1943–44 Ranji Trophy

1943-44 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Western India
Participants	19
Matches played	18
Most runs	Vijay Merchant (Bombay) (553)^[1]
Most wickets	Saeed Ahmed (Western India) (28)^[2]

The 1943–44 Ranji Trophy was the tenth season of the Ranji Trophy. Western India won their only title defeating Bengal in the final.

This season could be considered as the arbitrary starting point of high scoring in Indian domestic cricket that would last till the end of the decade. In the final of the Bombay Pentangular in early December 1943, Vijay Merchant and Vijay Hazare scored 250* and 309. It was the prelude to Merchant setting a new Ranji and Indian first class record of 359* for Bombay against Maharashtra between December 31, 1943, and January 2, 1944, at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay.

Highlights

The Bombay-Maharashtra match ^[3] set several national records.

Bombay made 735, the highest score in Indian first class cricket bettering 703 by Bengal Cyclone XI in 1942-43.^[4] The previous Ranji record was 675 by Maharashtra v Bombay in 1940-41^[5]
Vijay Merchant's 359* was the highest individual score in India. Vijay Hazare's 316* for Maharashtra v Baroda in 1939-40 was the previous Ranji and first class record.^[6]
Merchant and Rusi Modi's partnership of 371 was a national record for the sixth wicket. As of 2014, it is bettered only by 417 between Wridhiman Saha and Laxmi Ratan Shukla for Bengal v Assam in 2010-11^[7]

Vijay Merchant's season batting average of 276.50 is the highest by any batsman scoring over 500 runs.

Results of the first ten years

Herbert Berritt captained Western India States to the title. He was the third Englishman to captain a Ranji winning team, after Bert Wensley of Nawanagar in 1936-37 and Tom Longfield of Bengal in 1938-39.

Knockout tree

Semi-finals		Final

19 Feb 1944 – Calcutta
Bengal	134 runs
Madras

		07 Apr 1944 – Bombay
		Western India	inns and 23 runs
		Bengal



17 Mar 1944 - Rajkot
Western India	7 wickets
Northern India

Final

7-10 Apr 1944 (timeless match)
Scorecard

Bengal	v	Western India
234 (130.2 overs) Asoke Chatterjee 68 Shantilal Gandhi 6/50		433 (153.5 overs) G. Kishenchand 111 B.K. Mitra 4/80
176 (79.2 overs) Nirmal Chatterjee 71 Saeed Ahmed 4/23

Western India won by an innings and 23 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: M.G. Bhave and D.K. Naik

Bengal won the toss and elected to bat
The match was played on a neutral ground

Teams

Teams in the first ten years

North Zone
Northern India
Southern Punjab
Delhi
Gwalior
West Zone
Western India
Bombay
Maharashtra
Sind
Gujarat
Baroda
Nawanagar
South Zone
Madras
Hyderabad
Mysore
Central Provinces and Berar
East Zone
Bengal
Holkar
Bihar
United Provinces

The team that won the zonal title is listed in bold. The teams are listed in the approximate order in which they finished in the zone.

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1943/44 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1943/44 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
↑ Bombay v Maharashtra, Brabourne Stadium
↑ Bijapur Famine XI v Bengal Cyclone XI, 1942-43
↑ Maharashtra v Bombay 1940-41
↑ Maharashtra v Baroda, 1939-40
↑ v Assam, 2010-11

External links

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