The 1944–45 Ranji Trophy was the 11th season of the
Ranji Trophy.
Bombay won the title defeating
Holkar in the final.
Highlights
Rusi Modi of Bombay scored 1008 runs in the season. He played five matches and averaged 201.60. No other batsman would score even 900 in a season until
W. V. Raman made 1018 runs in
1988–89 by which time teams played more matches.[3]
Modi scored hundreds in each of the five matches. His scores were 160, 210, 245* & 31*, 113 and 98 & 151 in the final.[4] He had scored 168 and 128 in the last two matches of the
1943-44 season, thus scoring hundreds in five consecutive innings and seven consecutive matches in Ranji Trophy.