f16812	Indian XI v Ceylon
	Ceylon in India 1940/41
Venue	Brabourne Stadium, Bombay on 31st December 1940, 1st, 2nd January 1941 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Ceylon won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Indian XI won by an innings and 110 runs
Umpires	DK Naik, Vali Ahmed
Close of play day 1	Indian XI (1) 82/1 (Merchant 52*, Adhikari 9*)
Close of play day 2	Ceylon (2) 113/4 (AH Gooneratne 30*, Porritt 9*)

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WL Mendis	c Deodhar b Nayudu	42
JE Pulle	b Saeed Ahmed	3
GJD Gooneratne	b Saeed Ahmed	96
RAK Solomons	b Chippa	1
*SS Jayawickreme	st Engineer b Chippa	3
AH Gooneratne	run out	6
FWE Porritt	b Chippa	19
AMH Kelaart	c Engineer b Chippa	0
MO Gooneratne	b Saeed Ahmed	22
+B Navaratne	not out	23
DS Jayasundera	b Chippa	8
Extras		11
Total	(all out, 86.4 overs)	234
Fall of wickets:
1-11 (Pulle), 2-82 (Mendis), 3-85 (Solomons), 4-91 (Jayawickreme), 5-113 (AH Gooneratne), 6-154 (Porritt), 7-158 (Kelaart), 8-201 (MO Gooneratne), 9-206 (GJD Gooneratne), 10-234 (Jayasundera, 86.4 ov)

Indian XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Saeed Ahmed	19	3	49	3	-	-
Hazare	14	3	48	0	-	-
Nayudu	26	5	58	1	-	-
Sohoni	10	2	30	0	-	-
Chippa	17.4	2	38	5	-	-

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Indian XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
VM Merchant	run out	137		165	16	-
SW Sohoni	b Porritt	18
HR Adhikari	lbw b Jayasundera	90		120	7	-
VS Hazare	b Jayasundera	13
*DB Deodhar	c and b Porritt	69		130	3	-
KM Rangnekar	c Mendis b Porritt	117		107	11	-
CS Nayudu	c AH Gooneratne b Kelaart	18
KC Ibrahim	not out	0
Saeed Ahmed	did not bat
UR Chippa	did not bat
+MP Engineer	did not bat
Extras		16
Total	(7 wickets, declared, 111.2 overs)	478
Fall of wickets:
1-52 (Sohoni), 2-245 (Merchant), 3-253 (Adhikari), 4-288 (Hazare), 5-448 (Deodhar), 6-475 (Nayudu), 7-478 (Rangnekar, 111.2 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Jayasundera	15	1	50	2	-	-
Kelaart	30	6	90	1	-	-
Jayawickreme	5	0	39	0	-	-
MO Gooneratne	17	1	74	0	-	-
Porritt	21.2	0	107	3	-	-
AH Gooneratne	5	0	31	0	-	-
GJD Gooneratne	9	0	33	0	-	-
Solomons	9	1	38	0	-	-

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Ceylon second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
WL Mendis	c Adhikari b Hazare	1
JE Pulle	b Hazare	9
GJD Gooneratne	b Nayudu	29
RAK Solomons	b Chippa	22
AH Gooneratne	b Sohoni	37
FWE Porritt	b Hazare	10
*SS Jayawickreme	b Hazare	0
AMH Kelaart	st Engineer b Nayudu	13
MO Gooneratne	c Deodhar b Nayudu	0
+B Navaratne	c Deodhar b Sohoni	0
DS Jayasundera	not out	0
Extras		13
Total	(all out, 52.1 overs)	134
Fall of wickets:
1-2 (Mendis), 2-32 (Pulle), 3-56 (GJD Gooneratne), 4-80 (Solomons), 5-115 (Porritt), 6-115 (Jayawickreme), 7-134 (Kelaart), 8-134 (AH Gooneratne), 9-134 (MO Gooneratne), 10-134 (Navaratne, 52.1 ov)

Indian XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Saeed Ahmed	4	1	15	0	-	-
Hazare	16	5	34	4	-	-
Nayudu	11	1	32	3	-	-
Sohoni	7.1	1	22	2	-	-
Chippa	14	7	18	1	-	-

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Notes
--> WL Mendis made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> JE Pulle made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> RAK Solomons made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> AH Gooneratne made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> FWE Porritt made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> AMH Kelaart made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> MO Gooneratne made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> GJD Gooneratne (1) passed his previous highest score of 58 in First-Class matches
--> B Navaratne (1) passed his previous highest score of 18 in First-Class matches
--> VM Merchant (1) 100 in 120 minutes with 12 fours
--> VM Merchant (1) passed 5500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 41
--> KM Rangnekar (1) 100 in 81 minutes with 9 fours
--> FWE Porritt achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches when he dismissed KM Rangnekar in the Indian XI first innings (previous best was 2-19)

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