English cricket team in Australia in 1965–66
M.J.K. Smith captained the English cricket team in Australia in 1965–66, playing as England in the 1965-66 Ashes series against the Australians and as the MCC in their other matches on the tour. Although they failed to reclaim the Ashes this was not unexpected as the Australian press labelled them the weakest MCC team to arrive in Australia and the bookmakers were giving odds of 7/2 on their winning the series. These views rapidly changed as they set about winning their state matches with exciting, aggressive cricket and by the First Test the odds against them had been reduced to evens. Lindsay Hassett said "other teams from England may have been better technically but none had tried so hard to make the game as interesting as possible". Financially the tour's receipts were much lower than
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English cricket team in Australia in 1965–66
M.J.K. Smith captained the English cricket team in Australia in 1965–66, playing as England in the 1965-66 Ashes series against the Australians and as the MCC in their other matches on the tour. Although they failed to reclaim the Ashes this was not unexpected as the Australian press labelled them the weakest MCC team to arrive in Australia and the bookmakers were giving odds of 7/2 on their winning the series. These views rapidly changed as they set about winning their state matches with exciting, aggressive cricket and by the First Test the odds against them had been reduced to evens. Lindsay Hassett said "other teams from England may have been better technically but none had tried so hard to make the game as interesting as possible". Financially the tour's receipts were much lower than
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M.J.K. Smith captained the Eng ...... in Hong Kong on the way home.
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704,807,117
date
1965-12-10
1965-12-15
1965-12-30
1966-01-04
1966-01-07
1966-01-11
1966-01-28
1966-02-01
1966-02-11
1966-02-16
Rain
1965-12-11
1966-02-15
result
won by an innings and 9 runs
won by an innings and 93 runs
runs-team1-inns
D.A. Allen 50*
F.J. Titmus 53
J.H. Edrich 103
J.H. Edrich 85
J.M. Parks (wk) 89
K.D. Walters 115
runs-team2-inns
F.J. Titmus 60
J.H. Edrich 109
J.M. Parks (wk) 52
J.M. Parks (wk) 71
score-team1-inns
score-team2-inns
venue
Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, Australia
Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Australia
Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney
wickets-team1-inns
B.R. Knight 2/61
B.R. Knight 4/84
D.J. Brown 3/71
G. Boycott 2/32
G.D. McKenzie 3/17
G.D. McKenzie 5/48
wickets-team2-inns
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M.J.K. Smith captained the Eng ...... receipts were much lower than
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English cricket team in Australia in 1965–66
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