The Pakistan national cricket team toured

Ceylon Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

from mid-March to mid-April 1949 and played four matches including two internationals against the Ceylon national team. As neither country had yet achieved

Test status Test cricket is a form of first-class cricket played at international level between teams representing full member countries of the International Cricket Council (ICC). A match consists of four innings (two per team) and is scheduled to last f ...

, the internationals are classified as first-class matches. Both games were played at the Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo and Pakistan won them both: the first by an innings and 192 runs; the second by 10 wickets. These two matches were the first four-day internationals played in Ceylon.S. S. Perera, ''The Janashakthi Book of Sri Lanka Cricket (1832–1996)'', Janashakthi Insurance, Colombo, 1999, pp. 247–48. Pakistan were captained by Mohammed Saeed and Ceylon by Derrick de Saram.

The team

* Mohammed Saeed (captain) * Abdur Rehman * Alimuddin * Anwar Hussain *

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* Fazal Mahmood * Imtiaz Ahmed *

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* Khan Mohammad * Maqsood Ahmed * Mohammad Amin * Murawwat Hussain * Nazar Mohammad *

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References

External links

Pakistan in Ceylon 1948-49
at CricketArchive
Team photograph
from the

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Museum Collection 1949 in Pakistani cricket 1949 in Ceylon

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

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