England national cricket team, under the auspices of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), toured Ceylon and Pakistan from January to March 1969 and played a three-match...
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wickets. After beating a Pakistan A team in Ceylon and a full Indian team in India in 1964–65, Ceylon looked to a tour of England in 1968 to advance their case...
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national cricket team began with the formation of the Colombo Cricket Club in 1832. By the 1880s a national team, the Ceylon national cricket team, was formed...
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drawn See: English cricket team in Ceylon and Pakistan in 1968–69 This was the first ever series win by New Zealand after almost 40 years and 30 consecutive...
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tour, see : Australian cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1969-70 "First-Class Matches played by International Cavaliers". CricketArchive. 6 November 2012...
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International cricket teams raised by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) have visited Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, on 23 occasions from 1911-12 until the most...
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was represented in each capital by a governor- general appointed on the advice of the local prime minister. India, Pakistan and Ceylon were Realms from...
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Wes Hall (category West Indies cricket team selectors)
Hall Youth Cricket League, a new nation-wide junior cricket league. Hall was a member of the West Indies team that toured India and Ceylon in 1966–67 but...
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an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1976, and in 114 Test matches for England from 1954 to 1975. He was born in Ootacamund...
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W. R. Fletcher (Essex). Tours: Ceylon (1969/70); Pakistan & Ceylon (1968/69); Australia (1970/71); India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka (1972/73); West Indies...
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Faqir Aizazuddin (category Pakistan Eaglets cricketers)
and Chester Watson. He made the brief tour of Ceylon with Pakistan A in August 1964, but scored only 14 runs in the two matches that the Ceylon teams...
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Brian Statham (category Marylebone Cricket Club Australian Touring Team cricketers)
2000) was an English professional cricketer from Gorton, in Manchester, who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1968 and for England...
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Seymour Nurse (section Test cricket)
p. 143. "Australia v West Indies". West Indies in Australia and New Zealand 1968/69 (5th Test). CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 July 2011. Sobers, pp. 137–138...
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Kale, 47, Indian cricket administrator, heart attack. Khushboo, 43, Pakistani actress (Ghunda Raj, Jannat Ki Talash, Jungle Queen) and dancer, shot. (body...
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coverage of a cricket match anywhere in the world – a testimonial game for Charles Bannerman (1851–1930) at the SCG between two teams from New South...
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Everton Weekes (category Cricket people awarded knighthoods)
also included a century against Ceylon, at that time a non-Test cricketing nation, and a half-century against Pakistan in a match not classed as a Test...
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Pakistani diplomat, foreign secretary (1990–1994) and chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (2003–2006, 2014–2017). Nicolae Manolescu, 84, Romanian literary...
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Indoor cricket is a variant of and shares many basic concepts with cricket. The game is most often played between two teams each consisting of six or eight...
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Masood-ul-Hasan (category All Wikipedia articles written in Pakistani English)
first-class cricket for several teams in Pakistan between 1961/62 and 1977/78. He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1964/65 but did not play Test cricket. An...
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Fazal Mahmood (category Pakistan Test cricket captains)
contained Fazal, he failed to take a wicket in a drawn match. At the end of the 1948–49 season Pakistan toured Ceylon for four matches, Fazal was the leading...
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John Snow (cricketer) (category Cricketers at the 1975 Cricket World Cup)
caught in Pakistan in 1968–69. Tony Lewis led the team, but lost 2–1 and Illingworth was re-appointed captain against New Zealand in 1973. In the first...
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Ian Chappell (category Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees)
before taking a central role in the breakaway World Series Cricket organisation. Born into a cricketing family—his grandfather and brother also captained Australia—Chappell...
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Ijaz Hussain (category Pakistani cricket biography stubs)
April 1942) is a Pakistani former cricketer who played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1957 to 1976. He represented Pakistan in the 1960s but did...
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Ashley Mallett (category Cricketers at the 1975 Cricket World Cup)
part of a successful era in South Australian cricket, playing in three Sheffield Shield winning sides in 1968–69, 1970–71 and 1975–76. His best bowling...
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The England cricket team toured New Zealand in March 1955 and played a two-match Test series against the New Zealand team. The series was part of a longer...
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British Raj (redirect from British Empire in Pakistan)
in India – Phase II". (PhD dissertation, Maharshi Dayanand University, 2013). online. Philips, Cyril H. ed. Historians of India, Pakistan and Ceylon (1961)...
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Rohinton Baria Trophy (category Indian domestic cricket competitions)
Indian universities, Ceylon University also participated from 1947/48 to 1969/70. The only university from the future Pakistan to compete before Partition...
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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (category Capitals in Asia)
Mudaliyar and served as aide-de-camp to the British Governor of Ceylon and Governor General of Ceylon. Tissa Abeysekara (1939–2009), an eminent film personality...
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Indian lawyer. Fazalur Rehman, 81, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic champion (1968). Sir Sebastian Roberts, 69, British major general. Al Jawhara...
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