Ernie Kelaart – wonderful figures 6/67 against Australia

The second match that Sir Bonaland Bradman played in Sri Lanka. It was against Ceylon.

This was Bradman’s second match and it played on April 3rd 1930 at the Colombo Cricket Club grounds.

Australia made 233 with Sir Donald Bradman making 40 and he was out hit wicket to Ceylon’s Neil Joseph for 40. W.H. Ponaford was top scorer with 62, having opened opened the batting while the other opening batsman Stan Macabe made 20 and W.M. Woodful made 54.

Ernie Kelaart had the best bowling figures of 6 for 67 for Ceylon having bowled 29.5 overs

Ceylon made 52 one wicket, with W.T. Brindley making 13, while M.K. Albert made 25 and L.D.S. Gunasekera 14, both being not out.

ACdeS

SCOREBOARD

AUSTRALIA 
W.H. Ponsford c Van Geyzel b Kelaart	 	62
S.J. McCabe c Horan b Siedle 	 		20
D.G. Brandman hit wkt b Joseph 	 		40
W.M. Woodful c Kelaaer b Honan 	 		54
V.Y. Richardson c De Silva b Kelaart 	  	06
A.G. Fairbax c Horan b Kelaart 	 		19
E.L.A. Beckett b Kelaart 	 		10
T.W. Wall c Gunasekera b Joseph 	  	05
A Hurwood b Kelaart 	 			10
W.A.S. Oldfield not out 	  		01
C.W. Walker b Kelaart	  			04
EXTRAS 	  					02
TOTAL 					       233 

BOWLING: C. Horan 21-4-73-1
	 L.D.S. Gunasekera 7-2-31-0
	 F.J. Siedle 12-0-36-1
	 E. Kelaart 29.5-4-67-6
	 W.T. Brindley 3-1-10-0
	 N.S. Joseph 5-0-14-2

CEYLON  
W.T. Brindley lbw b Fairbax 	 		13
M.K. Albert not out 	 			25
L.D.S. Gunasekera not out 	 		14
F.C.W. Vangeyzek did not bat	  		-
J.A. de Silva did not bat 	 		-	 
V.C. Schokman did not bat	  		-
C.H. Gunasekera did not bat 	 		-
C. Horan did not bat 	  			-
N.S. Joseph did not bat 	  		-
F.J. Siedle did not bat 	  		-
E. Kelaart did not bat 	  			-
EXTRAS 	  					0
TOTAL (for one wkt)	 			52

BOWLING: T.W. Wall 4-0-7-0
	 E.L. Beckelt 7-0-16-0
	 A.G. Fairbox 5-1-19-1
 	 A. Hurwood 2-0-6-0
	 S. McCabe 1-0-4-0