| misc36315 | |
| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 7th April 1987 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Gloucestershire won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Mercantile Cricket Association won by 60 runs |
| Umpires | RLA Barthelot, EKG Wijewardene |
| Scorers | J Pereira, KH Sirisena |
| Mercantile Cricket Association innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RS Mahanama | b Graveney | 69 | |||||
| DSBP Kuruppu | b Graveney | 34 | |||||
| AP Gurusinha | c Bainbridge b Shepherd | 64 | |||||
| A Ranatunga | c Tomlins b Bainbridge | 54 | |||||
| RL Dias | st Russell b Bainbridge | 3 | |||||
| *LRD Mendis | not out | 21 | |||||
| RS Madugalle | not out | 14 | |||||
| JR Ratnayeke | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Ratnayake | did not bat | ||||||
| RGCE Wijesuriya | did not bat | ||||||
| EAR de Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 lb, 2 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 270 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-108 (Mahanama), 2-109 (Kuruppu), 3-220 (Gurusinha), 4-228 (Dias), 5-237 (Ranatunga) | |||||||
| Gloucestershire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Shepherd | 9 | 0 | 47 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 5.22 |
| Alleyne | 9 | 2 | 43 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.78 |
| Lloyds | 7.2 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.50 |
| Tomlins | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.29 |
| Bainbridge | 9 | 0 | 67 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 7.44 |
| Graveney | 3.4 | 0 | 27 | 2 | - | - | 11.00 | 7.36 |
| Gloucestershire innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AW Stovold | c Madugalle b Ratnayeke | 69 | |||||
| AJ Wright | c and b de Silva | 31 | |||||
| +RC Russell | c Madugalle b Gurusinha | 11 | |||||
| P Bainbridge | b Ratnayeke | 28 | |||||
| MW Alleyne | b de Silva | 5 | |||||
| JW Lloyds | c and b Ratnayeke | 3 | |||||
| PW Romaines | c Mendis b de Silva | 3 | |||||
| KP Tomlins | not out | 20 | |||||
| *DA Graveney | b Gurusinha | 23 | |||||
| JN Shepherd | b Ratnayake | 1 | |||||
| AJ Brassington | not out | 3 | |||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 4 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 210 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-78 (Wright), 2-96 (Russell), 3-143 (Stovold), 4-149 (Bainbridge), 5-152 (Lloyds), 6-154 (Alleyne), 7-160 (Romaines), 8-201 (Graveney), 9-202 (Shepherd) | |||||||
| Mercantile Cricket Association bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ratnayeke | 9 | 1 | 43 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 4.78 |
| Ratnayake | 9 | 1 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 3.33 |
| Ranatunga | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.60 |
| de Silva | 9 | 2 | 20 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 2.22 |
| Wijesuriya | 7 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.43 |
| Gurusinha | 6 | 0 | 35 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 5.83 |