First-Class Cricket Matches 1949/40-1945

UNITED PROVINCES v BENGAL Played at Maharaja of Benares Palace Ground, Benares, January 10, 11, 12, 1942. Match drawn. BENGAL 1 S.K.Ganguli b Aftab Ahmed 63 2 D.R.Das b Firasat Hussain 19 3 K.Bhattacharya b Palia 71 4 A.K.Das c Wahidullah b Alexander 20 5 *N.M.Bose b Alexander 7 6 B.Ramchandra c Salim b Firasat Hussain 2 7 †A.K.Deb b Firasat Hussain 128 8 S.K.Mustafi b Alexander 101 9 M.Obaidullah st Wahidullah b Aftab Ahmed 25 10 S.Dutt b Firasat Hussain 2 11 J.Nuttall not out 1 Extras 34 —— 473 FoW (1): 1-45 (2), 2-130 (1), 3-169 (4), 4-185 (5), 5-188 (6), 6-236 (3), 7-394 (8), 8-421 (9), 9-452 (10), 10-473 (7) UNITED PROVINCES 1 E.Alexander lbw b Bhattacharya 13 2 Firasat Hussain c Dutt b Obaidullah 55 3 *P.E.Palia c Deb b Obaidullah 53 4 J.P.Phansalkar b Nuttall 13 5 Shamim Khwaja c Ganguli b Dutt 58 6 A.S.N.Murthy run out 3 7 Aftab Ahmed b Nuttall 23 8 Salim b Ramchandra 92 9 †Wahidullah c Ganguli b Bhattacharya 55 10 K.Mahinder Singh st Deb b Dutt 10 11 S.N.Gandhi not out 15 Extras 36 —— 426 FoW (1): 1-54 (1), 2-127 (3), 3-136 (2), 4-173 (4), 5- (6), 6-228 (5), 7-231 (7), 8-321 (9), 9-378 (10), 10-426 (8) United Provinces Bowling O M R W Alexander 43 2 158 3 Mahinder Singh 8 2 30 0 Palia 30 8 66 1 Aftab Ahmed 23 3 73 2 Firasat Hussain 31.4 5 87 4 Gandhi 4 0 14 0 Shamim Khwaja 1 0 2 0 Phansalkar 2 0 9 0 Bengal Bowling O M R W Mustafi 15 3 32 0 Bhattacharya 27 6 65 2 Ramchandra 31 6 88 1 Nuttall 13 2 53 2 Obaidullah 15 3 39 2 Dutt 39 10 104 2 Bose 6 2 9 0 Umpires: Toss: Bengal Close of Play: 1st day: Bengal (1) 320-6 (Deb 61*, Mustafi 47*); 2nd day: United Provinces (1) 144-3 (Phansalkar 6*, Shamim Khwaja 7*). 139