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The Ranji Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket championship played in India between teams representing regional cricket associations. The competition currently consists of 27 teams, with 21 of the 29 states in India and Delhi (which is an Union Territory), having at least one representation. The competition is named after first Indian Cricketer who played for England and Sussex, Ranjitsinhji who was also known as "Ranji".
Karnataka are the current Ranji champions, having beaten Tamil Nadu by an innings and 217 runs in the finals of the 2014–15 season held in Mumbai.
The competition was launched as "The Cricket Championship of India" following a meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in July 1934, with the first fixtures taking place in 1934–35. The trophy was donated by Maharaja Bhupinder Singh of Patiala. The first match of the competition was held on 4 November 1934 between Madras and Mysore at Chepauk.M. J. Gopalan of Madras bowled the first ball to N. Curtis. The first Ranji Trophy Championship was won by Bombay after they defeated North India in the final. Mumbai (formerly Bombay) have won the tournament the most number of times with 40 wins including 15 back-to-back wins from 1958–59 to 1972–73.
Anshuman Jain (born 7 January 1963 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India) is an Indian business executive, formerly Co-CEO of Deutsche Bank from 2012 until 2015 (July).
Jain was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Management Board. He was previously head of the Corporate and Investment Bank, globally responsible for Deutsche Bank’s corporate finance, sales and trading, and transaction banking business. Jain is expected to remain a consultant to the bank until January 2016.
Jain studied economics at University of Delhi's Shri Ram College of Commerce, earning a bachelor's degree with honors in 1983. He also holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a cousin of Ajit Jain.
After having finished university, he started as an analyst in derivatives research at Kidder, Peabody & Co. (now part of UBS) where he worked from 1985 to 1988. After three years, he joined Merrill Lynch in New York where he founded and led the securities industry’s first dedicated hedge fund coverage group.