Full Name

Rusitomji Sheriyar Modi

Born

November 11, 1924, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra

Died

May 17, 1996, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, (aged 71y 188d)

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Medium

A wristy strokeplayer, Rusi Modi combined elegance with a voracious appetite for runs. Tall and slim, he was the first batsman to score 1000 runs in a season in the Ranji Trophy and his feat of getting 1008 runs (201.00) in 1944-45 remained unsurpassed till WV Raman amassed 1018 runs, 44 years later. In 1943-44 Modi scored a record 215 for Parsees against Europeans in the Bombay Pentangular. He remains the only batsman to score five successive hundreds in the Ranji Trophy. He followed this remarkable run with a brilliant 203 not out in the third and final `Test' against the Australian Services team at Madras in 1945-46. Amid high expectations, Modi toured England in 1946 and in that wet summer performed commendably getting 1196 runs (37.37). He played with reasonable success in all three Tests. He missed the tour of Australia in 1947-48 due to ill health but touched superb form in the series against West Indies the following season, scoring 560 runs, which remained the Indian record until Vijay Manjrekar surpassed it in 1961-62. This run included his only century in Tests, 112 at Bombay. Thereafter his career was anti climactic for though he played against the two Commonwealth teams and once each against England in 1951-52 and against Pakistan the following season, he was never again the commanding figure at the crease. He however continued to play with much success for Bombay and in the Ranji Trophy he scored 2696 runs (81.69) with ten hundreds. In a two decade long first-class career he scored 7509 runs (53.63) with 20 centuries. He died following a fall at the Brabourne stadium.
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Rusi Modi Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50s6sCtSt
Tests1017173611246.0016030
FC105154127529245*53.022039-290

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests10130140---2.80-000
FC105-24231226325/25-38.313.0375.7-10
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Debut/Last Matches of Rusi Modi

FC Matches

Span
1941/42 - 1959/60

Recent Matches of Rusi Modi

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Rest of Ind vs Bombay12--18-Mar-1960DelhiFC
Bombay vs UP152/3102-Mar-1957VaranasiFC
Bombay vs Gujarat1460/2308-Dec-1956BrabourneFC
India vs Pakistan32--13-Nov-1952BrabourneTest # 357
Bombay vs Holkar62 & 82--01-Mar-1952BrabourneFC

Photos of Rusi Modi

Rusi Modi: Portrait
Rusi Modi
The 1946 Indian touring squad