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Wills Trophy
CountriesIndia
AdministratorBCCI
FormatList A cricket
First edition1977–78
Latest edition1999–2000
Tournament formatKnock out
Number of teams7
Most successfulBombay/Mumbai (8 titles)
QualificationRanji Trophy or Vijay Hazare Trophy

The Wills Trophy, formally named the Wills One-Day Trophy and named after sponsor Wills of ITC Limited), was an Indian List A cricket tournament organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Established in the 1977–78 season, it was played to find the best limited overs side of the domestic season as only the Ranji Trophy had inter-zonal finals. The annual tournament was played between seven sides, the five zonal winners and two composite teams, Wills XI (named after the title sponsor) and Indian Board President XI. Till the 1992–93 season, the team finishing first in each Zone of the Ranji Trophy qualified to play this tournament. Since the 1993–94 season, the team finishing first in each Zone of the Ranji One-Day Trophy qualified to play this tournament.

Tournament history

Year Final host Winner Runner-up Most runs Most wickets Ref
1977–78 Madras Wills XI Indian Board President XI Dilip Vengsarkar (Wil-XI) Karsan Ghavri (IBP-XI)
Ashok Mankad (Wil-XI)
S. Venkataraghavan (Wil-XI)		 [1]
1978–79 Mumbai Bombay & Delhi (shared) Surinder Amarnath (Del) Sunil Valson (Del)
Sandeep Patil (Bom)		 [2]
1979–80 not played
1980–81 Delhi Wills XI (2) Indian Board President XI (2) Anshuman Gaekwad (Wil-XI) Yograj Singh (IBP-XI) [3]
1981–82 Kanpur Bombay (2) Indian Board President XI (3) Sunil Gavaskar (Bom) Ravi Shastri (Bom) [4]
1982–83 Calcutta Bombay (3) Delhi Kirti Azad (Del) Manoj Prabhakar (Del) [5]
1983–84 Bangalore Indian Board President XI Karnataka M. R. Srinivasaprasad (Kar) Roger Binny (Kar)
Sharad Rao (Kar)
Ranjit Khanwilkar (Kar)		 [6]
1984–85 Mumbai Wills XI (3) Indian Board President XI (4) Padam Shastri (IBP-XI) Anshuman Gaekwad (Wil-XI) [7]
1985–86 Delhi Bombay (4) Delhi (2) Alan Sippy (Bom) Maninder Singh (Del)
Madan Lal (Del)		 [8]
1986–87 Nagpur Delhi (2) Maharashtra Shrikant Kalyani (Mah) Sunil Gudge (Mah) [9]
1987–88 Calcutta Indian Board President XI (2) Karnataka (2) W. V. Raman (IBP-XI) Ajay Sharma (IBP-XI) [10]
1988–89 Madras Delhi (3) Railways Raman Lamba (Del) Manoj Prabhakar (Del) [11]
1989–90 Mumbai Wills XI (4) Delhi (3) Navjot Sidhu (Wil-XI) Ravi Shastri (Wil-XI) [12]
1990–91 Delhi Bombay (5) Wills XI Ravi Shastri (Bom) Raju Kulkarni (Bom) [13]
1991–92 Kanpur Indian Board President XI (3) Wills XI (2) Sachin Tendulkar (IBP-XI) Ravi Shastri (IBP-XI) [14]
1992–93 Guwahati Delhi (4) & Indian Board President XI (4) (shared) Ravi Sehgal (Del) B Iqbal Khan (Mum)
K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (IBP-XI)
Kirti Azad (Del)
Kartar Nath (Del)
Atul Wassan (Del)
Ravi Sehgal (Del)		 [15]
1993–94 not played
1994–95 Madras Bombay (6) Haryana Sachin Tendulkar (Bom) Obaid Kamal (Wil-XI) [16]
1995–96 Mumbai Wills XI (5) Bengal Sachin Tendulkar (Wil-XI) Arindam Sarkar (Ben) [17]
1996–97 Mohali Mumbai (7) Haryana (2) Sanjay Manjrekar (Mum) Sairaj Bahutule (Mum) [18]
1997–98 Lucknow Mumbai (8) Indian Board President XI (5) Vikram Rathour (IBP-XI) Sairaj Bahutule (Mum)
Sandeep Sharma (IBP-XI)		 [19]
1998–99 Calcutta Madhya Pradesh Bengal (2) Amay Khurasiya (MP) Laxmi Ratan Shukla (Ben)
Harvinder Sodhi (MP)		 [20]
1999–2000 Vishakapatnam Indian Board President XI (5) Karnataka (3) Sanjay Bangar (IBP-XI) Murali Kartik (IBP-XI) [21]

Teams summary

Appearances Statistics
Team Total Champions Runners-up Mat. Won Lost Tie NR Win%*
Bombay / Mumbai 14 8 - 32 24 6 1 1 79.03
Indian Board President XI 21 5 5 41 24 14 2 1 62.50
Wills XI 21 5 2 40 23 16 0 0 58.97
Delhi 13 4 3 27 16 9 2 0 62.96
Madhya Pradesh 5 1 0 9 5 3 1 0 61.11
Karnataka 8 - 3 16 7 7 1 1 50.00
Bengal 15 - 2 24 8 15 0 1 34.87
Haryana 6 - 2 10 4 6 0 0 40.00
Railways 2 - 1 5 3 2 0 0 60.00
Maharashtra 4 - 1 7 3 4 0 0 42.86
Tamil Nadu 7 - - 9 1 7 1 0 16.67
Hyderabad 5 - - 6 1 4 0 1 20.00
Uttar Pradesh 12 - - 13 1 12 0 0 7.69
Bihar 3 - - 3 0 3 0 0 0.00
Orissa 2 - - 2 0 2 0 0 0.00
Rajasthan 2 - - 2 0 2 0 0 0.00
Baroda 2 - - 2 0 2 0 0 0.00
Punjab 2 - - 2 0 2 0 0 0.00
Gujarat 1 - - 1 0 1 0 0 0.00
Andhra 1 - - 1 0 1 0 0 0.00
Assam 1 - - 1 0 1 0 0 0.00
Bangladesh Cricket Board XI 1 - - 1 0 1 0 0 0.00

See also

References

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