# 2014–15 Irani Cup

The 2014–15 Irani Cup, also called 2014-15 Irani Trophy, will be the 53rd season of the Irani Cup, a first-class cricket competition in India. It will be a one-off match to be played from 17 March to 21 March 2015 between the 2014–15 Ranji champions Karnataka and the Rest of India team. Chinnaswamy Stadium, the home ground of Karnataka, will host the match.

## Squads

| Karnataka | Rest of India |
| Playing XI ||
| Robin Uthappa (†) | Unmukt Chand |
| Mayank Agarwal | Jiwanjot Singh |
| Ravikumar Samarth | Paras Dogra |
| Manish Pandey | Naman Ojha (†) |
| Karun Nair | Manoj Tiwary (*) |
| Abhishek Reddy$^1$ | Kedar Jadhav |
| Shreyas Gopal | Rishi Dhawan |
| Vinay Kumar (*) | Shardul Thakur |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | Varun Aaron |
| Sreenath Aravind | Jayant Yadav |
| HS Sharath | Pragyan Ojha |
| Reserve Bench ||
| Shishir Bhavane | Baba Aparajith |
| CM Gautam (†) | Jalaj Saxena |
| KC Avinash (†) | Rush Kalaria |
| Udit Patel | Vijay Shankar |
| Jagadeesha Suchith | |
$^1$ Reddy replaced KL Rahul who was ruled out of the Irani Cup with an injury.

## Scorecard

Rest of India won the toss and elected to field

### Innings 1

Karnataka 1st innings :
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate |
| Robin Uthappa (†) | c N Ojha b Aaron | 10 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 45.45 |
| Mayank Agarwal | c N Ojha b Aaron | 68 | 119 | 13 | 0 | 57.14 |
| Ravikumar Samarth | c N Ojha b Dhawan | 20 | 37 | 3 | 0 | 54.05 |
| Manish Pandey | c N Ojha b Aaron | 3 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 10.00 |
| Karun Nair | c Chand b Aaron | 59 | 99 | 11 | 0 | 59.59 |
| Abhishek Reddy | c N Ojha b Thakur | 54 | 87 | 10 | 0 | 62.06 |
| Shreyas Gopal | lbw b P Ojha | 45 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 17.24 |
| Vinay Kumar (c) | lbw b Aaron | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 150.00 |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | lbw b Aaron | 11 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 32.35 |
| Sreenath Aravind | c N Ojha b P Ojha | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| HS Sharath | not out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Extras | (b 2, lb 1, nb 3) | 6 | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 77.1 overs) | 244 | | | | |
Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Uthappa, 7.5 ov), 2-66 (Samarth, 21.4 ov), 3-90 (Pandey, 32.3 ov), 4-107 (Agarwal, 36.4 ov), 5-220 (Reddy, 64.6 ov), 6-220 (Nair, 65.1 ov), 7-226 (Vinay Kumar, 65.5 ov), 8-242 (Gopal, 76.1 ov), 9-244 (Aravind, 76.3 ov), 10-244 (Mithun, 77.1 ov)
Rest of India bowling :
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Shardul Thakur | 22 | 2 | 78 | 1 | 3.54 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Rishi Dhawan | 18 | 5 | 51 | 1 | 2.83 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Varun Aaron | 17.1 | 8 | 63 | 6 | 3.66 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Pragyan Ojha | 15 | 3 | 35 | 2 | 2.33 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Jayant Yadav | 5 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 2.80 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |

### Innings 2

Rest of India 1st innings :
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate |
| Unmukt Chand | b Vinay Kumar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Jiwanjot Singh | c Uthappa b Vinay Kumar | 17 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 73.91 |
| Paras Dogra | lbw b Gopal | 26 | 53 | 3 | 0 | 49.05 |
| Naman Ojha (†) | c Agarwal b Mithun | 34 | 68 | 6 | 0 | 50.0 |
| Manoj Tiwary (c) | lbw b Vinay Kumar | 14 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 |
| Kedar Jadhav | b Mithun | 78 | 106 | 13 | 0 | 73.58 |
| Jayant Yadav | b Shreyas Gopal | 26 | 70 | 4 | 0 | 37.14 |
| Rishi Dhawan | c Sharath b Mithun | 15 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 57.69 |
| Shardul Thakur | b Shreyas Gopal | 17 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 113.33 |
| Varun Aaron | b Aravind | 25 | 52 | 2 | 1 | 48.07 |
| Pragyan Ojha | not out | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 3.33 |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 3) | 8 | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 75.4 overs) | 264 | | | | |
Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Chand, 0.1 ov), 2-23 (Jiwanjot Singh, 6.2 ov), 3-72 (Dogra, 22.1 ov), 4-90 (NV Ojha, 27.4 ov), 5-102 (Tiwary, 30.4 ov), 6-182 (Yadav, 54.1 ov), 7-218 (Dhawan, 62.2 ov), 8-219 (Jadhav, 62.4 ov), 9-242 (Thakur, 68.1 ov), 10-264 (Aaron, 75.4 ov)
Karnataka bowling :
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Vinay Kumar | 22 | 4 | 76 | 3 | 3.45 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | 17 | 1 | 46 | 3 | 2.70 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Sreenath Aravind | 14.4 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 2.72 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| HS Sharath | 8 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 4.50 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Shreyas Gopal | 13 | 1 | 51 | 3 | 3.92 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Mayank Agarwal | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |

### Innings 3

Karnataka 2nd innings :
| Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate |
| Ravikumar Samarth | b Thakur | 81 | 159 | 10 | 0 | 50.94 |
| Mayank Agarwal | c Jadhav b Aaron | 28 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 80.00 |
| Abhishek Reddy | lbw b P Ojha | 31 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 57.40 |
| Robin Uthappa (†) | b Aaron | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 |
| Karun Nair | lbw b P Ojha | 80 | 123 | 12 | 0 | 65.04 |
| Manish Pandey | not out | 123 | 164 | 12 | 3 | 75.00 |
| Shreyas Gopal | c N Ojha b R Dhawan | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 00.00 |
| Vinay Kumar (c) | c N Ojha b Thakur | 38 | 77 | 6 | 0 | 49.35 |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | b Thakur | 10 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 83.33 |
| Sreenath Aravind | lbw b Thakur | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
| HS Sharath | c Dogra b Thakur | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 31.25 |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 4, w 7) | 16 | | | | |
| Total | (all out; 110.3 overs) | 422 | | | | |
Fall of wickets: 1-54 (Agarwal, 13.5 ov), 2-105 (Reddy, 32.1 ov), 3-121 (Uthappa, 35.3 ov), 4-182 (Samarth, 51.3 ov), 5-288 (Nair, 78.4 ov), 6-289 (Gopal, 79.3 ov), 7-354 (Vinay Kumar, 100.6 ov), 8-390 (Mithun, 104.5 ov), 9-408 (Aravind, 106.3 ov), 10-422 (Sharath, 110.3 ov)
Rest of India bowling :
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | Wides | NBs |
| Rishi Dhawan | 21 | 1 | 74 | 1 | 3.52 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Varun Aaron | 27 | 4 | 131 | 2 | 4.85 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Shardul Thakur | 29.3 | 6 | 86 | 5 | 2.91 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Pragyan Ojha | 28 | 3 | 100 | 2 | 3.57 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Jayant Yadav | 4 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |
| Manoj Tiwary | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 | {{{wides}}} | {{{no-balls}}} |