| misc58979 | |
| Venue | Wardown Park, Luton on 9th, 10th May 1979 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | K McCanlis, AE Pooley |
| Close of play day 1 | Bedfordshire (1) 38/2 (Taylor ?*, Smith ?*) |
| Sri Lankans first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| B Warnapura | b Loft | 123 | 239 | 18 | - | ||
| SRD Wettimuny | lbw b Thorpe | 0 | 7 | - | - | ||
| APB Tennekoon | b Boyd-Moss | 39 | 93 | 3 | - | ||
| LRD Mendis | c Randall b Abeynaike | 183 | 150 | 30 | - | ||
| RS Madugalle | b Boyd-Moss | 17 | 52 | 4 | - | ||
| SP Pasqual | c Randall b Boyd-Moss | 10 | 34 | 1 | - | ||
| S Jeganathan | c August b Abeynaike | 10 | 23 | 2 | - | ||
| SA Jayasinghe | not out | 27 | 56 | 5 | - | ||
| FRMD Gunatilleke | c and b Boyd-Moss | 2 | 8 | - | - | ||
| DS de Silva | not out | 9 | 8 | 1 | - | ||
| RGCE Wijesuriya | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 9 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 104 overs) | 439 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Wettimuny), 2-97 (Tennekoon), 3-347 (Warnapura), 4-367 (Mendis), 5-387 (Pasqual), 6-391 (Madugalle), 7-411 (Jeganathan), 8-418 (Gunatilleke) | |||||||
| Bedfordshire bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Clarke | 17 | 2 | 72 | 0 | - | 3 | |
| Thorpe | 10 | 1 | 42 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Loft | 15 | 1 | 68 | 1 | - | - | |
| Abeynaike | 34 | 11 | 124 | 2 | - | - | |
| Boyd-Moss | 24 | 7 | 83 | 4 | - | - | |
| Morgan | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Bedfordshire first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DM Daniels | c Gunatilleke b Jeganathan | 12 | 42 | 43 | 1 | - | |
| RJ Boyd-Moss | c Warnapura b Gunatilleke | 11 | 9 | 11 | 1 | - | |
| PM Taylor | b Pasqual | 31 | 78 | 95 | 3 | - | |
| M Smith | c Jayasinghe b de Silva | 7 | 53 | 61 | - | - | |
| M Morgan | c Madugalle b Gunatilleke | 26 | 49 | 51 | 2 | - | |
| NS Randall | b Pasqual | 0 | 7 | 11 | - | - | |
| RG Abeynaike | c Wettimuny b Gunatilleke | 6 | 7 | 10 | - | - | |
| PGM August | b Gunatilleke | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| RJ Loft | b Gunatilleke | 1 | 14 | 10 | - | - | |
| DP Clarke | b de Silva | 0 | 8 | 15 | - | - | |
| SJ Thorpe | not out | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| Extras | (4 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 45.1 overs) | 98 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Boyd-Moss), 2-32 (Daniels), 3-64 (Smith), 4-64 (Taylor), 5-72 (Randall), 6-82 (Abeynaike), 7-82 (August), 8-90 (Loft), 9-97 (Morgan), 10-98 (Clarke, 45.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gunatilleke | 18 | 6 | 28 | 5 | - | 4 | |
| de Silva | 7.1 | 2 | 23 | 2 | - | - | |
| Pasqual | 7 | 2 | 24 | 2 | - | - | |
| Jeganathan | 12 | 6 | 19 | 1 | - | - | |
| Wijesuriya | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bedfordshire second innings (following on) | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DM Daniels | b Gunatilleke | 10 | 10 | 8 | 2 | - | |
| RJ Boyd-Moss | b Wijesuriya | 40 | 65 | 76 | 6 | - | |
| PM Taylor | b Wijesuriya | 18 | 30 | 40 | 1 | - | |
| ME Gear | not out | 39 | 51 | 5 | - | ||
| M Morgan | b Wettimuny | 70 | 58 | 76 | 12 | - | |
| NS Randall | run out | 0 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| RG Abeynaike | not out | 5 | 4 | 7 | - | - | |
| PGM August | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Loft | did not bat | ||||||
| DP Clarke | did not bat | ||||||
| SJ Thorpe | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 nb, 1 w) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 40 overs) | 185 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Daniels), 2-59 (Taylor), 3-74 (Boyd-Moss), 4-175 (Morgan), 5-175 (Randall) | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Gunatilleke | 9 | 0 | 54 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| de Silva | 9 | 3 | 26 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pasqual | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wijesuriya | 9 | 3 | 27 | 2 | - | - | |
| Jeganathan | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| Warnapura | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Wettimuny | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | |