Ranji Trophy 2026-27 Round One Ends With 11 Outright Results

Ranji Trophy 2026-27 round one is over. Eleven of the 19 matches produced an outright result. Four were innings victories. Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Baroda and Hyderabad all won without batting twice. Defending champions Jammu and Kashmir escaped with a draw after slipping to seven down in the fourth innings.

The season began on 11 October. Thirty-eight teams are involved. They are split across the Elite and Plate groups.

Innings defeats for Bihar, Chandigarh and Goa

Uttar Pradesh were the most emphatic. They made 540. Bihar managed 141 and 132, which left a margin of an innings and 267 runs. Mumbai declared on 429 at the Wankhede. Chandigarh replied with 78 and 196. Baroda declared on 472 for eight and beat Goa by an innings and 135. Hyderabad needed only 294 to beat Tripura by an innings and 40.

• Uttar Pradesh beat Bihar by an innings and 267 runs
• Mumbai beat Chandigarh by an innings and 155 runs
• Baroda beat Goa by an innings and 135 runs
• Hyderabad beat Tripura by an innings and 40 runs
• Vidarbha beat Puducherry by 160 runs
• Maharashtra beat Services by 127 runs
• Gujarat beat Odisha by 10 wickets
• Bengal beat Delhi by nine wickets
• Haryana beat Himachal Pradesh by seven wickets
• Manipur beat Mizoram by three wickets

Bengal and Gujarat finish inside four days

Bengal took the heaviest scalp. Delhi made 240 and 277. Bengal replied with 429. The chase of 89 was a formality. Abhishek Porel scored 149 and Sudip Kumar Gharami 133, and between them they settled the match on the second day.

Gujarat beat Odisha by 10 wickets after a first-innings 439. Vidarbha set Puducherry 291 and bowled them out for 130. Maharashtra defended 248 against Services, who folded for 120. Haryana needed 71 and lost three wickets getting them.

The holders survive seven down

Jammu and Kashmir nearly lost their first match as champions. Madhya Pradesh made 196. The holders were bowled out for 120. Madhya Pradesh then declared on 249 for six, setting 326. Jammu and Kashmir were seven down at the close. They held on.

Eight matches were drawn. Jharkhand made 587 against Kerala, the highest first-innings score of the round. Karnataka and Andhra also split the points, with Karun Nair unbeaten on 155.

Thirty-eight teams, two tiers

The Plate group matters here too. Manipur chased 228. They got home with three wickets standing. CricTracker reports that Arunachal Pradesh were deemed to have forfeited their fixture against Nagaland. That costs a developing side four days of competitive cricket it cannot easily replace, and it is the kind of gap associations notice long before a selector does.

Round two follows on 18 October, according to CricTracker. The early table already separates the sides collecting full points from those that will spend the winter chasing them. For state associations, round one is also a fixture-load test. Four innings defeats mean four grounds that lost a day of gate revenue and a day of pitch use.