First-Class Cricket Matches 1950

CEYLON v COMMONWEALTH XI Played at Colombo Oval, February 25, 26, 27, 1950. Commonwealth XI won by an innings and 51 runs. COMMONWEALTH XI 1 N.Oldfield run out 20 2 J.K.C.Holt b Wijesinha 58 3 W.Place lbw b de Zoysa 96 4 F.M.M.Worrell b Jayasinghe 77 5 W.E.Alley c Coomaraswamy b Jayasinghe 59 6 C.W.Langdon not out 25 7 *†L.Livingston not out 15 8 G.H.Pope 9 G.E.Tribe 10 F.A.W.Freer 11 H.F.Lambert Extras 5 —— (5 wickets, declared) 355 FoW (1): 1-30, 2-131, 3-231, 4-303, 5-318 CEYLON 1 M.Makkin Salih c Place b Lambert 1 c Place b Pope 10 2 F.J.de Saram c Alley b Freer 0 c and b Pope 12 3 M.Sathasivam b Freer 96 (4) c Pope b Freer 22 4 M.Rodrigo b Freer 0 (5) run out 32 5 C.I.Gunasekara c Alley b Worrell 9 (6) c Lambert b Freer 0 6 *S.Coomaraswamy c Tribe b Pope 11 (7) lbw b Pope 26 7 J.E.L.Burton c Place b Worrell 9 (8) lbw b Freer 3 8 B.Wijesinha c Holt b Lambert 7 (9) st Livingston b Tribe 23 9 S.Jayasinghe c and b Pope 17 (10) st Livingston b Tribe 0 10 †B.Navaratne lbw b Pope 0 (3) c Tribe b Freer 11 11 L.E.de Zoysa not out 0 not out 2 Extras 3 10 —— —— 153 151 FoW (1): 1-0, 2-6, 3-17, 4-41, 5-61, 6-83, 7-127, 8-147, 9-147, 10-153 FoW (2): 1-16, 2-29, 3-50, 4-65, 5-65, 6-113, 7-120, 8-149, 9-149, 10-151 Ceylon Bowling O M R W 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 Commonwealth XI Bowling O M R W O M R W Lambert 9 2 33 2 8 2 14 0 Freer 11.3 2 44 3 24 6 55 4 Pope 14 4 28 3 19 6 31 3 Worrell 7 3 18 2 11 6 17 0 Tribe 11 2 27 0 7 1 22 2 Alley (6) 1 0 2 0 Umpires: H.E.W.de Zylva and J.K.Murray. Toss: Commonwealth XI Close of Play: 1st day: Commonwealth XI (1) 355-5 (Langdon 25*, Livingston 15*, 103 overs); 2nd day: Ceylon (2) 16-1 (de Saram 5*, Navaratne 0*). 86