# Wills Trophy

The Wills Trophy, formally named the Wills One-Day Trophy and named after sponsor Wills of ITC Limited), was an Indian List A cricket tournament organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Established in the 1977–78 season, it was played to find the best limited overs side of the domestic season as only the Ranji Trophy had inter-zonal finals. The annual tournament was played between seven sides, the five zonal winners and two composite teams, Wills XI (named after the title sponsor) and Indian Board President XI. Till the 1992–93 season, the team finishing first in each Zone of the Ranji Trophy qualified to play this tournament. Since the 1993–94 season, the team finishing first in each Zone of the Ranji One-Day Trophy qualified to play this tournament.

## Tournament history

| Year | Final host | Winner | Runner-up | Most runs | Most wickets | Ref |
| 1977–78 | Madras | Wills XI | Indian Board President XI | Dilip Vengsarkar (Wil-XI) | Karsan Ghavri (IBP-XI) Ashok Mankad (Wil-XI) S. Venkataraghavan (Wil-XI) | |
| 1978–79 | Mumbai | Bombay & Delhi (shared) | Bombay & Delhi (shared) | Surinder Amarnath (Del) | Sunil Valson (Del) Sandeep Patil (Bom) | |
| 1979–80 | not played | not played | not played | not played | not played | not played |
| 1980–81 | Delhi | Wills XI (2) | Indian Board President XI (2) | Anshuman Gaekwad (Wil-XI) | Yograj Singh (IBP-XI) | |
| 1981–82 | Kanpur | Bombay (2) | Indian Board President XI (3) | Sunil Gavaskar (Bom) | Ravi Shastri (Bom) | |
| 1982–83 | Calcutta | Bombay (3) | Delhi | Kirti Azad (Del) | Manoj Prabhakar (Del) | |
| 1983–84 | Bangalore | Indian Board President XI | Karnataka | M. R. Srinivasaprasad (Kar) | Roger Binny (Kar) Sharad Rao (Kar) Ranjit Khanwilkar (Kar) | |
| 1984–85 | Mumbai | Wills XI (3) | Indian Board President XI (4) | Padam Shastri (IBP-XI) | Anshuman Gaekwad (Wil-XI) | |
| 1985–86 | Delhi | Bombay (4) | Delhi (2) | Alan Sippy (Bom) | Maninder Singh (Del) Madan Lal (Del) | |
| 1986–87 | Nagpur | Delhi (2) | Maharashtra | Shrikant Kalyani (Mah) | Sunil Gudge (Mah) | |
| 1987–88 | Calcutta | Indian Board President XI (2) | Karnataka (2) | W. V. Raman (IBP-XI) | Ajay Sharma (IBP-XI) | |
| 1988–89 | Madras | Delhi (3) | Railways | Raman Lamba (Del) | Manoj Prabhakar (Del) | |
| 1989–90 | Mumbai | Wills XI (4) | Delhi (3) | Navjot Sidhu (Wil-XI) | Ravi Shastri (Wil-XI) | |
| 1990–91 | Delhi | Bombay (5) | Wills XI | Ravi Shastri (Bom) | Raju Kulkarni (Bom) | |
| 1991–92 | Kanpur | Indian Board President XI (3) | Wills XI (2) | Sachin Tendulkar (IBP-XI) | Ravi Shastri (IBP-XI) | |
| 1992–93 | Guwahati | Delhi (4) & Indian Board President XI (4) (shared) | Delhi (4) & Indian Board President XI (4) (shared) | Ravi Sehgal (Del) | B Iqbal Khan (Mum) K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (IBP-XI) Kirti Azad (Del) Kartar Nath (Del) Atul Wassan (Del) Ravi Sehgal (Del) | |
| 1993–94 | not played | not played | not played | not played | not played | not played |
| 1994–95 | Madras | Bombay (6) | Haryana | Sachin Tendulkar (Bom) | Obaid Kamal (Wil-XI) | |
| 1995–96 | Mumbai | Wills XI (5) | Bengal | Sachin Tendulkar (Wil-XI) | Arindam Sarkar (Ben) | |
| 1996–97 | Mohali | Mumbai (7) | Haryana (2) | Sanjay Manjrekar (Mum) | Sairaj Bahutule (Mum) | |
| 1997–98 | Lucknow | Mumbai (8) | Indian Board President XI (5) | Vikram Rathour (IBP-XI) | Sairaj Bahutule (Mum) Sandeep Sharma (IBP-XI) | |
| 1998–99 | Calcutta | Madhya Pradesh | Bengal (2) | Amay Khurasiya (MP) | Laxmi Ratan Shukla (Ben) Harvinder Sodhi (MP) | |
| 1999–2000 | Vishakapatnam | Indian Board President XI (5) | Karnataka (3) | Sanjay Bangar (IBP-XI) | Murali Kartik (IBP-XI) | |

## Teams summary

| | Appearances | Appearances | Appearances | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics | Statistics |
| Team | Total | Champions | Runners-up | Mat. | Won | Lost | Tie | NR | Win%* |
| Bombay / Mumbai | 14 | 8 | - | 32 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 79.03 |
| Indian Board President XI | 21 | 5 | 5 | 41 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 62.50 |
| Wills XI | 21 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 23 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 58.97 |
| Delhi | 13 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 62.96 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 61.11 |
| Karnataka | 8 | - | 3 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 50.00 |
| Bengal | 15 | - | 2 | 24 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 34.87 |
| Haryana | 6 | - | 2 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 |
| Railways | 2 | - | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 |
| Maharashtra | 4 | - | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 42.86 |
| Tamil Nadu | 7 | - | - | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 16.67 |
| Hyderabad | 5 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20.00 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 12 | - | - | 13 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 7.69 |
| Bihar | 3 | - | - | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Orissa | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Rajasthan | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Baroda | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Punjab | 2 | - | - | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Gujarat | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Andhra | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Assam | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Bangladesh Cricket Board XI | 1 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |