = 1
| participants = 24
| matches =
| attendance =
| player of the series =
| most runs = [[Hemant Kanitkar]] (Maharashtra) (629)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most runs |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1973-74/Batting_by_Runs.html|access-date=13 December 2014}}</ref>
| most wickets = [[B. S. Chandrasekhar]] (Karnataka) (55)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1973/74 / Records / Most wickets |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1973-74/Bowling_by_Wickets.html|access-date=13 December 2014}}</ref>
| website =
| previous_year = 1972–73
| previous_tournament = 1972–73 Ranji Trophy
| next_year = 1974–75
| next_tournament = 1974–75 Ranji Trophy
}}

The '''1973–74 Ranji Trophy''' was the 40th season of the [[Ranji Trophy]]. Karnataka ended [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay's]] sequence of 15 consecutive titles by defeating them on first innings in the semifinal. They defeated [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]] by 185 runs in the final to win their first Ranji Trophy.

==Group stage==
{{col-begin}}
{{col-3}}

===South Zone===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:160px"|Team
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pld|Played}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|W|Won}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|L|Lost}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|D|Draw}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|T|Tied}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|NR|No Result}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pts|Points}}
! style="width:25px;"|{{Abbr|Q|Quotient}}
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''26''' || 2.332
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]
| 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''26''' || 1.948
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''24''' || 1.699
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Andhra cricket team|Andhra]]
| 4 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''5''' || 0.533
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Kerala cricket team|Kerala]]
| 4 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''3''' || 0.295
|}

===North Zone===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:160px"|Team
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pld|Played}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|W|Won}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|L|Lost}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|D|Draw}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|T|Tied}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|NR|No Result}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pts|Points}}
! style="width:25px;"|{{Abbr|Q|Quotient}}
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
| 5 || 4 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''38''' || 2.264
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Railways cricket team|Railways]]
| 5 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''26''' || 1.219
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| 5 || 1 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''24''' || 1.088
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Services cricket team|Services]]
| 5 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''16''' || 0.829
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Punjab cricket team (India)|Punjab]]
| 5 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 0 || 0 || '''15''' || 0.900
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team|Jammu and Kashmir]]
| 5 || 0 || 4 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''5''' || 0.386
|}

===East Zone===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:160px"|Team
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pld|Played}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|W|Won}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|L|Lost}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|D|Draw}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|T|Tied}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|NR|No Result}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pts|Points}}
! style="width:25px;"|{{Abbr|Q|Quotient}}
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''20''' || 2.535
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]
| 3 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''19''' || 1.540
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Orissa cricket team|Orissa]]
| 3 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''5''' || 0.660
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Assam cricket team|Assam]]
| 3 || 0 || 2 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''3''' || 0.453
|}
{{col-2}}

===West Zone===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:160px"|Team
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pld|Played}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|W|Won}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|L|Lost}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|D|Draw}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|T|Tied}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|NR|No Result}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pts|Points}}
! style="width:25px;"|{{Abbr|Q|Quotient}}
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]
| 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''27''' || 2.390
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]
| 4 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''20''' || 1.297
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| 4 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''18''' || 0.959
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]
| 4 || 0 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''13''' || 0.741
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| 4 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''3''' || 0.549
|}

===Central Zone===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="width:160px"|Team
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pld|Played}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|W|Won}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|L|Lost}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|D|Draw}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|T|Tied}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|NR|No Result}}
! style="width:25px"|{{abbr|Pts|Points}}
! style="width:25px;"|{{Abbr|Q|Quotient}}
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]
| 3 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''14''' || 0.874
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''13''' || 1.413
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''13''' || 1.015
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| 3 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''8''' || 0.813
|}
{{col-end}}

== Knockout stage ==
{{Round16|style=white-space:nowrap

| seed-width = 25px
| team-width = 150px
| score-width = 100px

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|22 Feb 1974 — Calcutta|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]|143 & 161/3|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''197 & 199'''
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|22 Feb 1974 — Jamshedpur|'''[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]'''|'''105 & 334/6d'''|[[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]|169 & 171
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|01 Mar 1974 — Hyderabad|'''[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]'''|'''493'''|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]|254 & 429/9
|01 Mar 1974 — Delhi|[[Railways cricket team|Railways]]|246 & 127/4|'''[[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]'''|'''255 & 281'''
|01 Mar 1974 — Bangalore|'''[[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]'''|'''338 & 265'''|[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]|206 & 174
|01 Mar 1974 — Jamshedpur|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]|302 & 122|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''200 & 283'''

|15 Mar 1974 — Hyderabad|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]|276 & 155|'''[[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]'''|'''196 & 247'''
|15 Mar 1974 — Bangalore|'''[[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]'''|'''385 & 279/8d'''|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]|207 & 84/0

|23 Mar 1974 — Jaipur|[[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]|176 & 127|'''[[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]'''|'''276 & 212'''

|skipmatch01=yes|skipmatch02=no|skipmatch03=yes|skipmatch04=yes|skipmatch05=yes|skipmatch06=yes|skipmatch07=no|skipmatch08=yes
|RD1 = Pre-Quarter-finals|RD2 = Quarter-finals|RD3 = Semi-finals|RD4 = Finals
|3rdplace=no}}

