f19907	Madras v Ceylon
	Gopalan Trophy 1952/53
Venue	Madras Cricket Club Ground, Chepauk, Madras on 7th, 8th, 9th February 1953 (3-day match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Toss not known
Result	Ceylon won by 95 runs
Close of play day 1	Madras (1) 128/4 (Suryanarayan 26*, Balakrishnan 11*)
Close of play day 2	Ceylon (2) 271/4 (de Saram 39*, Bartels 4*)

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Ceylon first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Makkin Salih	st Chakravarti b Sarangapani	38
CH Gunasekara	c Chakravarti b Narasimhan	1
B Wijesinha	b Vaidyanathan	48
S Jayasinghe	b Vaidyanathan	2
*FC de Saram	b Vaidyanathan	28
HT Gunasekara	run out	18
+HIK Fernando	b Abraham	14
EC Kelaart	c Suryanarayan b Abraham	1
CW Bartels	b Vaidyanathan	1
VJH Gunasekara	c Balakrishnan b Sarangapani	24
T Shanmuganathan	not out	12
Extras	(21 b, 7 lb, 6 nb)	34
Total	(all out, 70.5 overs)	221
Fall of wickets:
1-2, 2-89, 3-92, 4-106, 5-160, 6-170, 7-174, 8-176, 9-183, 10-221 (70.5 ov)

Madras bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Rangachari	5	0	18	0	-	-
Narasimhan	4	0	17	1	-	-
Suryanarayan	3	0	15	0	-	-
Vaidyanathan	29	12	49	4	-	-
Sarangapani	8.5	0	42	2	-	-
Raghavan	7	0	23	0	-	-
Abraham	14	6	23	2	-	-

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Madras first innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+DL Chakravarti	c Fernando b Bartels	41
M Swaminathan	c Fernando b Wijesinha	3
M Suryanarayan	run out	29
MK Balakrishnan	c Fernando b Shanmuganathan	1
G Abraham	b Shanmuganathan	19
MG Bhavanarayanan	lbw b Wijesinha	71
SV Vaidyanathan	c Makkin Salih b Kelaart	38
AK Sarangapani	c Jayasinghe b HT Gunasekara	9
R Raghavan	b Wijesinha	9
CR Rangachari	not out	8
TS Narasimhan	b Wijesinha	0
Extras		17
Total	(all out, 91.4 overs)	245
Fall of wickets:
1-34, 2-51, 3-52, 4-82, 5-183, 6-201, 7-226, 8-230, 9-243, 10-245 (91.4 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
HT Gunasekara	13	6	24	1	-	-
Wijesinha	10.4	2	29	4	-	-
Bartels	19	7	32	1	-	-
Shanmuganathan	23	1	69	2	-	-
VJH Gunasekara	10	1	34	0	-	-
Kelaart	16	4	40	1	-	-

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Ceylon second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
M Makkin Salih	lbw b Vaidyanathan	55
CH Gunasekara	c Balakrishnan b Vaidyanathan	45
B Wijesinha	c Vaidyanathan b Abraham	39
S Jayasinghe	c Narasimhan b Balakrishnan	76
*FC de Saram	c Suryanarayan b Rangachari	39
CW Bartels	not out	28
EC Kelaart	b Balakrishnan	32
HT Gunasekara	did not bat
+HIK Fernando	did not bat
VJH Gunasekara	did not bat
T Shanmuganathan	did not bat
Extras		13
Total	(6 wickets, declared, 75 overs)	327
Fall of wickets:
1-88, 2-117, 3-184, 4-249, 5-273, 6-327 (75 ov)

Madras bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
Rangachari	18	4	70	1	-	-
Narasimhan	9	0	46	0	-	-
Vaidyanathan	14	0	57	2	-	-
Sarangapani	7	0	41	0	-	-
Raghavan	3	0	19	0	-	-
Abraham	5	0	19	1	-	-
Balakrishnan	17	1	57	2	-	-
Swaminathan	2	0	5	0	-	-

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Madras second innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s
+DL Chakravarti	c Jayasinghe b HT Gunasekara	30
M Swaminathan	b HT Gunasekara	37
M Suryanarayan	b Bartels	25
MK Balakrishnan	c VJH Gunasekara b HT Gunasekara	10
G Abraham	run out	3
MG Bhavanarayanan	c Bartels b Wijesinha	12
SV Vaidyanathan	b Shanmuganathan	15
CR Rangachari	c and b Bartels	23
AK Sarangapani	c Kelaart b Shanmuganathan	0
R Raghavan	b Bartels	16
TS Narasimhan	not out	1
Extras		36
Total	(all out, 83.4 overs)	208
Fall of wickets:
1-58, 2-101, 3-115, 4-121, 5-126, 6-147, 7-155, 8-164, 9-192, 10-208 (83.4 ov)

Ceylon bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls
HT Gunasekara	22	10	40	3	-	-
Wijesinha	9	5	13	1	-	-
Bartels	31.4	13	68	3	-	-
Shanmuganathan	16	3	44	2	-	-
Jayasinghe	5	1	7	0	-	-

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Notes
--> HT Gunasekara made his debut in First-Class matches
--> HIK Fernando made his debut in First-Class matches
--> CW Bartels made his debut in First-Class matches
--> VJH Gunasekara made his debut in First-Class matches
--> SV Vaidyanathan made his debut in First-Class matches
--> TS Narasimhan made his debut in First-Class matches
--> HT Gunasekara made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> VJH Gunasekara made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> T Shanmuganathan made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> M Swaminathan made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> R Raghavan made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> TS Narasimhan made his last appearance in First-Class matches
--> DL Chakravarti (1) passed his previous highest score of 40 in First-Class matches
--> CH Gunasekara (2) passed his previous highest score of 26 in First-Class matches
--> CH Gunasekara made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> EC Kelaart made his debut in India in First-Class matches
--> T Shanmuganathan made his debut in India in First-Class matches

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