Rusi Modi
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| Batting style | Right-hand bat (RHB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm medium pace | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Test debut | 22 June 1946 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Test | 13 November 1952 v Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rustomji Sheriyar 'Rusi' Modi 
pronunciation (born 11 November 1924, Bombay – died 17 May 1996, Bombay) was an Indian batsman who played for the Indian National Cricket Team from 1946 to 1952.
Modi's test career started at Lord's in India's first test in England in their tour of England in 1946. He made his debut in a three-day match (22–25 June 1946), which is best recognised for Sir Alec Bedser's eleven-wicket haul on debut. Incidentally, this test also marked the test debuts of Vijay Hazare and Vinoo Mankad, who would go one to be recognised players for India.
Rusi Modi was evidently an accumulator of runs, this fact being evident from his test average of 46 and a first-class average of 53, which also weighed a lot on paper when seen alongside his 20 centuries in the latter respect. He also bowled some medium-pace and even grabbed a five-wicket haul, his only one in all formats of cricket he played in.
Modi started his first class career with a century on debut at the age of 17 in a Bombay Pentangular match. In Ranji Trophy between 1943/44 and 1944/45, he scored five hundreds in successive innings for Bombay, seven in successive matches. The sequence read 168 v Maharashtra, 128 v Western India both in 1943/44, 160 v Sind, 210 v Western India, 245* & 31 v Baroda, 113 v Northern India and 98 & 151 v Holkar all in 1944/45. His aggregate of 1008 in only five Ranji matches in 1944/45 was a record which stood for over forty years. He made 1375 runs in all first class matches. Modi was only 20 at the time.
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