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| Venue | FP Fenner's Ground, Cambridge on 22nd, 23rd April 1957 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Cambridge University won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | HL Palmer, RA Sutherland |
| Close of play day 1 | Cryptics (1) 85/5 (Knight 4*, Coutts 0*) |
| Cambridge University first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| Iftikhar Bukhari | c Davies b Kelland | 16 | 35 | 1 | - | ||
| DES Millard | c Campbell b Coutts | 7 | 25 | 1 | - | ||
| DJ Green | c Campbell b Kelland | 5 | 29 | - | - | ||
| *ER Dexter | st Campbell b Appleyard | 18 | 30 | 3 | - | ||
| RM James | c Knight b Appleyard | 21 | 38 | 3 | - | ||
| GW Cook | c Campbell b Coutts | 62 | 147 | 5 | 1 | ||
| PI Pieris | c Davies b Appleyard | 4 | 10 | 1 | - | ||
| IM McLachlan | run out | 83 | 160 | 8 | - | ||
| JRF Rutherford | run out | 22 | 28 | 2 | - | ||
| +BT Swift | not out | 15 | 31 | - | - | ||
| OS Wheatley | not out | 4 | 22 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 68 overs) | 261 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-21 (Millard, 6.5 ov), 2-27 (Iftikhar Bukhari, 9.6 ov), 3-40 (Green, 15.6 ov), 4-46 (Dexter, 18.6 ov), 5-81 (James, 26.3 ov), 6-89 (Pieris, 30.2 ov), 7-211 (Cook, 57.1 ov), 8-237 (McLachlan, 63.3 ov), 9-251 (Rutherford, 64.4 ov) | |||||||
| Cryptics bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Coutts | 21 | 1 | 93 | 2 | - | - | |
| Kelland | 14 | 2 | 48 | 2 | - | - | |
| Appleyard | 23 | 4 | 60 | 3 | - | - | |
| Davies | 5 | 1 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Knight | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cryptics first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DRW Silk | c Dexter b Rutherford | 3 | 31 | - | - | ||
| MH Bushby | c Swift b Pieris | 32 | 73 | 4 | - | ||
| GL Willatt | b Pieris | 33 | 70 | 3 | - | ||
| AS Day | b James | 9 | 24 | - | - | ||
| JGW Davies | c Dexter b Pieris | 5 | 7 | - | - | ||
| RJ Knight | b Pieris | 31 | 34 | 5 | - | ||
| IDF Coutts | c Green b McLachlan | 35 | 60 | 4 | - | ||
| +IP Campbell | c Dexter b Wheatley | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| JM Mills | c Rutherford b McLachlan | 1 | 6 | - | - | ||
| PA Kelland | st Swift b McLachlan | 12 | 23 | 1 | - | ||
| JD Appleyard | not out | 2 | 9 | - | - | ||
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 2 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 53.5 overs) | 176 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Silk, 7.5 ov), 2-53 (Bushby, 19.6 ov), 3-74 (Day, 28.6 ov), 4-80 (Willatt, 29.6 ov), 5-85 (Davies, 31.2 ov), 6-132 (Knight, 41.5 ov), 7-145 (Campbell, 42.7 ov), 8-146 (Mills, 45.2 ov), 9-170 (Coutts, 49.6 ov), 10-176 (Kelland, 53.5 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridge University bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wheatley | 12 | 4 | 22 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Rutherford | 6 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | - | |
| Cook | 13 | 0 | 58 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pieris | 16 | 5 | 41 | 4 | - | - | |
| James | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | - | |
| McLachlan | 4.5 | 0 | 25 | 3 | - | - | |
| Cambridge University second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| Iftikhar Bukhari | b Coutts | 13 | 20 | 2 | - | ||
| DES Millard | c Mills b Kelland | 0 | 3 | - | - | ||
| DJ Green | c Davies b Appleyard | 45 | 69 | 6 | - | ||
| *ER Dexter | b Davies | 12 | 28 | 1 | - | ||
| RM James | b Appleyard | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | ||
| PI Pieris | run out | 46 | 28 | 5 | 2 | ||
| GW Cook | st Campbell b Appleyard | 7 | 18 | - | - | ||
| IM McLachlan | not out | 21 | 18 | 3 | - | ||
| JRF Rutherford | c Appleyard b Davies | 8 | 7 | 1 | - | ||
| +BT Swift | not out | 9 | 15 | 1 | - | ||
| OS Wheatley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 38 overs) | 165 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Millard, 0.4 ov), 2-23 (Iftikhar Bukhari, 5.5 ov), 3-54 (Dexter, 16.3 ov), 4-67 (James, 19.2 ov), 5-86 (Green, 25.3 ov), 6-125 (Pieris, 32.4 ov), 7-127 (Cook, 33.2 ov), 8-140 (Rutherford, 34.6 ov) | |||||||
| Cryptics bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Kelland | 6 | 0 | 22 | 1 | - | - | |
| Coutts | 4 | 0 | 18 | 1 | - | - | |
| Knight | 5 | 2 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Davies | 13 | 3 | 52 | 2 | - | - | |
| Appleyard | 10 | 0 | 57 | 3 | - | - | |
| Cryptics second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| DRW Silk | c Swift b Wheatley | 1 | 8 | - | - | ||
| MH Bushby | c Green b Pieris | 69 | 80 | 8 | 3 | ||
| GL Willatt | b Cook | 18 | 45 | 2 | - | ||
| RJ Knight | c Dexter b Cook | 1 | 2 | - | - | ||
| JGW Davies | c McLachlan b Pieris | 91 | 70 | 8 | 4 | ||
| +IP Campbell | b Cook | 22 | 18 | 3 | - | ||
| AS Day | b Cook | 13 | 2 | - | |||
| IDF Coutts | b Cook | 6 | 9 | 1 | - | ||
| PA Kelland | b Cook | 7 | 1 | - | |||
| JM Mills | not out | 4 | - | - | |||
| JD Appleyard | not out | 0 | - | - | |||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 lb) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, 52 overs) | 235 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Silk, 1.3 ov), 2-72 (Willatt, 19.1 ov), 3-74 (Knight, 19.6 ov), 4-93 (Bushby, 24.4 ov), 5-130 (Campbell, 31.6 ov), 6-212 (Davies, 46.1 ov), 7-222 (Coutts, 49.1 ov), 8-231 (Day, 51.2 ov), 9-234 (Kelland, 51.5 ov) | |||||||
| Cambridge University bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Rutherford | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wheatley | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | |
| McLachlan | 7 | 0 | 54 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dexter | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | - | - | |
| Pieris | 13 | 2 | 58 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cook | 17 | 1 | 64 | 6 | - | - | |