1944–45 Ranji Trophy

1944-45 Ranji Trophy

The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s) BCCI
Cricket format First-class cricket
Tournament format(s) Knockout
Champions Bombay
Participants 17
Matches played 16
Most runs Rusi Modi (Bombay) (1008)[1]
Most wickets C. S. Nayudu (Holkar) (33)[2]

The 1944–45 Ranji Trophy was the 11th season of the Ranji Trophy. Bombay won the title defeating Holkar in the final.

Highlights

  • Modi scored hundreds in each of the five matches. His scores were 160, 210, 245* & 31*, 113 and 98 & 151 in the final. He had scored 168 and 128 in the last two matches of the 1943-44 season, thus scoring hundreds in five consecutive innings and seven consecutive matches in Ranji Trophy.
  • Modi's five centuries in a season was another record. As of 2015, only V. V. S. Laxman (eight hundreds in 1999-00) and Kedar Jadhav (six in 2013-14) have made more hundreds in a season.[4]

Final

4–9 March 1945
Scorecard
Bombay (H)
v
462 (160.5 overs)
Rusi Modi 98
C. S. Nayudu 6/153
360 (117.5 overs)
Mushtaq Ali 109
Dattu Phadkar 5/75
764 (256 overs)
Vijay Merchant 278, Rusi Modi 151, Rusi Cooper 104
C. S. Nayudu 5/275
492 (155.1 overs)
Denis Compton 249*, Mushtaq Ali 130
Madan Raiji 3/133
Bombay won by 374 runs
Brabourne Stadium, Bombay
Umpires: M. G. Bhave and T. A. Ramachandran
  • Bombay won the toss and decided to bat
  • Timeless match that lasted for six days

Scorecards and averages

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