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{{Infobox cricket tournament
| name = 1988-89 Ranji Trophy
| image = Ranji_trophy.jpg
| imagesize = 290px
| fromdate = 13 October 1988
| todate = 28 March 1989
| 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 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
| count = 5
| participants = 27
| matches =
| attendance =
| player of the series =
| most runs = [[Woorkeri Raman]] (Tamil Nadu) (1,018)<ref>{{cite web|title=Batting - Most Runs|url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/STATS/IND_LOCAL_RJI_AVS_BAT_MOST_RUNS.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref>
| most wickets = [[Manoj Prabhakar]] (Delhi) (39)<ref>{{cite web|title=Bowling - Most Wickets|url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/STATS/IND_LOCAL_RJI_AVS_BOWL_MOST_WKTS.html|work=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref>
| website =
| previous_year = 1987–88
| previous_tournament = 1987–88 Ranji Trophy
| next_year = 1989–90
| next_tournament = 1989–90 Ranji Trophy
}}

The '''1988–89 Ranji Trophy''' was the 55th season of the [[Ranji Trophy]], the premier [[first-class cricket]] tournament that took place in India between October 1988 and March 1989.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1988-89 Schedule|url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/RANJI_1988-89-SCHEDULE.html|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 April 2018}}</ref> [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] defeated [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] by an innings and 210 runs in the final.

[[Sachin Tendulkar]] made his first-class debut in this season, in December 1988. Playing for [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] at home in the [[Wankhede Stadium]] against [[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]], he made a [[Century (cricket)|century]] in his debut innings, scoring 100 not out off 129 balls, becoming the youngest Indian to do to so.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tendulkar hits ton on debut|work=The Indian Express |publisher=Press Trust of India |date=12 December 1988|page=16}}</ref>

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

===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 || 3 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''94''' || 2.577
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Punjab cricket team (India)|Punjab]]
| 5 || 3 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''77''' || 1.740
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
| 5 || 2 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''71''' || 1.338
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Services cricket team|Services]]
| 5 || 0 || 2 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''49''' || 0.712
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Jammu and Kashmir cricket team|Jammu and Kashmir]]
| 5 || 0 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''36''' || 0.611
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Himachal Pradesh cricket team|Himachal Pradesh]]
| 5 || 0 || 2 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''25''' || 0.387
|}

===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"|[[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]
| 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''54''' || 1.122
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| 4 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''54''' || 1.104
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Railways cricket team|Railways]]
| 4 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''52''' || 1.402
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Vidarbha cricket team|Vidarbha]]
| 4 || 0 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''31''' || 0.705
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Rajasthan cricket team|Rajasthan]]
| 4 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''28''' || 0.793
|}

===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]]
| 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''65''' || 2.624
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Orissa cricket team|Orissa]]
| 4 || 2 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 0 || '''60''' || 1.393
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]
| 4 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''51''' || 1.152
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Assam cricket team|Assam]]
| 4 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''37''' || 0.801
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Tripura cricket team|Tripura]]
| 4 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 0 || '''11''' || 0.263
|}
{{col-2}}

===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"|[[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| 5 || 3 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''81''' || 2.602
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| 5 || 1 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''78''' || 1.455
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]
| 5 || 1 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''52''' || 0.889
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Andhra cricket team|Andhra]]
| 5 || 1 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''51''' || 0.774
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Goa cricket team|Goa]]
| 5 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 0 || 0 || '''44''' || 0.690
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Kerala cricket team|Kerala]]
| 5 || 0 || 3 || 2 || 0 || 0 || '''43''' || 0.657
|}

===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"|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]
| 4 || 1 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''55''' || 1.762
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|style="text-align:left"|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]
| 4 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 0 || '''46''' || 1.246
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]
| 4 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 0 || '''32''' || 0.616
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]
| 4 || 0 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || '''31''' || 1.003
|-
|style="text-align:left"|[[Saurashtra cricket team|Saurashtra]]
| 4 || 0 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 0 || '''31''' || 0.732
|}
{{col-end}}

== Knockout stage ==
{{Round16

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

|3 Feb 1989 — Secunderabad|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]|270 & 268|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''283 & 256/4'''
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|3 Feb 1989 — Pune|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''700'''|[[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]|261 & 177

|17 Feb 1989 — Bombay|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''234 & 422'''|[[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]|137 & 295
|17 Feb 1989 — Delhi|'''[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]'''|'''638/6d'''|[[Orissa cricket team|Orissa]]|161 & 262
|17 Feb 1989 — Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] (F)'''|'''594/8d & 66/2'''|[[Punjab cricket team (India)|Punjab]]|551
|17 Feb 1988 — Madras|'''[[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]'''|'''507 & 247'''|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]|382 & 333

|3 Mar 1989 — Bombay|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]|321|'''[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] (F)'''|'''409 & 176/5'''
|3 Mar 1989 — Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] (F)'''|'''596/8d & 76/1'''|[[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]|535

|22 Mar 1989 — Delhi|'''[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]'''|'''721'''|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]|167 & 344

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

'''(F)''' - Advanced to next round on First Innings Lead.

