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The 1960s

Cricket controversies from 1960 to 1969

50 incidents documented

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Ray Illingworth Takes the England Captaincy — A Tactician Takes Command, 1969

England vs West Indies

1969-07-10

Ray Illingworth was appointed England captain for the second Test against West Indies in July 1969, replacing the injured Colin Cowdrey. The appointment was supposed to be temporary — Cowdrey was expected to return — but Illingworth won the match and kept the captaincy for the next three years. He went on to win the 1970-71 Ashes in Australia, England's first Ashes win in Australia since 1954-55.

#ray-illingworth#england#captain
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The John Player League — England's First Limited-Overs County Competition, 1969

All 17 first-class counties

1969-04-27

The John Player League, sponsored by the cigarette manufacturer and played on Sunday afternoons, began in 1969 as English county cricket's first regular limited-overs competition. Each county played 16 matches of 40 overs per side; Lancashire won the first title. The competition, criticised by purists and loved by the public, transformed the Sunday cricket calendar and demonstrated that spectators would attend short-form cricket in large numbers.

#john-player-league#sunday-league#limited-overs
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England Defeat West Indies at Home — First Series Win Since 1957, 1969

England vs West Indies

1969-08-22

England defeated West Indies 2-0 in the 1969 home series — their first series win over West Indies since 1957. The victory, under Ray Illingworth's newly assumed captaincy, was built on John Snow's pace bowling (seven wickets in the series), Boycott's batting (318 runs at 53.00) and Illingworth's own off-spin in helpful English conditions.

#england#west-indies#1969
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South Africa's Cricketing Isolation Grows — 1969 and the Coming Ban

South Africa and the international cricket community

1969-09-01

By 1969, in the wake of the D'Oliveira Affair of 1968, South Africa's cricketing isolation was accelerating. The ICC had cancelled the England tour of South Africa in 1968-69; pressure was building from newly independent African nations in the ICC; and the 1970 Rest of the World tour — arranged as a replacement for South Africa's cancelled England tour — was itself boycotted by several nations. South Africa would play their last Test in March 1970.

#south-africa#apartheid#isolation
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Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test — First Man to Play a Hundred Test Matches, December 1968

Pakistan vs England

1968-12-06

Colin Cowdrey of Kent became the first man in cricket history to play 100 Test matches when he appeared in England's first Test against Pakistan at Lahore in December 1968. Cowdrey was 35; his career had spanned 16 years, two continents and five different captains. His 100th cap was marked with a guard of honour from both teams and a telegram from the Queen.

#colin-cowdrey#100-tests#milestone
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Fred Titmus Loses Four Toes in a Motorboat — Barbados, January 1968

England touring party

1968-01-07

England off-spinner Fred Titmus lost four toes on his left foot on 7 January 1968 when his foot was caught in the propeller of a motorboat during a rest-day excursion in Barbados. He was immediately taken to hospital, operated on, and — in a feat of recuperation that stunned his team — was bowling again within a year, his spinning action apparently unchanged by the loss of the toes.

#fred-titmus#motorboat#accident
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Underwood's 7 for 50 on a Sticky Wicket — The Oval Saves the Ashes, August 1968

England vs Australia

1968-08-22

A thunderstorm drenched The Oval on the final afternoon of the last Ashes Test of 1968, leaving England needing 352 to win — or, in practice, to survive to a draw on an unplayable wet surface. Groundstaff worked desperately to mop up the outfield, and England supporters helped dry the covers. When play resumed with 75 minutes left, Derek Underwood bowled Australia out for 125 to win the match by 226 runs and level the series 1-1.

#derek-underwood#deadly-derek#the-oval
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Bill Lawry Becomes Australia's Captain — The Most Dour Leader in the Country's History, 1968

Australia cricket

1968-01-12

Bill Lawry of Victoria succeeded Bob Simpson as Australia's captain for the 1967-68 series against India, beginning a three-year leadership that produced consistent results but was criticised for excessive caution. His personal batting was as effective as ever — he scored 7,614 Test runs at 47.15 — but his captaincy was eventually ended by the Australian board in controversial circumstances during the 1970-71 Ashes.

