misc1173	Ceylon v Australians
	Australia in Ceylon 1947/48
Venue	Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo on 27th March 1948 (1-day single innings match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Australians won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Umpires	DS de Soysa, HEW de Zylva

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Australians innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
SG Barnes	retired out	49
WA Brown	lbw b Coomaraswamy	3
*DG Bradman	c de Kretser b Heyn	20
KR Miller	c Gunasekara b de Kretser	46			3	1
RN Harvey	c Jayawickreme b Coomaraswamy	8
RA Hamence	b Coomaraswamy	0
SJE Loxton	c Rodrigo b de Kretser	34				1
+RA Saggers	b Coomaraswamy	6
IWG Johnson	not out	2
DT Ring	not out	6
ERH Toshack	did not bat
Extras		10
Total	(8 wickets, declared, 60.1 overs)	184
Fall of wickets:
1-8 (Brown), 2-68, 3-86, 4-106, 5-106, 6-144, 7-173, 8-178

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Allen	13.1	2	33	0	-	-
Coomaraswamy	15	2	45	4	-	-
Heyn	15	0	43	1	-	-
Jayawickreme	5	1	14	0	-	-
de Kretser	12	1	39	2	-	-

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Ceylon innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
S Nagendra	lbw b Barnes	5
M Rodrigo	c and b Johnson	26
FC de Saram	not out	7
*M Sathasivam	not out	6
SS Jayawickreme	did not bat
BR Heyn	did not bat
CI Gunasekara	did not bat
S Coomaraswamy	did not bat
CE Allen	did not bat
RL de Kretser	did not bat
+B Navaratne	did not bat
Extras		2
Total	(2 wickets, 19.2 overs)	46
Fall of wickets:
1-13 (Nagendra), 2-38

Australians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Miller	2	1	3	0	-	-
Loxton	2	1	3	0	-	-
Johnson	3	2	6	1	-	-
Ring	4.2	1	10	0	-	-
Toshack	4	1	16	0	-	-
Barnes	4	1	6	1	-	-

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Note that although contemporary accounts give 8 wickets down for the Australians, they also give Barnes as ill rather than out.
Rain ended the match early.

 

 

 

 

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