=== Pre-quarter-finals ===
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 3–6 February 1989
| round = '''Pre-quarter-final 1'''
| team1 = [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
| team2 = [[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 270 (71 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[M. V. Narasimha Rao]] 66*
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Kiran Mokashi]] 4/65 (22 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 283 (87.3 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Dilip Vengsarkar]] 64
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Arshad Ayub]] 6/129 (38.3 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 268 (75.5 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Arshad Ayub]] 69
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Kiran Mokashi]] 5/109 (28 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 259/4 (87.5 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Sanjay Manjrekar]] 80*
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Venkatapathy Raju]] 3/118 (40 overs)

| result = Bombay won by 6 wickets
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/HYD_BOM_RJI-PQF1_03-06FEB1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Gymkhana Ground, Secunderabad|Gymkhana Ground]], [[Secunderabad]]
| umpires = P. S. Godbole and R. Mitra
| motm =
| toss = Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes =
}}
----
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 3–6 February 1989
| round = '''Pre-quarter-final 1'''
| team1 = [[Madhya Pradesh cricket team|Madhya Pradesh]]
| team2 = [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 261 (55.4 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Sandeep Patil]] 68
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Salil Ankola]] 5/93 (17.4 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 700 (164.5 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Shantanu Sugwekar]] 299*
| wickets-team2-inns1 = Suhail Ansari 3/69 (26 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 177 (38.2 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = Prashant Dwivedi 50
| wickets-team1-inns2 = Gregory D'Monte 5/60 (15 overs)

| result = Maharashtra won by an innings and 262 runs
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/MAHA_MP_RJI-PQF2_03-06FEB1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Nehru Stadium, Pune|Nehru Stadium]], [[Pune]]
| umpires = D. V. Pathak and V. S. Rajan
| motm =
| toss = Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes =
}}

=== Quarter-finals ===
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 17–20 February 1989
| round = '''Quarter-final 1'''
| team1 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
| team2 = [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 507 (135.5 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Woorkeri Raman]] 200[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Sunil Gudge]] 5/122 (28.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 382 (96 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Surendra Bhave]] 128
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Sunil Subramaniam]] 7/107 (31.1 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 247 (69 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Arjan Kripal Singh]] 89
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Ramesh Hazare]] 7/68 (27 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 333 (64.1 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Shrikant Jadhav]] 86
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Bharat Arun]] 4/75 (14.1 overs)

| result = Tamil Nadu won by 39 runs
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/TN_MAHA_RJI-QF1_17-20FEB1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium]], [[Chennai]]
| umpires = [[Nilay Dutta]] and [[Ram Babu Gupta]]
| motm =
| toss = Tamil Nadu won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Woorkeri Raman]] and [[Venkataraman Sivaramakrishan|V. Sivaramakrishan]] (both Tamil Nadu) and [[Shrikant Jadhav]] (Maharashtra) passed 2,000, 6,000 and 1,000 runs respectively in first-class matches.<ref name="1stQF">{{cite web|title=Tamil Nadu v Maharashtra, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Quarter-Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com:80/Archive/Scorecards/50/50963.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140131171144/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50963.html|archive-date=31 January 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*''[[Bharat Arun]] (Tamil Nadu) reached 100 wickets in first-class matches.''<ref name="1stQF"/>
}}
----
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 17–20 February 1989
| round = '''Quarter-final 2'''
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Punjab cricket team (India)|Punjab]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 594/8[[Declaration and forfeiture|d]] (171 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Ashok Malhotra]] 200[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Bhupinder Singh (Indian cricketer)|Bhupinder Singh]] 3/115 (43 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 551 (174.1 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Gursharan Singh]] 298[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Satyendra Singh]] 4/94 (36.1 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 66/2 (16 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Indu Bhushan Roy]] 31*
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Rajdeep Kalsi]] 1/9 (2 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 =
| runs-team2-inns2 =
| wickets-team2-inns2 =

