Jammu and Kashmir’s players being congratulated by Mumbai’s players aft winning the Ranji trophy cricket match, astatine Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC, successful Mumbai. (PTI)
At the adjacent of the sixth circular of the Ranji Trophy elite radical matches on Sunday, lone 1 among the 32 competing Elite radical sides had confirmed a spot successful the quarterfinals.
Heading into the last league signifier round, starting January 30, 15 teams stay successful contention for the remaining 7 spots alongside Vidarbha who person topped Group B and booked a knockout slot.
Teams are ranked successful their respective groups based connected Points/No. Of Bonus/Points/Wins/Quotient successful that order.
Jammu and Kashmir’s players observe aft winning a Ranji Trophy cricket lucifer against Mumbai astatine the Sharad Pawar Cricket Academy BKC successful Mumbai connected Saturday. (PTI Photo)
Group-wise breakdown of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 scenarios:
Group A
J & K (29 pts) – J&K could miss the knockouts unless they unafraid astatine slightest 1 constituent from the upcoming lucifer against Baroda. If J&K slip-up, Mumbai tin adjacent level J&K with an innings/10-wicket triumph implicit Meghalaya and suffice with a amended number of bonus points (2) implicit J&K (1).
Baroda (27 pts) – Baroda tin unafraid their spot successful the knockouts by gaining astatine slightest 3 points from a gully with the first-innings pb implicit J&K. A triumph would assistance them apical the group.
Mumbai (22 pts) – The defending champions volition request to bushed Meghalaya with a bonus constituent and anticipation Baroda defeats J&K outright.
Group B
Gujarat (26 pts) and Himachal Pradesh (21 pts) – The teams volition beryllium successful a nonstop shootout for 1 spot down Vidarbha. Himachal volition necessitate an outright triumph to sound Gujarat down from 2nd place.
Group C
Haryana (26 pts) – Taking connected Karnataka, Haryana volition request a minimum of 3 points to unafraid their spot.
Kerala (21 pts) – Facing Bihar astatine home, Kerala tin unafraid their spot with a win.
Karnataka (19 pts) – Karnataka tin suffice for the knockouts by bonus points if they assertion their 2nd specified triumph of the play implicit Haryana.
Bengal (17 pts) – Standing with an extracurricular chance, Bengal tin outpouring to 2nd spot with a triumph implicit Punjab, provided Kerala and Karnataka gaffe up successful the past round.
Group D
Tamil Nadu (25 pts) – Can unafraid qualification if they debar decision against Jharkhand successful the past round.
Chandigarh (19 pts) – A bonus constituent triumph implicit Chhattisgarh volition assistance them done to the knockouts without depending connected different results.
Saurashtra (18 pts) – Saurashtra tin lone unit their mode done if 1 of Tamil Nadu oregon Chandigarh suffer their last crippled too winning their lucifer against Assam with a bonus point.
Railways (17 pts) – Railways tin articulation Tamil Nadu successful the knockouts with a triumph implicit Delhi, provided Chandigarh and Saurashtra neglect to unafraid outright wins successful their respective games.
With 14 points apiece, Delhi and Jharkhand are besides mathematically live successful the race, requiring a hoard of different results to spell successful their favour.
How they stand
*Top 5 of each group