f18612	Ceylon v Commonwealth XI
	Commonwealth XI in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1949/50
Venue	Colombo Oval, Colombo on 25th, 26th, 27th February 1950 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Commonwealth XI won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Commonwealth XI won by an innings and 51 runs
Umpires	HEW de Zylva, JK Murray
Close of play day 1	Commonwealth XI (1) 355/5 (Langdon 25*, Livingston 15*; 103 overs)
Close of play day 2	Ceylon (2) 16/1 (de Saram 5*, Navaratne 0*)

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Commonwealth XI first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
N Oldfield	run out	20
JKC Holt	b Wijesinha	58
W Place	lbw b de Zoysa	96
FMM Worrell	b Jayasinghe	77
WE Alley	c Coomaraswamy b Jayasinghe	59
CW Langdon	not out	25
*+L Livingston	not out	15
GH Pope	did not bat
GE Tribe	did not bat
FAW Freer	did not bat
HF Lambert	did not bat
Extras		5
Total	(5 wickets, declared, 103 overs)	355
Fall of wickets:
1-30, 2-131, 3-231, 4-303, 5-318

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Wijesinha	30	10	77	1	-	-
Coomaraswamy	17	6	46	0	-	-
de Saram	9	1	39	0	-	-
de Zoysa	21	0	71	1	-	-
Jayasinghe	15	0	70	2	-	-
Gunasekara	10	0	43	0	-	-
Sathasivam	1	0	4	0	-	-

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Makkin Salih	c Place b Lambert	1
FJ de Saram	c Alley b Freer	0
M Sathasivam	b Freer	96
M Rodrigo	b Freer	0
CI Gunasekara	c Alley b Worrell	9
*S Coomaraswamy	c Tribe b Pope	11
JEL Burton	c Place b Worrell	9
B Wijesinha	c Holt b Lambert	7
S Jayasinghe	c and b Pope	17
+B Navaratne	lbw b Pope	0
LE de Zoysa	not out	0
Extras		3
Total	(all out, 52.3 overs)	153
Fall of wickets:
1-0, 2-6, 3-17, 4-41, 5-61, 6-83, 7-127, 8-147, 9-147, 10-153 (52.3 ov)

Commonwealth XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Lambert	9	2	33	2	-	-
Freer	11.3	2	44	3	-	-
Pope	14	4	28	3	-	-
Worrell	7	3	18	2	-	-
Tribe	11	2	27	0	-	-

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Ceylon second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Makkin Salih	c Place b Pope	10
FJ de Saram	c and b Pope	12
+B Navaratne	c Tribe b Freer	11
M Sathasivam	c Pope b Freer	22
M Rodrigo	run out	32
CI Gunasekara	c Lambert b Freer	0
*S Coomaraswamy	lbw b Pope	26
JEL Burton	lbw b Freer	3
B Wijesinha	st Livingston b Tribe	23
S Jayasinghe	st Livingston b Tribe	0
LE de Zoysa	not out	2
Extras		10
Total	(all out, 70 overs)	151
Fall of wickets:
1-16, 2-29, 3-50, 4-65, 5-65, 6-113, 7-120, 8-149, 9-149, 10-151 (70 ov)

Commonwealth XI bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Lambert	8	2	14	0	-	-
Freer	24	6	55	4	-	-
Pope	19	6	31	3	-	-
Worrell	11	6	17	0	-	-
Tribe	7	1	22	2	-	-
Alley	1	0	2	0	-	-

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Notes
--> FJ de Saram made his debut in First-Class matches
--> S Jayasinghe made his debut in First-Class matches
--> JEL Burton made his debut for Ceylon in First-Class matches
--> JEL Burton made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> CW Langdon made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> HF Lambert made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> WE Alley made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> L Livingston made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> N Oldfield made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> GE Tribe made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> FAW Freer made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> GH Pope made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> W Place made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> FMM Worrell made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches
--> JKC Holt made his debut in Sri Lanka in First-Class matches

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