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Ranji Trophy Plate Group 2025-26 Champion: The final match of Ranji Trophy Plate Group between Bihar and Manipur was played at Moin-ul-Haq Stadium located in Patna, Bihar. In this title match, Bihar registered a historic victory by 568 runs. This is considered to be the biggest win so far in the plate group of Ranji Trophy. With the record-breaking win against Manipur, Bihar team has now left the plate group and once again entered the elite group. Bihar will be seen playing in the elite group in the next Ranji season. Many players from Bihar played important roles in this historic victory. In this, Captain Sakibul Ghani, Ayush Loharuka, Bipin Saurabh, Suraj Kashyap, Himanshu Singh and Piyush Kumar Singh were the heroes of victory.
How was the title match of Ranji Trophy Plate Group?
In the first innings of the title match of Ranji Trophy Plate Group, Bihar made a big score of 522 runs. In response, Manipur team was reduced to 264 runs. In the second innings, Bihar declared the innings after scoring 505 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 119.3 overs. In this innings, Piyush Kumar Singh scored a double century and took the team to a big score. Piyush played an excellent inning of 216 runs unbeaten. Manipur team, which came to play the second innings, was all out for just 195 runs. In this title match, Bihar team scored a total of 1,027 runs, while Manipur could score only 459 runs. In this way Bihar team registered a huge victory by 568 runs.
These players were the heroes of victory
Bihar team performed brilliantly in the Plate Group 2025-26 of Ranji Trophy. Due to the excellent and continuous contribution of the players, the team once again confirmed its place in the elite group by showing strength. This season, 5 more players including captain Sakibul Ghani performed brilliantly for Bihar, whose names are as follows:-
- Ayush Loharuka was the most successful batsman from Bihar, who scored a total of 540 runs in 6 matches. In this his highest score was 226 runs.
- Bipin Sourav showed great talent with his aggressive batting throughout the season. He was the batsman who hit the most sixes in the plate group this season with 14 sixes.
- Bihar captain Sakibul Ghani played responsible innings throughout the tournament and pulled the team out of trouble several times. A total of 329 runs came from Ghani’s bat in 6 matches, which included 1 century and 3 half-centuries.
- Suraj Kashyap left a deep impression with his all-round performance in the debut season of Ranji Trophy. He got a chance to bat in five innings in three matches for Bihar, in which he scored a total of 247 runs. Along with this, he also took 8 wickets in his name.
- Piyush Kumar Singh got a chance to play only in the final match this season. He performed brilliantly in this big match and played an excellent inning of 216 runs in the second innings.
- Himanshu Singh, playing for Bihar, took the most wickets this season. He took 15 wickets in 6 matches and during this he bowled a total of 848 dot balls, which was the highest in the team.