First-Class Cricket Matches 1949/40-1945

BENGAL v UNITED PROVINCES Played at Eden Gardens, Calcutta, January 13, 14, 15, 1940. Match drawn. BENGAL 1 S.W.E.Behrend c Palia b Masood Salahuddin 107 (9) b Palia 17 2 P.N.Miller c and b Palia 40 (1) c Ranjit Singh b Aftab Ahmed 55 3 S.K.Ganguli b Palia 0 (8) run out 5 4 *N.M.Bose c Iqbal Ahmed Khan b Palia 0 (5) c Shamim Khwaja b Aftab Ahmed 0 5 N.C.Chatterjee c Garudachar b Masood Salahuddin 64 (3) st Dastoor b Palia 26 6 A.Jabbar lbw b Masood Salahuddin 0 c Dastoor b Aftab Ahmed 8 7 K.Bhattacharya c Dastoor b Masood Salahuddin 0 (10) not out 16 8 A.N.Hammond b Alexander 5 (4) c Masud Alam b Aftab Ahmed 0 9 †K.R.Roy b Masood Salahuddin 6 (2) b Palia 19 10 F.E.Eccleston not out 7 (7) b Palia 7 11 A.K.Dutt c Alexander b Masood Salahuddin 7 c Ranjit Singh b Aftab Ahmed 8 Extras 24 2 —— —— 260 163 FoW (1): 1-100 (2), 2-100 (3), 3-104 (4), 4-231 (1), 5-231 (6), 6-231 (7), 7-237 (8), 8-237 (5), 9-244 (9), 10-260 (11) FoW (2): 1-51 (2), 2-79 (1), 3-79 (4), 4-84 (5), 5-99 (6), 6-114 (3), 7-121 (8), 8-121 (7), 9-150 (9), 10-163 (11) UNITED PROVINCES 1 Ranjit Singh st Roy b Bhattacharya 11 run out 6 2 Masud Alam b Bhattacharya 33 b Behrend 2 3 Aftab Ahmed b Behrend 72 lbw b Hammond 9 4 *P.E.Palia lbw b Behrend 71 b Bhattacharya 22 5 Masood Salahuddin c and b Hammond 3 (7) b Chatterjee 38 6 Shamim Khwaja c Bose b Eccleston 33 (5) c and b Behrend 11 7 A.S.N.Murthy c Behrend b Bhattacharya 9 (8) b Chatterjee 11 8 B.K.Garudachar st Roy b Bhattacharya 18 (9) not out 10 9 Iqbal Ahmed Khan b Bhattacharya 13 (10) not out 5 10 E.Alexander not out 16 (6) lbw b Eccleston 6 11 †S.J.Dastoor st Roy b Eccleston 0 Extras 16 4 —— —— 295 (8 wickets) 124 FoW (1): 1-44 (1), 2-55 (2), 3-200 (3), 4-205 (5), 5-205 (4), 6-220 (7), 7-250 (8), 8-264 (9), 9-295 (6), 10-295 (11) FoW (2): 1-4 (2), 2-17 (1), 3-39 (3), 4-39 (4), 5-48 (6), 6-80 (5), 7-105 (8), 8-110 (7) United Provinces Bowling O M R W O M R W Masood Salahuddin 23.4 6 62 6 4 0 21 0 Alexander 20 7 37 1 (4) 2 0 19 0 Palia 30 8 54 3 (2) 13 0 66 4 Garudachar 17 2 44 0 Aftab Ahmed 9 3 22 0 (3) 11.2 0 55 5 Murthy 5 0 17 0 Bengal Bowling O M R W O M R W Behrend 19 2 56 2 11 2 28 2 Dutt 12 2 32 0 (3) 3 0 10 0 Bhattacharya 24 7 56 5 (4) 11 5 28 1 Hammond 22 2 72 1 (2) 11 2 25 1 Eccleston 7 0 37 2 7 1 20 1 Chatterjee 7 1 26 0 5 2 9 2 Umpires: M.Dutta Roy and P.Mukherjee. Toss: Bengal Close of Play: 1st day: Bengal (1) 245-9 (Eccleston 0*, Dutt 1*); 2nd day: United Provinces (1) 271-8 (Shamim Khwaja 22*, Alexander 3*). S.W.E.Behrend’s 107 took 275 minutes and included 12 fours. 44