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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...

1970: Garry Sobers scores 183 and takes 6-21 for Rest of the World XI

1970: Garry Sobers scores 183 and takes 6-21 for Rest of the World XI

Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, the young Barbadian who broke Len Hutton’s Test record by scoring 365 not out against Pakistan in 1957-58, was not just a batsman. He was an all-rounder who could bowl left-arm fast-medium, orthodox slow left-arm or left-arm unorthodox as the situa...

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...

D.A.J. Holford 105* v England

D.A.J. Holford - D.A.J. Holford 105* v England

David Holford’s first and only test century came in his second appearance for the West Indies, putting on a huge 274-run partnership with his cousin Sir Garfield Sobers in a drawn 1966 encounter at Lord’s. West Indies were the first to bat, reaching an under par 269 as plent...

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...

F.S. Trueman 11-152 v West Indies

F.S. Trueman - F.S. Trueman 11-152 v West Indies

In a drawn match famous for Colin Cowdrey coming out to bat with his arm in plaster for the final two balls, Fred Trueman’s achievements in this match were largely overshadowed. In the first innings he bowled well for long spells and claimed six wickets for 100, bowling the ...

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...

M.D. Marshall 6-85 v England

M.D. Marshall - M.D. Marshall 6-85 v England

Malcolm Marshall first made the Lord’s Honours Boards when he took 6-85 during West Indies’ nine-wicket victory against England in 1984. In a Test, famous for Sir Ian Botham’s eight-wicket haul during West Indies’ first innings, the hosts opened the batting first and, despit...

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...

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 ...