1940–41 Ranji Trophy
Indian cricket tournament
Cricket tournament
The Ranji Trophy | |
Administrator(s) | BCCI |
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Cricket format | First-class |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Maharashtra (2nd title) |
Participants | 19 |
Matches | 18 |
Most runs | Ranga Sohoni (Maharashtra) (655)[1] |
Most wickets | Chandu Sarwate (Maharashtra) (24)[2] |
← 1939–40 1941–42 → |
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.[3]
- 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.
Zonal matches
West zone
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||||
8 November 1940 – Jamnagar | ||||||||||
Nawanagar | 117 & 140 | |||||||||
1 December 1940 – Rajkot | ||||||||||
Western India | 57 & 203/8 | |||||||||
Western India | 250 & 159/4 | |||||||||
Sind | 239 & 168/7d | |||||||||
8 February 1941 – Rajkot | ||||||||||
Western India | 459 | |||||||||
Maharashtra | 460/3 | |||||||||
Gujarat | Walkover | |||||||||
13 January 1941 – Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
Baroda | ||||||||||
Gujarat | 335 | |||||||||
15 November 1940 – Poona | ||||||||||
Maharashtra | 518 | |||||||||
Maharashtra | 675 | |||||||||
Bombay | 650 | |||||||||
North zone
Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
15 November 1940 – Peshawar | ||||||
North West Frontier Province | 97 & 88 | |||||
Northern India | 134 & 280 | |||||
Northern India | Walkover | |||||
15 November 1940 – Patiala | ||||||
Southern Punjab | ||||||
Southern Punjab | 275 | |||||
Delhi | 111 & 106 | |||||
East zone
Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
30 November 1940 – Jamshedpur | ||||||
Bihar | 217 & 58/6 | |||||
7 December 1940 – Calcutta | ||||||
Bengal | 257 & 262/3d | |||||
Bengal | 147 & 126 | |||||
United Provinces | 191 & 226 | |||||
South zone
Round 1 | Round 2 | |||||
14 December 1940 – Madras | ||||||
Madras | 174/7 | |||||
30 December 1940 – Madras | ||||||
Mysore | 171 | |||||
Madras | 227 & 257/9d | |||||
Hyderabad | 98 & 132 | |||||
Inter-zonal knockout stage
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
6 February 1941 – Madras | ||||||
Madras | 271 & 158 | |||||
7–9 March 1941 – Madras | ||||||
United Provinces | 255 & 149 | |||||
Madras | 145 & 347 | |||||
22 February 1941 – Poona | ||||||
Maharashtra | 284 & 210/4 | |||||
Maharashtra | 798 | |||||
Northern India | 442 | |||||
Final
7–10 March 1941 Scorecard |
Madras (H) | v | |
145 (58.4 overs) NJ Venkatesan 31 Krishnarao Jadhav 4/23 (9.4 overs) | ||
- Madras won the toss and elected to bat.
- Indian Express,[4] p.8, and CricketArchive, list M. G. Vijayasarathi as the umpire instead of Naik
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