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T.W. Graveney 141 v India

T.W. Graveney - T.W. Graveney 141 v India

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...

K.F. Barrington 148 v Pakistan

K.F. Barrington - K.F. Barrington 148 v Pakistan

Although rarely mentioned these days among the ranks of England’s all-time great batsmen, Ken Barrington boasts a Test batting average second only to Herbert Sutcliffe among Englishmen. A naturally gifted strokeplayer during his early years at Surrey, being dropped by Englan...

J.H. Hampshire 107 v West Indies

J.H. Hampshire - J.H. Hampshire 107 v West Indies

John Hampshire’s brief Test career got off to a flying start with a debut hundred at Lord’s against West Indies. Hampshire was one of three Yorkshire cricketers to make centuries in the match, along with Geoff Boycott and Ray Illingworth. A fourth, Phil Sharpe, came close wi...

R. Illingworth 113 v West Indies

R. Illingworth - R. Illingworth 113 v West Indies

Ray Illingworth is best remembered for his victorious captaincy of England on their tour of Australia in 1970-71. He had been in and out of the England side as an off-spinning all-rounder for eleven years when he left his native Yorkshire to become Leicestershire captain in ...

G. Boycott 106 v West Indies

G. Boycott - G. Boycott 106 v West Indies

Geoff Boycott’s 18-year Test career provided as many talking points as successes. In 1967 he was dropped for batting too slowly after making 246* against India at Headingley, in a match England won by 6 wickets. Ten years later he returned to the England side after a three-y...

J.H. Edrich 115 v New Zealand

J.H. Edrich - J.H. Edrich 115 v New Zealand

John Edrich's second appearance on lord's honours boards came when he hit 115 for england in their 1969 victory over new zealand. After England claimed a slender lead of 21 after two low-scoring first innings, Edrich’s innings of 115 laid the foundation for the host's imposi...

G. Boycott 121* v Pakistan

G. Boycott - G. Boycott 121* v Pakistan

In a match that was unfortunately decimated by poor weather, Geoff Boycott scored his second century at Lord’s in the second Test against Pakistan in 1971, to follow the hundred he scored against the West Indies at the Home of Cricket two years previous. After England had wo...

D.L. Amiss 188 v India

D.L. Amiss - D.L. Amiss 188 v India

As England piled up their highest total at Lord’s, Dennis Amiss scored 188 of their 629 runs against India in 1974 as the hosts romped to victory in this one-sided affair at the Home of Cricket. Amiss put on a mammoth 221 with John Edrich, which was the highest partnership f...

A.W. Greig 106 v India

A.W. Greig - A.W. Greig 106 v India

Tony Greig was the third centurion in England’s huge total against India at Lord’s 1974, which propelled them a huge victory by an innings and 285 runs. The innings had already almost reached damage limitation proportions for India when Greig reached the crease. Centuries fr...

M.H. Denness 118 v India

M.H. Denness - M.H. Denness 118 v India

A first Test century for the skipper, Mike Denness hit 118 against India at Lord’s in 1974, in one of only two Tests he played at the Home of Cricket, which both came that summer. England were already in a suitably strong position when Denness strode out to the crease at 337...