The West Zone of the Ranji Trophy, 1964-65 saw the participation of a number of 5 teams including the likes of Bombay, Baroda, Gujarat, Saurashtra and Maharashtra. All the teams came from the Western regions of India and they tried their best to enter into the knock out level of the tournament. However, the champion of the previous year, Bombay and the Maharashtra team became successful to do so from the West Zone.

The match between the teams of Maharashtra and Gujarat was the first of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1964-65. The match took place at Poona from 31 October-02 November, 1964 and it saw the Maharashtra team winning by an innings and 34 runs and also earning 9 points from it. The second match saw a clash between the teams of Bombay and Gujarat at Bombay from 06-07 November, 1964. The Bombay team played wonderfully in the match and won it by a huge margin of an innings and 5 runs to earn 8 valuable points. In the third match of the West Zone, the teams of Baroda and Saurashtra met with each other at Baroda from 07-09 November, 1964. The match was drawn during the stipulated duration and the Baroda and Saurashtra teams earned 5 and 3 points, respectively from the match.

The teams of Gujarat and Saurashtra appeared in the fourth of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1964-65 at Anand from 13-15 November, 1964. The drawn match saw the Gujarat team earning 5 points and Saurashtra team earning 3 points from it. The Baroda and Maharashtra teams then clashed with each other in the next match of the zone and they played the match at Baroda from 14-16 November, 1964. As the match was drawn during its specified duration, the match officials awarded the Baroda and Maharashtra teams earning 5 and 3 points, respectively from it. The match between the teams of Maharashtra and Saurashtra was the sixth match of the zone and it was held at Morvi from 20-22 November, 1964. The match saw the Maharashtra team winning by a margin of 8 wickets and earning 8 points from it.

In the seventh of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1964-65, there was a clash between the teams of the two most powerful teams of the West Zone, Bombay and Baroda. The two teams clashed with each other at Baroda from 21-23 November, 1964 and the match went on to be drawn during the stipulated duration. The Bombay team earned 6 points and Baroda earned 3 points from the drawn match. The Bombay team then played against the Saurashtra team in the next match at Bhavnagar from 27-29 November, 1964, where t won by an innings and 16 runs to earn 8 points from the match. Then the teams of Baroda and Gujarat met with each other at Ahmedabad from 28-30 November, 1964 and the drawn match saw the Baroda team earning 5 points and Gujarat earning 3 points from it. The last of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1964-65 saw a battle between the teams of Maharashtra and Bombay at Satara from 16-18 January, 1964. The Maharashtra and Bombay teams earned 5 and 3 points, respectively from the match, as it was drawn during the specified duration.