Published: Dec 30, 2017, 10:47 AM (IST)
Edited: Dec 30, 2017, 10:46 AM (IST)
Vidarbha‘s Rajneesh Gurbani‘s dream run in Ranji Trophy 2017-18 continued. He claimed a 6-for to bowl out Delhi in the tournament final at Holkar Stadium, Indore. Gurbani picked his third consecutive 5-wicket haul and fifth in last 7 innings. Gurbani reached to the 5-wicket haul landmark with a hat-trick and all three batsmen were bowled. READ MORE: Rajneesh Gurbani takes hat-trick, 6 wickets in Ranji Trophy 2017-18 final
Gurbani dismissed Vikas Mishra and Navdeep Saini off consecutive deliveries before his over ended. In the first ball of his 25th over, he cleaned up centurion Dhruv Shorey for 145 to bowl out Delhi for 295. This is the second hat-trick of Ranji Trophy this season. Karnataka skipper Vinay Kumar bagged the first one in the quarter-final against Mumbai.
List of Ranji Trophy hat-tricks
| Bowler | For | Against | Venue | Season | Batsmen | |||
| Baqa Jilani | Northern India | Southern Punjab | Amritsar | 1934-35 | Joginder Singh | Yuvraj of Patiala | Lall Singh | |
| Mubarak Ali | Nawanagar/Saurashtra | Western India | Poona/Pune | 1936-37 | Umar Khan, Akbar Khan, and Hari Mali (sequence not known) | |||
| TC Longfield | Bengal | Bihar/Jharkhand | Calcutta/Kolkata | 1937-38 | not known; he took 6 wickets | |||
| Jehangir Khot | Bombay/Mumbai | Baroda | Bombay/Mumbai | 1943-44 | Vivek Hazare | CS Nayudu | Mahipatrao Indulkar | |
| D Narottam | Kathiawar | Baroda | Dhrol | 1947-48 | Chandrasen Gaekwad | Vivek Hazare | Ahmed Patel | |
| Shute Banerjee | Bihar/Jharkhand | Delhi | Jamshedpur | 1948-49 | Ishwar Dayal | Hargopal Singh | Gian Kapoor | |
| Chandu Sarwate | Holkar/Madhya Pradesh | Bihar/Jharkhand | Jamshedpur | 1948-49 | L Sterling | N Chakrabarty | DS Khambatta | |
| Probir Sen | Bengal | Orissa/Odisha | Cuttack | 1954-55 | Ram Sastry | Tamayya Sastri | Nirmal Padhi | |
| Venatappa Muddiah | Services | Eastern Punjab | Delhi | 1955-56 | Harold Ghosh | Jitender Dev | Om Kumaria | |
| Vasant Ranjane | Maharashtra | Saurashtra | Khadakvasla | 1956-57 | Indubhai Chavda | D Narottam | Vikramsinhji Jadeja | |
| Nandi Khanna | Southern Punjab | Jammu & Kashmir | Patiala | 1959-60 | Balwant Kapoor | VB Kaul | Saifuddin Drabu | |
| Shah Nyalchand | Saurashtra | Baroda | Dharangadhra | 1961-62 | not known; he took 7 wickets | |||
| Hiralal Gaekwad | Madhya Pradesh | Rajasthan | Jabalpur | 1962-63 | Ramesh Shah | Gundibail Sunderam | Subhash Gupte | |
| Umesh Kulkarni | Bombay/Mumbai | Gujarat | Anand | 1963-64 | Jitoo Patel | Rusi Surti | Dhimant Arun | |
| Subhash Jhanji | Uttar Pradesh | Vidarbha | Nagpur | 1963-64 | not known; he took 6 wickets | |||
| Joginder Rao | Services | Jammu & Kashmir | Delhi | 1963-64 | Tahir Firdausi | Vijay Malhotra | Abdul Rauf | |
| Joginder Rao | Services | Northern Punjab | Amritsar | 1963-64 | Suresh Sharma | Brij Khanna | Bhupinder Singh | |
| Joginder Rao | Services | Northern Punjab | Amritsar | 1963-64 | Rajinder Kale | Ramnath Paul | Bishan Bedi | |
| Ravinder Pal | Delhi | Southern Punjab | Chandigarh | 1965-66 | Gurcharan Singh | Daljit Saxena | Ravinder Gopal | |
| Bishan Bedi | Delhi | Punjab | Delhi | 1968-69 | Surindernath | Rajinder Pal | Haminder Singh | |
| Kailash Ghatani | Rajasthan | Uttar Pradesh | Varanasi | 1969-70 | Jasbir Singh / Sharfuddin | Ghauri Majid | Moolchand | |
