f21113	Madras v Ceylon
	Gopalan Trophy 1955/56
Venue	Nehru Stadium, Madras on 21st, 22nd, 23rd October 1955 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Toss not known
Result	Ceylon won by an innings and 14 runs
Umpires	I Gopalakrishnan, AM Mashalla
Close of play day 1	Ceylon (1) 281/6 (Claessen 64*, Schoorman 14*)
Close of play day 2	Madras (2) 41/1 (Chakravarti 24*, Sarangapani 3*)

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Makkin Salih	lbw b Ramachandran	7
ACM Lafir	c Murugesh b Mohan Rai	107		227	8	-
*VG Prins	c Gopinath b Murugesh	24
S Jayasinghe	b Murugesh	22
CI Gunasekara	b Kripal Singh	31
EB Claessen	c Kripal Singh b Ramachandran	64
PAT Kelly	b Ramachandran	1
GP Schoorman	c Gopinath b Ramachandran	22
+HIK Fernando	c Chakravarti b Ramachandran	0	2		-	-
CTA Schaffter	b Mohan Rai	9
PJ Buultjens	not out	2
Extras		11
Total	(all out, 103.4 overs)	300
Fall of wickets:
1-17 (Makkin Salih), 2-59 (Prins), 3-115 (Jayasinghe), 4-179 (Gunasekara), 5-233 (Lafir), 6-242 (Kelly), 7-281 (Claessen), 8-281 (Fernando), 9-298 (Schaffter), 10-300 (Schoorman, 103.4 ov)

Madras bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Mohan Rai	19	4	46	2	-	-
Ramachandran	27.4	5	67	5	-	-
Chinnadorai	2	0	7	0	-	-
Murugesh	25	2	84	2	-	-
Sarangapani	11	2	35	0	-	-
Kripal Singh	17	3	42	1	-	-
Balakrishnan	2	0	8	0	-	-

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Madras first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+DL Chakravarti	lbw b Schoorman	20
RV Chinnadorai	c Jayasinghe b Schaffter	1
M Suryanarayan	run out	28
MK Balakrishnan	c Buultjens b Gunasekara	17
*CD Gopinath	c Prins b Gunasekara	0
AG Kripal Singh	st Fernando b Gunasekara	10
BR Mohan Rai	lbw b Schoorman	3
AK Sarangapani	c Fernando b Gunasekara	1
R Raghavan	c Prins b Schoorman	8
MK Murugesh	b Schoorman	8
Y Ramachandran	not out	5
Extras		13
Total	(all out, 72.2 overs)	114
Fall of wickets:
1-3 (Chinnadorai), 2-32 (Chakravarti), 3-57 (Suryanarayan), 4-59 (Gopinath), 5-80 (Balakrishnan), 6-85 (Kripal Singh), 7-88 (Mohan Rai), 8-89 (Sarangapani), 9-97 (Raghavan), 10-114 (Murugesh, 72.2 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Schaffter	11	2	22	1	-	-
Buultjens	9	3	9	0	-	-
Schoorman	22.2	17	12	4	-	-
Prins	8	4	8	0	-	-
Gunasekara	22	4	50	4	-	-

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Madras second innings (following on)		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+DL Chakravarti	b Schaffter	28
RV Chinnadorai	c and b Gunasekara	14
AK Sarangapani	b Buultjens	17
M Suryanarayan	b Buultjens	7
AG Kripal Singh	b Schaffter	42
*CD Gopinath	b Buultjens	1
MK Balakrishnan	b Claessen	29
R Raghavan	b Prins	4
MK Murugesh	c Kelly b Prins	16
Y Ramachandran	b Prins	8
BR Mohan Rai	not out	1
Extras		5
Total	(all out, 73.2 overs)	172
Fall of wickets:
1-32 (Chinnadorai), 2-51 (Chakravarti), 3-68 (Suryanarayan), 4-69 (Sarangapani), 5-71 (Gopinath), 6-140 (Balakrishnan), 7-143 (Kripal Singh), 8-160 (Raghavan), 9-165 (Murugesh), 10-172 (Ramachandran, 73.2 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Schaffter	13	5	26	2	-	-
Buultjens	21	7	40	3	-	-
Schoorman	14	4	33	0	-	-
Prins	9.2	2	15	3	-	-
Gunasekara	13	1	46	1	-	-
Jayasinghe	2	1	3	0	-	-
Claessen	1	0	4	1	-	-

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Notes
--> ACM Lafir made his debut in First-Class matches
--> PAT Kelly made his debut in First-Class matches
--> GP Schoorman made his debut in First-Class matches
--> PJ Buultjens made his debut in First-Class matches
--> BR Mohan Rai made his debut in First-Class matches
--> CTA Schaffter made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> ACM Lafir (1) made his first century in First-Class matches
--> ACM Lafir (1) 100 in 223 minutes with 8 fours
--> EB Claessen made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> CI Gunasekara made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> VG Prins made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> CTA Schaffter made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> VG Prins achieved his best innings bowling analysis in First-Class matches when he dismissed Y Ramachandran in the Madras second innings (previous best was 2-6)

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