#bill-lawry#australia#captain
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John Snow — England's New Fast Bowling Threat Emerges, 1968

England vs Australia

1968-06-01

John Snow of Sussex emerged in the 1968 Ashes as England's most genuinely fast bowler since Trueman's peak — a right-arm quick with a classical side-on action, real hostility and the ability to move the ball off the seam. He took 17 wickets in the 1968 series and 31 wickets in the 1970-71 Ashes, England's most famous series win in Australia in a generation.

#john-snow#fast-bowling#england
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Garry Sobers Hits Six Sixes off Malcolm Nash — Swansea, 31 August 1968

Glamorgan vs Nottinghamshire

1968-08-31

On 31 August 1968 at the St Helen's ground in Swansea, Nottinghamshire captain Garfield Sobers became the first batsman to strike six sixes in a single first-class over. The bowler was Glamorgan's Malcolm Nash, experimenting with slow left-arm round the wicket as Notts pushed for a declaration. A BBC Wales camera crew, on site for training, captured the fifth and sixth sixes — and Wilf Wooller's commentary — for posterity.

#garry sobers#malcolm nash#swansea
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Basil D'Oliveira's 158 at the Oval — August 1968

England vs Australia

1968-08-23

Recalled at the last minute when Roger Prideaux withdrew with pleurisy, Basil D'Oliveira made 158 against Australia at the Oval on 23 August 1968 in the fifth Test. England won by 226 runs to draw the series 1-1 and retain the Ashes. The innings would, within weeks, force the MCC selectors into the decision that triggered the D'Oliveira Affair and South Africa's expulsion from international cricket.

#basil d'oliveira#the oval#1968
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India's First Overseas Test Series Win — Dunedin, February 1968

New Zealand vs India

1968-02-20

On 20 February 1968 at Carisbrook, Dunedin, India beat New Zealand by five wickets to win their first overseas Test in 12 attempts. They went on to take the four-Test series 3-1 — India's first away series win in cricket history. Captain Pataudi played three spinners (Prasanna, Bedi and Nadkarni) on every ground and was rewarded with 22 wickets from Erapalli Prasanna alone.

#india#new zealand#1968
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The D'Oliveira Affair — Apartheid Meets Cricket

England vs South Africa (cancelled)

28 August 1968

Basil D'Oliveira's selection for England's tour to South Africa in 1968 was refused by the apartheid government, leading to the tour's cancellation and eventually South Africa's expulsion from international cricket.

#basil doliveira#apartheid#south africa
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Alan Knott's Test Debut — England's Greatest Modern Wicketkeeper Arrives, 1967

England vs Pakistan

1967-08-10

Alan Knott of Kent made his Test debut at The Oval against Pakistan in August 1967 and was immediately the best wicketkeeper England had seen since Godfrey Evans — a lower-order batsman of real quality and a keeper of outrageous agility. He would go on to take 269 dismissals and score 4,389 runs in 95 Tests, and is rated by many as the finest wicketkeeper-batsman England has produced.

#alan-knott#wicketkeeper#debut
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England Win Both Home Series in 1967 — India and Pakistan Both Beaten

England vs India and England vs Pakistan

1967-08-25

England enjoyed their most successful home season of the decade in 1967, winning both their series — 3-0 against India and 2-0 against Pakistan. Brian Close captained with aggression and tactical clarity; Geoff Boycott scored heavily; and England's bowling — Trueman in his last Test season, Higgs, Snow and Underwood — overwhelmed two sides that lacked experience of English conditions.

#england#india#pakistan
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Sir Frank Worrell Dies — Lying in State at Westminster Abbey, March 1967

West Indies

1967-03-13

Sir Frank Worrell died of leukemia in Kingston, Jamaica on 13 March 1967, aged 42. The first Black man to captain West Indies in a full Test series, he had been knighted in 1964 and was working as Warden of the University of the West Indies' Mona campus when his illness was diagnosed. Two months after his death he became the first sportsman ever to have a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, with Learie Constantine reading the lesson.

#frank worrell#west indies#death
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Boycott's 246 — and a Test Off, June 1967

England vs India

1967-06-08

On 8 June 1967 at Headingley, Geoff Boycott carried his bat for an unbeaten 246 against India in 573 minutes. The selectors, watching the same innings from the Long Room, dropped him for the next Test. It was the only time in Test history that an unbeaten double-centurion was omitted from the next match for slow scoring.

