Vidarbha beat Kerala on Sunday on the basis of the first innings lead to win the final match of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 season, which was played at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. The Akshay Wadkar-led side scored 379 runs in the first innings and then bowled out Sachin Baby & Co. for 342 runs to secure a crucial lead of 37 runs, which in the end proved to be decisive.
The win over Kerala on Sunday has helped Vidarbha end the six-year-long wait for a third Ranji Trophy title. Vidarbha won its first Ranji Trophy title in the 2017-18 season by defeating Rishabh Pant’s Delhi by 9 wickets under the leadership of Faiz Fazal, and in the 2018-19 season it successfully defended the title by defeating Saurashtra in the final match played at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur by 78 runs.
