f18223	Ceylon v West Indians
	West Indies in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1948/49
Venue	Colombo Oval, Colombo on 19th, 20th, 21st February 1949 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	West Indians won the toss and decided to bat
Result	West Indians won by an innings and 22 runs
Umpires	CD Mayo, JK Murray
Close of play day 1	West Indians (1) 462/2 (Walcott 125*, Weekes 133*)
Close of play day 2	Ceylon (2) 119/4 (Rodrigo 59*, Gunasekara 6*)

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West Indians first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
AF Rae	st Navaratne b Wijesinha	116		165	14	-
GM Carew	run out	77		171	5	-
+CL Walcott	not out	125		150	10	-
ED Weekes	not out	133		145	14	-
RJ Christiani	did not bat
KR Rickards	did not bat
GE Gomez	did not bat
*JDC Goddard	did not bat
PEW Jones	did not bat
J Trim	did not bat
W Ferguson	did not bat
Extras		11
Total	(2 wickets, declared, 118 overs)	462
Fall of wickets:
1-200 (Rae), 2-204 (Carew)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Spittel	24	1	75	0	-	-
Wijesinha	27	5	97	1	-	-
Coomaraswamy	14	2	55	0	-	-
de Kretser	37	2	131	0	-	-
Gunasekara	11	0	66	0	-	-
Prins	5	0	27	0	-	-

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Rodrigo	b Trim	14
S Nagendra	c Walcott b Jones	17		90
*FC de Saram	b Goddard	9
VG Prins	c Ferguson b Jones	0
S Coomaraswamy	c Gomez b Jones	6
CI Gunasekara	c Goddard b Jones	11
B Wijesinha	b Trim	28			2	-
GM Spittel	b Trim	7
BR Heyn	c Gomez b Ferguson	22			5	-
+B Navaratne	not out	5
RL de Kretser	c and b Goddard	3
Extras		0
Total	(all out, 47.1 overs)	122
Fall of wickets:
1-23 (Rodrigo), 2-40 (Nagendra), 3-40 (de Saram), 4-40 (Prins), 5-51 (Coomaraswamy), 6-64 (Gunasekara), 7-87 (Wijesinha), 8-104 (Spittel), 9-119 (Heyn), 10-122 (de Kretser, 47.1 ov)

West Indians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Jones	12	3	39	4	-	-
Gomez	16	6	28	0	-	-
Trim	10	2	27	3	-	-
Goddard	7.1	1	23	2	-	-
Ferguson	2	0	5	1	-	-

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Ceylon second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
S Nagendra	c Weekes b Trim	5
M Rodrigo	not out	135		400	10	-
*FC de Saram	c Ferguson b Gomez	1
B Wijesinha	c Gomez b Trim	10
S Coomaraswamy	c Walcott b Goddard	35
CI Gunasekara	c Walcott b Jones	72		130	10	-
VG Prins	c Gomez b Jones	1
GM Spittel	c Goddard b Jones	0	1	1	-	-
BR Heyn	c Walcott b Jones	0
+B Navaratne	c Walcott b Jones	5
RL de Kretser	c Ferguson b Jones	41			5	-
Extras	(8 b, 3 lb, 2 nb)	13
Total	(all out, 100.4 overs)	318
Fall of wickets:
1-16 (Nagendra), 2-17 (de Saram), 3-38 (Wijesinha), 4-112 (Coomaraswamy), 5-229 (Gunasekara), 6-231 (Prins), 7-231 (Spittel), 8-231 (Heyn), 9-237 (Navaratne), 10-318 (de Kretser, 100.4 ov)

West Indians bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Jones	14.4	4	23	6	-	-
Gomez	36	11	71	1	-	-
Trim	18	2	44	2	-	-
Goddard	14	0	67	1	-	2
Ferguson	13	0	78	0	-	-
Christiani	5	0	22	0	-	-

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Notes
--> M Rodrigo made his debut in First-Class matches
--> CI Gunasekara made his debut in First-Class matches
--> GM Carew made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> BR Heyn made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> CL Walcott (1) 50 in 70 minutes with 5 fours
--> CL Walcott (1) 100 in 110 minutes with 9 fours
--> ED Weekes (1) 50 in 60 minutes with 7 fours
--> ED Weekes (1) 100 in 100 minutes with 11 fours
--> B Wijesinha (1) passed his previous highest score of 14 in First-Class matches
--> M Rodrigo (2) made his first century in First-Class matches
--> M Rodrigo (2) 50 in 110 minutes
--> M Rodrigo (2) 100 in 340 minutes with 5 fours
--> CI Gunasekara (2) 50 in 75 minutes with 8 fours
--> B Wijesinha made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> GM Carew made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> GE Gomez made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> RJ Christiani made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> W Ferguson made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> JDC Goddard made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> PEW Jones made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> CL Walcott made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> ED Weekes made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> J Trim made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> KR Rickards made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> AF Rae made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> W Ferguson reached 100 wickets in First-Class matches when he dismissed BR Heyn, his 1st wicket in the Ceylon first innings
--> PEW Jones achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches in the Ceylon second innings (previous best was 6-66)

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