Europeans cricket team (Ceylon)

The Europeans cricket team was a cricket team based in Ceylon and composed of colonial officials. The team played a single first-class match in January 1927 against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club.^[1] The match, which was played at the Colombo Cricket Club Ground, ended in a draw.^[2]

Scorecard

Europeans	154 all out	&	194/4	Match drawn ^[2]
Europeans	George Neale 76 Ewart Astill 5/52 (21.2 overs)		Alistair Blair 95* Peter Eckersley 2/57 (9.4 overs)	Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo Umpires: W.S. Flindall and Frank Ondaatje
Marylebone Cricket Club	419 all out
Marylebone Cricket Club	Bob Wyatt 76 Edward Wedlake-Lewis 5/87 (23 overs)

References

^ "First-Class Matches played by Europeans (Ceylon)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Europeans v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1926/27". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2011.

External links

Europeans (Ceylon) at CricketArchive

[1] "First-Class Matches played by Europeans (Ceylon)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2011.

[SCORE-2] "Europeans v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1926/27". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2011.

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