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| Venue | Colombo Oval, Colombo on 26th, 27th, 28th February 1949 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Ceylon won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DS de Soysa, CD Mayo |
| Close of play day 1 | Ceylon (1) 344/7 (Coomaraswamy 54*, Dalpathado 26*) |
| Close of play day 2 | West Indians (1) 316/4 (Christiani 13*, McWatt 0*) |
| Ceylon first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| S Nagendra | c Stollmeyer b Trim | 5 | - | - | |||
| +M Rodrigo | c Rickards b Trim | 5 | - | - | |||
| *FC de Saram | c Atkinson b Trim | 94 | 225 | 10 | - | ||
| M Sathasivam | c Christiani b Trim | 32 | |||||
| SS Jayawickreme | c Stollmeyer b Goddard | 29 | |||||
| CI Gunasekara | b Trim | 71 | 100 | 11 | 1 | ||
| S Coomaraswamy | c Walcott b Atkinson | 57 | 110 | 4 | - | ||
| B Wijesinha | c Weekes b Atkinson | 9 | |||||
| FG Dalpathado | lbw b Atkinson | 34 | 90 | 4 | - | ||
| RL de Kretser | not out | 16 | |||||
| LE de Zoysa | c Rickards b Goddard | 9 | 2 | - | |||
| Extras | (11 b, 4 lb, 5 nb) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 114.5 overs) | 381 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Nagendra), 2-16 (Rodrigo), 3-68 (Sathasivam), 4-133 (Jayawickreme), 5-239 (de Saram), 6-254 (Gunasekara), 7-267 (Wijesinha), 8-350 (Coomaraswamy), 9-355 (Dalpathado), 10-381 (de Zoysa, 114.5 ov) | |||||||
| West Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Trim | 30 | 8 | 63 | 5 | - | - | |
| Atkinson | 34 | 8 | 83 | 3 | - | - | |
| Cameron | 18 | 2 | 61 | 0 | - | - | |
| Stollmeyer | 18 | 0 | 82 | 0 | - | - | |
| Goddard | 12.5 | 2 | 54 | 2 | - | - | |
| Rae | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| West Indians first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| JB Stollmeyer | c Rodrigo b de Kretser | 93 | 126 | 9 | - | ||
| AF Rae | st Rodrigo b Wijesinha | 137 | 200 | 20 | - | ||
| CL Walcott | st Rodrigo b Coomaraswamy | 54 | 65 | 9 | - | ||
| ED Weekes | lbw b de Zoysa | 10 | |||||
| +RJ Christiani | b Wijesinha | 96 | 136 | 9 | - | ||
| CA McWatt | b de Zoysa | 12 | |||||
| DS Atkinson | b Dalpathado | 74 | 105 | ||||
| FJ Cameron | not out | 9 | |||||
| KR Rickards | b de Zoysa | 11 | |||||
| *JDC Goddard | b Gunasekara | 4 | |||||
| J Trim | absent ill | ||||||
| Extras | (11 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 127.1 overs) | 513 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-199 (Stollmeyer), 2-293 (Walcott), 3-293 (Rae), 4-312 (Weekes), 5-334 (McWatt), 6-488 (Christiani), 7-490 (Atkinson), 8-508 (Rickards), 9-513 (Goddard, 127.1 ov) | |||||||
| Ceylon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dalpathado | 19 | 4 | 81 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wijesinha | 36 | 3 | 130 | 2 | - | - | |
| Nagendra | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| de Kretser | 15 | 1 | 55 | 1 | - | - | |
| Jayawickreme | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| de Zoysa | 25 | 1 | 92 | 3 | - | - | |
| Gunasekara | 3.1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | - | - | |
| Coomaraswamy | 22 | 2 | 109 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ceylon second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| +M Rodrigo | lbw b Atkinson | 0 | |||||
| S Nagendra | run out | 1 | |||||
| *FC de Saram | c Walcott b Atkinson | 13 | |||||
| M Sathasivam | c sub (W Ferguson) b Walcott | 12 | |||||
| SS Jayawickreme | not out | 50 | |||||
| CI Gunasekara | c Stollmeyer b Christiani | 22 | |||||
| S Coomaraswamy | not out | 41 | |||||
| B Wijesinha | did not bat | ||||||
| FG Dalpathado | did not bat | ||||||
| RL de Kretser | did not bat | ||||||
| LE de Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b) | 1 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 44 overs) | 140 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Rodrigo), 2-2 (Nagendra), 3-17 (Sathasivam), 4-38 (de Saram), 5-71 (Gunasekara) | |||||||
| West Indians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Atkinson | 20 | 2 | 50 | 2 | - | - | |
| Walcott | 10 | 2 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stollmeyer | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | |
| Christiani | 7 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | |
| Weekes | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
Notes
--> FG Dalpathado made his debut in First-Class matches
--> S Nagendra made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> FC de Saram (1) 50 in 120 minutes with 6 fours
--> CI Gunasekara (1) 50 in 60 minutes with 8 fours and 1 six
--> S Coomaraswamy (1) passed his previous highest score of 35 in First-Class matches
--> JB Stollmeyer (1) 50 in 75 minutes with 6 fours
--> AF Rae (1) 50 in 110 minutes with 8 fours
--> AF Rae (1) 100 in 125 minutes with 15 fours
--> CL Walcott (1) 50 in 60 minutes with 8 fours
--> RJ Christiani (1) 50 in 65 minutes with 6 fours
--> DS Atkinson (1) passed 500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 25
--> SS Jayawickreme (2) 50 in 65 minutes with 5 fours
--> LE de Zoysa made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> JB Stollmeyer made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> DS Atkinson made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> FJ Cameron made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> CA McWatt made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
CA McWatt kept wicket in the Ceylon second innings
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