#geoff boycott#headingley#1967
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Bob Cowper's 307 — Australia's Longest Test Innings, MCG, February 1966

Australia vs England

1966-02-11

On 11-12 February 1966 Victoria's Bob Cowper batted for twelve hours and seven minutes to score 307 against England at the MCG — then the highest score ever made by an Australian at home, and still the longest innings in Australian Test history. England's attack, containing Snow, Brown and Allen, bowled 138 overs at Cowper before he was finally out. Australia declared at 543 for 8 and the match was drawn.

#bob-cowper#307#mcg
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Garry Sobers — 722 Runs and 20 Wickets in the 1966 Series Against England

England vs West Indies

1966-07-01

Garry Sobers's 1966 England tour was the greatest all-round series by any player in Test history up to that date. He scored 722 runs at 103.14 — including a double century at Headingley — and took 20 wickets with his three different bowling styles. West Indies won 3-1 and Sobers was on another level. One England selector described it as watching a man play a different sport from everyone else.

#garry-sobers#west-indies#england
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Charlie Griffith's Throwing Controversy — A Career Under Suspicion, 1963–1966

West Indies vs Various

1966-07-01

Charlie Griffith of Barbados was the fastest bowler in the world in the mid-1960s, but his career was permanently shadowed by accusations that his bouncer and yorker were thrown rather than bowled. Several senior umpires, players and administrators — including Don Bradman — stated publicly that Griffith threw; the West Indies Cricket Board and ICC declined to take formal action. His career never fully recovered from the controversy.

#charlie-griffith#throwing#chucking
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Tom Graveney Recalled to England at 39 — 96 Against West Indies, Lord's, 1966

England vs West Indies

1966-06-16

Tom Graveney, recalled to the England side at 39 after a four-year absence — he had been dropped in 1962 for a county match in which his county had put him in without permission — scored 96 in England's only victory of the 1966 series at Lord's. His fluent strokeplay was in stark contrast to the struggle of younger colleagues, and his recall confirmed that county cricket's older generation still had things to teach the Test side.

#tom-graveney#england#west-indies
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Derek Underwood's Test Debut — Slow-Medium Left-Arm on Sticky Wickets, 1966

England vs West Indies

1966-08-04

Derek Underwood of Kent made his Test debut at Headingley in August 1966, at 21, and immediately demonstrated the slow-medium left-arm bowling that would make him one of England's greatest post-war wicket-takers. On any surface with moisture in it, Underwood was unplayable; his 'Deadly Derek' nickname arrived within his first few county seasons and his Test career of 297 wickets at 25.83 would span seventeen years.

#derek-underwood#debut#england
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Clive Lloyd's Test Debut — West Indies vs India, Bombay, December 1966

India vs West Indies

1966-12-13

Clive Lloyd of British Guiana made his Test debut against India in Bombay in December 1966, at 22. The tall left-hander — six feet five in his socks, with the wrists and timing of a much lighter man — scored 82 not out in his first innings and announced a presence that would dominate West Indian cricket for the next fifteen years. Lloyd would go on to captain West Indies through their most dominant era.

#clive-lloyd#west-indies#debut
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Graeme Pollock — South Africa's Greatest Batsman and a Career Cut Short, 1963–1970

South Africa vs Various

1965-07-06

Graeme Pollock of Eastern Province was one of the two or three best batsmen in the world in the 1960s — a left-hander of such natural genius that Don Bradman rated him alongside Sobers as the finest post-war player he had seen. In 23 Tests he scored 2,256 runs at 60.97. South Africa's isolation ended his career at 26, depriving him of at least a decade of Test cricket.

#graeme-pollock#south-africa#batsman
🔥Moderate

Imperial Cricket Conference Becomes International — 1965

ICC

1965-07-15

At its 1965 annual meeting at Lord's, the Imperial Cricket Conference renamed itself the International Cricket Conference, allowing for the first time the admission of countries from outside the British Commonwealth. The change opened the door to associate membership and was the most significant administrative reform in the game since the Conference's founding in 1909.

