# 2013–14 Irani Cup

The 2013–14 Irani Cup, also called 2013-14 Irani Trophy, was the 52nd season of the Irani Cup, a first-class cricket competition in India. It was a one-off match which was played from 9 February 2014 to 13 February 2014 between the 2013–14 Ranji champions Karnataka and the Rest of India team. Chinnaswamy Stadium, the home ground of Karnataka, hosted the match. Karnataka won the match by an innings and 222 runs.

## Squads

| Karnataka | Rest of India |
| Playing XI ||
| Robin Uthappa | Jiwanjot Singh |
| Lokesh Rahul | Gautam Gambhir |
| Ganesh Satish | Baba Aparajith |
| Manish Pandey | Kedar Jadhav |
| Karun Nair | Dinesh Karthik (wk) |
| CM Gautam (wk) | Mandeep Singh |
| Stuart Binny | Amit Mishra |
| Shreyas Gopal | Harbhajan Singh (c) |
| Vinay Kumar (c) | Anureet Singh |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | Ashok Dinda |
| HS Sharath | Pankaj Singh |
| Reserves ||
| Mayank Agarwal | Ankit Bawne |
| Amit Verma | Natraj Behera |
| Abrar Kazi | Parvez Rasool |
| Sreenath Aravind | Varun Aaron |
| Ronit More | |

## Scorecard
### Innings 1

Rest of India 1st innings :
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate |
| Jiwanjot Singh | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Gautam Gambhir | lbw b Binny | 22 | 66 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Baba Aparajith | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22.22 |
| Kedar Jadhav | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 |
| Dinesh Karthik | c Uthappa b Binny | 91 | 184 | 14 | 0 | 49.45 |
| Mandeep Singh | c Rahul b Binny | 5 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 33.33 |
| Amit Mishra | c Nair b Sharath | 47 | 61 | 7 | 1 | 77.04 |
| Harbhajan Singh | c Ganesh Satish b Vinay Kumar | 25 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 54.34 |
| Anureet Singh | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Ashok Dinda | not out | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 |
| Pankaj Singh | b Vinay Kumar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 3, w 1) | 6 | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 65.4 overs) | 201 | | | | |
Fall of wickets: 1–0 (Jiwanjot Singh, 0.1 ov), 2–8 (Aparajith, 2.4 ov), 3–12 (Jadhav, 4.1 ov), 4–54 (Gambhir, 23.1 ov), 5–62 (Mandeep Singh, 27.6 ov), 6–129 (Mishra, 48.4 ov), 7–199 (Karthik, 64.1 ov), 8–199 (Karthik, 64.1 ov), 9–201 (Anureet Singh, 65.3 ov), 10–201 (Pankaj Singh, 65.4 ov)
Karnataka bowling :
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Vinay Kumar | 18.4 | 8 | 47 | 6 | 2.51 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | 13 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 4.07 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| HS Sharath | 13 | 5 | 34 | 1 | 2.61 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Stuart Binny | 15 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 2.33 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Shreyas Gopal | 3 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 7.33 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Manish Pandey | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1.66 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |

### Innings 2

Karnataka 1st innings :
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate |
| Robin Uthappa | c Jadhav b Dinda | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Lokesh Rahul | b Anureet Singh | 35 | 63 | 7 | 0 | 55.55 |
| Ganesh Satish | c Jadhav b Harbhajan Singh | 84 | 180 | 11 | 0 | 46.66 |
| Manish Pandey | c Karthik b Pankaj Singh | 36 | 47 | 7 | 0 | 76.59 |
| Karun Nair | b Pankaj Singh | 92 | 161 | 12 | 0 | 57.14 |
| Stuart Binny | b Pankaj Singh | 122 | 122 | 15 | 3 | 100.00 |
| CM Gautam | c Mandeep Singh b Pankaj Singh | 122 | 168 | 17 | 1 | 72.61 |
| Vinay Kumar | c Karthik b Mishra | 31 | 54 | 4 | 0 | 57.40 |
| Shreyas Gopal | c Karthik b Pankaj Singh | 16 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 47.05 |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | not out | 34 | 39 | 4 | 1 | 87.17 |
| HS Sharath | b Pankaj Singh | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 20, lb 9, nb 5) | 34 | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 145 overs) | 606 | | | | |
Fall of wickets: 1–0 (Uthappa, 0.5 ov), 2-75 (Rahul, 22.5 ov), 3-136 (Pandey, 38.5 ov), 4-188 (Ganesh Satish, 61.3 ov), 5-375 (Nair, 90.4 ov), 6-400 (Binny, 100.6 ov), 7-488 (Vinay Kumar, 121.2 ov), 8-545 (Gopal, 134.1 ov), 9-606 (Gautam, 144.4 ov), 10-606 (Sharath, 144.6 ov)
Rest of India bowling :
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Ashok Dinda | 31 | 5 | 138 | 1 | 4.45 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Pankaj Singh | 35 | 7 | 122 | 6 | 3.48 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Anureet Singh | 26 | 6 | 104 | 1 | 4.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Amit Mishra | 25 | 2 | 100 | 1 | 4.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Harbhajan Singh | 18 | 2 | 82 | 1 | 4.55 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Baba Aparajith | 7 | 1 | 24 | 0 | 3.42 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Mandeep Singh | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |

### Innings 3

Rest of India 2nd innings :
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate |
| Jiwanjot Singh | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 7 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 38.88 |
| Gautam Gambhir | c Pandey b Vinay Kumar | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 112.50 |
| Baba Aparajith | c Binny b Gopal | 66 | 162 | 8 | 0 | 40.74 |
| Kedar Jadhav | c Pandey b Gopal | 44 | 65 | 7 | 0 | 67.69 |
| Dinesh Karthik | b Vinay Kumar | 27 | 61 | 3 | 0 | 44.26 |
| Mandeep Singh | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 |
| Amit Mishra | run out (Gopal) | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Harbhajan Singh | c Vinay Kumar b Gopal | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 |
| Anureet Singh | not out | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 63.63 |
| Ashok Dinda | b Gopal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Pankaj Singh | b Gopal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 2) | 8 | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 57.5 overs) | 183 | | | | |
Fall of wickets: 1–11 (Gambhir, 2.5 ov), 2-20 (Jiwanjot Singh, 6.2 ov), 3-91 (Jadhav, 27.2 ov), 4-140 (Karthik, 46.3 ov), 5-142 (Mandeep Singh, 46.6 ov), 6-151 (Mishra, 49.2 ov), 7-162 (Harbhajan Singh, 53.5 ov), 8-183 (Aparajith, 57.3 ov), 9-183 (Dinda, 57.4 ov), 10-183 (Pankaj Singh, 57.5 ov)
Karnataka bowling :
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Vinay Kumar | 16 | 1 | 70 | 4 | 4.37 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | 16 | 3 | 41 | 0 | 2.56 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| HS Sharath | 8 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 1.37 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Stuart Binny | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2.16 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Shreyas Gopal | 9.5 | 0 | 35 | 5 | 3.55 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Robin Uthappa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Karun Nair | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |