misc1173 | |
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 |
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 | - | - | |
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 | - | - | |
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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