Captain MADHYA PRADESH Aditya Shrivastava is waiting for hir turn to talk to Mumbai captain Prithvi Shaw in a presentation after the final match of the Ranji Trophy. But the Shrivastava team went to the board with the words "Champions", ready to take a picture.

Earlier, in another brief look at what this first crown of the Ranji Trophy meant for the state created in 1956, Shrivastava was already in his official black-and-blue MP jacket, standing a few feet from his impatient teammates just minutes after a six-goal victory against 41. master of Mumbai.

“Completely ecstatic,” the 28-year-old captain began when it was his turn to speak to presenter Anjum Chopra, a former Indian captain.

“A generation…of time has gone by and MP has won the Ranji Trophy for the first time now. It is the moment of a lifetime for me. The emotions are really deep in the squad, we are trying to laugh it out loud, but we are extremely emotional from inside,” Shrivastava said.

The MP made India players like Narendra Hirwani, Rajesh Chauhan, Amay Khurasiya, Jai Prakash Yadav, Naman Ojha and the third highest winner in Ranji Devendra Bundel's history. But the Ranji Trophy had proved elusive, unlike the golden age of the distant past, when part of the region, including the Indore Cricket Nerve Center, was represented by the Holkar team.

Consisting of legends such as CK Nayudu, CS Nayudu, Syed Mushtaq Ali and Chandu Sarwate, Holkar Ranji has achieved the last ten times during 11 seasons from 1944-45 to 1954-55, won the trophy four times and finished 69 years old in 1952-53.

 On Sunday, able to keep his emotions in the speech after the match, Shrivastava dropped the microphone, accepted the Ranji Trophy, went to his team and handed the trophy to the lucky Akshat Raghuwanshi, the 18-year-old striker who is attacking. a batsman who started his hundred this season and made three major fiffs, two of them in knockouts.

Shrivastava and coach Chandrakant Pandit then grabbed the trophy and tutored it. Mourning in 1998-99 at the same Chinnaswamy Stadium was in the spirit of Captain Pandit. It was the same last chance when the MP reached the final and had a share of the title before losing a safe position against the host Karnataka on the last day. "Twenty-three years later, we came back here and we did it," Pandit said.

The team walked with the trophy towards the stand next to their dressing room where about a thousand fans stood and cheered from the upper tier. The fans had largely backed MP through the five days of the match, with their Royal Challengers Bangalore star and MP middle-order batsman Rajat Patidar receiving special adulation. Shouts of “RCB, RCB” and “Patidar, Patidar” had been a constant chorus.

Patidar, who showed the dominant ride in the IPL knockouts, repeated against Mumbai in the first inning of the final and hit the winning race in the second. He now holds the trophy over his head and runs to the edge of the border, intensifying the roar of the fans.