#icc#imperial cricket conference#international cricket conference
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Garry Sobers Takes the West Indies Captaincy — 1965

West Indies vs Australia

1965-03-03

When Bob Simpson's Australia arrived in the Caribbean in early 1965, Garfield Sobers led West Indies into a Test for the first time as full-time captain. He inherited the job from the retired Frank Worrell and within five Tests had won the Frank Worrell Trophy 2-1 on home soil — the first time West Indies had ever held it.

#garry sobers#west indies#captaincy
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Ken Barrington Dropped for 137 — Edgbaston, June 1965

England vs New Zealand

1965-05-27

At Edgbaston in May 1965, England's most prolific batsman of the era spent 437 minutes making 137 against a weak New Zealand attack. Ken Barrington was dropped for the next Test as a public warning about scoring rates — a punishment unprecedented for a Test centurion. He returned a fortnight later, made 163 against the same opposition, and was never disciplined that way again.

#ken barrington#edgbaston#1965
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John Edrich's 310* — Headingley, July 1965

England vs New Zealand

1965-07-09

On 9 July 1965 at Headingley, Surrey opener John Edrich became the first Englishman since Len Hutton to pass 300 in a Test innings, finishing 310 not out against New Zealand. He hit 52 fours and five sixes — 238 runs in boundaries, a Test record that has stood for more than sixty years. England declared at 546 for 4 and won by an innings.

#john edrich#headingley#310 not out
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Doug Walters — 155 on Debut, Brisbane 1965

Australia vs England

1965-12-10

Doug Walters made 155 on his Test debut against England at the Gabba on 10 December 1965 — the tenth Australian to score a debut century against the old enemy. He followed it with 115 in his second Test at Melbourne and another in the third at Sydney, becoming the first batsman in history to score centuries in his first three Ashes innings. He was 19 years old.

#doug walters#australia#england
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Freddie Trueman Becomes the First Man to Take 300 Test Wickets — The Oval, August 1964

England vs Australia

1964-08-15

On 15 August 1964, at The Oval, Fred Trueman caught Neil Hawke at slip off his own bowling to become the first man in cricket history to take 300 Test wickets. The milestone had been expected for several matches; the moment itself was characteristically Trueman — a slip catch taken with ease off a delivery bowled in anger. His celebrated remark, that 'whoever gets the next lot'll be bloody tired', has echoed in cricket ever since.

#freddie-trueman#300-wickets#test-cricket
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Geoff Boycott's Test Debut — 48 Against Australia, Trent Bridge, June 1964

England vs Australia

1964-06-04

Geoffrey Boycott of Yorkshire made his Test debut at Trent Bridge in June 1964, opening the batting against Neil Hawke and Graham McKenzie and scoring 48 — cautious, correct and utterly determined. It was the beginning of a Test career of 108 matches and 8,114 runs, the most polarising batting career England has produced.

#geoff-boycott#debut#ashes
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Pataudi 203* — India's First Double Hundred at Home, February 1964

India vs England

1964-02-08

On 8 February 1964 at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla, India captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi made an unbeaten 203 against England in the fourth Test — the first double century by an Indian batsman in India and the highest individual score by an Indian Test captain at the time. Pataudi was 23 and had been playing with one effective eye for two and a half years.

#mansur ali khan pataudi#tiger pataudi#delhi
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Bob Simpson 311 at Old Trafford — July 1964

England vs Australia

1964-07-23

On 23-25 July 1964 at Old Trafford, Australian captain Bob Simpson made 311 against England — his first Test century, in his 30th Test. He batted for 762 minutes (just under 13 hours), faced 743 balls, and helped Australia retain the Ashes by ensuring there could be no defeat in the fourth Test. Only Don Bradman, among Australians, had previously scored a Test triple century in England.

#bob simpson#old trafford#1964
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Wes Hall's Final Over at Lord's — The Most Dramatic Finish in English Test History, June 1963

England vs West Indies

1963-06-25

England needed 15 runs from the last eight-ball over to beat West Indies, with two wickets standing, Colin Cowdrey at the crease with a broken arm in plaster. Wes Hall bowled. Six runs came, two wickets fell. The match ended in a draw with England 9 wickets down. Cowdrey never had to face the last ball. It was the most famous finish at Lord's in the post-war era.