| result = Match drawn<br/>(Bengal won on 1st innings)
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/BENG_PNJB_RJI-QF2_17-20FEB1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Eden Gardens]], [[Calcutta]]
| umpires = [[B. Jamula]] and [[B. R. Keshavamurthy]]
| motm =
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Sukhvinder Tinku]] (Punjab) made his first-class debut.<ref name="QF2">{{cite web|title=Bengal v Punjab, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Quarter-Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50960.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114083332/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50960.html|archive-date=14 November 2012}}</ref>
*''[[Indu Bhushan Roy]] (Bengal) and [[Gursharan Singh]] (Punjab) passed 1,000 and 3,000 runs respectively in first-class matches.''<ref name="QF2"/>
}}
----
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 17–20 February 1989
| round = '''Quarter-final 3'''
| team1 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
| team2 = [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 234 (67.1 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Shishir Hattangadi]] 140
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Gopal Sharma (cricketer)|Gopal Sharma]] 4/81 (23 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 137 (59.4 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Sunil Chaturvedi]] 47
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Kiran Mokashi]] 4/34 (18.4 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 422 (138.5 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Sanjay Manjrekar]] 131
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Gopal Sharma (cricketer)|Gopal Sharma]] 7/113 (51.5 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 = 295 (111.5 overs)
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Rahul Sapru]] 92[[not out|*]]
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Kiran Mokashi]] 4/104 (38.5 overs)

| result = Bombay won by 224 runs
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/BOM_UP_RJI-QF3_17-20FEB1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Wankhede Stadium]], [[Bombay]]
| umpires = [[S. K. Bansal]] and [[Soumendra Basu]]
| motm =
| toss = Bombay won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Satish Kesherwani]] (Uttar Pradesh) made his first-class debut.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bombay v Uttar Pradesh, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Quarter-Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50961.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111234517/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/50/50961.html|archive-date=11 November 2012}}</ref>
}}
----
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 17–20 February 1989
| round = '''Quarter-final 4'''
| team1 = [[Odisha cricket team|Orissa]]
| team2 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 161 (65 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Asjit Jaiprakasham]] 35
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Manoj Prabhakar]] 6/65 (24 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 638/6[[Declaration and forfeiture|d]] (161 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Raman Lamba]] 180
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Sushil Kumar Prasad]] 3/220 (61 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 262 (87 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Soumitra Chowdhury]] 79
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Manoj Prabhakar]] 4/42 (14 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 =
| runs-team2-inns2 =
| wickets-team2-inns2 =

| result = Delhi won by an innings and 215 runs
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/DELHI_ORISSA_RJI-QF4_17-20FEB1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Feroz Shah Kotla]], [[Delhi]]
| umpires = [[M. G. Deshpande]] and [[S. B. Kulkarni]]
| motm =
| toss = Orissa won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Devashish Mahanti]] (Orissa) made his first-class debut.<ref>{{cite web|title=Delhi v Orissa, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Quarter-Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/24/24814/24814.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108181303/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/24/24814/24814.html|archive-date=8 November 2013}}</ref>
}}

=== Semi-finals ===
Delhi qualified for the final for the tenth time by virtue of a first innings lead after its match against Bombay ended in a draw. Requiring 152 runs to surpass Delhi's first innings score of 409, Bombay were dismissed for 321, that included a fighting 78 off 171 balls by [[Sachin Tendulkar]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bombay fail to make it|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3oNlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gZ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2393%2C2309114|access-date=9 April 2018|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=7 March 1989|page=16 |location=Madras |first=H. |last=Natarajan |department=Sport |volume=LVII |number=123}}</ref>

Bengal made it to their ninth final, their first since the [[1971–72 Ranji Trophy|1971–72 competition]], also by virtue of a first innings lead, against Tamil Nadu. Earlier in Tamil Nadu's innings, [[Woorkeri Raman]] scored 238, recording his third double century in as many matches. In the process, he broke the 45-year-old record of [[Rusi Modi]] for most runs in a single season of the competition (1,008). [[Gautam Shome Jr.|Gautam Shome]], who played his first game of the season for Bengal, removed Raman and [[P. C. Prakash]] before Tamil Nadu were dismissed 61 runs short of Bengal's first innings tally.<ref name="2ndSF"/>

