f19048	Ceylon v Commonwealth XI
	Commonwealth XI in India and Ceylon 1950/51
Venue	Colombo Oval, Colombo on 16th, 17th, 18th February 1951 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Commonwealth XI won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Match drawn
Close of play day 1	Commonwealth XI (1) 444/8 (Barlow 4*)
Close of play day 2	Commonwealth XI (2) 31/1 (Barlow 13*, Ramadhin 2*)

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Commonwealth XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
H Gimblett	c Fernando b Wijesinha	11
JT Ikin	b Nathanielsz	19
FMM Worrell	c Gunasekara b de Kretser	285		274	31	5
KJ Grieves	c Nathanielsz b Wijesinha	5
*LEG Ames	c Coomaraswamy b Wijesinha	3
WHH Sutcliffe	run out	95
B Dooland	c Coomaraswamy b de Kretser	14
D Shackleton	lbw b Weerakoon	2
+A Barlow	not out	4
S Ramadhin	did not bat
RR Dovey	did not bat
Extras		6
Total	(8 wickets, declared, 117.1 overs)	444
Fall of wickets:
1-27, 2-57, 3-71, 4-75, 5-376, 6-401, 7-434, 8-444 (117.1 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Nathanielsz	19	3	72	1	-	-
Coomaraswamy	7	2	25	0	-	-
Wijesinha	22	5	78	3	-	-
de Kretser	30.1	2	108	2	-	-
Weerakoon	30	5	114	1	-	-
Prins	4	1	8	0	-	-
Gunasekara	2	0	10	0	-	-
Fernando	2	0	17	0	-	-
Jayasinghe	1	0	6	0	-	-

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FJ de Saram	c Grieves b Shackleton	5
CH Gunasekara	c and b Dooland	26
VG Prins	b Ramadhin	46
S Jayasinghe	c Worrell b Dovey	44
*S Coomaraswamy	b Ramadhin	28
B Wijesinha	c Grieves b Ramadhin	10
HI Fernando	not out	61
R Weerakoon	run out	0
+B Navaratne	c Sutcliffe b Shackleton	15
RL de Kretser	c Sutcliffe b Ramadhin	15
EB Nathanielsz	lbw b Dooland	0
Extras		5
Total	(all out, 80.4 overs)	255
Fall of wickets:
1-6, 2-46, 3-119, 4-131, 5-132, 6-168, 7-174, 8-220, 9-247, 10-255 (80.4 ov)

Commonwealth XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Shackleton	16	4	49	2	-	-
Sutcliffe	6	0	29	0	-	-
Dovey	18	6	44	1	-	-
Dooland	15.4	4	47	2	-	-
Ramadhin	16	6	48	4	-	-
Worrell	9	1	33	0	-	-

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Commonwealth XI second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
H Gimblett	b Nathanielsz	16
+A Barlow	c and b Wijesinha	15
S Ramadhin	b de Kretser	19
B Dooland	c Prins b de Saram	29
WHH Sutcliffe	c Coomaraswamy b de Kretser	11
JT Ikin	not out	21
D Shackleton	not out	0
FMM Worrell	did not bat
KJ Grieves	did not bat
*LEG Ames	did not bat
RR Dovey	did not bat
Extras		0
Total	(5 wickets, declared, 39 overs)	111
Fall of wickets:
1-28, 2-42, 3-77, 4-83, 5-107

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Nathanielsz	13	3	18	1	-	-
Coomaraswamy	4	0	11	0	-	-
Wijesinha	9	4	33	1	-	-
de Kretser	6	0	27	2	-	-
Weerakoon	5	1	12	0	-	-
de Saram	2	0	10	1	-	-

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Ceylon second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
FJ de Saram	b Ramadhin	34
CH Gunasekara	run out	4
VG Prins	c Dooland b Ramadhin	6
S Jayasinghe	c Ramadhin b Ikin	62
*S Coomaraswamy	c Ames b Dovey	14
B Wijesinha	run out	26
HI Fernando	c Gimblett b Ramadhin	39
R Weerakoon	c Sutcliffe b Ramadhin	2
+B Navaratne	c Worrell b Dooland	9
RL de Kretser	not out	17
EB Nathanielsz	not out	3
Extras	(9 b, 1 nb)	10
Total	(9 wickets, 75 overs)	226
Fall of wickets:
1-16, 2-33, 3-46, 4-73, 5-141, 6-149, 7-187, 8-194, 9-223

Commonwealth XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Shackleton	10	3	26	0	-	-
Dovey	10	2	45	1	-	-
Dooland	17	5	44	1	-	-
Ramadhin	26	6	65	4	-	-
Worrell	6	3	9	0	-	-
Ikin	6	1	27	1	-	-

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Notes
--> CH Gunasekara made his debut in First-Class matches
--> R Weerakoon made his debut in First-Class matches
--> FJ de Saram made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> R Weerakoon made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> RL de Kretser made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> WHH Sutcliffe (1) equalled his previous highest score of 95 in First-Class matches
--> S Ramadhin (2) passed his previous highest score of 12 in First-Class matches
--> FJ de Saram (2) passed his previous highest score of 12 in First-Class matches
--> HI Fernando made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> A Barlow made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> RR Dovey made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> WHH Sutcliffe made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> LEG Ames made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> KJ Grieves made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> H Gimblett made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> JT Ikin made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> B Dooland made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> S Ramadhin made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> D Shackleton made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches

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