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{{Infobox cricket tournament<br />
| name = 1944–45 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 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]<br />
| count = 4<br />
| participants = 17<br />
| matches = 16<br />
| attendance =<br />
| player of the series =<br />
| most runs = [[Rusi Modi]] (Bombay) (1008)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most runs |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1944-45/Batting_by_Runs.html|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref><br />
| most wickets = [[C. S. Nayudu]] (Holkar) (33)<ref>{{cite web|title=Ranji Trophy, 1944/45 / Records / Most wickets |url-access=subscription |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1944-45/Bowling_by_Wickets.html|access-date=23 August 2014}}</ref><br />
| website =<br />
| previous_year = 1943–44<br />
| previous_tournament = 1943–44 Ranji Trophy<br />
| next_year = 1945–46<br />
| next_tournament = 1945–46 Ranji Trophy<br />
}}<br />
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The '''1944–45 Ranji Trophy''' was the 11th season of the [[Ranji Trophy]]. [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] won the title defeating [[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]] in the final.<br />
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==Highlights==<br />
*[[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 until [[W. V. Raman]] made 1018 runs in [[1988–89 Ranji Trophy|1988–89]] by which time teams played more matches.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Series/Ranji_Trophy/Batting_Records/Most_Season_Runs.html Most runs in a Ranji season]</ref><br />
:*Modi scored hundreds in each of the five matches. His scores were 160, 210, 245* & 31*, 113 and 98 & 151 in the final.<ref>[https://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1940S/1944-45/IND_LOCAL/RANJI/ 1944-45 Ranji season scorecards]</ref> He had scored 168 and 128 in the last two matches of the [[1943–44 Ranji Trophy|1943-44 season]], thus scoring hundreds in five consecutive innings and seven consecutive matches in Ranji Trophy.<br />
:*Modi's five centuries in a season was another record. As of 2021, only [[V. V. S. Laxman]] (eight hundreds in [[1999–00 Ranji Trophy|1999–00]]), [[Kedar Jadhav]] (six in [[2013–14 Ranji Trophy|2013–14]]) and [[Milind Kumar]] (six in [[2018–19 Ranji Trophy|2018–19]]) have made more hundreds in a season.<ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Records/Series/Ranji_Trophy/Batting_Records/Most_Season_Centuries.html Most hundreds in a season]</ref><br />
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*[[C. S. Nayudu]] of Holkar bowled 917 balls in the final, a record in all first class cricket.<ref>[https://stats.acscricket.com/Records/First_Class/Overall/Bowling/Most_Balls_Bowled_in_a_Match.html Most balls bowled in a match, ACS]</ref><ref name="OTD">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/149597.html |title=The IPL is born |publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref><br />
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==Zonal Matches==<br />
=== West Zone ===<br />
{{Round8|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
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|9 Dec 1944 – Poona|'''[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]'''|'''372 & 363'''|[[Nawanagar cricket team|Nawanagar]]|131 & 115<br />
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|3 Nov 1944 – Karachi|[[Sind cricket team|Sind]]|264 & 244/4d|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''432 & 16/1'''<br />
|15 Dec 1944 – Ahmedabad|[[Gujarat cricket team|Gujarat]]|140 & 155|'''[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]'''|'''224 & 271'''<br />
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|16 Dec 1944 – Poona|[[Maharashtra cricket team|Maharashtra]]|205 & 267|'''[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]'''|'''314 & 512/3'''<br />
|30 Dec 1944 – Bombay|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''592/6d'''|[[Western India cricket team|Western India]]|188 & 92<br />
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|27 Jan 1945 – Baroda|[[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]|151 & 390|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''468 & 74/3'''<br />
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=== North Zone ===<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
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|9 Dec 1944 – Lahore|'''[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'''|'''358'''|[[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]|52 & 86<br />
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|26 Jan 1945 – Lahore|'''[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]'''|'''449 & 298/7d'''|[[Southern Punjab cricket team (India)|Southern Punjab]]|293 & 92<br />
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===East Zone===<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
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|15 Dec 1944 – Jamshedpur|[[Bihar cricket team|Bihar]]|158 & 91|'''[[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]]'''|'''389'''<br />
|9 Dec 1944 – Calcutta|'''[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]'''|'''248 & 157'''|[[United Provinces cricket team|United Provinces]]|176 & 154<br />
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|18 Jan 1945 – Indore|'''[[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]]'''|'''538'''|[[Bengal cricket team|Bengal]]|64 & 176<br />
|RD1 = Round 1|RD2 = Round 2}}<br />
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=== South Zone ===<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
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|24 Dec 1944 – Madras|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''188 & 233'''|[[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]|192 & 176<br />
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|20 Jan 1945 – Madras|'''[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]'''|'''363'''|[[Mysore cricket team|Mysore]]|78 & 159<br />
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==Inter-Zonal Knockout matches==<br />
{{Round4|style=white-space:nowrap<br />
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|16 Feb 1945 – Bombay|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''620 & 58/0'''|[[Northern India cricket team|Northern India]]|363 & 312<br />
|17 Feb 1945 – Madras|[[Madras cricket team|Madras]]|254 & 158|'''[[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]]'''|'''403 & 11/0'''<br />
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|4 Mar 1945 – Bombay|'''[[Bombay cricket team|Bombay]]'''|'''462 & 764'''|[[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]]|360 & 492<br />
}}<br />
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==Final==<br />
{{Test match<br />
| date = 4–9 March 1945<br />
| team2 = [[Holkar cricket team|Holkar]] <br />
| team1 = [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]] (H)<br />
| score-team1-inns1 = '''462 (160.5 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team1-inns1 = [[Rusi Modi]] 98<br />
| wickets-team1-inns1 = [[C. S. Nayudu]] 6/153<br />
| score-team2-inns1 = '''360 (117.5 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team2-inns1 = [[Mushtaq Ali]] 109<br />
| wickets-team2-inns1 = [[Dattu Phadkar]] 5/75<br />
| score-team1-inns2 = '''764 (256 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team1-inns2 = [[Vijay Merchant]] 278, [[Rusi Modi]] 151, [[Rusi Cooper]] 104<br />
| wickets-team1-inns2 = [[C. S. Nayudu]] 5/275<br />
| score-team2-inns2 = '''492 (155.1 overs)'''<br />
| runs-team2-inns2 = [[Denis Compton]] 249*, [[Mushtaq Ali]] 130<br />
| wickets-team2-inns2 = [[Madan Raiji]] 3/133<br />
| result = Bombay won by 374 runs<br />
| venue = [[Brabourne Stadium]], [[Mumbai|Bombay]]<br />
| umpires = [[M. G. Bhave]] and [[T. A. Ramachandran]]<br />
| report = [https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/17/17470.html Scorecard]<br />
| toss = Bombay won the toss and decided to bat<br />
| rain = <br />
| notes = Timeless match that lasted for six days<br />
}}<br />
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==Scorecards and averages==<br />
*[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/1/Ranji_Trophy_1944-45.html CricketArchive]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite book|editor1-last=Maqsood|editor1-first=M. H.|editor1-link=M. H. Maqsood|title=Who's Who in Indian Cricket|date=1946|publisher=Z.R. Commercial Corporation|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209994}}<br />
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