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1) 1880 - 2006 results - each decade

2) About the venues

3) Matches played at different venues

4) Highest / lowest at each venue 

5) Year - totals over 300 runs (13)

6) Lowest totals

 

1880 - 2006 RESULTS - Each Decade

Year

P

W

L

D

1880-89

10

05

03

02

1890-99 

10 

02 

07 

01 

1900-09 

10 

03 

05 

02 

1910-19 

10 

03 

03 

04 

1920-29 

10 

06 

03 

01 

1880-1929 
 

50 

19 

21 

10 

1930-39 

10 

04 

03 

03 

1940-49 

10 

04 

02 

04 

1950-59 

10 

01 

02 

07 

1960-69 

10 

01 

01 

08 

1970-79 

10 

00 

00 

10 

1930-79 
 

50 

10 

8 

32 

1980-89 

10 

01 

01 

08 

1990-99 

10 

02. 

02 

06 

2000-07  

08 

01 

02 

05 

1980-2007 
 

28 

04 

05 

19 

Total 

128 

33 

34 

61 

Venue 

W 

L 

D 

Total 

Galle Face 

04 

07 

4 

15 

Gordon Garden(Fort) 

01 

00 

00 

01 

NCC (VP) 

01 

00 

00 

01 

CCC(MC) 

04 

10 

02 

16 

CampbellPark(CP) 

01 

01 

02 

04 

NCC (MP) 

01 

03 

02 

06 

SSC (VP) 

13 

04 

06 

23 

Colombo Oval (CO/PS) 

06 

05 

29 

40 

SSC (MP) 

02 

04 

16 

22 

 Total 

33 

34 

61 

128 

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About the Venues
(1)   (GF) Galle Face Grounds Home of CCC (Presently Taj Samudra Hotel Premises)
(2)   (GG) Gordon Gardens - Fort (Opposite present Foreign Ministry Building)
(3)   NCC Grounds Victoria Park (opposite Calvery House )
(4)   CCC Grounds - Maitland Crescent Colombo 7
(5)   Campbell Park - (Present Wesley College Grounds)
(6)   NCC Grounds - Maitland Place Colombo 7
(7)   SSC Victoria Park - (Presently Nomads CC Grounds)
(8)   (CO/PS) Colombo Oval - Tamil-Union C & AC Grounds (Now P. Saravanamuttu Stadium)
(9)   Singhalese Sports Club Grounds - Maitland Place Colombo 7

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Matches played at different venues
1. Galle Face - 1880, 1882 to 1891, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1899, 1912 (16 Matches)
2. Gordon Gardens (GG) - 1881 (1 Match)
3. N. C. C. (VP) - 1892 (1 Match)
4. CCC. - 1895 to 1896, 1898, 1900 to 1911 (15 Matches)
5. CP - 1913 to 1915, 1917 (4 Matches)
6. N. C. C. - 1916, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1939, 1941 (6 Matches)
7. S.S. C. (V.F) - 1918 to 1934, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946, 1948 (23 Matches)
8. (Oval / P. Sara) - 1943, 1945, 1947, 1949 to 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1986 to 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993 (40 Matches)
9. S.S.C. - 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1994 to 2007 (22 Matches)

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Highest / lowest at each venue 

 

Highest individual score

Highest total

Lowest total

1881 - (G.G.) J.W. de Silva

9

1881 - 110

1881 - 15

1889 - (GF) C. F. Weinman

64

1912 - 141

1885 – 9 (a)

1892 - (NCC-VP) A. Raffel

56

1892 - 142

1892 - 103

1895 - (CCC) E. Jayatilake

72

1895 - 217

1906 - 3

1917 - (CP).E.A. de Krester

87

1913 - 173

1913 - 87

1936 - (NCC.) P. C. D. Me Carthy

98

1936 - 289 / 8*

1916-101

1930 - (SSC V. P.) D. B. Gunasekera (Jnr)

148

1938-351 / 7*

1927-78

1980 - (Oval / PS) S. Wamakulasuriya

197 (a)

1980-357 / 8*

1945-40

1996-(SSCMP) A.Polonowita

165(++)

2006-432/7*

 

Note
(*) denotes declarations
(a) denotes series record
(++). Newspaper reports says Polonowita scored 164 and Royal had a total of 386 / 6.
 A second newspaper show these figures as 165 &
387 for 6.

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YEAR - TOTALS OVER 300 RUNS (13)
 

2006

432 for 7 (d)

off 102.5 overs

SSC (MP)

1996

387 for 6 (d)

off 96 overs

SSC (MP)

1980

357 for 8 (d)

off 149 1 overs

(CO)

1992

351 all out

off 116.5 overs

(CO) (b)

1938

351 for 7 (d)

off 97 overs

S. S. C. (V. P)

1930

346 for 8 (d)

off 109.3 overs

SSC (VP)

1993

329 for 9 (d)

off 103.3 overs

(CO)

1979

321 for 8 (d)

off 105 overs

SSC (MP)

1948

322

off 103 overs

overs SSC (VP)

1995

12 for 9 (d)

off 100.5 overs

SSC (MP)

1942

305

off 113.5 overs

SSC (VP)

1926

304

off 87.2

overs SSC (VP)

2003

300/7 (d)

off 95 overs

overs SSC (MP) (b)

1971

295 for 2 (d)

off 70 overs

 


(b) Second innings

Note : Royal has 13 totals over 300 runs (a series record).5 of them on the S. S. C. Grounds (VP) Sat the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium and 5 at the S. S. C. Grounds (M. P.) Under Lowest Totals - 9 runs was the lowest in Ceylon cricket. Since 1895 - Richmond, St. Sebastians, Dharmarajah College have equalled this total and one first class club has joined the above named.

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LOWEST TOTALS
1885-9 off 10.2 overs (GF)
1887 - 15 off 35.2 overs (GF)
1884 - 20 off 25.2 overs (GF)

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