| Mehboodullah Khan | Uttar Pradesh | Madhya Pradesh | Lucknow | 1971-72 | not known; he took 4 wickets | |||
| B Kalyanasundaram | Tamil Nadu | Bombay/Mumbai | Madras/Chennai | 1972-73 | Rakesh Tandon | Padmakar Shivalkar | Sharad Hazare | |
| Abdul Ismail | Bombay/Mumbai | Saurashtra | Bombay/Mumbai | 1973-74 | Mahendra Rajdev | Ravi Odedra | Rajendra Shah | |
| Raghuram Bhat | Karnataka | Bombay/Mumbai | Bangalore | 1981-82 | Ghulam Parkar | Ashok Manad | Suru Nayak | |
| Bharat Arun | Tamil Nadu | Goa | Panaji | 1986-87 | Subhash Kangralkar | Dayanand Bangera | Uday Naik | |
| Barun Burman | Bengal | Tripura | Calcutta/Kolkata | 1986-87 | Arup Deb Burman | Parthasarathi Bhaumick | Tarakeswar Dam | |
| Sourajit Mohapatra | Orissa/Odisha | Tripura | Cuttack | 1987-88 | Sanjib Paul | Hiralal Datta | Abhijit Das | |
| Shankar Saini | Delhi | Himachal Pradesh | Delhi | 1988-89 | Shakti Singh | Anil Sen | Shakti Singh | Satish Mehra |
| Salil Ankola | Maharashtra | Gujarat | Poona/Pune | 1988-89 | Joy Zinto | Jayendra Saigal | Dhansukh Patel | |
| Javagal Srinath | Karnataka | Hyderabad | Secunderabad | 1989-90 | Ehteshamuddin Ali Khan | MV Ramamurthy | Rajesh Yadav | |
| Arun Singla | Haryana | Services | Gurgaon/Gurugram | 1989-90 | Sitanshu Sadangi | Ashok Bajpayee | MV Rao | |
| Saradindu Mukherjee | Bengal | Hyderabad | Secunderabad | 1989-90 | Vivek Jaisimha | Ramesh Kumar | Arshad Ayub | |
| V Venkatram | Bihar/Jharkhand | Tripura | Jamshedpur | 1990-91 | Alok Saha | Shyamal Banerjee | Habul Bhattacharjee | |
| RP Singh (Sr) | Uttar Pradesh | Vidarbha | Kanpur | 1991-92 | Hemant Wasu | Prashant Vaidya | Pritam Gandhe | |
| Anil Kumble | Karnataka | Andhra | Visakhapatnam | 1991-92 | Varadarajan Vijayasaradhi | Vincent Vijay Kumar | Rajagopalan Vivekanand | |
| Sunil Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu | Kerala | Thiruvalla | 1992-93 | Nuchikat Sandeep | Suresh Kumar | Fida Aslam | |
| Pritam Gandhe | Vidarbha | Rajasthan | Alwar | 1993-94 | not known; he took 8 wickets | |||
| Arshad Ayub | Hyderabad | Kerala | Kottayam | 1993-94 | Ponnani Sundar | Bhaskaran Ramprakash | Feroze Rasheed | |
| Sagarmoy Sensharma | Bengal | Delhi | Calcutta/Kolkata | 1993-94 | Hitesh Sharma | Bantoo Singh | Ajay Sharma | |
| Suresh Kumar | Railways | Rajasthan | Delhi | 1995-96 | Vilas Joshi | Mohammad Aslam | Rajiv Rathore | |
| Murali Kartik | Railways | Vidarbha | Delhi | 1996-97 | Ulhas Gandhe | Abhay Kale | Trevor Gonsalves | |
| Anil Kumble | Karnataka | Orissa/Odisha | Rourkela | 1997-98 | Robin Morris | Gautam Gopal | Subash Mohanty | |
| Anand Katti | Karnataka | Kerala | Thalassery | 1998-99 | KN Ananthapadmanabhan | Bhaskaran Ramprakash | Koragappa Chandrashekara | |
| Damodaran Devanand | Tamil Nadu | Orissa/Odisha | Madras/Chennai | 1998-99 | Gautam Gopal | Sanjay Satpathy | Shahid Ali Khan | |
| Amit Mishra | Haryana | Himachal Pradesh | Rohtak | 2001-02 | Virender Sharma | Amit Sharma | Chetan Kumar | |
| Ajay Barik | Orissa/Odisha | Assam | Balasore | 2001-02 | Bachan Singh | Jayaraman Gokulakrishnan | Sukhvinder Singh | |
| Gagandeep Singh | Punjab | Uttar Pradesh | Mohali | 2002-03 | Nikhil Chopra | Javed Anwar | Mrityunjay Tripathi | |
| Ramakrishnan Ramkumar | Tamil Nadu | Karnataka | Bangalore/Bengaluru | 2003-04 | Dodda Ganesh | Venkatesh Prasad | Udit Patel | |
