1945–46 Ranji Trophy

1945-46 Ranji Trophy
	The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Holkar
Participants	21
Most runs	Hemu Adhikari (Baroda) (555)[1]
Most wickets	Amir Elahi (Baroda) (30)[2]

The 1945–46 Ranji Trophy was the 12th season of the Ranji Trophy. Holkar won the title defeating Baroda in the final.

Highlights

Holkar scored 912 for 8 decl against Mysore in the semifinal. This was the highest score in Indian first class cricket till Hyderabad made 944 for 6 against Andhra in 1993-94

Six batsmen scored hundreds for Holkar - Kamal Bhandarkar 142, Chandu Sarwate 101, Madhav Jagdale 164, C. K. Nayudu 101, Bhausaheb Nimbalkar 172 and Pratap Singh 100. This has never been equalled.
There were seven century partnerships in the Holkar innings. All wickets from one to eight, except the second, made more than a hundred runs
B. K. Garudachar took 4 wickets for 301 runs. This is the most expensive bowling in Indian cricket and third in all first class cricket.
Chandu Sarwate took 9 for 61 in the Mysore first innings in addition to his hundred. It is the only instance of a century and nine wickets in an innings in Indian cricket.
Mysore conceded the match on the fourth day.

Vijay Merchant averaged 405.00 with the bat (405 in two innings, once out). This is the highest batting average achieved for any Ranji season.
C. K. Nayudu scored 200 for Holkar v Baroda in the final at the age of 50 years and 142 days. He is the oldest Indian cricketer to score a double hundred in first class cricket. Nayudu is the fifth oldest double centurion in all first class cricket, after Dave Nourse, John King, Archie MacLaren and Jack Hobbs.

Final

22–27 March 1946
Scorecard

Holkar (H)	v	Baroda
342 (149.3 overs) C. K. Nayudu 200 Ahmed Patel 3/52		148 (77 overs) Vijay Hazare 87* C. S. Nayudu 5/66
273 (118.5 overs) Hiralal Gaekwad 79* Vivek Hazare 4/49		361 (136.5 overs) M. M. Naidu 91 C. S. Nayudu 5/148

Holkar won by 106 runs
Yeshwant Club Ground, Indore
Umpires: Jamshed Patel and T. A. Ramachandran

Holkar won the toss and decided to bat

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1945/46 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1945/46 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

External links

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[1] "Ranji Trophy, 1945/46 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

[2] "Ranji Trophy, 1945/46 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014. (Subscription required (help)).

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