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1667 Results for home counties cricket league fixtures 2025

M.C. Cowdrey 119 v New Zealand

M.C. Cowdrey - M.C. Cowdrey 119 v New Zealand

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...

C. Milburn 126* v West Indies

C. Milburn - C. Milburn 126* v West Indies

A hard-hitting right-hand opening batsman, Colin Milburn burst on the Test scene with 94 in the second innings of his debut against the West Indies in 1966. Two hundreds and one more fifty followed in a nine-Test career that was tragically cut short after a car accident cost...

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...