a2390	Leicestershire v Sri Lankans
	Sri Lanka in British Isles 1979
Venue	Grace Road, Leicester on 19th May 1979 (55-over match)
Balls per over	6
Toss	Sri Lankans won the toss and decided to bat
Result	Leicestershire won by 4 wickets
Umpires	R Julian, DR Tebbutt

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Sri Lankans innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
B Warnapura	lbw b Clift	18
SRD Wettimuny	c Briers b Booth	65
*APB Tennekoon	c and b Clift	5
RL Dias	lbw b Clift	52
LRD Mendis	not out	105
SP Pasqual	c Briers b Clift	5
+SA Jayasinghe	not out	3
DS de Silva	did not bat
ARM Opatha	did not bat
S Jeganathan	did not bat
FRMD Gunatilleke	did not bat
Extras	(11 b, 2 nb)	13
Total	(5 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs)	266
Fall of wickets:
1-59 (Warnapura), 2-67 (Tennekoon), 3-106 (Wettimuny), 4-223 (Dias), 5-249 (Pasqual)

Leicestershire bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Agnew	11	1	32	0	-	-	-	2.91
Parsons	11	0	62	0	-	-	-	5.64
Cook	11	2	32	0	-	-	-	2.91
Clift	11	0	57	4	-	-	16.50	5.18
Booth	11	0	70	1	-	-	66.00	6.36

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Leicestershire innings		Runs	Balls	Mins	4s	6s	S-Rate
DI Gower	c Tennekoon b Pasqual	22
NE Briers	c Warnapura b Pasqual	20
M Schepens	c Jayasinghe b Pasqual	3
BF Davison	not out	111
P Booth	b de Silva	0
JC Balderstone	b Jeganathan	17
*+RW Tolchard	b Opatha	37
PB Clift	not out	42
NGB Cook	did not bat
GJ Parsons	did not bat
JP Agnew	did not bat
Extras	(11 lb, 4 nb)	15
Total	(6 wickets, 52.2 overs)	267
Fall of wickets:
1-44 (Gower), 2-45 (Briers), 3-48 (Schepens), 4-49 (Booth), 5-83 (Balderstone), 6-181 (Tolchard)

Sri Lankans bowling	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Wides	No-Balls	S-Rate	Econ
Opatha	11	0	63	1	-	-	66.00	5.73
Gunatilleke	9	1	56	0	-	-	-	6.22
de Silva	11	2	22	1	-	-	66.00	2.00
Pasqual	9	0	34	3	-	-	18.00	3.78
Warnapura	7	0	46	0	-	-	-	6.57
Jeganathan	5.2	0	31	1	-	-	32.00	5.81

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Notes
--> SP Pasqual made his debut in List A matches
--> NGB Cook made his debut in List A matches
--> JP Agnew made his debut in List A matches
--> RL Dias passed his previous highest score of 35 in List A matches
--> LRD Mendis passed his previous highest score of 78 in List A matches
--> LRD Mendis made his first century in List A matches
--> LRD Mendis passed 500 runs in List A matches when he reached 51
--> SA Jayasinghe made his debut in England in List A matches
--> RL Dias made his debut in England in List A matches
--> S Jeganathan made his debut in England in List A matches
--> FRMD Gunatilleke made his debut in England in List A matches

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