1965 Gillette Cup
Administrator(s) | England and Wales Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket (60 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Yorkshire (1st title) |
Participants | 22 |
Matches played | 21 |
Most runs | Geoff Boycott 225 (for Yorkshire) |
Most wickets | Fred Trueman 12 (for Yorkshire) |
Official website | CricketArchive tournament page |
The 1965 Gillette Cup was the third Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 23 April and 4 September 1965.[1] The tournament was won by Yorkshire, following Geoff Boycott's 146 runs in the final at Lord's. Boycott's innings remains the highest ever scored in a Lord's county limited-overs final.[2]
Contents
Format
The seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Wiltshire. 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 4 September 1965.
First round
23 April 1965
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Middlesex
269 all out (59 overs) |
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Buckinghamshire
111 all out (38.1 overs) |
28, 29 April 1965
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Berkshire
137 all out (55.5 overs) |
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Somerset
139/5 (45.5 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
28 April 1965
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Derbyshire
195/8 (60 overs) |
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Essex
100 all out (41.2 overs) |
28–29 April 1965
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Cambridgeshire
86 all out (49.2 overs) |
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Warwickshire
87/0 (22.5 overs) |
Bob Barber 54
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- Match extended into a second day
1, 3 May 1965
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Hampshire
295/7 (60 overs) |
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Norfolk
147 all out (57.1 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
1 May 1965
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Wiltshire
156/9 (60 overs) |
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Nottinghamshire
157/3 (56.1 overs) |
Second Round
22 May 1965
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Gloucestershire
130 all out (37.5 overs) |
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Northamptonshire
131/8 (59.2 overs) |
22 May 1965
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Leicestershire
168 all out (49.4 overs) |
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Yorkshire
170/4 (53.2 overs) |
22 May 1965
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Middlesex
161 all out (57.3 overs) |
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Derbyshire
151/8 (60 overs) |
22 May 1965
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Nottinghamshire
162 all out (59.5 overs) |
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Somerset
166/7 (50.1 overs) |
22 May 1965
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Lancashire
166 all out (50.1 overs) |
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Warwickshire
170/4 (51.2 overs) |
22 May 1965
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Sussex
206 all out (52.4 overs) |
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Worcestershire
148 all out (47.3 overs) |
Quarter-Finals
23 June 1965
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Surrey
222/8 (60 overs) |
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Northamptonshire
97 all out (38.5 overs) |
23, 24 June 1965
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Warwickshire
203 all out (59.3 overs) |
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Hampshire
129 all out (51.2 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
Semi-Finals
14, 15, 16 July 1965
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Yorkshire
177 all out (59 overs) |
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Warwickshire
157 all out (57 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to three.