First-Class Cricket Matches 1949/40-1945

BENGAL v WESTERN INDIA Played at Brabourne Stadium, Bombay, April 7, 8, 9, 10, 1944. Western India won by an innings and 23 runs. BENGAL 1 A.Jabbar b Gandhi 35 c Jayantilal Vora b Saeed Ahmed 1 2 A.C.Chatterjee b Purshottam 68 b Akbar Khan 6 3 †P.K.Sen run out 61 lbw b Saeed Ahmed 1 4 N.C.Chatterjee lbw b Saeed Ahmed 40 lbw b Saeed Ahmed 71 5 A.K.Deb st Prataprai b Kishenchand 1 (7) c Barritt b Kishenchand 39 6 *Maharaja of Cooch Behar c Jayantilal Vora b Gandhi 8 b Purshottam 17 7 K.Bhattacharya b Gandhi 0 (8) b Purshottam 13 8 S.K.Mustafi c Prataprai b Gandhi 3 (5) lbw b Saeed Ahmed 0 9 A.Sen b Gandhi 0 b Purshottam 0 10 S.A.Banerjee b Gandhi 3 c Kishenchand b Purshottam 11 11 B.K.Mitra not out 3 not out 0 Extras 12 17 —— —— 234 176 FoW (1): 1-70 (1), 2-138 (2), 3-182 (3), 4-191 (5), 5-222 (6), 6-222 (7), 7-226 (8), 8-226 (9), 9-226 (4), 10-234 (10) FoW (2): 1-8 (1), 2-8 (2), 3-12 (3), 4-12 (5), 5-67 (6), 6-111 (4), 7-140 (8), 8-140 (9), 9-176 (7), 10-176 (10) WESTERN INDIA 1 †Prataprai b Mitra 0 2 Jayantilal Vora lbw b A.C.Chatterjee 41 3 Umar Khan c Mustafi b Mitra 75 4 G.Kishenchand c Mustafi b Mitra 111 5 Prithviraj b Banerjee 3 6 Saeed Ahmed not out 84 7 S.B.Gandhi b Mitra 2 8 Purshottam lbw b A.Sen 56 9 Sukhvantrai c N.C.Chatterjee b Banerjee 27 10 *H.W.Barritt c Mustafi b Bhattacharya 3 11 Akbar Khan b Bhattacharya 1 Extras 30 —— 433 FoW (1): 1-6 (1), 2-95 (2), 3-208 (3), 4-215 (5), 5-269 (4), 6-281 (7), 7-373 (8), 8-417 (9), 9-427 (10), 10-433 (11) Western India Bowling O M R W O M R W Saeed Ahmed 28 17 20 1 21 7 23 4 Akbar Khan 25 10 28 0 17 4 34 1 Jayantilal Vora 18 8 41 0 (6) 5 2 18 0 Purshottam 22 9 29 1 19.2 3 50 4 Kishenchand 15 0 54 1 4 1 18 1 Gandhi 22.2 8 50 6 (3) 13 7 16 0 Bengal Bowling O M R W Mitra 27 6 80 4 Banerjee 34 9 70 2 Bhattacharya 48.5 14 83 2 A.Sen 10 0 33 1 A.C.Chatterjee 6 0 30 1 Mustafi 7 2 27 0 Cooch Behar 8 0 42 0 N.C.Chatterjee 13 3 38 0 Umpires: M.G.Bhave and D.K.Naik. Toss: Bengal Close of Play: 1st day: Bengal (1) 224-6 (N.C.Chatterjee 40*, Mustafi 1*); 2nd day: Western India (1) 260-4 (Kishenchand 104*, Saeed Ahmed 22*); 3rd day: Bengal (2) 120-6 (Deb 13*, Bhattacharya 3*). G.Kishenchand’s 111 took 180 minutes and included 10 fours. 215