f16960	Madras Governor's XI v India to Ceylon Touring Team
	Other First-Class matches in India 1944/45
Venue	Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chepauk, Madras on 16th, 17th, 18th March 1945 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	India to Ceylon Touring Team won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Umpires	VS Natarajan, L O'Callaghan
Close of play day 1	India to Ceylon Touring Team (1) 368/8 (Amarnath 77*, Sarwate 3*)
Close of play day 2	India to Ceylon Touring Team (2) 38/2 (Kishenchand 22*)

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India to Ceylon Touring Team first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*VM Merchant	c Johnstone b Ghulam Ahmed	27
MH Mankad	lbw b Ram Singh	70
S Mushtaq Ali	st Sanjiva Rao b Palia	54
VS Hazare	b Palia	17
L Amarnath	b Rangachari	77
RS Modi	c Johnstone b Rangachari	38
G Kishenchand	c and b Rangachari	4
+RB Nimbalkar	c Gopalan b Rangachari	3
CS Nayudu	b Rangachari	58
CT Sarwate	not out	6
SN Banerjee	b Rangachari	0
Extras		17
Total	(all out, 121 overs)	371
Fall of wickets:
1-78 (Merchant), 2-132 (Mankad), 3-168 (Mushtaq Ali), 4-177 (Hazare), 5-248 (Modi), 6-260 (Kishenchand), 7-270 (Nimbalkar), 8-364 (Nayudu), 9-371 (Amarnath), 10-371 (Banerjee, 121 ov)

Madras Governor's XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Rangachari	30	3	74	6	-	-
Khanna	7	3	11	0	-	-
Ram Singh	23	1	96	1	-	-
Ghulam Ahmed	23	2	76	1	-	-
Palia	26	7	56	2	-	-
Richardson	5	1	19	0	-	-
Gopalan	7	0	22	0	-	-

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Madras Governor's XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*CP Johnstone	lbw b Sarwate	20
BC Khanna	c Hazare b Amarnath	3
PE Palia	lbw b Nayudu	1
Asghar Ali	c Nayudu b Hazare	36
AG Ram Singh	c Merchant b Hazare	60
A Ananthanarayanan	c Nayudu b Amarnath	16
MJ Gopalan	b Sarwate	46
FF Richardson	b Sarwate	3
+I Sanjiva Rao	lbw b Hazare	2
CR Rangachari	not out	10
Ghulam Ahmed	st Nimbalkar b Sarwate	2
Extras		22
Total	(all out, 92.4 overs)	221
Fall of wickets:
1-14 (Khanna), 2-15 (Palia), 3-31 (Johnstone), 4-122 (Asghar Ali), 5-133 (Ram Singh), 6-194 (Ananthanarayanan), 7-199 (Richardson), 8-208 (Gopalan), 9-212 (Sanjiva Rao), 10-221 (Ghulam Ahmed, 92.4 ov)

India to Ceylon Touring Team bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Banerjee	10	1	32	0	-	-
Amarnath	14	8	19	2	-	-
Nayudu	25	5	60	1	-	-
Sarwate	18.4	3	35	4	-	-
Hazare	16	3	36	3	-	-
Merchant	5	2	14	0	-	-
Mankad	4	2	3	0	-	-

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India to Ceylon Touring Team second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
MH Mankad	lbw b Ram Singh	10
CT Sarwate	c Sanjiva Rao b Gopalan	1
G Kishenchand	lbw b Ghulam Ahmed	30
VS Hazare	lbw b Ghulam Ahmed	4
RS Modi	b Ghulam Ahmed	11
L Amarnath	not out	100		110	12	1
S Mushtaq Ali	c Rangachari b Ram Singh	7
*VM Merchant	not out	40
+RB Nimbalkar	did not bat
CS Nayudu	did not bat
SN Banerjee	did not bat
Extras		16
Total	(6 wickets, declared, 58 overs)	219
Fall of wickets:
1-9 (Sarwate), 2-38 (Mankad), 3-51 (Kishenchand), 4-54 (Hazare), 5-71 (Modi), 6-94 (Mushtaq Ali)

Madras Governor's XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Rangachari	14	1	50	0	-	-
Ram Singh	17	2	69	2	-	-
Ghulam Ahmed	15	2	56	3	-	-
Palia	3	1	7	0	-	-
Gopalan	9	5	21	1	-	-

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Madras Governor's XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
*CP Johnstone	lbw b Merchant	35
PE Palia	b Modi	68
Asghar Ali	c Nimbalkar b Kishenchand	11
BC Khanna	lbw b Mushtaq Ali	17
AG Ram Singh	c Mushtaq Ali b Modi	18
A Ananthanarayanan	lbw b Mushtaq Ali	0
MJ Gopalan	not out	25
FF Richardson	not out	5
+I Sanjiva Rao	did not bat
CR Rangachari	did not bat
Ghulam Ahmed	did not bat
Extras		17
Total	(6 wickets, 60 overs)	196
Fall of wickets:
1-88 (Johnstone), 2-123 (Palia), 3-123 (Asghar Ali), 4-154 (Khanna), 5-154 (Ananthanarayanan), 6-176 (Ram Singh)

India to Ceylon Touring Team bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Banerjee	4	0	8	0	-	-
Amarnath	5	2	5	0	-	-
Hazare	8	1	23	0	-	-
Nayudu	4	0	34	0	-	-
Sarwate	8	1	37	0	-	-
Merchant	6	3	4	1	-	-
Modi	13	2	27	2	-	-
Kishenchand	7	1	20	1	-	-
Mushtaq Ali	5	0	21	2	-	-

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Notes
--> Day 3 Lunch: India to Ceylon Touring Team (2) ?/? (Amarnath 100*, [unknown] ?*)
--> VS Hazare (2) passed 6000 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 1

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This match was played for the Red Cross Fund

 

 

 

 

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