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{{Infobox cricket tournament<br />
| name = 1943–44 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 = [[Western India cricket team|Western India]]<br />
| count = 1<br />
| participants = 19<br />
| matches = 18<br />
| attendance =<br />
| player of the series =<br />
| most runs = [[Vijay Merchant]] (Bombay) (553)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1943/44 / Records / Most runs |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1943-44/Batting_by_Runs.html|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref><br />
| most wickets = Saeed Ahmed (Western India) (28)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1943/44 / Records / Most wickets |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1943-44/Bowling_by_Wickets.html|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref><br />
| website =<br />
| previous_year = 1942–43<br />
| previous_tournament = 1942–43 Ranji Trophy<br />
| next_year = 1944–45<br />
| next_tournament = 1944–45 Ranji Trophy<br />
}}<br />
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The '''1943–44 Ranji Trophy''' was the tenth season of the [[Ranji Trophy]]. [[Western India cricket team|Western India]] won their only title defeating [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]] in the final.<br />
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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 [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] against [[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]] between 31 December 1943, and 2 January 1944, at the [[Brabourne Stadium]] in Bombay.<br />
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==Highlights==<br />
* The Bombay-Maharashtra match<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17402.html Bombay v Maharashtra, Brabourne Stadium]</ref> set several national records.<br />
:* Bombay made 735, the highest score in Indian first class cricket bettering 703 by Bengal Cyclone XI in 1942-43.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17381.html Bijapur Famine XI v Bengal Cyclone XI, 1942-43]</ref> The previous Ranji record was 675 by Maharashtra v Bombay in 1940-41<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17277.html Maharashtra v Bombay 1940-41]</ref><br />
:* 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.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17258.html Maharashtra v Baroda, 1939-40]</ref><br />
:* 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<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/297/297591.html Bengal v Assam, 2010-11]</ref><br />
* Vijay Merchant's season batting average of 276.50 is the highest by any batsman scoring over 500 runs.<br />
*[[Herbert Barritt]] captained Western India to the title. He was the third Englishman to captain a Ranji winning team, after [[Albert Wensley|Bert Wensley]] of Nawanagar in 1936-37 and [[Tom Longfield]] of Bengal in 1938–39.<br />
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==Zonal Matches==<br />
=== West Zone ===<br />
{{Round8|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team v v1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- Round 1 --><br />
|10 Dec 1943 – Jamnagar|[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]|221 & 70/5|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''336 & 116/3d'''<br />
|11 Dec 1943 – Karachi|'''[[Sind cricket team|Sind]]'''|'''175 & 83/1'''|[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]|120 & 136<br />
|11 Dec 1943 – Bombay|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''487'''|[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]|297<br />
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<!-- Round 2 --><br />
|28 Dec 1943 – Rajkot|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''274 & 285'''|[[Sind cricket team|Sind]]|178 & 158/6<br />
|31 Dec 1943 – Bombay|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''735'''|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]|298<br />
<!-- Round 3 --><br />
|15 Jan 1944 – Rajkot|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''363/4'''|[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]|255<br />
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|skipmatch01=no|skipmatch02=no|skipmatch03=no|skipmatch04=yes<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2|RD3 = Round 3}}<br />
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===East Zone===<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team 1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
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|18 Dec 1943 – Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''249 & 88/8'''|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]|159 & 261/7d<br />
|17 Dec 1943 – Indore|'''[[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]]'''|'''222 & 420/7d'''|[[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]]|116 & 227<br />
<!-- final --><br />
|7 Jan 1944 – Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''387 & 21/0'''|[[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]]|138 & 266<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}<br />
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=== North Zone ===<br />
{{Round8|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team v v1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 175px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- Round 1 --><br />
|20 Dec 1943 – Gwalior|[[Gwalior cricket team|Gwalior]]|92 & 61|'''[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]'''|'''179 & 393'''<br />
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<!-- Round 2 --><br />
|29 Jan 1944 – New Delhi|[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]|84 & 103|'''[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]'''|'''388'''<br />
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<!-- Round 3 --><br />
|4 Mar 1944 – Patiala|[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]|326 & 104/8|'''[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'''|'''329 & 127'''<br />
<!-- exclude matches --><br />
|skipmatch01=no|skipmatch02=yes|skipmatch03=yes|skipmatch04=yes|skipmatch05=no|skipmatch06=yes<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2|RD3 = Round 3}}<br />
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=== South Zone ===<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team 1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 175px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
<!-- Round 1 --><br />
|31 Dec 1943 – Nagpur|[[Central Provinces and Berar cricket team|Central Provinces and Berar]]|166 & 93|'''[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]'''|'''160 & 109'''<br />
|31 Dec 1943 – Bangalore|[[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]]|359|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''365'''<br />
<!-- Round 2 --><br />
|28 Jan 1944 – Secunderabad|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]|183 & 141/2|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''349 & 191'''<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}<br />
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==Inter-Zonal Knockout matches==<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
<!-- Date–Place/Team 1/Score 1/Team 2/Score 2 --><br />
| seed-width = 25px<br />
| team-width = 150px<br />
| score-width = 80px<br />
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|17 Mar 1944 – Rajkot|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''254 & 175/3'''|[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]|145 & 283<br />
|19 Feb 1944 – Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''235 & 266'''|[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]|102 & 265<br />
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|7 Apr 1944 – Bombay|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''433'''|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]|234 & 176<br />
}}<br />
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==Final==<br />
{{Test match<br />
| date = 7-10 Apr 1944 (timeless match)<br />
| team1 = [[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]<br />
| team2 = [[Western India cricket team|Western India]]<br />
| score-team1-inns1 = '''234 (130.2 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team1-inns1 = Asoke Chatterjee 68<br />
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[Shantilal Gandhi]] 6/50<br />
| score-team2-inns1 = '''433 (153.5 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Gogumal Kishenchand|G. Kishenchand]] 111<br />
| wickets-team2-inns1 = B.K. Mitra 4/80<br />
| score-team1-inns2 = '''176 (79.2 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Nirmal Chatterjee]] 71<br />
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[Saeed Ahmed (Western India cricketer)|Saeed Ahmed]] 4/23<br />
| result = Western India won by an innings and 23 runs<br />
| venue = [[Brabourne Stadium]], [[Mumbai|Bombay]]<br />
| umpires = M.G. Bhave and D.K. Naik<br />
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17423.html Scorecard]<br />
| toss = Bengal won the toss and elected to bat<br />
| rain =<br />
| notes = The match was played on a neutral ground<br />The trophy was presented by [[Homi Mody|Sir Homi Mody]], the President of the [[Cricket Club of India]]<br />
}}<br />
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==Summary of first ten seasons==<br />
[[File:Ranji Trophy Teams 1934-35 to 1943-44.jpg|none|thumb|800px|Teams in the first ten years]]<br />
[[File:Ranji Trophy Results 1934-35 to 1943-44.jpg|none|thumb|600px|Results of the first ten years]]<br />
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==Scorecards and averages==<br />
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1943-44.html CricketArchive]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{Ranji Trophy Seasons}}<br />
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[[Category:1943 in Indian cricket]]<br />
[[Category:1944 in Indian cricket]]<br />
[[Category:Ranji Trophy seasons]]<br />
[[Category:Domestic cricket competitions in 1943–44]]<br />
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