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1944–45 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Bombay (4th title)
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 until W. V. Raman made 1018 runs in 1988–89 by which time teams played more matches.

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 2021, only V. V. S. Laxman (eight hundreds in 1999–00), Kedar Jadhav (six in 2013–14) and Milind Kumar (six in 2018–19) have made more hundreds in a season.

C. S. Nayudu of Holkar bowled 917 balls in the final, a record in all first class cricket.

Zonal Matches

West Zone

Round 1		Round 2		Round 3

9 Dec 1944 – Poona

Maharashtra	372 & 363
		16 Dec 1944 – Poona
Nawanagar	131 & 115
		Maharashtra	205 & 267

		Baroda	314 & 512/3

				27 Jan 1945 – Baroda

				Baroda	151 & 390
3 Nov 1944 – Karachi
				Bombay	468 & 74/3
Sind	264 & 244/4d
		30 Dec 1944 – Bombay
Bombay	432 & 16/1
		Bombay	592/6d
15 Dec 1944 – Ahmedabad
		Western India	188 & 92
Gujarat	140 & 155

Western India	224 & 271

North Zone

Round 1		Round 2

9 Dec 1944 – Lahore

Northern India	358
		26 Jan 1945 – Lahore
Delhi	52 & 86
		Northern India	449 & 298/7d

		Southern Punjab	293 & 92

East Zone

Round 1		Round 2

15 Dec 1944 – Jamshedpur

Bihar	158 & 91
		18 Jan 1945 – Indore
Holkar	389
		Holkar	538
9 Dec 1944 – Calcutta
		Bengal	64 & 176
Bengal	248 & 157

United Provinces	176 & 154

South Zone

Round 1		Round 2

24 Dec 1944 – Madras

Madras	188 & 233
		20 Jan 1945 – Madras
Hyderabad	192 & 176
		Madras	363

		Mysore	78 & 159

Inter-Zonal Knockout matches

Semi-finals		Final

16 Feb 1945 – Bombay

Bombay	620 & 58/0
		4 Mar 1945 – Bombay
Northern India	363 & 312
		Bombay	462 & 764
17 Feb 1945 – Madras
		Holkar	360 & 492
Madras	254 & 158

Holkar	403 & 11/0

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
1944-45 Ranji season scorecards
Most hundreds in a season
Most balls bowled in a match, ACS
"The IPL is born". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 18 April 2018.

External links

Maqsood, M. H., ed. (1946). Who's Who in Indian Cricket. Z.R. Commercial Corporation.

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