Jadeja, Powar steal Ranji honours

India discard Ajay Jadeja emerged as the highest run getter in the just concluded 2005-06 Ranji Trophy.

Playing in the Plate division for Rajasthan, the right hander aggregated 684 runs in 7 matches at 97.71. While Mumbai's Ramesh Powar was the leading wicket taker with 42 wickets in the tournament.

Eighty-five matches were played in the Championship, out of which 45 produced results.

Uttar Pradesh and Bengal qualified for the final of the Elite division, which the former won on the basis of the first innings lead. It was Uttar Pradesh's maiden Ranji Trophy title.

In the Plate final, Saurashtra emerged triumphant, scoring an innings victory over Rajasthan.

Statistical analysis of the 2005-06 Ranji Trophy:

Highest Innings Totals:

Total	For	Vs	Venue
619	Bengal	Baroda	Kolkata
605-9d	Baroda	Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad
587	Rajasthan	Bihar	Jaipur
551	Mumbai	Delhi	Delhi FSK
550-7d	Punjab	Hyderabad	Mohali
528-7d	Orissa	Himachal Pradesh	Cuttack

Lowest Innings Totals:

Total	For	Vs	Venue
67	Himachal Pradesh	Orissa	Cuttack
69	Delhi	Gujarat	Delhi FSK
77	Railways	Delhi	Delhi KS
79	Gujarat	Railways	Delhi KS
80	Hyderabad	Andhra	Anantapur
80	Himachal Pradesh	Tripura	Agartala
81	Services	Hyderabad	Secunderabad
87	Vidarbha	Orissa	Nagpur VCA
92	Saurashtra	Orissa	Cuttack
93	Vidarbha	Himachal Pradesh	Nagpur VCA
94	Orissa	Rajasthan	Jaipur KLS

Biggest margins of victory:

Margin	For	Vs	Venue
Inns and 293 runs	Orissa	Himachal Pradesh	Cuttack
Inns and 151 runs	Punjab	Hyderabad	Mohali
Inns and 138 runs	Hyderabad	Services	Secunderabad
222 runs	Tamil Nadu	Bengal	Kolkata
220 runs	Baroda	Hyderabad	Baroda
10 wickets	Bengal	Delhi	Delhi JM
10 wickets	Saurashtra	Goa	Rajkot
10 wickets	Madhya Pradesh	Jammu and Kashmir	Indore
10 wickets	Uttar Pradesh	Hyderabad	Lucknow

Narrowest margins of victory:

Margin	For	Vs	Venue
14 runs	Himachal Pradesh	Vidarbha	Nagpur VCA
1 wicket	Rajasthan	Jammu and Kashmir	Jhalwar

Highest individual innings:

Runs	Batsman	For	Vs	Venue
267	W Jaffer	Mumbai	Delhi	Delhi FSK
251*	JJ Martin	Baroda	Uttar Pradesh	Ghaziabad
217*	PR Shah	Baroda	Services	Delhi Palam
214*	NV Ojha	Madhya Pradesh	Kerala	Indore
206*	S Badrinath	Tamil Nadu	Delhi	Chennai MAC
204	SA Asnodkar	Goa	Tripura	Margao
202*	PM Mullick	Orissa	Himachal Pradesh	Cuttack
185	R Bhatia	Delhi	Tamil Nadu	Chennai MAC
180	RS Ricky	Punjab	Hyderabad	Mohali
176	M Tehlan	Delhi	Maharashtra	Delhi JM
175*	D Mongia	Punjab	Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow KDS
171	J Arunkumar	Assam	Jammu & Kashmir	Guwahati
171	DB Dasgupta	Bengal	Baroda	Kolkata
162	W Jaffer	Mumbai	Tamil Nadu	Mumbai WS
161	AD Jadeja	Rajasthan	Bihar	Jaipur SMS
159	SC Ganguly	Bengal	Maharashtra	Pune
157*	HK Badani	Tamil Nadu	Bengal	Kolkata
154	RS Gavaskar	Bengal	Mumbai	Mumbai WS
153	C Rawat	Assam	Madhya Pradesh	Indore

Leading run-scorers:

Batsman	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	100s	50s
AD Jadeja (Raj)	7	10	3	684	161	97.71	1	6
AA Muzumdar (Mum)	8	12	2	672	123	67.20	2	4
S Badrinath (TN)	7	10	2	636	206*	79.50	2	3
SK Raina (UP)	6	10	1	620	127	68.88	1	5
DB Dasgupta (Ben)	9	14	1	578	171	44.46	2	0
DS Jadhav (Mah)	6	12	1	576	108	52.36	2	2
JJ Martin (Bar)	7	11	2	571	251*	63.44	1	4
W Jaffer (Mum)	4	6	1	563	267	112.60	2	1
D Bundela (MP)	6	10	1	557	140	61.88	2	2
CC Williams (Bar)	7	12	2	555	138	55.50	2	3
SG Das (Ben)	8	14	2	542	115	45.16	1	1
NV Ojha (MP)	6	12	2	537	214*	53.70	1	4
SA Asnodkar (Goa)	5	9	0	529	204	58.77	2	1
D Mongia (Pun)	6	11	3	517	175*	64.62	3	0
PM Mullick (Ori)	6	8	2	503	202*	83.83	2	2

Highest partnership for each wicket:

Wkt	Runs	Batsmen	Teams	Venue
1st	337	SM Dholpure & NV Ojha	Madhya Pradesh v Kerala	Indore
2nd	217	SG Das & AA Jhunjhunwala	Bengal v Railways	Kolkata
3rd	313	W Jaffer & AA Muzumdar	Mumbai v Delhi	Delhi FSK
4th	218	Kavaljit Singh & D Mahajan	Jammu and Kashmir v Kerala	Jammu
5th	175	RS Ricky & M Sharma	Punjab v Hyderabad	Mohali
6th	314	DB Dasgupta & LR Shukla	Bengal v Baroda	Kolkata
7th	201	SA Asnodkar & SB Jakati	Goa v Tripura	Margao
8th	173	DB Dasgupta & Shibsagar Singh	Bengal v Gujarat	Surat
9th	137	AD Jadeja & Zakir Hussain	Rajasthan v Bihar	Jaipur SMS
10th	102	GK Pandey & AW Zaidi	Uttar Pradesh v Services	Lucknow KDS

Best bowling in an innings:

Figures	Bowler	For	Vs	Venue
8-40	M Kartik	Railways	Delhi	Delhi KS
8-82	SR Singh	Vidarbha	Saurashtra	Rajkot
7-29	V Jain	Tripura	Himachal Pradesh	Agartala
7-36	SP Pandey	Madhya Pradesh	Jammu & Kashmir	Indore
7-39	SV Sehgal	Orissa	Himachal Pradesh	Cuttack
7-44	KS Sahabuddin	Andhra	Hyderabad	Anantapur
7-81	SM Maniar	Saurashtra	Goa	Rajkot
7-83	KS Sahabuddin	Andhra	Baroda	Anantapur
7-93	SS Lahiri	Bengal	Maharashtra	Pune
7-114	NM Kulkarni	Mumbai	Bengal	Mumbai WS
7-126	PP Ojha	Hyderabad	Baroda	Baroda

Ten wickets or more in a match:

Figures	Bowler	Teams	Venue
11-88	PK Reddy	Hyderabad v Services	Secunderabad
11-115	A Bhandari	Delhi v Gujarat	Delhi FSK
11-116	R Jesuraj	Tamil Nadu v Bengal	Kolkata
11-145	SR Singh	Vidarbha v Saurashtra	Rajkot
10-57	SV Sehgal	Orissa v Himachal Pradesh	Cuttack
10-81	SK Trivedi	Gujarat v Delhi	Delhi FSK
10-91	Pankaj Singh	Rajasthan v Orissa	Jaipur KLS
10-118	Z Khan	Baroda v Punjab	Baroda
10-129	RR Powar	Mumbai v Gujarat	Ahmedabad SPS
10-133	SM Maniar	Saurashtra v Goa	Rajkot
10-139	KS Sahabuddin	Andhra v Hyderabad	Anantapur
10-142	A Rajan	Madhya Pradesh v Bihar	Indore
10-152	J Sharma	Haryana v Hyderabad	Uppal
10-160	P Kumar	Uttar Pradesh v Andhra	Anantapur
10-164	SS Lahiri	Bengal v Maharashtra	Pune
10-170	Gagandeep Singh	Punjab v Haryana	Mohali

Leading wicket-takers:

Bowler	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Best	Avg	5WI	10WM
RR Powar (Mum)	2058	76	952	42	6-65	22.66	4	1
P Kumar (UP)	1928	59	983	41	5-33	23.97	4	1
SS Lahiri (Ben)	2411	75	1130	39	7-93	28.97	3	1
SM Maniar (Sau)	1479	71	678	38	7-81	17.84	4	1
SK Trivedi (Guj)	1661	71	590	37	6-101	15.94	4	1
SS Paul (Ben)	2086	74	914	36	6-25	25.38	2	0
P Chawla (UP)	1849	65	846	35	5-37	24.17	4	0
MM Patel (Mah)	1613	59	670	34	6-50	19.70	2	0
J Sharma (Har)	1596	56	775	34	5-47	22.79	4	1
KS Sahabuddin (And)	1438	66	595	32	7-44	18.59	3	1
C Nanda (Del)	1583	47	730	30	6-67	24.33	1	0
AW Zaidi (UP)	1860	77	790	30	5-50	26.33	1	0
SR Singh (Vid)	986	45	362	29	8-82	12.48	1	1
S Gill (Raj)	1263	74	485	28	6-20	17.32	2	0
Gagandeep Singh (Pun)	1215	51	506	28	6-133	18.07	3	1
DS Mohanty (Ori)	1027	61	351	27	5-21	13.00	2	0
A Katti (Ass)	1984	125	514	26	4-42	19.76	0	0