The Assam vs Services match played in the group stage of Ranji Trophy 2025 was recorded in the pages of history. The match ended in 90 overs, making it the shortest match in India’s biggest red-ball cricket tournament. In this match, Services registered its second win by defeating Assam by 8 wickets. Both the teams are in Group ‘C’.

The entire match ended in 90 overs, history was made

The special thing about this match (Assam vs Services) was that the entire match ended in just 90 overs, which is the shortest match in the history of Ranji Trophy in terms of overs. A total of 540 balls were bowled in this match, whereas the shortest match before this was played in 1962. That match between Delhi and Railways was over in 547 balls, that match was also over in 2 days.

2 bowlers took hat-trick in one innings

Assam won the toss and decided to bat first, but the bowlers of the Services team all out Assam in 17.2 overs. This was the first time in a first class cricket match that two bowlers took hat-tricks in the same innings. Assam’s innings was all out for 103 runs. Services bowler Arjun Sharma took a hat-trick in the 12th over. After this, Mohit Jangra took 3 wickets in his 3 consecutive balls, he took the first wicket on the last ball of the 15th over and then on the first and second ball of the 17th over.

Although Assam’s bowling was also good in the first innings, they had bowled out the Services team for 108 runs. In this innings, Irfan Khan of Services had scored a half-century (51). Riyan Parag took 5 wickets and Rahul Singh took 4 wickets.

Assam batsmen flopped in the second innings also

Even in the second innings of Assam, the batsmen could not do anything special, the entire team was limited to 75 runs. Arjun Sharma took 4 wickets in this innings, while except Danish Das (10), Riyan Parag (12), Sumit (25), no Assam batsman could even touch double figures.

The Services team had a target of 71 runs to win, which was achieved in 13.5 overs and the team won by 8 wickets. Services team bowler Arjun Sharma, who took 5 wickets in the first innings and 4 wickets in the second innings, was chosen as the player of the match.

A new history has been written in Ranji Trophy. Assam and Services have become the shortest ending match in Ranji history. This was the shortest Ranji Trophy match in its 63-year history, which ended in just 90 overs. Riyan Parag gave a tremendous all-round performance in this match, yet he could not stop Services from registering an 8 wicket victory. This was Services’ second consecutive win in the 2025-26 season.

The match ended in just 90 overs

Assam batted 17.2 overs in the first innings, in which it could score only 103 runs. The condition of the Services team was also very bad, but somehow, thanks to Irfan Khan’s inning of 51 runs, it scored 108 runs. Services played 29.2 overs in the first innings. The two innings were over in just 46.4 overs.

When Assam’s second innings came, it batted 29.3 overs, but this time it could score only 75 runs. Services got the target of 71 runs on the basis of a lead of five runs in the first innings. Services achieved this small target by losing two wickets in just 13.5 overs. The entire match ended in exactly 90 overs, which is equal to 540 balls.

25 wickets fell on the first day and the remaining 7 wickets fell in the morning session of the second day. Earlier, the match which ended in the fewest balls was played between Delhi and Railways in 1962, which ended in 547 balls.

Assam lost, but Riyan Parag shined

Riyan Parag plays for Assam in domestic cricket. In the first innings he played an innings of 36 runs in 31 balls. When it came to bowling, he played an important role in reducing Services to 108 runs by taking 5 wickets. He could score only 12 runs in the second innings, but Riyan Parag also took both the wickets in the second innings of Services. Along with scoring 48 runs in the entire match, he also took 7 wickets.

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Ranji Trophy Match Services vs Assam: A very exciting match was played in Ranji Trophy, in which two players of one team took hat-trick in the same innings. In this match, 25 wickets kept falling one after the other, in which two teams were all out and the game ended within two days. This match was played between Services and Assam. In this match, Services defeated Assam by 8 wickets.

two hat-tricks in the same innings

This is the first time in the history of Ranji Trophy that two bowlers of the same team have taken hat-tricks in the same innings. Arjun Sharma and Mohit Jangra did this work for services. Arjun Sharma started taking the hat-trick. Arjun dismissed three Assam players on the third, fourth and fifth balls of the 12th over. After this, Mohit Jangra took a wicket on the last ball of the 15th over and when he came again in the 17th over, this bowler got a wicket on the first and second ball also.

Assam lost by 8 wickets

In this first class match of Ranji Trophy, Assam won the toss and decided to bat first. But the services bowlers overpowered the Assam team and in just 17.2 overs, the Assam team was all out for 103 runs in the first innings. In response, the Services team could score only 108 runs in 29.2 overs. Services got a lead of only 5 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, Assam’s condition was worse than before. Assam team was all out for 75 runs in 29.3 overs in the second innings. Services had a target of 71 runs in the second innings, which the team achieved in 13.5 overs at the loss of 2 wickets. With this, Services won the match by 8 wickets.

A first in Ranji Trophy

Arjun Sharma Mohit Jangra

2⃣ hat-tricks for Services in their game against Assam

This was the first instance in Ranji Trophy history where two different bowlers claimed hat-tricks in the same innings.

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