Sriram completes 1000 runs in Ranji Season

Tamil Nadu's Sridharan Sriram became seventh batsman in the history of Ranji Trophy to cross the milestone of 1000 runs in a season during his innings of 165 in the quarterfinal against Punjab at Chennai. The southpaw from Tamil Nadu also upstaged former teammate WV Raman (1018 from 7 matches in 1988-89), the only other batsman from the state to do so.

It took Sriram just seven matches (and nine innings) to complete his 1000 runs in the season.Sriram's scores this season are: 121 against Hyderabad, 147 against Goa, 98 against Saurashtra, 23 and 31 against Orissa, 177 against Haryana, 288 & 0* (retired hurt) against Uttar Pradesh; and 165 and 13 against Punjab.

Karnatakas Vijay Bhardwaj holds the record of maximum run aggregate in a Ranji season.He had scored 1280 runs in 10 matches keeping an average of 106.66 last season. Sriram is now only 231 runs away in overtaking Bhardwajs tally. Following batsmen have scored 1000 or more runs in a Ranji Season :

Runs  Batsman         Team     Mts Inns  NO   Hs    Ave.    100   50      Season
1280  Vijay Bhardwaj    Karnataka    10  15     3   200*  106.66    4    7      1998-99
1063  S Sriram         Tamil Nadu    7  10     0   288   106.30    5    1      1999-00
1037  Jacob Martin      Baroda       8  13 3   242   103.70    5    2      1998-99
1034  Raman Lamba       Delhi      10  14 0   250    73.86    3    4      1996-97
1033  Ajay Sharma       Delhi       8  10 1   220*  114.78    5    3      1996-97
1018  WV Raman         Tamil Nadu    7   9 2   313   145.42    3    1      1988-89
1008  Rusi Modi         Mumbai       5   7 2   245*  201.60    5    1      1944-45