1966 Gillette Cup Explained

Administrator:Marylebone Cricket Club
Cricket Format:Limited overs cricket
(60 overs per innings)
Tournament Format:Knockout
Champions:Warwickshire
Count:1
Participants:22
Matches:21
Most Runs:299 – Dennis Amiss (Warwickshire)
Most Wickets:10 – Bill Alley (Somerset)
10 – David Brown (Warwickshire)
10 – Roy Palmer (Somerset)
Previous Year:1965
Previous Tournament:1965 Gillette Cup
Next Year:1967
Next Tournament:1967 Gillette Cup

The 1966 Gillette Cup was the fourth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 28 April and 3 September 1966.[1] The tournament was won by Warwickshire County Cricket Club in the final at Lord's.

Format

The 17 first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Berkshire, Cheshire, Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire and Suffolk. 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 3 September 1966.

First round

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Second round

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Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: subscription . Gillette Trophy, 1966 – Fixtures . CricketArchive . 14 October 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090520035420/http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Seasons/ENG/1965_ENG_Gillette_Cup_1965.html . 20 May 2009 . live .