Ranji Trophy 2017-18: Top 5 batsmen

#1 Mayank Agarwal, Karnataka – 1,160 runs at 105.45 in 8 matches

Despite low scores at the beginning of the season, Mayank Agarwal ended up as the leading run-scorer

Bashing big runs at will, Karnataka's opener Mayank Agarwal sits on top of the batting charts for the 2017-18 Ranji Trophy. He began the domestic season with low scores aplenty: 13 and 8 for India A against New Zealand A in unofficial ODIs; and 31 against Assam and then a pair against Hyderabad in the Ranji Trophy.

But that was it as far as those scores were concerned. In the very next game, he hit back with a best of 304* against Maharashtra; after that came 176 against Delhi; post that, scores of 90, 133*, 173, 134 and 78 followed against Uttar Pradesh, Railways and Mumbai. Agarwal built up a mountain of runs to separate himself from the next highest run-getter by more than two hundred runs.