#wes-hall#lord-s#1963
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Frank Worrell's Final Series — West Indies Win 3–1 in England, 1963

England vs West Indies

1963-08-26

Frank Worrell's 1963 England tour was his farewell as West Indies captain — and the finest series a West Indies side had ever played in England. West Indies won three Tests, drew one and lost one, outclassing England with Hall and Griffith's pace and Sobers, Kanhai and Worrell's batting. Worrell retired as captain after the tour, aged 39, and was knighted. He had transformed West Indian cricket in four years.

#frank-worrell#west-indies#england
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Rohan Kanhai — The Most Exciting Batsman in the World, England Tour 1963

West Indies vs England

1963-07-01

Rohan Kanhai of British Guiana was, on the 1963 England tour, the most exciting batsman in the world — a right-hander capable of playing every shot in the manual and several that were not, including his famous falling sweep that he played while sitting on the ground having lost his footing. On the 1963 tour he scored 497 runs in five Tests at 49.70, including a dazzling 77 at Headingley and 92 at The Oval.

#rohan-kanhai#west-indies#1963
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Ian Meckiff No-Balled Out of Cricket — Brisbane, December 1963

Australia vs South Africa

1963-12-06

On 6 December 1963 at the Gabba, in his first over of the first Test against South Africa, Australian left-arm fast bowler Ian Meckiff was no-balled four times by umpire Col Egar — for throwing. Captain Richie Benaud removed him after the over and never bowled him again. Meckiff retired from all cricket at the end of the match. He was 28.

#ian meckiff#col egar#australia
⭐Moderate

Cowdrey's Broken Arm Saves the Lord's Test — June 1963

England vs West Indies

1963-06-25

On 25 June 1963 at Lord's, England number eleven Colin Cowdrey walked out to face Wes Hall with two balls to bowl, his left arm in plaster after Hall had broken it earlier in the day. Six runs were needed; one wicket stood. David Allen blocked the last two balls; Cowdrey did not have to face one. The Test was drawn — the most famous draw in English Test cricket history.

#colin cowdrey#wes hall#lord's
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The Gillette Cup — Cricket's First Limited-Overs Trophy, September 1963

Sussex vs Worcestershire

1963-09-07

On 7 September 1963 at Lord's, Sussex beat Worcestershire by 14 runs to win the inaugural Gillette Cup — the first organised one-day knockout competition between first-class counties. The 65-overs-a-side format, introduced to revive flagging county attendances, attracted a full Lord's crowd and laid the template for every limited-overs tournament that followed.

#gillette cup#limited overs#one-day
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The Final Gentlemen v Players Match — Lord's, September 1962

Gentlemen of England vs Players of England

1962-09-04

The Gentlemen v Players match at Lord's in September 1962 was the last in a series stretching back to 1806 — 156 years of the annual fixture that had formally separated cricket's amateurs from its professionals. The MCC had announced in November 1962 that the distinction between gentlemen and players would be abolished from 1963; the match was played with both sides knowing it was the end of an era.

#gentlemen-vs-players#lord-s#1962
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MCC Abolishes the Amateur–Professional Distinction — November 1962

MCC / English cricket

1962-11-26

In November 1962 the MCC's committee voted to abolish the distinction between amateur gentlemen and professional players in English cricket, effective from the start of the 1963 season. All cricketers in English domestic cricket would henceforth be simply 'cricketers', removing the last formal expression of class-based segregation from the national summer game.

#amateur-status#mcc#professionals
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The 1962–63 Ashes — England Retain on Tour in Australia

Australia vs England

1962-11-30

England's 1962–63 Ashes tour produced a 1–1 drawn series — a satisfactory result for the tourists, who retained the urn they had won in 1961 in Australia under the captaincy of Ted Dexter. The series was noted for Ken Barrington's grinding run accumulation, Fred Titmus's off-spin and David Allen's partnership with Trueman in the bowling. Australia, between the Benaud era and the Simpson-Lawry era, were in modest transition.

