f24142	Madras v Ceylon
	Gopalan Trophy 1961/62
Venue	Nehru Stadium, Madras on 30th, 31st January, 1st February 1962 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Ceylon won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Ceylon won by an innings and 66 runs
Umpires	NS Rishi, GR Sriramulu
Close of play day 1	Ceylon (1) 315/3 (Tissera 83*, Gunasekara 46*)
Close of play day 2	Madras (1) 119/7 (Balakrishnan 10*, Vasudevamurthy 0*)

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
TCT Edward	c and b Habib Ahmed	73
+CE Reid	b Balakrishnan	54
LNG Rodrigo	st Belliappa b Balakrishnan	51
MH Tissera	c Belliappa b Sekhar	92
*CI Gunasekara	b Prabhakar Rao	80
DP de Silva	b Sekhar	0
MAH Fuard	c and b Kripal Singh	4
TA Buhar	b Kripal Singh	16
S Yatawara	c Milkha Singh b Venkatesh Rao	47
A Polonowita	not out	27
LR Gunatilleke	did not bat
Extras	(8 b, 4 lb)	12
Total	(9 wickets, declared, 143 overs)	456
Fall of wickets:
1-125, 2-129, 3-222, 4-347, 5-349, 6-361, 7-362, 8-388, 9-456 (143 ov)

Madras bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Prabhakar Rao	27	8	55	1	-	-
Sekhar	19	3	49	2	-	-
Habib Ahmed	17	1	67	1	-	-
Kripal Singh	29	5	75	2	-	-
Vasudevamurthy	22	1	79	0	-	-
Balakrishnan	25	5	93	2	-	-
Mani	2	1	8	0	-	-
Milkha Singh	1	0	9	0	-	-
Venkatesh Rao	1	0	9	1	-	-

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Madras first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Venkatesh Rao	b Gunatilleke	0
+PK Belliappa	lbw b Gunasekara	29
Habib Ahmed	c Gunasekara b Fuard	57
AG Milkha Singh	b Fuard	0
PR Ashokanand	b Gunatilleke	15
*AG Kripal Singh	c Polonowita b Gunatilleke	45
SVS Mani	run out	19
MK Balakrishnan	c Yatawara b Buhar	8
K Vasudevamurthy	not out	13
BR Sekhar	c Yatawara b Gunasekara	8
U Prabhakar Rao	c and b Gunasekara	0
Extras	(11 b, 8 nb)	19
Total	(all out, 77.4 overs)	213
Fall of wickets:
1-0, 2-71, 3-71, 4-101, 5-111, 6-165, 7-189, 8-189, 9-211, 10-213 (77.4 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Gunatilleke	13	3	46	3	-	-
Yatawara	13	1	35	0	-	-
Buhar	7	5	13	1	-	-
Polonowita	15	2	37	0	-	-
Fuard	17	4	30	2	-	-
Gunasekara	12.4	4	33	3	-	-

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Madras second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Venkatesh Rao	b Yatawara	13
+PK Belliappa	c Reid b Gunatilleke	50
Habib Ahmed	c Reid b Yatawara	6
PR Ashokanand	b Gunasekara	35
AG Milkha Singh	b Fuard	8
SVS Mani	not out	36
*AG Kripal Singh	c Polonowita b Gunasekara	4
MK Balakrishnan	lbw b Polonowita	12
K Vasudevamurthy	c Edward b Buhar	1
U Prabhakar Rao	c Reid b Buhar	0
BR Sekhar	b Gunasekara	0
Extras	(4 b, 7 lb, 1 nb)	12
Total	(all out, 81.1 overs)	177
Fall of wickets:
1-47, 2-59, 3-80, 4-107, 5-135, 6-139, 7-165, 8-170, 9-170, 10-177 (81.1 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Gunatilleke	11	1	35	1	-	-
Yatawara	19	7	39	2	-	-
Buhar	14	6	14	2	-	-
Polonowita	19	8	30	1	-	-
Fuard	9	3	23	1	-	-
Gunasekara	9.1	1	24	3	-	-

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Notes
--> DP de Silva made his debut in First-Class matches
--> TA Buhar made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> S Yatawara made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> TCT Edward (1) passed his previous highest score of 30 in First-Class matches
--> CE Reid (1) passed his previous highest score of 13 in First-Class matches
--> MH Tissera (1) passed his previous highest score of 62 in First-Class matches
--> A Polonowita (1) passed his previous highest score of 20 in First-Class matches
--> PK Belliappa (2) passed 500 runs in First-Class matches when he reached 30
--> LR Gunatilleke made his debut for Ceylon in First-Class matches
--> S Yatawara made his debut for Ceylon in First-Class matches
--> TCT Edward made his debut for Ceylon in First-Class matches
--> Habib Ahmed made his debut for Madras in First-Class matches
--> M Venkatesh Rao made his debut for Madras in First-Class matches
--> LR Gunatilleke made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> S Yatawara made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> TCT Edward made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> LR Gunatilleke achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the Madras first innings (previous best was 0-17)
--> CI Gunasekara reached 50 wickets in First-Class matches when taking his 3rd wicket in the Madras first innings

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