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Commonwealth XI in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1949/50

Commonwealth XI vs Ceylon - Ceylon v Commonwealth XI  |  Commonwealth XI won by an innings and 51 runs

Match Details
Toss Commonwealth XI, who chose to bat Series Commonwealth XI In India, Pakistan And Ceylon 1949/50
Umpires
HEW De and JK Murray Match Date 25, 26, 27 Feb 1950
Match Referee Ground P Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo , Colombo
Player of Match    

Commonwealth XI 1st Innings

 R M B 4s 6s
1 Buddy Oldfield run out 20 0 0 0 0
2 John Holt b Bertie Wijesinha 58 0 0 0 0
3 Winston Place lbw Lucien de Zoysa 96 0 0 0 0
4 Frank Worrell b Stanley Jayasinghe 77 0 0 0 0
5 Bill Alley c Sathyendra Coomaraswamy b Stanley Jayasinghe 59 0 0 0 0
6 Wally Langdon not out 25 0 0 0 0
7 Jock Livingston * not out 15 0 0 0 0
8 George Pope Did not bat 0 0 0 0 0
9 George Tribe Did not bat 0 0 0 0 0
10 Fred Freer Did not bat 0 0 0 0 0
11 Harry Lambert Did not bat 0 0 0 0 0
Extra 0
Total 5 wickets; 103.0 overs; 350 3.45 runs per over

Fall of wickets 1-30 ;   2-131 ;   3-231 ;   4-303 ;   5-318

Bowling

 Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
Bertie Wijesinha 30.0 10 77 1 0 0
Sathyendra Coomaraswamy * 17.0 6 46 0 0 0
John de Saram 9.0 1 39 0 0 0
Lucien de Zoysa 21.0 0 71 1 0 0
Stanley Jayasinghe 15.0 0 70 2 0 0
Ievers Gunasekera 10.0 0 43 0 0 0
Mahadevan Sathasivam 1.0 0 4 0 0 0

Ceylon 1st Innings

 R M B 4s 6s
1 Makkin Salih c Winston Place b Harry Lambert 1 0 0 0 0
2 John de Saram c Bill Alley b Fred Freer 0 0 0 0 0
3 Mahadevan Sathasivam b Fred Freer 96 0 0 0 0
4 Mahesha Rodrigo b Fred Freer 0 0 0 0 0
5 Ievers Gunasekera c Bill Alley b Frank Worrell 9 0 0 0 0
6 Sathyendra Coomaraswamy * c George Tribe b George Pope 11 0 0 0 0
7 John Burton c Winston Place b Frank Worrell 9 0 0 0 0
8 Bertie Wijesinha c John Holt b Harry Lambert 7 0 0 0 0
9 Stanley Jayasinghe c & b George Pope 17 0 0 0 0
10 Benedict Navaratne † lbw George Pope 0 0 0 0 0
11 Lucien de Zoysa not out 0 0 0 0 0
Extra 0
Total 10 wickets; 52.3 overs; 150 2.91 runs per over

Fall of wickets 1-0 ;   2-6 ;   3-17 ;   4-41 ;   5-61 ;   6-83 ;   7-127 ;   8-147 ;   9-147 ;   10-153

Bowling

 Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
Harry Lambert 9.0 2 33 2 0 0
Fred Freer 11.3 2 44 3 0 0
George Pope 14.0 4 28 3 0 0
Frank Worrell 7.0 3 18 2 0 0
George Tribe 11.0 2 27 0 0 0

Ceylon 2nd Innings

 R M B 4s 6s
1 Makkin Salih c Winston Place b George Pope 10 0 0 0 0
2 John de Saram c & b George Pope 12 0 0 0 0
3 Benedict Navaratne † c George Tribe b Fred Freer 11 0 0 0 0
4 Mahadevan Sathasivam c George Pope b Fred Freer 22 0 0 0 0
5 Mahesha Rodrigo run out 32 0 0 0 0
6 Ievers Gunasekera c Harry Lambert b Fred Freer 0 0 0 0 0
7 Sathyendra Coomaraswamy * lbw George Pope 26 0 0 0 0
8 John Burton lbw Fred Freer 3 0 0 0 0
9 Bertie Wijesinha st Jock Livingston b George Tribe 23 0 0 0 0
10 Stanley Jayasinghe st Jock Livingston b George Tribe 0 0 0 0 0
11 Lucien de Zoysa not out 2 0 0 0 0
Extra 0
Total 10 wickets; 70.0 overs; 141 2.16 runs per over

Fall of wickets 1-16 ;   2-29 ;   3-50 ;   4-65 ;   5-65 ;   6-113 ;   7-120 ;   8-149 ;   9-149 ;   10-151

Bowling

 Overs Maidens Runs Wickets Wides No balls
Harry Lambert 8.0 2 14 0 0 0
Fred Freer 24.0 6 55 4 0 0
George Pope 19.0 6 31 3 0 0
Frank Worrell 11.0 6 17 0 0 0
George Tribe 7.0 1 22 2 0 0
Bill Alley 1.0 0 2 0 0 0