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toured

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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

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, the internationals are classified as first-class matches. Both games were played at the

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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) *

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* Alimuddin * Anwar Hussain * Aslam Khokhar * Usuf Chippa *

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* Imtiaz Ahmed * Behram Irani * Khan Mohammad * Maqsood Ahmed * Mohammad Amin * Murawwat Hussain * Nazar Mohammad * Shujauddin Butt

References

External links

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

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