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The World Cup that England won!

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
WoW, 50-over cricket as far back as 1966. No, had never heard of that either.
 

stumpski

International Captain
Pretty strong England side there. Interesting to see Ted Dexter as he didn't play a single Test that year (or any between 1965 and '68).

South Africa and Australia also played a 50 overs match with full-strength sides on the 1966-67 tour - has a good case to be considered the first one-day international I'd have thought.
 

NUFAN

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I prefer the 11 overs per bowler rather then the 10 we have now.

Just so you can pick 4 specialist bowlers and just go with 6 overs from the part timers..
 

NUFAN

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Pretty strong England side there. Interesting to see Ted Dexter as he didn't play a single Test that year (or any between 1965 and '68).

South Africa and Australia also played a 50 overs match with full-strength sides on the 1966-67 tour - has a good case to be considered the first one-day international I'd have thought.
What an awesome match.

Would love to have seen Pollock's knock.

Wonder how fast Lawry batted, must have been at a pretty good rate.
 

Dissector

International Debutant
The averages for the tournament make for interesting reading; in their two games none of the England batsmen scored 50's but three of their bowlers averaged under 10. This is the kind of world cup even Silentstriker would have liked.:laugh:

Of the three games the one between ROW and WI reads most like a modern ODI. The Windies scored 254 and the ROW fell short by 18 at the end of their 50 overs. It would have been fascinating to watch players like Hanif Mohammed and Wes Hall play this kind of game.

And yes, that 1967 game between SA and Aus is absolutely amazing; it's hard to believe that a successful 300+ chase in 50 overs was achieved more than 40 years ago.
 

Burgey

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Pretty strong England side there. Interesting to see Ted Dexter as he didn't play a single Test that year (or any between 1965 and '68).

South Africa and Australia also played a 50 overs match with full-strength sides on the 1966-67 tour - has a good case to be considered the first one-day international I'd have thought.
Gawd, scoring 320+ and getting run dwn in a one dayer - in 1967!!!!

What a great piece of cricketing trivia that is.
 

Dissector

International Debutant
Interestingly this game was also at the Wanderers Stadium in Joburg, yet I don't remember anyone mentioning it after that 400+ game. I am sure Lawry and Richards would remember the 1967 game but I don't think either of them were commentators.

Arguably given its time this chase is even more remarkable than the later one. Certainly you can make a strong case that these are the two greatest chases in limited-overs history.
 

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Now here are maybe a handful of games with a case for being retrospecively given ODI status.
 

Dissector

International Debutant
Thought this was a good time to resurrect this thread. I was about to write a quip about how in the good old days England could win without South Africans when I realized they had one in this team as well !

Lesson: England will always need a South African to win a world trophy.:ph34r:
 

Faisal1985

International Vice-Captain
TBH, its really good for Cricket that England won a world title after a long time (or may be first time?). The reason its good for cricket is because, the younger generations of England seem to be sort of away or isolating themselves from Cricket. I mean other then Broad, not a lot of young talent seems to come in, with a win like this, it brings those who estranged themselves from Cricket might be back to support it. And this is barring the Subcontinent communities in England...Cricket needs more support from other communities as well.
 

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