1968 Gillette Cup - Wikipedia
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| Administrator(s) | Test and County Cricket Board |
|---|---|
| Cricket format | Limited overs cricket(60 overs per innings) |
| Tournament format(s) | Knockout |
| Champions | Warwickshire (2nd title) |
| Participants | 22 |
| Matches | 21 |
| Most runs | 246 – Garfield Sobers (Nottinghamshire) |
| Most wickets | 10 – Antony Durose (Northamptonshire) |
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The 1968 Gillette Cup was the sixth Gillette Cup, an English limited overs county cricket tournament. It was held between 27 April and 7 September 1968.[1] The tournament was won by Warwickshire County Cricket Club who defeated Sussex County Cricket Club by 4 wickets in the final at Lord's.
The newly launched London Weekend Television won the rights to show the final throughout the ITV network, considered a major coup when set alongside the strong association the BBC then had with cricket (and would for another thirty years). They received huge opprobrium from the press and public for cutting away from the match near its climax to show adverts, and LWT – already facing serious problems because of an industrial dispute and because much of its output was considered too high-minded for ITV – would never cover cricket again.[2]
The 17 first-class counties, were joined by five Minor Counties: Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Dorset, Durham and Norfolk. 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 7 September 1968.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to two.
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to three.
- Match was originally scheduled for 25 May but no play was possible on the original date or the two reserve days (27 and 28 May).
- Match was scheduled for one day but extended to three.
- Match was originally scheduled for 7 August but no play was possible on the original date or the two reserve days (8 and 9 August).
- ^ "Gillette Trophy, 1968 – Fixtures". CricketArchive. Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ David Docherty, Running the Show, Boxtree 1990