The two newcomers were Bihar and Nawanagar, who won the title at the first attempt after defeating Bengal by 256 runs in the final.

Although the tournament had a knockout format, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) organised the teams by zone.

The seventeen teams are listed alphabetically by zone and the sides that won each zonal title are in bold.

[8] Western India lost five wickets inside an hour after opting to bat first upon winning the toss.

Khwaja Saeed returned with figures of 6/23 for Western India, whose top-order in reply, began slowly taking over an hour to score 50 runs.

Subsequently, Faiz Ahmed and Mali accelerated before the latter reached his half-century in 85 minutes while the former scored 4 fours off JJ Yelwande's bowling.