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| Venue | Colombo Oval, Colombo on 4th April 1961 (1-day single innings match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Ceylon won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | C de Silva, MA Jayasinghe |
| Australians innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WM Lawry | hit wkt b Fuard | 18 | |||||
| RB Simpson | c Fernando b Fuard | 27 | |||||
| NCL O'Neill | c Lafir b Gunasekara | 70 | |||||
| +PJP Burge | c Fuard b Gunasekara | 35 | |||||
| BC Booth | run out | 44 | |||||
| *R Benaud | c Edward b Perera | 37 | |||||
| GD McKenzie | c Gunasekara b Perera | 22 | |||||
| IW Quick | b Gunasekara | 20 | |||||
| FM Misson | not out | 9 | |||||
| LF Kline | did not bat | ||||||
| RA Gaunt | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 b, 3 lb, 1 nb) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 68 overs) | 289 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-36, 2-53, 3-103, 4-187, 5-196, 6-248, 7-266, 8-289 (68 ov) | |||||||
| Ceylon bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| de Alwis | 10 | 3 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Perera | 12 | 0 | 72 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Fuard | 23 | 2 | 82 | 2 | - | - | |
| Polonowita | 12 | 1 | 62 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gunasekara | 11 | 0 | 39 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ceylon innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TCT Edward | b Quick | 27 | |||||
| ACM Lafir | c Lawry b Gaunt | 0 | |||||
| LNG Rodrigo | b Quick | 44 | |||||
| MH Tissera | c Burge b Quick | 24 | |||||
| *CI Gunasekara | c Burge b Simpson | 28 | |||||
| DHA Weerasinghe | c and b Quick | 7 | |||||
| MAH Fuard | not out | 23 | |||||
| +HIK Fernando | c Benaud b O'Neill | 16 | |||||
| S de Alwis | not out | 3 | |||||
| A Polonowita | did not bat | ||||||
| KMT Perera | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (14 b, 1 lb) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 42 overs) | 187 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Lafir), 2-75, 3-80, 4-125, 5-129, 6-148, 7-177 | |||||||
| Australians bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gaunt | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | |
| Misson | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| McKenzie | 6 | 2 | 14 | 0 | - | - | |
| Benaud | 8 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kline | 9 | 0 | 63 | 0 | - | - | |
| Quick | 7 | 1 | 31 | 4 | - | - | |
| O'Neill | 3 | 0 | 17 | 1 | - | - | |
| Simpson | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | - | |
| Lawry | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
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