STAT ATTACK

MAN OF THE MATCH

Left-arm spinner Aditya Sarwate claimed three of the five wickets that fell on Thursday, to end with career-best match figures.

ELITE LIST

Sarwate became the first man since the legendary BS Chandrasekhar in 1977/78 to register a five-wicket haul in each innings of the Ranji Trophy final.

DAY OF PERFECT 10

February 7 is now a day of two ‘Perfect 10s’ in Indian cricket. Kumble took 10 wickets against Pakistan in 1999 while, in 2019, Jaffer made it 10 wins out of 10 Ranji final appearances.

ONLY SIXTH IN HISTORY

Vidarbha is only the sixth team in the tournament’s long history to have defended the title. Mumbai, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Delhi are the other teams who have managed to win consecutive titles.

PUJARA’S LOWEST

Cheteshwar Pujara scored one run in the first innings and bagged a duck in the second innings. This is the 2nd lowest aggregate in a first-class match for Pujara where he batted in both innings. He had bagged a pair in the 2007/08 Duleep Trophy final for West Zone against North Zone.

SKIPPER’S BACK-TO-BACK

Faiz Fazal is now the 11th captain to claim two successive Ranji Trophy titles. Maharashtra's Prof DB Deodhar was the first captain to do so back in 1940 and 1941. Bapu Nadkarni of Bombay is the only one to have won three titles in a row.