First-Class Cricket Matches 1949/40-1945

BOMBAY v MAHARASHTRA Played at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay, December 31, 1943, January 1, 2, 3, 1944. Match drawn. BOMBAY 1 †M.K.Mantri c Phadkar b Sohoni 14 2 C.T.Sarwate st Bhandarkar b Shinde 41 3 Anwar Hussain run out 1 4 K.C.Ibrahim lbw b Shinde 8 5 *V.M.Merchant not out 359 6 K.M.Rangnekar b Sohoni 8 7 R.S.Modi b Jadhav 168 8 J.B.Khot c Bhandarkar b Ghazali 15 9 R.S.Cooper c and b Shinde 89 10 M.N.Raiji c Deodhar b Shinde 5 11 B.K.Garudachar st Bhandarkar b Shinde 2 Extras b 17, lb 4, w 2, nb 2 25 —— 735 FoW (1): 1-42 (1), 2-43 (3), 3-68 (4), 4-79 (2), 5-90 (6), 6-461 (7), 7-497 (8), 8-707 (9), 9-733 (10), 10-735 (11) MAHARASHTRA 1 S.W.Sohoni lbw b Sarwate 43 2 †K.V.Bhandarkar c Raiji b Sarwate 4 3 M.H.Mankad c Mantri b Khot 48 4 *D.B.Deodhar lbw b Sarwate 7 5 D.G.Phadkar c Sarwate b Raiji 88 6 M.N.Paranjpe c Rangnekar b Khot 49 7 M.E.Z.Ghazali hit wkt b Sarwate 4 8 K.M.Jadhav b Raiji 8 9 R.R.Chandorkar c Khot b Sarwate 9 10 S.G.Shinde not out 14 11 V.M.Pandit absent ill 0 Extras b 8, lb 16 24 —— 298 FoW (1): 1-20 (2), 2-78 (1), 3-94 (4), 4-136 (3), 5-216 (6), 6-232 (7), 7-247 (8), 8-274 (9), 9-298 (5) Maharashtra Bowling O M R W Phadkar 23 4 84 0 Sohoni 58 9 176 2 Jadhav 30 3 134 1 Shinde 75.5 10 186 5 Mankad 42 11 63 0 Ghazali 28 8 52 1 Deodhar 8 3 15 0 Bombay Bowling O M R W Khot 29 9 59 2 Anwar Hussain 4 2 12 0 Merchant 3 1 6 0 Sarwate 38 8 104 5 Garudachar 11 2 37 0 Raiji 21 3 42 2 Modi 3 0 10 0 Ibrahim 2 0 4 0 Umpires: J.Birtwistle and Vali Ahmed. Toss: Bombay Close of Play: 1st day: Bombay (1) 308-5 (Merchant 119*, Modi 102*); 2nd day: Bombay (1) 665-7 (Merchant 322*, Cooper 67*); 3rd day: Maharashtra (1) 272-7 (Phadkar 77*, Chandorkar 8*). The match was scheduled for three days but extended to four. V.M.Merchant’s 359 took 640 minutes and included 31 fours. R.S.Modi’s 168 took 361 minutes and included 19 fours. 194