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1667 Results for home counties cricket league fixtures 2025

D.C.S. Compton 116 v New Zealand

D.C.S. Compton - D.C.S. Compton 116 v New Zealand

Denis Compton will always be remembered for the golden summer of 1947, when he plundered 3,816 first-class runs (including 753 in five Tests against South Africa) alongside the similarly prolific Bill Edrich and helped dispel the lasting gloom of Britain’s war years. Few cri...

J.D.B. Robertson 121 v New Zealand

J.D.B. Robertson - J.D.B. Robertson 121 v New Zealand

Jack Robertson was a fine, stylish opening batsman who never gained the prominence his talent deserved. At Middlesex he so often found himself in the shadow of Compton and Edrich; for England he formed an outstanding partnership with Len Hutton on the West Indies tour of 194...

C. Washbrook 114 v West Indies

C. Washbrook - C. Washbrook 114 v West Indies

Although firmly established as a Lancashire regular by the mid-1930s and an England debutant in 1937, Cyril Washbrook had to wait until after the Second World War before holding down a regular place in the England batting order. A solid opening bat, Washbrook formed a formid...

L. Hutton 150 v India

L. Hutton - L. Hutton 150 v India

Len Hutton was not quite 18 when he made his debut for Yorkshire and quickly established himself at the top of the batting order. He made his Test debut for England just three days after his 21 st birthday (when he had shared an opening stand of 315 with Herbert Sutcliffe a...

T.G. Evans 104 v India

T.G. Evans - T.G. Evans 104 v India

One of the finest wicket-keepers to have graced the game, Godfrey Evans was a mainstay for Kent and England behind the stumps from just after the Second World War to the end of the 1950s. Such was his mastery of the art that he was still giving immaculate displays in exhibit...

L. Hutton 145 v Australia

L. Hutton - L. Hutton 145 v Australia

Len Hutton was not quite 18 when he made his debut for Yorkshire and quickly established himself at the top of the batting order. He made his Test debut for England just three days after his 21 st birthday (when he had shared an opening stand of 315 with Herbert Sutcliffe a...

W. Watson 109 v Australia

W. Watson - W. Watson 109 v Australia

An obdurate and versatile left-handed batsman and superb fielder, Willie Watson is best remembered  for the almost six-hour stand with Trevor Bailey at Lord’s in 1953 which saved the match for England and enabled them to seal a long-awaited Ashes victory with a single win at ...

P.B.H. May 112 v South Africa

P.B.H. May - P.B.H. May 112 v South Africa

A classically stylish batsman and a tough, inspiring leader, Peter May became associated with all that was successful and dominant in English cricket. He was the cornerstone of England’s and Surrey’s batting during the 1950s; from 1952 to 1958 Surrey won the County Champions...

M.C. Cowdrey 152 v West Indies

M.C. Cowdrey - M.C. Cowdrey 152 v West Indies

Colin Cowdrey was one of cricket’s great stylists and most revered gentlemen. Recognised as a prodigious talent while still at Tonbridge School, he made his Test debut at Brisbane aged just 21 and his final Test appearance came at the age of 42. He was the first cricketer to...

T.W. Graveney 153 v Pakistan

T.W. Graveney - T.W. Graveney 153 v Pakistan

The apparently effortless style of Tom Graveney’s batting enchanted a generation of cricket watchers. Alan Ross described him as ‘a player of yacht-like character, beautiful in calm seas’. So complete was his range of strokeplay that Neville Cardus wrote that if the whole ar...