1944–45 Ranji Trophy Explained

1944–45 Ranji Trophy
Administrator:	BCCI
Cricket Format:	First-class
Tournament Format:	Knockout
Champions:	Bombay
Count:	4
Participants:	17
Matches:	16
Most Runs:	Rusi Modi (Bombay) (1008)^[1]
Most Wickets:	C. S. Nayudu (Holkar) (33)^[2]
Previous Year:	1943–44
Previous Tournament:	1943–44 Ranji Trophy
Next Year:	1945–46
Next Tournament:	1945–46 Ranji Trophy

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.^[3]

• Modi scored hundreds in each of the five matches. His scores were 160, 210, 245* & 31*, 113 and 98 & 151 in the final.^[4] 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.^[5]
• C. S. Nayudu of Holkar bowled 917 balls in the final, a record in all first class cricket.^{[6] [7]}

Zonal Matches

South Zone

Scorecards and averages

• CricketArchive

External links

• Book: Maqsood. M. H.. M. H. Maqsood. Who's Who in Indian Cricket. 1946. Z.R. Commercial Corporation.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most runs . subscription . 23 August 2014.
2. Web site: Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most wickets . subscription . 23 August 2014.
3. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Series/Ranji_Trophy/Batting_Records/Most_Season_Runs.html Most runs in a Ranji season
4. https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1944-45/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/ 1944-45 Ranji season scorecards
5. https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Series/Ranji_Trophy/Batting_Records/Most_Season_Centuries.html Most hundreds in a season
6. https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/First_Class/Overall/Bowling/Most_Balls_Bowled_in_a_Match.html Most balls bowled in a match, ACS
7. Web site: The IPL is born . ESPNcricinfo. 18 April 2018.