1943–44 Ranji Trophy
The 1943–44 Ranji Trophy was the tenth season of the Ranji Trophy. Western India won their only title defeating Bengal in the final.
 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] |
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.
- 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.
Teams in the first ten years
Zonal Matches
West Zone
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||||
| 10 Dec 1943 — Jamnagar | ||||||||||
| Nawanagar | 221 & 70/5 | |||||||||
| 28 Dec 1943 — Rajkot | ||||||||||
| Western India | 336 & 116/3d | |||||||||
| Western India | 274 & 285 | |||||||||
| 11 Dec 1943 — Karachi | ||||||||||
| Sind | 178 & 158/6 | |||||||||
| Sind | 175 & 83/1 | |||||||||
| 15 Jan 1944 — Rajkot | ||||||||||
| Gujarat | 120 & 136 | |||||||||
| Western India | 363/4 | |||||||||
| 11 Dec 1943 — Bombay | ||||||||||
| Bombay | 255 | |||||||||
| Bombay | 487 | |||||||||
| 31 Dec 1943 — Bombay | ||||||||||
| Baroda | 297 | |||||||||
| Bombay | 735 | |||||||||
| Maharashtra | 298 | |||||||||
East Zone
| Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
| 18 Dec 1943 — Calcutta | ||||||
| Bengal | 249 & 88/8 | |||||
| 7 Jan 1944 — Calcutta | ||||||
| Bihar | 159 & 261/7d | |||||
| Bengal | 387 & 21/0 | |||||
| 17 Dec 1943 — Indore | ||||||
| Holkar | 138 & 266 | |||||
| Holkar | 222 & 420/7d | |||||
| United Provinces | 116 & 227 | |||||
North Zone
| Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||||
| 20 Dec 1943 — Gwalior | ||||||||||
| Gwalior | 92 & 61 | |||||||||
| 29 Jan 1944 — New Delhi | ||||||||||
| Delhi | 179 & 393 | |||||||||
| Delhi | 84 & 103 | |||||||||
| Southern Punjab | 388 | |||||||||
| 4 Mar 1944 — Patiala | ||||||||||
| Southern Punjab | 326 & 104/8 | |||||||||
| Northern India | 329 & 127 | |||||||||
Inter-Zonal Knockout matches
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 17 Mar 1944 – Rajkot | ||||||
| Western India | 254 & 175/3 | |||||
| 07 Apr 1944 – Bombay | ||||||
| Northern India | 145 & 283 | |||||
| Western India | 433 | |||||
| 19 Feb 1944 – Calcutta | ||||||
| Bengal | 234 & 176 | |||||
| Bengal | 235 & 266 | |||||
| Madras | 102 & 265 | |||||
Results of the first ten years
Final
7-10 Apr 1944 (timeless match) Scorecard |
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234 (130.2 overs) Asoke Chatterjee 68 Shantilal Gandhi 6/50 |
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- Bengal won the toss and elected to bat
- The match was played on a neutral ground
Scorecards and averages
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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