On 26th February 2016 Mumbai has won the Ranji Trophy with an innings and 21 runs victory over the Saurashtra. It won the trophy for the 1st time in 3 seasons.
With this, they have 41 titles in 45 finals with Ten of them being an innings victory. Karnataka stands 2nd in the overall Ranji standings with 8 titles.
It was the repeat of 2012-13 final where Mumbai had made short work of Saurashtra with an innings & 125-run victory.
Mumbai made 371 runs in 82.2 overs in their 1st innings and in reply Saurashtra managed 235 & 115 runs in 1st & 2nd innings respectively.
Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur shackled opposition batting in the 2nd innings and claimed 5 wickets for 26 runs in 13.2 overs to took his match tally to 8.
Shreyas Iyer was named man of the match for his 117 runs in Mumbai’s only innings of the match. He ended the season as the leading run-getter with 1321 runs at 73.38 including 4 centuries and 7 fifties.
In 2015, the trophy was Karnataka which was their 8th title. In the final, Karnataka defeated Tamil Nadu.
Mumbai has won the Ranji Trophy for the 41st time
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