- Test no. 629 | 1967/68 season
- Played at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica
- 8,9,10,12,13,14 February 1968 (5-day match)
| England 1st innings | R | M | 4s | 6s | |||
| G Boycott | b Hall | 17 | 99 | 2 | 0 | ||
| JH Edrich | c Kanhai b Sobers | 96 | 255 | 14 | 0 | ||
| MC Cowdrey* | c †Murray b Gibbs | 101 | 345 | 12 | 0 | ||
| KF Barrington | c & b Holford | 63 | 228 | 6 | 0 | ||
| TW Graveney | b Hall | 30 | 106 | 4 | 0 | ||
| JM Parks† | c Sobers b Holford | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | ||
| BL D'Oliveira | st †Murray b Holford | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | ||
| FJ Titmus | lbw b Hall | 19 | 34 | 4 | 0 | ||
| DJ Brown | c †Murray b Hall | 14 | 37 | 2 | 0 | ||
| JA Snow | b Griffith | 10 | 35 | 0 | 0 | ||
| IJ Jones | not out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Extras | (b 12, lb 7, nb 4) | 23 | |||||
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| Total | (all out; 169.2 overs) | 376 | (2.22 runs per over) | ||||
| Fall of wickets1-49 (Boycott), 2-178 (Edrich), 3-279 (Cowdrey), 4-310 (Barrington), 5-318 (Parks), 6-318 (D'Oliveira), 7-351 (Titmus), 8-352 (Graveney), 9-376 (Brown), 10-376 (Snow) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WW Hall | 27 | 5 | 63 | 4 | 2.33 | |||
| CC Griffith | 31.2 | 7 | 72 | 1 | 2.29 | |||
| GS Sobers | 31 | 11 | 56 | 1 | 1.80 | |||
| LR Gibbs | 47 | 18 | 91 | 1 | 1.93 | |||
| DAJ Holford | 33 | 10 | 71 | 3 | 2.15 |
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GS Camacho | b Snow | 5 | 17 | 1 | 0 | |||
| DL Murray† | c D'Oliveira b Brown | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||
| RB Kanhai | c Graveney b Snow | 26 | 148 | 1 | 0 | |||
| SM Nurse | b Jones | 22 | 88 | 2 | 0 | |||
| CH Lloyd | not out | 34 | 125 | 2 | 0 | |||
| GS Sobers* | lbw b Snow | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| BF Butcher | c †Parks b Snow | 21 | 33 | 4 | 0 | |||
| DAJ Holford | c †Parks b Snow | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |||
| CC Griffith | c D'Oliveira b Snow | 8 | 16 | 2 | 0 | |||
| WW Hall | b Snow | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| LR Gibbs | c †Parks b Jones | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 12, lb 5, w 1, nb 3) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 48.1 overs) | 143 | (2.96 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-5 (Murray), 2-5 (Camacho), 3-51 (Nurse), 4-80 (Kanhai), 5-80 (Sobers), 6-120 (Butcher), 7-126 (Holford), 8-142 (Griffith), 9-142 (Hall), 10-143 (Gibbs) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DJ Brown | 13 | 1 | 34 | 1 | 2.61 | |||
| JA Snow | 21 | 7 | 49 | 7 | 2.33 | |||
| IJ Jones | 14.1 | 4 | 39 | 2 | 2.75 |
| West Indies 2nd innings (following on) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GS Camacho | b D'Oliveira | 25 | 185 | 3 | 0 | |||
| SM Nurse | b Snow | 73 | 159 | 12 | 0 | |||
| RB Kanhai | c Edrich b Jones | 36 | 72 | 4 | 0 | |||
| BF Butcher | c †Parks b D'Oliveira | 25 | 113 | 4 | 0 | |||
| CH Lloyd | b Brown | 7 | 24 | 1 | 0 | |||
| GS Sobers* | not out | 113 | 357 | 14 | 1 | |||
| DAJ Holford | lbw b Titmus | 35 | 190 | 3 | 0 | |||
| DL Murray† | lbw b Brown | 14 | 30 | 3 | 0 | |||
| CC Griffith | lbw b Jones | 14 | 76 | 1 | 0 | |||
| WW Hall | c †Parks b Jones | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| LR Gibbs | not out | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 33, lb 10, nb 5) | 48 | ||||||
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| Total | (9 wickets dec; 135 overs) | 391 | (2.89 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-102 (Nurse), 2-122 (Camacho), 3-164 (Kanhai), 4-174 (Lloyd), 5-204 (Butcher), 6-314 (Holford), 7-351 (Murray), 8-388 (Griffith), 9-388 (Hall) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DJ Brown | 33 | 9 | 65 | 2 | 1.96 | |||
| JA Snow | 27 | 4 | 91 | 1 | 3.37 | |||
| IJ Jones | 30 | 4 | 90 | 3 | 3.00 | |||
| BL D'Oliveira | 32 | 12 | 51 | 2 | 1.59 | |||
| FJ Titmus | 7 | 2 | 32 | 1 | 4.57 | |||
| KF Barrington | 6 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 2.33 |
| England 2nd innings (target: 159 runs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| G Boycott | b Sobers | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| JH Edrich | b Hall | 6 | 38 | 1 | 0 | |||
| MC Cowdrey* | lbw b Sobers | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KF Barrington | lbw b Griffith | 13 | 25 | 2 | 0 | |||
| TW Graveney | c Griffith b Gibbs | 21 | 57 | 2 | 0 | |||
| JM Parks† | lbw b Gibbs | 3 | 32 | 0 | 0 | |||
| BL D'Oliveira | not out | 13 | 41 | 2 | 0 | |||
| FJ Titmus | c Camacho b Gibbs | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | |||
| DJ Brown | b Sobers | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Extras | (b 8) | 8 | ||||||
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| Total | (8 wickets; 38.5 overs) | 68 | (1.75 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JA Snow, IJ Jones |
| Fall of wickets1-0 (Boycott), 2-0 (Cowdrey), 3-19 (Barrington), 4-19 (Edrich), 5-38 (Parks), 6-51 (Graveney), 7-61 (Titmus), 8-68 (Brown) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WW Hall | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1.00 | |||
| CC Griffith | 5 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 2.60 | |||
| GS Sobers | 16.5 | 7 | 33 | 3 | 1.96 | |||
| LR Gibbs | 14 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 0.78 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to bat Series 5-match series level 0-0 |
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Umpires
HBD Jordan and D Sang Hue |
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Close of play 8 Feb day 1 - England 1st innings 222/2 (MC Cowdrey 69*, KF Barrington 24*) 9 Feb day 2 - West Indies 1st innings 27/2 (RB Kanhai 5*, SM Nurse 11*) 10 Feb day 3 - West Indies 2nd innings 81/0 (GS Camacho 19*, SM Nurse 56*) 11 Feb rest day 12 Feb day 4 - West Indies 2nd innings 258/5 (GS Sobers 48*, DAJ Holford 14*) 13 Feb day 5 - England 2nd innings 19/4 (TW Graveney 0*, JM Parks 0*) 14 Feb day 6 - England 2nd innings 68/8 (38.5 ov) - end of match |
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Feb 12, 1968 
View from the dressing-rooms after the police lobbed tear-gas into the crowd © The Cricketer International |
Feb 12, 1968 
Players leave the field after the police lobbed tear-gas into the crowd © The Cricketer International |
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