| misc97505 | |
| Venue | FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge on 23rd, 24th April 1956 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Cryptics won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | HL Palmer, M Sullivan |
| Scorer | WE Teversham (Cambridge University) |
| Close of play day 1 | Cambridge University (1) 143/3 (Barber 51*, Goonesena 21*) |
| Cryptics first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DRW Silk | c Swaranjit Singh b Pieris | 70 | 135 | 4 | 1 | ||
| MH Bushby | c Riley b Goonesena | 43 | 75 | 3 | - | ||
| JM Mills | b Pieris | 13 | 28 | 1 | - | ||
| AS Day | c Riley b Swaranjit Singh | 52 | 118 | 5 | - | ||
| *RJ Knight | b Wheatley | 51 | 74 | 9 | - | ||
| MH Stevenson | not out | 19 | 59 | 2 | - | ||
| RF Thomas | b Swaranjit Singh | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| +ER Crowe | c Wheatley b Pieris | 9 | 8 | 2 | - | ||
| RHM Arkell | c Barber b Goonesena | 4 | 15 | - | - | ||
| OJ Wait | b Swaranjit Singh | 1 | 9 | - | - | ||
| PA Kelland | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 b, 4 lb, 2 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 64.3 overs) | 273 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-88 (Bushby), 2-115 (Mills), 3-140 (Silk), 4-233 (Knight, 44.6 ov), 5-244 (Day, 51.2 ov), 6-244 (Thomas, 51.3 ov), 7-253 (Crowe, 55.1 ov), 8-272 (Arkell, 63.5 ov), 9-273 (Wait, 64.3 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridge University bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Bogie | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wheatley | 11 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | |
| Pieris | 6 | 0 | 58 | 3 | - | - | |
| Swaranjit Singh | 21.3 | 8 | 50 | 3 | - | - | |
| Croft | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Goonesena | 14 | 3 | 42 | 2 | - | - | |
| Dexter | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |
| Barber | 5 | 1 | 39 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cambridge University first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R O'Brien | c Kelland b Arkell | 64 | 100 | 5 | - | ||
| RW Barber | not out | 114 | 275 | 6 | - | ||
| ER Dexter | st Crowe b Arkell | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Swaranjit Singh | c Knight b Arkell | 0 | 2 | - | - | ||
| *G Goonesena | c and b Arkell | 30 | 50 | 1 | - | ||
| PD Croft | b Knight | 15 | 34 | - | - | ||
| GW Cook | run out | 2 | 13 | - | - | ||
| PI Pieris | not out | 6 | 3 | - | - | ||
| OS Wheatley | did not bat | ||||||
| +JCW Riley | did not bat | ||||||
| DS Bogie | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (16 b) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 86 overs) | 247 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-105 (O'Brien, 29.3 ov), 2-105 (Dexter, 39.3 ov), 3-105 (Swaranjit Singh, 39.5 ov), 4-168 (Goonesena), 5-203 (Croft), 6-219 (Cook) | |||||||
| Cryptics bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wait | 18 | 4 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Kelland | 15 | 3 | 39 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mills | 6 | 1 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Arkell | 24 | 5 | 74 | 4 | - | - | |
| Knight | 22 | 7 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Stevenson | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cryptics second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DRW Silk | lbw b Pieris | 10 | 27 | 2 | - | ||
| MH Bushby | c and b Goonesena | 34 | 50 | 2 | - | ||
| MH Stevenson | b Pieris | 0 | 7 | - | - | ||
| AS Day | b Pieris | 24 | 69 | 3 | - | ||
| +ER Crowe | c Pieris b Goonesena | 9 | 22 | 1 | - | ||
| JM Mills | c Riley b Goonesena | 4 | 35 | - | - | ||
| *RJ Knight | c Goonesena b Wheatley | 57 | 64 | 9 | - | ||
| RF Thomas | b Wheatley | 1 | 14 | - | - | ||
| RHM Arkell | not out | 9 | - | - | |||
| OJ Wait | b Swaranjit Singh | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| PA Kelland | not out | 8 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (10 b, 1 lb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 48 overs) | 168 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-31 (Silk, 8.4 ov), 2-33 (Stevenson, 10.5 ov), 3-49 (Bushby, 15.3 ov), 4-69 (Crowe, 23.1 ov), 5-75 (Mills, 25.5 ov), 6-121 (Day, 34.2 ov), 7-124 (Thomas, 37.3 ov), 8-159 (Knight, 45.4 ov), 9-160 (Wait, 46.2 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridge University bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Pieris | 15 | 5 | 47 | 3 | - | - | |
| Wheatley | 13 | 0 | 46 | 2 | - | - | |
| Goonesena | 11 | 5 | 31 | 3 | - | - | |
| Swaranjit Singh | 9 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cambridge University second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| R O'Brien | c Crowe b Wait | 9 | 25 | - | - | ||
| Swaranjit Singh | not out | 91 | 8 | - | |||
| ER Dexter | lbw b Knight | 57 | 47 | 7 | - | ||
| *G Goonesena | c Crowe b Arkell | 3 | 9 | - | - | ||
| PD Croft | hit wkt b Arkell | 15 | 1 | - | |||
| GW Cook | run out | 4 | - | - | |||
| RW Barber | not out | 6 | 1 | - | |||
| PI Pieris | did not bat | ||||||
| OS Wheatley | did not bat | ||||||
| +JCW Riley | did not bat | ||||||
| DS Bogie | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 51 overs) | 189 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-19 (O'Brien, 8.6 ov), 2-113 (Dexter, 26.3 ov), 3-118 (Goonesena, 28.4 ov), 4-160 (Croft, 34.6 ov), 5-181 (Cook, 46.6 ov) | |||||||
| Cryptics bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wait | 8 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | |
| Kelland | 11 | 2 | 50 | 0 | - | - | |
| Arkell | 14 | 0 | 73 | 2 | - | - | |
| Knight | 18 | 0 | 36 | 1 | - | - | |
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