First-Class Cricket Matches 1949/40-1945

WESTERN INDIA v BOMBAY Played at Rajkot Cricket Club Ground, January 14, 15, 16, 1944. Match drawn. BOMBAY 1 M.F.Mistry c Gandhi b Jayantilal Vora 3 2 C.T.Sarwate c Saeed Ahmed b Jayantilal Vora 6 3 Anwar Hussain c Akbar Khan b Jayantilal Vora 3 4 R.S.Modi c Saeed Ahmed b Akbar Khan 128 5 *V.M.Merchant c Prataprai b Jayantilal Vora 53 6 K.C.Ibrahim c Prithviraj b Jayantilal Vora 9 7 J.B.Khot c Gandhi b Saeed Ahmed 2 8 K.M.Rangnekar b Saeed Ahmed 0 9 M.N.Raiji lbw b Saeed Ahmed 5 10 †M.K.Mantri b Saeed Ahmed 17 11 B.K.Garudachar not out 16 Extras b 8, lb 4, nb 1 13 —— 255 FoW (1): 1-9 (1), 2-12 (2), 3-13 (3), 4-139 (5), 5-166 (6), 6-171 (7), 7-171 (8), 8-203 (9), 9-232 (4), 10-255 (10) WESTERN INDIA 1 †Prataprai c Rangnekar b Sarwate 17 2 Jayantilal Vora run out 0 3 Umar Khan c Raiji b Merchant 136 4 Prithviraj c Mantri b Merchant 174 5 Saeed Ahmed not out 12 6 S.B.Gandhi not out 8 7 Sukhvantrai 8 *H.W.Barritt 9 Purshottam 10 K.S.Abdul Kadir 11 Akbar Khan Extras b 14, lb 1, nb 1 16 —— (4 wickets) 363 FoW (1): 1-1 (2), 2-28 (1), 3-341 (3), 4-346 (4) Western India Bowling O M R W Saeed Ahmed 63 38 57 4 Jayantilal Vora 56 19 74 5 Akbar Khan 42 21 45 1 Gandhi 17 3 47 0 Purshottam 10 1 19 0 Bombay Bowling O M R W Khot 35 14 46 0 Merchant 29 10 52 2 Anwar Hussain 1 1 0 0 Sarwate 42 10 97 1 Ibrahim 5 1 24 0 Raiji 19 3 46 0 Garudachar 20 1 64 0 Rangnekar 9 2 18 0 Umpires: M.G.Bhave and M.G.Vijayasarathi. Toss: Bombay Close of Play: 1st day: Bombay (1) 165-4 (Modi 84*, Ibrahim 8*); 2nd day: Western India (1) 150-2 (Umar Khan 55*, Prithviraj 70*). R.S.Modi’s 128 took 423 minutes and included 11 fours. Umar Khan’s 136 took 385 minutes and included 14 fours. Prithviraj’s 174 took 348 minutes and included 16 fours. 199