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	16
Most runs	Rusi Modi (Bombay) (1008)
Most wickets	C. S. Nayudu (Holkar) (33)
	← 1943–44 1945–46 →

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

Highlights

Rusi Modi of Bombay scored 1008 runs in the season. He played five matches and averaged 201.60. No other batsman would score even 900 in a season till W. V. Raman made 1018 runs in 1988-89 by which time every team played several more matches.^[3]

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	Holkar
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

Cricketarchive

References

^ "Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ "Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
^ Most runs in a Ranji season
^ Most hundreds in a season

External links

[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[3] Most runs in a Ranji season

[4] Most hundreds in a season

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

v t e Ranji Trophy
Seasons	1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Current teams	Andhra Arunachal Pradesh Assam Baroda Bengal Bihar Chandigarh Chhattisgarh Delhi Goa Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Hyderabad Jammu and Kashmir Jharkhand Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Mumbai Nagaland Odisha Pondicherry Punjab Railways Rajasthan Saurashtra Services Sikkim Tamil Nadu Tripura Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand Vidarbha
Former teams	Army Central Provinces and Berar Eastern Punjab Nawanagar Northern India Northern Punjab North West Frontier Province Patiala Sind Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin Western India
Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks