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{{Infobox cricket tournament<br />
| name = 1940–41 Ranji Trophy<br />
| image = Ranji_trophy.jpg <br />
| imagesize = 350px<br />
| caption = The Ranji Trophy <br />
| administrator = [[Board of Control for Cricket in India|BCCI]]<br />
| cricket format = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]<br />
| tournament format = [[Single-elimination tournament|Knockout]]<br />
| fromdate = <br />
| todate = <br />
| champions = [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]<br />
| count = 2<br />
| participants = 19<br />
| matches = 18<br />
| attendance =<br />
| player of the series =<br />
| most runs = [[Ranga Sohoni]] (Maharashtra) (655)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1940/41 / Records / Most runs |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1940-41/Batting_by_Runs.html|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref><br />
| most wickets = [[Chandu Sarwate]] (Maharashtra) (24)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1940/41 / Records / Most wickets |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1940-41/Bowling_by_Wickets.html|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref><br />
| website =<br />
| previous_year = 1939–40<br />
| previous_tournament = 1939–40 Ranji Trophy<br />
| next_year = 1941–42<br />
| next_tournament = 1941–42 Ranji Trophy<br />
}}<br />
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The '''1940–41 Ranji Trophy''' was the seventh season of the [[Ranji Trophy]]. Nineteen teams took part in four zones in a knockout format. [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]] retained the title defeating [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]] in the final. Maharashtra would enter and lose three more finals but as of 2014, 1940-41 remains their last Ranji title.<br />
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With cricket affected by the [[Second World War]], Ranji Trophy was only regular domestic tournament that continued in the senior cricket nations.<br />
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==Highlights==<br />
* Maharashtra won their first four matches on first innings lead and won only the final outright.<br />
* Maharashtra made a Ranji record score of 798 against Northern India in the semifinal, batting for most of the first three days. Originally scheduled as a three-day match, the semifinal was extended to a fourth day for the teams to complete their first innings.<br />
*[[D. B. Deodhar]] was 48 years and 306 days old when he scored 246 against Bombay. As of 2014, he is the sixth oldest player to score a double century in first class cricket, and the second oldest Indian after [[C. K. Nayudu]] who did it at the age of 50 years and 142 days in 1945–46.<ref>[https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/First_Class/Overall/Batting/Oldest_Batsman_to_Score_Double_Hundred.html Oldest batsmen to score double hundreds], ''acscricket.com''</ref><br />
* The Bombay – Maharashtra match was scheduled for three days but went to five before the first innings were completed. Maharashtra made 675 and Bombay 650.<br />
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==Zonal matches==<br />
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=== West zone ===<br />
{{Round8<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team v v1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 100px<br />
<!-- Round 1 --><br />
|8 November 1940 – Jamnagar|[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]|117 & 140|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''57 & 203/8'''<br />
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||'''[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]'''|'''Walkover'''|[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]|<br />
|15 November 1940 – Poona|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''675'''|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]|650<br />
<!-- Round 2 --><br />
|1 December 1940 – Rajkot|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''250 & 159/4'''|[[Sind cricket team|Sind]]|239 & 168/7d<br />
|13 January 1941 – Ahmedabad|[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]|335|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''518'''<br />
<!-- Round 3 --><br />
|8 February 1941 – Rajkot|[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]|459|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''460/3'''<br />
<!-- exclude matches --><br />
|skipmatch01=no|skipmatch02=yes|skipmatch03=no|skipmatch04=no<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2|RD3 = Round 3}}<br />
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=== North zone ===<br />
{{Round4<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team v v1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 200px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- Round 1 --><br />
|15 November 1940 – Peshawar|[[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team|North West Frontier Province]]|97 & 88|'''[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'''|'''134 & 280'''<br />
|15 November 1940 – Patiala|'''[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]'''|'''275'''|[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]|111 & 106<br />
<!-- Round 2 --><br />
||'''[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'''|'''Walkover'''|[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]|<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2|RD3 = Round 3}}<br />
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===East zone===<br />
{{Round4<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team 1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- semi finals --><br />
|30 November 1940 – Jamshedpur|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]|217 & 58/6|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''257 & 262/3d'''<br />
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<!-- final --><br />
|7 December 1940 – Calcutta|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]|147 & 126|'''[[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]]'''|'''191 & 226'''<br />
<!-- exclude matches --><br />
|skipmatch01=no|skipmatch02=yes<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}<br />
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=== South zone ===<br />
{{Round4<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team 1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- semi finals --><br />
|14 December 1940 – Madras|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''174/7'''|[[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]]|171<br />
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<!-- final --><br />
|30 December 1940 – Madras|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''227 & 257/9d'''|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]|98 & 132<br />
<!-- exclude matches --><br />
|skipmatch01=no|skipmatch02=yes<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}<br />
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==Inter-zonal knockout stage==<br />
{{Round4<br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team 1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
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|6 February 1941 – Madras|'''[[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''271 & 158'''|[[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]]|255 & 149<br />
|22 February 1941 – Poona|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''798'''|[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]|442<br />
<!-- final --><br />
|7–9 March 1941 – Madras|[[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]]|145 & 347|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''284 & 210/4'''<br />
}}<br />
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==Final==<br />
{{Test match<br />
| date = 7–10 March 1941<br />
| team1 = [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Madras]] (H)<br />
| team2 = [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]<br />
| score-team1-inns1 = 145 (58.4 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns1 = NJ Venkatesan 31<br />
| wickets-team1-inns1 = Krishnarao Jadhav 4/23 (9.4 overs)<br />
| score-team2-inns1 = 284 (87.4 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Vijay Hazare]] 137<br />
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[C. R. Rangachari]] 4/71 (20 overs)<br />
| score-team1-inns2 = 347 (129.2 overs)<br />
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[A. G. Ram Singh]] 71<br />
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Chandu Sarwate]] 6/83 (32.2 overs)<br />
| score-team2-inns2 = 210/4 (70.1 overs)<br />
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Ranga Sohoni]] 104[[not out|*]]<br />
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[A. G. Ram Singh]] 3/54 (21.1 overs)<br />
| result = Maharashtra won by 6 wickets<br />
| venue = [[M. A. Chidambaram Stadium|Chepauk]], [[Madras]]<br />
| umpires = Vali Ahmed and [[Dattatraya Naik]]<br />
| report = [http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1940-41/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/MADRAS_MAHA_RJI-FINAL_07-09MAR1941.html Scorecard]<br />
| toss = Madras won the toss and elected to bat.<br />
| rain =<br />
| notes = Indian Express,<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19410308&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Indian Express, p.8]</ref> p.8, and CricketArchive, list [[M. G. Vijayasarathi]] as the umpire instead of Naik<br />
}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Ranji Trophy Seasons}}<br />
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[[Category:1940 in Indian cricket]]<br />
[[Category:1941 in Indian cricket]]<br />
[[Category:Ranji Trophy seasons]]<br />
[[Category:Domestic cricket competitions in 1940–41]]<br />
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