The 1973 Gillette Cup was the eleventh Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 30 June and 1 September 1973.[1] The tournament was won by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club who defeated Sussex County Cricket Club by 40 runs in the final at Lord's.
Administrator(s) | Test and County Cricket Board |
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Cricket format | Limited overs cricket(60 overs per innings) |
Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
Champions | Gloucestershire (1st title) |
Participants | 22 |
Matches | 21 |
Most runs | 242 Peter Graves (Sussex) |
Most wickets | 11 Roger Knight (Gloucestershire) |
Official website | CricketArchive tournament page |
Format
editThe seventeen first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Dorset, Durham, Staffordshire 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 1 September 1973. The tournament was notable for Durham (then a minor county) defeating Yorkshire. In doing so, Durham became the first ever minor county to beat a first class county in this competition.
First round
editSecond round
editQuarter-finals
edit 1, 2 August 1973
(scorecard) |
Lancashire
224/6 (60 overs) |
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Middlesex
225/6 (59 overs) |
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
Semi-finals
editFinal
editReferences
edit- ^ "Gillette Trophy, 1973 – Fixtures". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 18 April 2010. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
External links
edit- CricketArchive tournament page Archived 18 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine