Europeans cricket team (Ceylon)

The Europeans cricket team was a cricket team based in Ceylon and composed of colonial officials. The team played a single first-class match in January 1927 against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club.[1] The match, which was played at the Colombo Cricket Club Ground, ended in a draw.[2]

Scorecard
Europeans 154 all out & 194/4 Match drawn [2]

George Neale 76
Ewart Astill 5/52 (21.2 overs)

Alistair Blair 95*
Peter Eckersley 2/57 (9.4 overs)

Colombo Cricket Club Ground, Colombo
Umpires: W.S. Flindall and Frank Ondaatje

Marylebone Cricket Club 419 all out

Bob Wyatt 76
Edward Wedlake-Lewis 5/87 (23 overs)

References
  1. "First-Class Matches played by Europeans (Ceylon)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. "Europeans v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1926/27". CricketArchive. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
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