The 1948–49 Ranji Trophy was the 15th season of the

Ranji Trophy The Ranji Trophy is a premier domestic first-class cricket championship played in India and organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The teams representing regional and state cricket associations participate. BCCI ...

Bombay Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial centre, financial capital and the list of cities i ...

won the title defeating

Baroda Vadodara (), also known as Baroda, is a city situated on the banks of the Vishwamitri River in the Indian state of Gujarat. It serves as the administrative headquarters of the Vadodara district. The city is named for its abundance of banyan ...

in the final. The semi-final match between Bombay and

Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

was the highest-scoring first-class match of all time. A total of 2,376 runs were scored, including nine centuries.

Highlights

* B. B. Nimbalkar scored 443 not out for

Kathiawar Kathiawar (), also known as Saurashtra, is a peninsula in the south-western Gujarat state in India, bordering the Arabian Sea and covering about . It is bounded by the Kutch district in the north, the Gulf of Kutch in the northwest, and by the ...

at Poona. It was the second highest individual score in first class cricket at the time and still the highest by an Indian cricketer. Nimbalkar was nine runs behind Don Bradman's record at lunch on the third day but Kathiawar conceded the match at this point. :* Maharashtra's 826 for 4 was the second highest team total in Ranji trophy at the time. * The Zonal format was not used in the 1948–49 season of Ranji Trophy. It was the only time that this was done until the zones were replaced by the Elite and Plate divisions in 2002–03 * The Bombay v Maharashtra semifinal produced 2376 runs, in the most in any first class match. Bombay's total of 1365 runs is the record for a team in any first class matchHighest Team Totals, acscricket.com
/ref> :* Three batsmen – Uday Merchant 143 & 156, Dattu Phadkar 131 & 160 and Madhusudan Rege 133 & 100 – uniquely scored hundreds in both innings. * The semifinals and finals were timeless matches. Both the Bombay – Maharashtra semifinal and the Bombay – Baroda final went into the seventh day, * Three of the four semifinalists were from the West Zone. * Assam made their Ranji Trophy debut in this season against United Provinces.

Draw

Top half

Bottom half

Final

Scorecards and averages

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References

External links

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