- Test no. 609 | 1966 season
- Played at Kennington Oval, London
- 18,19,20,22 August 1966 (5-day match)
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| CC Hunte | b Higgs | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | |
| EDAS McMorris | b Snow | 14 | 72 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 24.56 | |
| RB Kanhai | c Graveney b Illingworth | 104 | 224 | 217 | 14 | 0 | 47.92 | |
| BF Butcher | c Illingworth b Close | 12 | 31 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 30.76 | |
| SM Nurse | c Graveney b D'Oliveira | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| GS Sobers* | c Graveney b Barber | 81 | 145 | 151 | 12 | 0 | 53.64 | |
| DAJ Holford | c D'Oliveira b Illingworth | 5 | 27 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 15.62 | |
| JL Hendriks† | b Barber | 0 | 18 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CC Griffith | c Higgs b Barber | 4 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 30.76 | |
| WW Hall | not out | 30 | 33 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 103.44 | |
| LR Gibbs | c †Murray b Snow | 12 | 30 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, nb 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 97.5 overs) | 268 | (2.73 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-1 (Hunte), 2-56 (McMorris), 3-73 (Butcher), 4-74 (Nurse), 5-196 (Kanhai), 6-218 (Sobers), 7-218 (Holford), 8-223 (Hendriks), 9-223 (Griffith), 10-268 (Gibbs) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JA Snow | 20.5 | 1 | 66 | 2 | 3.16 | |||
| K Higgs | 17 | 4 | 52 | 1 | 3.05 | |||
| BL D'Oliveira | 21 | 7 | 35 | 1 | 1.66 | |||
| DB Close | 9 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 2.33 | |||
| RW Barber | 15 | 3 | 49 | 3 | 3.26 | |||
| R Illingworth | 15 | 7 | 40 | 2 | 2.66 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Boycott | b Hall | 4 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| RW Barber | c Nurse b Sobers | 36 | 87 | 66 | 5 | 0 | 54.54 | |
| JH Edrich | c †Hendriks b Sobers | 35 | 93 | 98 | 5 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| TW Graveney | run out | 165 | 359 | 361 | 19 | 0 | 45.70 | |
| DL Amiss | lbw b Hall | 17 | 43 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 29.31 | |
| BL D'Oliveira | b Hall | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| DB Close* | run out | 4 | 25 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 19.04 | |
| R Illingworth | c †Hendriks b Griffith | 3 | 26 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 13.04 | |
| JT Murray† | lbw b Sobers | 112 | 266 | 260 | 13 | 0 | 43.07 | |
| K Higgs | c & b Holford | 63 | 172 | 148 | 3 | 1 | 42.56 | |
| JA Snow | not out | 59 | 140 | 146 | 8 | 0 | 40.41 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 14, nb 3) | 25 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 199.5 overs) | 527 | (2.63 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-6 (Boycott), 2-72 (Barber), 3-85 (Edrich), 4-126 (Amiss), 5-130 (D'Oliveira), 6-150 (Close), 7-166 (Illingworth), 8-383 (Graveney), 9-399 (Murray), 10-527 (Higgs) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WW Hall | 31 | 8 | 85 | 3 | 2.74 | |||
| CC Griffith | 32 | 7 | 78 | 1 | 2.43 | |||
| GS Sobers | 54 | 23 | 104 | 3 | 1.92 | |||
| DAJ Holford | 25.5 | 1 | 79 | 1 | 3.05 | |||
| LR Gibbs | 44 | 16 | 115 | 0 | 2.61 | |||
| CC Hunte | 13 | 2 | 41 | 0 | 3.15 |
| West Indies 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| CC Hunte | c †Murray b Snow | 7 | 24 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 28.00 | |
| EDAS McMorris | c †Murray b Snow | 1 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| RB Kanhai | b D'Oliveira | 15 | 46 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| BF Butcher | c Barber b Illingworth | 60 | 87 | 102 | 9 | 0 | 58.82 | |
| SM Nurse | c Edrich b Barber | 70 | 129 | 121 | 14 | 0 | 57.85 | |
| DAJ Holford | run out | 7 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 29.16 | |
| GS Sobers* | c Close b Snow | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JL Hendriks† | b Higgs | 0 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| CC Griffith | not out | 29 | 105 | 93 | 3 | 0 | 31.18 | |
| WW Hall | c D'Oliveira b Illingworth | 17 | 52 | 56 | 3 | 0 | 30.35 | |
| LR Gibbs | c & b Barber | 3 | 26 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 8.33 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 14, nb 1) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 85.1 overs) | 225 | (2.64 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (McMorris), 2-12 (Hunte), 3-50 (Kanhai), 4-107 (Butcher), 5-137 (Holford), 6-137 (Sobers), 7-142 (Hendriks), 8-168 (Nurse), 9-204 (Hall), 10-225 (Gibbs) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| JA Snow | 13 | 5 | 40 | 3 | 3.07 | |||
| K Higgs | 15 | 6 | 18 | 1 | 1.20 | |||
| BL D'Oliveira | 17 | 4 | 44 | 1 | 2.58 | |||
| DB Close | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 | |||
| RW Barber | 22.1 | 2 | 78 | 2 | 3.51 | |||
| R Illingworth | 15 | 9 | 22 | 2 | 1.46 |
| Match details |
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Toss West Indies, who chose to bat Series West Indies won the 5-match series 3-1 |
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Test debut
DL Amiss
(England) Batsmen of the match TW Graveney (England) and JT Murray (England) Bowler of the match JA Snow (England) |
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Umpires
JS Buller and CS Elliott |
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Close of play 18 Aug day 1 - England 1st innings 20/1 (RW Barber 11*, JH Edrich 5*) 19 Aug day 2 - England 1st innings 330/7 (TW Graveney 132*, JT Murray 81*) 20 Aug day 3 - West Indies 2nd innings 135/4 (SM Nurse 41*, DAJ Holford 5*) 21 Aug rest day 22 Aug day 4 - West Indies 2nd innings 225 (85.1 ov) - end of match |
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Aug 22, 1966 
The victorious England team poses for a photograph after defeating West Indies by an innings and 34 runs © Getty Images |
Aug 20, 1966 
Tom Graveney calls for a quick single while Wes Hall appeals for an lbw © Getty Images |
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