#ashes#australia#england
🔥Explosive

Charlie Griffith's Bouncer Ends Nari Contractor's Career — Bridgetown, 1962

Barbados vs India

1962-03-17

On 17 March 1962, Indian captain Nari Contractor was struck on the right temple by a short-pitched delivery from 23-year-old Charlie Griffith in a tour match between Barbados and India at Kensington Oval. The blow fractured Contractor's skull, sent him into a three-day coma and required emergency surgery to relieve pressure on the brain. He survived but never played another Test. He was 28.

#charlie griffith#nari contractor#india
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Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi — Youngest Test Captain at 21, March 1962

West Indies vs India

1962-03-23

Six days after Charlie Griffith's bouncer fractured Nari Contractor's skull, India promoted the 21-year-old vice-captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi to lead the side in the third Test at Bridgetown on 23 March 1962. At 21 years and 77 days he became the youngest Test captain in history — a record he held for 42 years. Pataudi had lost the use of his right eye in a car crash in Hove eight months earlier.

#mansur ali khan pataudi#tiger pataudi#india
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Lance Gibbs Takes the First West Indian Test Hat-Trick — Adelaide, January 1961

Australia vs West Indies

1961-01-28

Lance Gibbs of British Guiana became the first West Indian to take a Test hat-trick when he dismissed Kline, Misson and Mackay in consecutive deliveries in the fourth Test against Australia at Adelaide in January 1961. He took 5 for 66 in the innings; West Indies won the match — part of the famous series that had already produced the first Tied Test at Brisbane.

#lance-gibbs#hat-trick#adelaide
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Benaud Bowls Round the Wicket to Win the Ashes — Old Trafford, August 1961

England vs Australia

1961-08-01

Chasing 256 to level the series, England were 150 for 1 and coasting — Dexter had made 76, May was settled — when Richie Benaud switched to bowling round the wicket into the footmarks outside off stump. In 25 balls he took 5 for 12, England collapsed to 201 all out, and Australia retained the Ashes by 54 runs. It was one of the most celebrated tactical switches in cricket history.

#richie-benaud#ashes#old-trafford
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The First Tied Test — Brisbane, December 1960

Australia vs West Indies

1960-12-14

On 14 December 1960 at the Gabba, Australia and West Indies produced the first tied Test in the 83-year history of the format, with West Indies' Joe Solomon running out Ian Meckiff from side-on with the scores level and one ball remaining. Wes Hall bowled the final eight-ball over with Australia needing six and three wickets in hand; the over produced two run-outs, a single, a missed catch and a tie. The result revived a flagging Test format and gave the world a template for how the game could be played.

#tied test#brisbane#1960
🔥Serious

Frank Worrell — The First Black West Indies Captain, 1960

West Indies

1960-09-15

After more than three decades of West Indies Test cricket being captained exclusively by white men, Frank Worrell was appointed as the regular captain for the 1960-61 tour of Australia. The decision followed a year-long campaign by C.L.R. James in the Trinidad newspaper The Nation, which framed the colour bar in West Indies captaincy as a colonial relic that had to fall. Worrell would justify the choice with a tour that revived Test cricket and earned the team a half-million-strong farewell parade in Melbourne.

#frank worrell#clr james#west indies
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The Frank Worrell Trophy is Commissioned — 1960-61

Australia vs West Indies

1961-02-17

Midway through the 1960-61 series — and impressed by the spirit Worrell's tourists had brought to Australia after the Tied Test — Sir Donald Bradman and the Australian Cricket Board commissioned a perpetual trophy from former Test fast bowler turned silversmith Ernie McCormick. They named it the Frank Worrell Trophy. It was the first major Test trophy named for a West Indian and remains the prize for every Australia v West Indies series.

#frank worrell trophy#australia#west indies
🏏Explosive

Geoff Griffin No-Balled at Lord's — Hat-Trick and Career Over, 1960

England vs South Africa

1960-06-25

On 25 June 1960, the 21-year-old South African Geoff Griffin took the first Test hat-trick ever recorded at Lord's — and was no-balled eleven times for throwing in the same match. After the Test ended early on the fourth day, the umpires no-balled him repeatedly in the exhibition match staged to fill the unused time, forcing him to complete the over underarm. He never played another Test.

#geoff griffin#south africa#england