1940–41 Ranji Trophy

1940-41 Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy, which the winners get.
Administrator(s)	BCCI
Cricket format	First-class cricket
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Champions	Maharashtra
Participants	19
Matches played	18
Most runs	Ranga Sohoni (Maharashtra) (655)^[1]
Most wickets	Chandu Sarwate (Maharashtra) (24)^[2]

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 retained the title defeating Madras in the final. Maharashtra would enter and lose three more finals but as of 2014, 1940-41 remains their last Ranji title.

With cricket affected by the Second World War, Ranji Trophy was only regular domestic tournament that continued in the senior cricket nations.

Highlights

Maharashtra won their first four matches on first innings lead and won only the final outright.
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.
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.
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.

Knockout tree

Semi-finals		Final

7 Feb 1941 – Madras
Madras	25 runs
United Provinces

		7 Mar 1941 – Poona
		Maharashtra	6 wkts
		Madras



22 Feb 1941 - Poona
Maharashtra	1st inns
Northern India

Final

7-10 Mar 1941
Scorecard

Madras (H)	v	Maharashtra
145 (58.4 overs) NJ Venkatesan 31 Krishnarao Jadhav 4/23		284 (87.4 overs) Vijay Hazare 137 C. R. Rangachari 4/71
347 (129.2 overs) A. G. Ram Singh 71 Chandu Sarwate 6/83		210/4 (70.1 overs) Ranga Sohoni 104* A. G. Ram Singh 3/54

Maharashtra won by 6 wickets
Chepauk, Madras
Umpires: Vali Ahmed, M. G. Vijayasarathi

Madras won the toss and elected to bat

Teams

The team that won the zonal title is listed in bold. The teams are listed in the approximate order in which they finished in the zone.

North Zone
Northern India
Southern Punjab
Delhi
North West Frontier Province
West Zone
Maharashtra
Western India
Gujarat
Sind
Baroda
Bombay
Nawanagar
South Zone
Madras
Hyderabad
Mysore
Central Provinces and Berar
East Zone
United Provinces
Bengal
Central India
Bihar

Scorecards and averages

Cricketarchive

References

↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1940/41 / Records / Most runs". Retrieved 23 August 2014.
↑ "Ranji Trophy, 1940/41 / Records / Most wickets". Retrieved 23 August 2014.

External links

Ranji Trophy

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Former teams	Army Bihar Eastern Punjab Northern India Northern Punjab Patiala Sindh Southern Punjab Travancore-Cochin

Records	List of Ranji Trophy records Triple centuries Hat-tricks

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