| S Sreesanth | Kerala | Himachal Pradesh | Palakkad | 2004-05 | Manvinder Bisla | Ajay Mannu | Paras Dogra | |
| Rajesh Pawar | Baroda | Hyderabad | Secunderabad | 2004-05 | Ibrahim Khaleel | Narender Pal Singh | Venkatapathy Raju | |
| Rakesh Patel | Baroda | Tamil Nadu | Baroda/Vadodara | 2004-05 | Dinesh Karthik | Mumbai Srinivas | Ramakrishnan Ramkumar | |
| Joginder Sharma | Haryana | Andhra | Rohtak | 2006-07 | RVC Prasad | D Kalyankrishna | Lakshman Kishore | |
| Sony Cheruvathur | Kerala | Gujarat | Surat | 2007-08 | Amit Singh | Siddharth Trivedi | Hitesh Majumdar | |
| Parvinder Awana | Delhi | Maharashtra | Nagothane | 2007-08 | Vishal Bhilare | Kedar Jadhav | Sairaj Bahutule | |
| VRV Singh | Punjab | Orissa/Odisha | Mohali | 2007-08 | Rashmi Ranjan Parida | Haladhar Das | Sourabha Sehgal | |
| Vinay Kumar | Karnataka | Maharashtra | Ratnagiri | 2007-08 | Ankit Bawne | Ajinkya Joshi | Ameya Shrikande | |
| Pritam Gandhe | Vidarbha | Services | Delhi | 2008-09 | Amiya Mohanty | Shuvra Karmakar | Pankaj Kumar | |
| Salim Veragi | Baroda | Tamil Nadu | Baroda/Vadodara | 2008-09 | Chinnaswamy Suresh | Lakshmipathy Balaji | Palani Amarnath | |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | Karnataka | Uttar Pradesh | Meerut | 2009-10 | Piyush Chawla | Amir Khan | RP Singh (Jr) | |
| Samad Fallah | Maharashtra | Baroda | Poona/Pune | 2009-10 | Bhargav Bhatt | Munaf Patel | Yusuf Pathan | |
| Dhruv Singh | Haryana | Uttar Pradesh | Ghaziabad | 2010-11 | Shivakant Shukla | Parvinder Singh | Ashish Yadav | |
| Pawan Suyal | Delhi | Assam | Delhi | 2010-11 | Dhiraj Goswami | Arlan Konwar | Ranjit Mali | |
| Abu Nachim Ahmed | Assam | Goa | Guwahati | 2011-12 | Amit Yadav | Vasanth Sarvanan | Rahul Keni | |
| Siddharth Trivedi | Saurashtra | Punjab | Mohali | 2011-12 | Karan Goel | Harbhajan Singh | Manpreet Gony | |
| Krishnakant Upadhyay | Railways | Punjab | Mohali | 2011-12 | Uday Kaul | Taruwar Kohli | Manpreet Gony | |
| Mohammed Shami | Bengal | Madhya Pradesh | Indore | 2012-13 | Anand Rajan | Amarjeet Singh | Ishwar Pandey | |
| Rakesh Dhruve | Gujarat | Vidarbha | Nagpur | 2013-14 | Shrikant Wagh | Umesh Yadav | Sandeep Singh | |
| Sreenath Aravind | Karnataka | Tamil Nadu | Bangalore/Bengaluru | 2014-15 | Malolan Rangarajan | Lakshmipathy Balaji | Mohammed Mohammed | |
| Basant Mohanty | Orissa/Odisha | Delhi | Bhubaneswar | 2014-15 | Punit Bisht | Subodh Bhati | Pulkit Narang | |
| Mohit Sharma | Haryana | Delhi | Rohtak | 2014-15 | Virender Sehwag | Parwinder Awana | Navdeep Saini | |
| Umesh Yadav | Vidarbha | Rajasthan | Nagpur | 2015-16 | Ajay Singh | Aniket Choudhary | Nathu Singh | |
| Rana Dutta | Tripura | Himachal Pradesh | Kalyani | 2016-17 | Rishi Dhawan | Sumeet Verma | Mayank Dagar | |
| Vinay Kumar | Karnataka | Bombay/Mumbai | Nagpur | 2017-18 | Prithvi Shaw | Jay Bista | Akash Parkar | |
| Rajneesh Gurbani | Vidarbha | Delhi | Indore | 2017-18 | Vikas Mishra | Navdeep Saini | Dhruv Shorey | |
Baqa Jilani, in 1934-35, became the first to register a hat-trick in Ranji Trophy. He achieved the feat for Northern India against Southern India at Amritsar. Gurbani became only the second to claim a hat-trick in a Ranji Trophy final after Tamil Nadu’s B Kalyanasundaram, who had achieved the feat against Bombay in 1972-73.
