1 Players younger than Prithvi Shaw to have scored a century for Mumbai; Shaw was aged 17 years and 57 days. Sachin Tendulkar was 15 years, 231 days when he scored an unbeaten 100, also on his Ranji Trophy debut, in 1988-89. Overall, Shaw is the eighth-youngest Indian to score a century on first-class debut.
1994 The last instance when a player scored a century on debut for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, before Prithvi Shaw's 120 in the semi-final against Tamil Nadu. Amol Muzumdar scored 260 against Haryana in the pre-quarterfinal of the 1993-94 Ranji Trophy, which is still a record for the highest score on first-class debut. Overall, Shaw is the seventh player to score a century on debut for Mumbai in the tournament.
2 Gujarat have reached the final of the Ranji Trophy for only the second time. Their first appearancewas in 1950-51, against Holkar, to whom they lost by 189 runs. Their opponents this season are Mumbai, who have reached the Ranji Trophy final a record 46 times and have won 41 times.
1270 Runs scored by Priyank Panchal in this season, currently the fourth on the list of most runs by a batsman in a single Ranji Trophy season. He needs 11 runs in the final to get to third spot and 52 to reach the second spot. The record for most runs in a season is 1415 by VVS Laxman in 1999-00; to surpass that, Panchal would need 146 runs. No other batsman has scored over 1000 runs in this season.
6/29 Jasprit Bumrah's figures in the fourth innings of the semi-final against Jharkhand - his first-class best. This was his third five-for of the season; the other Gujarat bowlers combined have taken only three five-fors.
111 Jharkhand's total in the fourth innings against Gujarat, the lowest they were bowled out for this season. Jharkhand were set 235 to win but were all-out in just 41 overs. In the other matches where they were set a fourth-innings target, Jharkhand won three and drew one match.
0 Previous instances of Tamil Nadu losing a Ranji Trophy match after scoring 300-plus in both innings of the game over the last ten seasons. In the semi-final against Mumbai, they scored 305 and 356 for 6 and lost by six wickets.
4 Number of Ranji Trophy seasons, including the current one, in which Abhinav Mukund has aggregated 800 or more runs, the most by any player. Ajay Sharma and Vinod Kambli achieved this in three seasons. Mukund ended the 2016-17 season with 849 runs, after scoring 122 in the second innings against Mumbai, his fourth century of this edition.
56 Wickets for Shahbaz Nadeem in this Ranji Trophy, the seventh most for any bowler in a single season. The previous instance of a bowler taking more than 56 wickets in 2006-07 when Ranadeb Bose took 57 wickets. Nadeem is the only bowler with more than 50 wickets in the current season. No bowler from either Mumbai or Gujarat has taken even 30 wickets so far.