Sri Lanka in England, 1979
Leicestershire v Sri Lanka
Grace Road, Leicester
19 May 1979 (55-over match)

Result: Leicestershire won by 4 wickets

Toss: Sri Lanka
Umpires: R Julian and DR Tebbutt

Sri Lanka innings (55 overs maximum)
B Warnapura           lbw                 b Clift              18
S Wettimuny           c Briers            b Booth              65
*APB Tennekoon                        c & b Clift               5
RL Dias               lbw                 b Clift              52
LRD Mendis            not out                                 105
SP Pasqual            c Briers            b Clift               5
+SA Jayasinghe        not out                                   3
Extras                (b 11, nb 2)                             13
Total                 (5 wickets, 55 overs)                   266

DNB: DS de Silva, ARM Opatha, S Jeganathan, FRMD Gunatilleke.

FoW: 1-59 (Warnapura), 2-67 (Tennekoon), 3-106 (Wettimuny),
     4-223 (Dias), 5-249 (Pasqual).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Agnew                       11      1     32      0
Parsons                     11      0     62      0
Cook                        11      2     32      0
Clift                       11      0     57      4
Booth                       11      0     70      1

Leicestershire innings (target: 267 runs from 55 overs)
DI Gower              c Tennekoon         b Pasqual            22
NE Briers             c Warnapura         b Pasqual            20
M Schepens            c Jayasinghe        b Pasqual             3
BF Davison            not out                                 111
P Booth                                   b de Silva            0
JC Balderstone                            b Jeganathan         17
*+RW Tolchard                             b Opatha             37
PB Clift                                  not out              42
Extras                (lb 11, nb 4)                            15
Total                 (6 wickets, 52.2 overs)                 267

DNB: NGB Cook, GJ Parsons, JP Agnew.

FoW: 1-44 (Gower), 2-45 (Briers), 3-48 (Schepens),
     4-49 (Booth), 5-83 (Balderstone), 6-181 (Tolchard).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Opatha                      11      0     63      1
Gunatilleke                  9      1     56      0
de Silva                    11      2     22      1
Pasqual                      9      0     34      3
Warnapura                    7      0     46      0
Jeganathan                   5.2    0     31      1

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