=== Semi-finals ===
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 15–18 March 1974
| round = '''1st Semi-final'''
| team1 = [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]
| team2 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]] (H)
| score-team1-inns1 = 196 (82.2 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Parthasarathy Sharma]] 86
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Naushir Mehta]] 6/74 (29.2 overs)
| score-team2-inns1 = 276 (94.1 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Abdul Hai (Indian cricketer)|Abdul Hai]] 135
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Suresh Shastri]] 4/55 (21 overs)
| score-team1-inns2 = 247 (100.1 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Nazmul Hussain]] 72
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[MV Narasimha Rao]] 5/24 (14.1 overs)
| score-team2-inns2 = 155 (67.3 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Mumtaz Hussain (cricketer)|Mumtaz Hussain]] 32
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Gajendra Singh Shaktawat (cricketer)|Gajendra Singh Shaktawat]] 6/34 (20.3 overs)
| result = Rajasthan won by 12 runs
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34049.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad|Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium]], [[Hyderabad]]
| umpires = [[Ahmed Mamsa]] and [[Ram Punjabi]]
| motm =
| toss =
| rain =
| notes = [[Sunil Benjamin]] (Rajasthan) passed 1,000 runs and [[Abbas Ali Baig]] (Hyderabad) passed 12,000 runs in first-class cricket.
* ''[[ML Jaisimha]] (Hyderabad) reached 400 wickets in first-class cricket.''
}}
----
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 15–18 March 1974
| round = '''2nd Semi-final'''
| team1 = [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]
| team2 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
| score-team1-inns1 = 385 (152 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Gundappa Viswanath]] 162
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Padmakar Shivalkar]] 4/94 (43 overs)
| score-team2-inns1 = 307 (135 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Ashok Mankad]] 84
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[EAS Prasanna]] 5/117 (63 overs)
| score-team1-inns2 = 279/9[[Declaration and forfeiture|d]] (107.1 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Brijesh Patel]] 63
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Rakesh Tandon]] 4/114 (42 overs)
| score-team2-inns2 = 84/0 (34 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Ramnath Parkar]] 49[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Gundappa Viswanath]] 0/7 (2 overs)
| result = Match drawn (Karnataka won on first innings)
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34050.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[M. Chinnaswamy Stadium]], [[Bangalore]]
| umpires = [[Sunil Banerjee]] and [[Bhairab Ganguli]]
| motm =
| toss = Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Brijesh Patel]] (Karnataka) passed 2,000 runs in first-class cricket.
* ''[[Padmakar Shivalkar]] (Bombay) reached 300 wickets in first-class cricket.''
}}

=== Final ===
{{Test match
| date = 23–27 March 1974
| team1 = [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]
| team2 = [[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]] (H)
| score-team1-inns1 = 276 (101.3 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[B. Vijayakrishna]] 71
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Chandrasekhar Joshi]] 3/53 (19 overs)
| score-team2-inns1 = 176 (89.1 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Hanumant Singh]] 83
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[V. S. Vijay Kumar]] 4/9 (7.1 overs)
| score-team1-inns2 = 212 (85 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Arani Jayaprakash|A. V. Jayaprakash]] 64[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Kailash Gattani]] 4/41 (19 overs)
| score-team2-inns2 = 127 (50.3 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Parthasarathy Sharma]] 51
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[EAS Prasanna]] 5/45 (21 overs)
| result = Karnataka won by 185 runs
| venue = [[Sawai Mansingh Stadium]], [[Jaipur]]
| umpires = [[Madhav Gothoskar]] and [[Judah Reuben]]
| motm =
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/34/34059.html Scorecard]
| toss = Karnataka won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes =
}}

==Scorecards and averages==
* [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1973-74.html CricketArchive]
* [https://i.imgci.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1973-74/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/ Knockout Matches (no pay wall)]
* [https://i.imgci.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1973-74/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/RAJ_KNTKA_RJI-FINAL_23-27MAR1974.html ESPNCricinfo (no pay wall)]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Ranji Trophy Seasons}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:1973-74 Ranji Trophy}}
[[Category:1973 in Indian cricket]]
[[Category:1974 in Indian cricket]]
[[Category:Domestic cricket competitions in 1973–74]]
[[Category:Ranji Trophy seasons]]
[[Category:Long stubs with short prose]]

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GarryNeuhaus77 at 11:26, 1 May 2026