IRANI TROPHY (sports association)

           Irani Trophy is known as MasterCard Irani Trophy due to sponsorship reasons. 

    The tournament was conceived during the 1959-60 session to mark the completion of 25 years of the Ranji Trophy Championship and was named after the late BCCI President Zal R Irani who was associated with the BCCI from its inception in 1928 till his death in 1970.

   It is the first class tournament organised by the Board of Control for cricket in India (BCCI). This tournament is played annually between the winners of the Ranji Trophy and rest of India Cricket team. The rest of India team includes players from Ranji teams of various States except players of Ranji Trophy winner of that session.

      The first match of the series was played between Bombay and the Rest of India team at the Ferozshah Kotla Ground in Delhi from March 18 to 20, 1960. Though the match was drawn, Bombay were declared winners by virtue of having gained the first innings lead.

        For the first few years, it was played towards the end of the season. Realizing the importance of the fixture, the BCCI moved it to the beginning of the season, and from 1965–66 to 2012–13, it was traditionally heralded the start of the new domestic season. In 2013, it was moved to a date immediately after the Ranji Trophy final, resulting in there being two Irani Cup matches the 2012/13 season. The game has since remained at the end of the season, and is played shortly after the Ranji Trophy final.

         In 2022, for the first time in the history of the Irani Trophy, BCCI decided to organise two seasons of the tournament back-to-back (the 2019-20 and 2022-23 trophies), with the matches to be played at Rajkot and Indore respectively.

     

  The following table shows the result of Irani Trophy from 1959–60 to 2022–23.

 

Season	Winner	Result	Against	Host
1959-60	Bombay	1st lnnings lead	Rest of India	Firoz Shah Kotla
1960-61	Not held
1962-63	Bombay	1st Innings lead	Reast of India	Brabourne Stadium
1963-64	Bombay	Won by 109 runs	Rest of India	Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy Stadium
1964 -65	Not held
1965-66	Bombay/Rest of India (shared)			Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Chennai
1966-67	Rest of India	6 Wickets	Bombay	Eden Gardens
1967-68	Bombay	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Brabourne stadium
1968-69	Rest of India	Won by 119 runs	Bombay	Brabourne stadium
1969-70	Bombay	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Pune club Gardens
1970-71	Bombay	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Eden Gardens
1971-72	Rest of India	Won by 119 runs	Bombay	Brabourne stadium
1972-73	Bombay	Won by 220 runs	Rest of India	Nehru Stadium Pune
1973-74	Rest of India	1st innings lead	Bombay	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
1974-75	Karnataka	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Sardaar vallabh Bhai Patel Stadium Ahmedabad
1975-76	Bombay	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Vidarbh Cricket Association Ground
1976-77	Bombay	10 wickets	Rest of India	Feroz Shah Kotla
1977-78	Rest of India	Innings and 168 runs	Bombay	Wankhede Stadium
1978-79	Rest of India	9 Wickets	Karnataka	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
1979-80	Not held
1980-81	Delhi	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Firoz Shah Kotla
1981-82	Bombay	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Nehru Stadium Indore
1982-83	Rest of India	5 Wiwickets	Delhi	Firoz Shah Kotla
1983-84	Karnataka	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Madhavrao Sindhiya cricket ground
1984-85	Rest of India	4 wickets	Bombay	Firoz Shah Kotla
1985-86	Bombay	1st innings leads	Rest of India	Vidarbh Cricket Association ground
1986-87	Rest of India	Innings and 232 runs	Delhi	Barkatullah Khan Stadium
1987-88	Hyderabad	First inning leads	Rest of India	Gymkhana ground Secunderabad
1988-89	Tamilnadu	3 wickets	Rest of India	M. A. Chidambaram Stadium
1989-90	Delhi	309 runs	Rest of India	Wankhede Studiam
1990-91	Rest of India	1st innings lead	Bengal	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
1991-92	Haryana	4 wickets	Rest of India	Nahar Singh Studiam
1992-93	Rest of India	Innings and 122 runs	Delhi	Firoz Shah Kotla
1993-94	Rest of India	181 runs	Punjab	Punjab agriculture University stadium
1994-95	Bombay		Rest of India	Wankhede Studiam
1995-96	Bombay	9 wickets	Rest of India	Wankhede Stadium
1996-97	Karnataka	Five wickets	Rest of India	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
1997-98	Mumbai	54 runs	Rest of India	Wankhede Stadium
1998-99	Karnataka	1st innings lead	Rest of India	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
1999-00	Rest of India	Innings and 60 runs	Karnataka	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
2000-01	Rest of India	10 wickets	Mumbai	Wankhede stadium
2001-02	Rest of India	6 wickets	Baroda	Vidarbh Cricket Association ground
2002-03	Railways	5 wickets	Rest of India	Karnail Singh Stadium
2003-04	Rest of India	3 wickets	Mumbai	MA Chidambaram Stadium
2004-05	Rest of India	290 runs	Mumbai	Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium
2005-06	Railways	9 wickets	Rest of India	Karnail Singh Stadium
2006-07	Rest of India	9 wickets	Uttar Pradesh	Vidarbh Cricket Association stadium
2007-08	Rest of India	9 wickets	Mumbai	Madhavrao Sindhiya cricket ground
2008-09	Rest of India	187 runs	Delhi	Reliance cricket stadium
2009-10	Rest of India	1st innings lead	Mumbai	Vidarbh Cricket Association ground
2010-11	Rest of India	361 runs	Mumbai	Sawai Man Singh Stadium
2011-12	Rest of India	404 runs	Rajasthan	Sawai man Singh stadium
2012-13	Rest of India	Innings and 79 runs	Rajasthan	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
2013	Rest of India	1st innings lead	Mumbai	Wankhede stadium
2013-14	Karnataka	Innings and 222 runs	Rest of India	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
2014-15	Karnataka	246 runs	Rest of India	M Chinnaswamy Stadium
2015-16	Rest of India	4 wickets	Mumbai	Brabourne stadium
2016-17	Rest of India	6 Wickets	Gujarat	Brabourne stadium
2017-18	Vidarbha	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Vidarbh Cricket Association stadium
2018-19	Vidarbha	1st innings lead	Rest of India	Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium
2019-20	Postpond in 2021-22 Session
2020-21	Not held due to Covid 19
2021-22 (1 to 5 October 2022)	Rest of India	8 wickets	Saurashtra	Saurashtra Cricket association stadium
2022-23

       In March 2020, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that all domestic cricket in India was suspended due to coronavirus, including the 2019–20 Irani Cup. However, the cancelled match was played as an opening match of this season from 1 to 5 October, with the 2019–20 Ranji Trophy winners Saurashtra playing against a Rest of India team.