{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 3–6 March 1989
| round = '''1st Semi-final'''
| team1 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
| team2 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 409 (170.3 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Manoj Prabhakar]] 123
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Raju Kulkarni]] 5/90 (30.3 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 321 (99.2 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Sachin Tendulkar]] 78 (171)
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Maninder Singh (cricketer)|Maninder Singh]] 7/105 (37 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 176/5 (75 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Bhaskar Pillai]] 49
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Ravi Thakkar]] 2/54 (24 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 =
| runs-team2-inns2 =
| wickets-team2-inns2 =

| result = Match drawn<br/>(Delhi won on 1st innings)
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/BOM_DELHI_RJI-SEMI1_03-06MAR1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Wankhede Stadium]], [[Bombay]]
| umpires = [[R. V. Ramani]] and [[Ivaturi Shivram]]
| motm =
| toss = Delhi won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Sanjay Sharma (cricketer)|Sanjay Sharma]] (Delhi) made his first-class debut.<ref name="1stSF">{{cite web|title=Bombay v Delhi, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Semi-Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51003.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111233619/http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51003.html|archive-date=11 November 2012}}</ref>
*''[[Shishir Hattangadi]] (Bombay) passed 3,000 runs in first-class matches.''<ref name="1stSF"/>
}}
----
{{Two-innings cricket match
| date = 3–6 March 1989
| round = '''2nd Semi-final'''
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| team2 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]

| score-team1-inns1 = 596/8[[Declaration and forfeiture|d]] (182 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Rajinder Singh (cricketer)|Rajinder Singh]] 148
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Divakar Vasu]] 3/149 (50 overs)

| score-team2-inns1 = 535 (140 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Woorkeri Raman]] 238
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Gautam Shome Jr.|Gautam Shome]] 4/135 (33 overs)

| score-team1-inns2 = 76/1 (23 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Indu Roy]] 52
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Arjan Kripal Singh]] 1/15 (4 overs)

| score-team2-inns2 =
| runs-team2-inns2 =
| wickets-team2-inns2 =

| result = Match drawn<br/>(Bengal won on 1st innings)
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/BENG_TN_RJI-SEMI2_03-06MAR1989.html Scorecard]
| venue = [[Eden Gardens]], [[Calcutta]]
| umpires = [[S. B. Kulkarni]] and [[Piloo Reporter]]
| motm =
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Arup Bhattacharya]] (Bengal) passed 1,000 runs in first-class matches.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bengal v Tamil Nadu, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Semi-Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51002.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114100003/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51002.html|archive-date=14 November 2012}}</ref>
*''[[Woorkeri Raman]] (Tamil Nadu) scored his third successive double century.''<ref name="2ndSF">{{cite news |title=Gautam Shome swings it for Bengal |first=Suresh |last=Menon |newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=9 April 2018 |page=16 |date=7 March 1989 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3oNlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gZ4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2393%2C2309114 |department=Sport |location=Madras |volume=LVII |number=123}}</ref>
*''[[P. C. Prakash]] and Raman set a record for the highest [[Partnership (cricket)|partnership]] for the third wicket for Tamil Nadu, surpassing [[C. D. Gopinath]] and [[A. G. Milkha Singh]]'s 248.''<ref name="2ndSF"/>
}}

=== Final ===
{{Test match
| date = 22–26 March 1989
| team2 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]] (H)
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]
| score-team1-inns1 = 167 (62.2 overs)
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Sambaran Banerjee]] 55
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Manoj Prabhakar]] 4/40 (20.2 overs)
| score-team2-inns1 = 721 (191.1 overs)
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Bhaskar Pillai]] 199
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Sagarmoy Sensharma]] 3/94 (31 overs)
| score-team1-inns2 = 344 (74.4 overs)
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Rajinder Singh (cricketer)|Rajinder Singh]] 79
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Kirti Azad]] 3/28 (5.4 overs)
| result = Delhi won by an innings and 210 runs
| venue = [[Feroz Shah Kotla]], [[Delhi]]
| umpires = [[Dara Dotiwalla]] and [[R. S. Rathore]]
| motm = [[Bhaskar Pillai]] (Delhi)<ref name="Final">{{cite web|title=Delhi v Bengal, Ranji Trophy 1988/89 (Final)|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51045.html|website=CricketArchive|access-date=9 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114102832/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/51/51045.html|archive-date=14 November 2012}}</ref>
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/KNOCK-OUTS/DELHI_BENG_RJI-FINAL_22-28MAR1989.html Scorecard]
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to bat.
| rain =
| notes = [[Kirti Azad]] (Delhi) passed 5,000 runs in first-class matches.<ref name="Final"/>
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1988-89/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/ Ranji Trophy, 1988-89] at [[ESPNcricinfo]]
* {{CricketArchive|ref=Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1988-89|name=Ranji Trophy 1988/89}}

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