5 amazing records from Indian domestic cricket

5) Jammu and Kashmir lost to Railways without capturing any wicket in either innings

Budhi Kunderan in action during the game

In 1960-61, Jammu and Kashmir set one of the most ignoble records in Indian domestic cricket when they lost to Railways in the Ranji Trophy. They lost the match without capturing any wickets of their opponents in either of the innings.

J&K managed to score 92 and 159 in their two innings but Railways’ openers, V Mehra and Budhi Kunderan, who remained not out in both the innings of the match, comfortably managed to guide their team to a win with centuries in the first innings. Kunderan had also scored 205 in his first Ranji appearance against J&K.

(Another match which is considered interesting in Indian domestic cricket from the point of view of the most one-sided match is that between Karnataka and Kerala in Ranji 1977/78 which Karnataka won by an innings and 186 runs as both openers scored double centuries to total Karnataka’s 1st innings score of 451. This victory had then set a new Ranji record bettering the one set by Chetan Chauhan and MS Gupte in Maharashtra against Vidarbha in 1972 and also going past the Test record of 413 by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad against New Zealand.)