Australia in Ceylon, 1947/48
Ceylon v Australians
Colombo Cricket Club Ground
27 March 1948 (1-day match)

Result: Match drawn

Toss: Australians
Umpires: DS de Soysa and HEW de Silva

Australians 1st innings
SG Barnes             retired                                  49
WA Brown              lbw                b Coomaraswamy         3
*DG Bradman           c de Kretser       b Heyn                20
KR Miller             c Gunasekera       b de Kretser          46
RN Harvey             c Jayawickrema     b Coomaraswamy         8
RA Hamence                               b Coomaraswamy         0
SJE Loxton            c Rodrigo          b de Kretser          34
+RA Saggers                              b Coomaraswamy         6
IWG Johnson           not out                                   2
DT Ring               not out                                   6
Extras                (b ?, lb ?, w ?, nb ?)                   10
Total                 (8 wickets decl, 60.1 overs)            184

DNB: ERH Toshack.

FoW: 1-8, 2-68, 3-86, 4-106, 5-106, 6-144, 7-173, 8-173.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Allen                       13.1    2     33      0
Coomaraswamy                15      2     45      4
Heyn                        15      0     43      1
Jayawickrema                 5      1     14      0
de Kretser                  12      1     39      2

Ceylon 1st innings
M Rodrigo                            c & b Johnson             26
S Nagendra            lbw                b Barnes               5
FC de Saram           not out                                   7
*M Sathavisam         not out                                   6
Extras                (b ?, lb ?, w ?, nb ?)                    2
Total                 (2 wickets, 19.2 overs)                  46

DNB: SS Jayawickrema, BR Heyn, CI Gunasekera, S Coomaraswamy,
     CE Allen, RL de Kretser, +B Navaratne.

FoW: 1-?, 2-?.

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Miller                       2      1      3      0
Loxton                       2      1      3      0
Johnson                      3      2      6      1
Ring                         4.2    1     10      0
Toshack                      4      1     16      0
Barnes                       4      1      6      1

• Contemporary accounts give the Australian innings as 8 wickets declared, but also give Barnes as retired ill.
• Rain stopped play, tea was taken and then more rain arrived. The match ended at 5.15pm

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