1967 Gillette Cup
Appearance
Administrator(s) | Marylebone Cricket Club |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket(60 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Kent (1st title) |
Participants | 22 |
Matches | 21 |
Most runs | 238 Brian Luckhurst (Kent) |
Most wickets | 10 Roy Palmer (Somerset) |
Official website | CricketArchive tournament page |
The 1967 Gillette Cup was the fifth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 23 April and 2 September 1967.[1] The tournament was won by Kent County Cricket Club who defeated Somerset County Cricket Club by 32 runs in the final at Lord's.
Format
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Durham, Lincolnshire and Oxfordshire. Teams who won in the first round progressed to the second round. The winners in the second round then progressed to the quarter-final stage. Winners from the quarter-finals then progressed to the semi-finals from which the winners then went on to the final at Lord's which was held on 2 September 1967.
First round
Second round
13, 15, 16 May 1967
(scorecard) |
Gloucestershire
153 all out (52.4 overs) |
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Lancashire
157/6 (56 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to three.
13, 15, 16 May 1967
(scorecard) |
Somerset
206/8 (60 overs) |
v
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Warwickshire
181 all out (54.3 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to three.
25 May 1967
(scorecard) |
Cambridgeshire
43/8 (10 overs) |
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Yorkshire
46/4 (6.5 overs) |
- Match reduced to 10 overs per side. The match was moved from Headingley due to torrential rain.
Quarter-finals
14 June 1967
(scorecard) |
Somerset
184 all out (59.3 overs) |
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Northamptonshire
148 all out (54.3 overs) |
Semi-finals
19, 20 July 1967
(scorecard) |
Somerset
210/7 (60 overs) |
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Lancashire
110 all out (47.4 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
Final
References
- ^ "Gillette Trophy, 1966 - Fixtures". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 April 2010.