First-Class Cricket Matches 1949/40-1945

MADRAS v UNITED PROVINCES Played at Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chepauk, Madras, February 7, 8, 9, 1941. Madras won by 25 runs. MADRAS 1 *C.P.Johnstone b Aftab Ahmed 37 b Masood Salahuddin 1 2 V.N.Madhava Rao c Maqbool Alam b Masood Salahuddin 10 b Alexander 5 3 A.G.Ram Singh c Alexander b Aftab Ahmed 91 (8) c and b Alexander 9 4 B.S.R.Bhadradri c Maqbool Alam b Aftab Ahmed 3 c Firasat Hussain b Alexander 1 5 R.S.Nailer lbw b Aftab Ahmed 10 c Aftab Ahmed b Alexander 55 6 M.J.Gopalan not out 101 lbw b Alexander 6 7 G.Parthasarathi lbw b Palia 3 c Garudachar b Aftab Ahmed 9 8 N.J.Venkatesan b Palia 0 (9) b Alexander 21 9 †J.A.G.C.Law lbw b Aftab Ahmed 0 (3) c Phansalkar b Alexander 17 10 B.S.Krishna Rao c Maqbool Alam b Masood Salahuddin 7 run out 8 11 C.R.Rangachari b Palia 0 not out 7 Extras 9 19 —— —— 271 158 FoW (1): 1-24 (2), 2-72 (1), 3-78 (4), 4-101 (5), 5-194 (3), 6-197 (7), 7-197 (8), 8-206 (9), 9-244 (10), 10-271 (11) FoW (2): 1-2 (1), 2-12 (2), 3-15 (4), 4-84 (5), 5-96 (6), 6-99 (3), 7-109 (7), 8-136 (8), 9-145 (9), 10-158 (10) UNITED PROVINCES 1 E.Alexander c Nailer b Ram Singh 0 lbw b Venkatesan 14 2 A.S.N.Murthy c Law b Rangachari 26 b Rangachari 4 3 B.K.Garudachar b Rangachari 44 (4) c Rangachari b Krishna Rao 20 4 *P.E.Palia not out 110 (3) b Rangachari 8 5 J.P.Phansalkar c Krishna Rao b Parthasarathi 17 (9) b Rangachari 9 6 Aftab Ahmed c Law b Rangachari 1 (8) b Parthasarathi 25 7 Shamim Khwaja lbw b Parthasarathi 6 (10) not out 30 8 †Maqbool Alam c Law b Rangachari 26 (5) b Venkatesan 6 9 Masood Salahuddin b Rangachari 3 (6) st Law b Krishna Rao 0 10 Firasat Hussain b Krishna Rao 15 (7) b Venkatesan 5 11 Abdul Hamid b Krishna Rao 0 b Parthasarathi 10 Extras 7 18 —— —— 255 149 FoW (1): 1-1 (1), 2-37 (2), 3-106 (3), 4-153 (5), 5-160 (6), 6-183 (7), 7-216 (8), 8-220 (9), 9-255 (10), 10-255 (11) FoW (2): 1-13 (2), 2-23 (3), 3-48 (1), 4-52 (4), 5-52 (6), 6-66 (5), 7-73 (7), 8-93 (9), 9-131 (8), 10-149 (11) United Provinces Bowling O M R W O M R W Alexander 15 1 46 0 21 8 29 7 Masood Salahuddin 12 1 40 2 12 4 25 1 Firasat Hussain 11 1 29 0 (4) 7 3 15 0 Palia 23.5 11 41 3 Aftab Ahmed 27 4 96 5 (3) 11 1 35 1 Murthy 3 1 10 0 (5) 9 2 27 0 Garudachar (6) 2 0 8 0 Madras Bowling O M R W O M R W Gopalan 10 5 8 0 (2) 5 1 11 0 Ram Singh 2 1 1 1 Parthasarathi 11 0 56 2 (6) 2.5 0 13 2 Rangachari 22 1 75 5 (1) 10 1 31 3 Krishna Rao 14.5 0 66 2 (4) 15 2 52 2 Venkatesan 8 0 39 0 (3) 14 5 22 3 Johnstone 2 1 3 0 (5) 2 1 2 0 Umpires: B.V.Ramakrishnappa and M.G.Vijayasarathi. Toss: Madras Close of Play: 1st day: United Provinces (1) 2-1 (Murthy 2*, Garudachar 0*); 2nd day: Madras (2) 84-3 (Law 13*, Nailer 54*). M.J.Gopalan’s 101 took 185 minutes and included 9 fours and 2 sixes. P.E.Palia’s 110 took 160 minutes and included 7 fours. 102