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1944–45 Ranji Trophy

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Administrator(s)
  
BCCI

Tournament format(s)
  
Knockout

Participants
  
17

Cricket format
  
First-class cricket

Champions
  
Bombay

Matches played
  
16

1944–45 Ranji Trophy

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

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  • 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.
  • 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.

    • Scorecards and averages

  • Cricketarchive

    • References

    1944–45 Ranji Trophy Wikipedia
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