• A Commonwealth XI cricket team toured Ceylon, India and Pakistan from October 1949 to March 1950 and played 21 first-class matches, including five against...
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  • The Commonwealth XI cricket team played over 100 first-class cricket matches from 1949 to 1968. The team started out as a side made up of mostly English...
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  • George Dawkes and George Pope. See Commonwealth XI cricket team in India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 194950 Ceylon in March–April 1950 played five first-class...
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  • and wicket-takers in each domestic season. 1945-46 – 1945-46 – For information about this tour, see : Australian Services cricket team in Ceylon and India...
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    Ceylon was renamed Sri Lanka in 1972. Fiji was re-suspended from the Commonwealth and the 2010 Games in 2009. Fiji's suspension from the Commonwealth...
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  • Mohammad Saeed (cricketer, born 1910) (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    scored a century in the drawn match, and away against Ceylon in 1948-49 (Pakistan's first cricket tour) and 194950. In a career that extended from 1930 to...
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    Test series ended, Miller captained a Commonwealth XI that played against a touring England team in Colombo, Ceylon. England had been on a tour of the Indian...
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    In 1983, Netball Federation of Sri Lanka was dissolved by the government. England's record against Ceylon in international matches between 1949 and 1976...
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  • The 194950 international cricket season was from September 1949 to April 1950. "Season 194950". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 21 April 2020. "Season 1950–51...
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  • area. In the 1960s and 1970s, India's international position among developed and developing countries faded during wars with China and Pakistan, disputes...
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  • Jim Laker (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    tour Australia in 1950–51 and so he accepted an invitation to tour India and Ceylon with a Commonwealth XI, playing in ten matches and taking 36 wickets...
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    County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1976, and in 114 Test matches for England from 1954 to 1975. He was born in Ootacamund, Madras Presidency, British India and...
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  • Australian cricket team began when eleven cricketers from the colonies of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria formed an eleven to play a touring team of professional...
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  • Indian Universities cricket team played 16 three-day first-class matches, all but one against teams touring India, between October 1949 and December 1975....
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  • Raees Mohammad (category East Pakistan cricketers)
    XI in India, Pakistan and Ceylon 1949/50". CricketArchive. Retrieved 14 March 2013. "First-class matches played by Raees Mohammad (30)". CricketArchive...
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  • Lucien de Zoysa (category All-Ceylon cricketers)
    Southern India team in Madras by an innings. In 1949-50 he was easily the most successful bowler when Ceylon toured Pakistan. Ceylon lost three and drew two...
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  • George Pope (cricketer) (category L. H. Tennyson's XI cricket team)
    was ill. He returned to first-class cricket on the Commonwealth XI tour of India, Pakistan and Ceylon in 194950, but at the end of that he retired for...
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  • final match for Pakistan was against the Commonwealth XI in 194950. When the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy began in 1953–54, Amin played for Pakistan Railways. He...
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    Everton Weekes (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    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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    The 1949 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference issues the London Declaration, enabling India (and, thereafter, any other nation) to remain in the Commonwealth...
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  • Malik Ahmed Khan (category Pakistani cricket umpires)
    in 1947, Ahmed remained involved in cricket in the newly independent Pakistan. His last major matches as a player came during the 194950 season, and...
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  • Gamini Goonesena (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    batsman and a legbreak and googly bowler, he played first class cricket over a 19-year timespan, 1949–1968, representing 14 different teams. He was educated...
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    George Headley (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    his place in the Jamaican cricket team, and narrowly missed selection for the West Indies tour of England in 1928. He made his Test debut in 1930, against...
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    a series of friendly matches. An exhibition cricket match was arranged between India and Commonwealth XI, featuring names like Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi...
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    temples in Travancore to all castes. After India was partitioned in 1947 into India and Pakistan, Travancore and Kochi, part of the Union of India were merged...
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  • Khalid Qureshi (category Punjab (Pakistan) cricketers)
    debut in two matches for Pakistan in 194950, against the Commonwealth XI and Ceylon. He toured India with Pakistan's first touring team in 1952–53 and played...
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    Harry Lambert (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    spot in the Commonwealth XI squad to tour India, Pakistan and Ceylon. He bowled well in India, taking 25 wickets at 32.24, eight of them in four matches...
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  • John Holt (cricketer) (category Commonwealth XI cricketers)
    in 17 Test matches between 1954 and 1959. Holt played for Jamaica from 1946 to 1961–62. He toured India, Pakistan and Ceylon with the Commonwealth XI...
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    Caribbean, cricket is the national and most popular sport and is an intrinsic part of Grenadian culture. The Grenada national cricket team forms a part...
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  • The Ceylon national cricket team, later Sri Lanka national cricket team, represents Sri Lanka in international cricket since its first international representative...
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