Duleep Trophy - Most Runs, Wickets, Highest Score, 100s, Best Bowling Figures & More

The 2024 edition of the Duleep Trophy is set to start on Thursday (September 5). A total of four teams—India A, India B, India C, and India D—will fight against each other for the top prize. Many Indian international players like KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kuldeep Yadav, and Axar Patel, among others, will be seen in action during the premier domestic tournament, which will be played across two venues—Anantapur and Bengaluru.

Ahead of the start of Duleep Trophy 2024, here’s a look at top performers and record holders in the tournament’s history:

• Most wins: West Zone (58 wins in 113 matches).
• Most defeats: Central Zone & East Zone (46 defeats each).
• Highest total: 868 for 10 in 197 overs by North Zone against West Zone in Bhilai (October 1987).
• Lowest total: 48 all out in 26.4 overs by East Zone against South Zone in Kolkata (January 1969) and 48 all out in 22.7 overs (8 balls per over) by North Zone against South Zone in Chennai (September 1961).
• Biggest win: South Zone beat North Zone by 645 runs in Salem (September 2022).
• Smallest win: Central Zone beat South Zone by 9 runs in Delhi (October 2014).
• Most runs: Wasim Jaffer (2545 runs in 30 matches for West Zone).
• Highest individual score: Raman Lamba (320 runs from 471 balls for North Zone against West Zone in Bhilai, October 1987).
• Highest batting average (min 10 matches): 86.25 by Raman Lamba (1035 runs in 10 matches).
• Most 100s: Anshuman Gaekwad (9 centuries in 26 matches).
• Most 50s: Wasim Jaffer (13 fifties in 30 matches).
• Most ducks: 8 each by Ashok Dinda, Narendra Hirwani, Ashok Mankad, and Erapalli Prasanna.
• Most sixes: Manish Pandey (26 sixes in 11 matches).
• Most sixes (in an innings): Yusuf Pathan (10 sixes during his 210-run knock for West Zone against South Zone in Hyderabad, February 2010).
• Most runs in a series: Raman Lamba (659 runs in 3 matches for North Zone in 1987).
• Most wickets: Narendra Hirwani (126 wickets in 29 matches).
• Best bowling figures (in an innings): 10 wickets for 46 runs in 19 overs by Debasis Mohanty for East Zone against South Zone in Agartala (January 2001).
• Best bowling figures (in a match): 14 wickets for 91 runs in 35 overs by Debasis Mohanty for East Zone against South Zone in Agartala (January 2001).
• Most five-wicket hauls (in an innings): Narendra Hirwani (8 in 29 matches for Central Zone).
• Most 10 wickets in a match: Narendra Modi (2 in 29 matches for Central Zone).
• Most wickets in a series: Narendra Hirwani (34 wickets in four matches of the 2003 edition).
• Most dismissals: 88 (68 catches, 20 stumpings) by Parthiv Patel in 23 matches.
• Most catches: Wasim Jaffer (41 catches in 30 matches).
• Highest partnership: 409 runs for the third wicket between Rahul Dravid and VVS Lamxan for South Zone against West Zone in Surat (January 2001).
• Most matches: Mohinder Amarnath (31).
• Most wins as captain: Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan (9 wins in 15 matches).

The premier domestic tournament will give Indian players a chance to get some game time ahead of the start of the two-match Test series against Bangladesh in Chennai on September 19.