The match between the teams of Saurashtra and Maharashtra was the first of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1978-79 and the match was held at Bhavanagar from 14-16 October, 1978. The Maharashtra team clinched a huge victory of 9 wickets in the match for earning 8 valuable points and also for getting a very god starts in the tournament. The second match of the zone saw a clash between the teams of Gujarat and Baroda at Gandhi Nagar from 21-23 October, 1978. The match remained drawn during the stipulated period of time and it saw the Gujarat and Baroda teams earning 5 and 3 points, respectively from it. The next match of the zone involved the teams of Bombay and Baroda and the teams played the match at Bombay from 11-13 November, 1978. The Bombay and Baroda teams earned 5 and 3 points, respectively from the drawn match. The teams of Gujarat and Saurashtra clashed with each other in the fourth of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1978-79 and the match took place at Nadiad from 11-13 November, 1978. The Gujarat team played wonderfully in the match and earned 8 points from it, by clinching a huge victory of 10 wickets. The next match of the zone saw a battle between the teams of Saurashtra and Bombay at Bhuj from 09-11 December, 1978. The match also remained drawn during the stipulated duration and it saw the Bombay and Saurashtra teams earning 5 and 3 points, respectively from it. The Maharashtra and Gujarat teams then played against each other in the next match of the zone at Sholapur from 09-11 December, 1978. The drawn match saw the Gujarat and Maharashtra teams earning 5 and 3 points, respectively from it. The seventh of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1978-79 involved the teams like Bombay and Gujarat and the two teams played the match at Bombay from 23-25 December, 1978. Playing wonderfully in the match, the Bombay team clinched a huge victory of an innings and 48 runs and also earned 8 valuable points, from the match. The clash between the teams of Baroda and Maharashtra took place at Baroda in the next match of the zone from 23-25 December, 1978. The drawn match saw the Baroda team earning 5 points and Maharashtra earning 3 points from it. The Maharashtra team appeared in the next match of the zone also and this time, it played against the Bombay team at Ahmednagar from 19-21 January, 1979. The Bombay team played well in this match also and beat the Maharashtra team by a huge margin of an innings and 178 runs for earning the entire 9 points from it. The last of the West Zone league matches in the Ranji Trophy, 1978-79 saw a clash between the teams of Baroda and Saurashtra at Baroda from 20-22 January, 1979. The Baroda team finished the zonal level on a positive note, as it earned 8 points from the match by winning it with a margin of 31 runs. |