#1966

5 incidents tagged

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

⭐Mild

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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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