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Tour of
Australia & New Zealand 1970-71
Captain : Ray Illingworth
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England’s 53rd
Test tour
(October 1970 -
March 1971)
27th Test-playing tour
of Australia by England
Ninth Test-playing tour
of NZ
(previous tours 1965-66)
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A decisive victory for England achieved in this
Ashes series earned only half-hearted congratulations from the English
cricketing establishment. The Cricket Council's blanket warning about demonstrations
of dissent made to all English county players before the 1971 season could
only be interpreted as disapproval of the attitude of Illingworth's team.
The event that triggered all this came in the final Test at Sydney, where
Ray Illingworth (‘He’s bowled one bouncer,’ he said, wagging a finger)
showed he disagreed with the umpires' interpretation of intimidating fast
bowling and their subsequent warning to John Snow.
A crowd disturbance followed whereupon Illingworth
led his men from the field to wait until peace was restored - only to be
told that England would forfeit the match unless they resumed the Test at
once. In the previous Test Boycott had hurled his bat to the ground in
reaction to being given run out and there were several further complaints
about the standard of umpiring.
An extra Test at Melbourne, hastily
arranged to replace the match abandoned without a ball bowled, was another
contentious issue. The England team complained about the financial
arrangements to which MCC had agreed and the amount of Test cricket they
were being asked to play in a short period of time. To put it plainly, the
captain and tour manager did not see eye to eye. It is a pity that acrimony
should have veiled the splendid achievement by the English players,
particularly Boycott, Knott and Snow as well as the leadership skills of
Illingworth himself. Illingworth’s part in recovering the Ashes was
subsequently recognised with the award of a CBE
in the 1973 New Year honours.
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Other England
tours
Previous Test
tour
Pakistan 1968-69
Next Test tour
India & Pakistan
1972-73
(1971-72 tour postponed)
Next tour
of Australia & NZ
1974-75
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Members of the
Test tour party (16 + 1)
Opening batsmen: Geoff Boycott, Brian Luckhurst,
John Edrich.
Middle-order batsmen Basil D’Oliveira, Keith Fletcher, Colin Cowdrey,
John Hampshire
Wicket-keeper: Alan Knott, Bob
Taylor
Slow bowlers: Ray
Illingworth, Don Wilson, Derek Underwood
Fast bowlers: John Snow,
Peter Lever, Ken Shuttleworth, Alan Ward (replaced
by Bob Willis)
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RHB opener
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M C Cowdrey
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B L D'Oliveira
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RHB RM
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J H Edrich
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LHB opener
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K W R Fletcher
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J H Hampshire
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OB captain
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A P E Knott
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B W Luckhurst
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LHB opener
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K Shuttleworth
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RFM
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J A Snow
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Sx
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RF
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R W Taylor
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Dy
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second WK
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D L Underwood
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Kt
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LM
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A Ward
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RF
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D Wilson
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County representation:
Dy – Derbyshire (2)
Ex - Essex (1)
Kt -
Kent (4)
La - Lancashire (2)
Sy - Surrey (1)
Sx - Sussex (1)
Wo - Worcestershire (1)
Yo - Yorkshire (4)
Average age of
team at time of first Test match
(27 November 1970) :
30 yrs 0 months
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Test Appearances
made before the tour
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Cowdrey 104, Boycott 41, Edrich 40, Illingworth 36, D'Oliveira
25, Snow 25, Knott 18,
Underwood 16, Fletcher
6, Wilson 5, Ward 3,
Hampshire 2, Lever 0, Luckhurst
0, Shuttleworth
0, Taylor 0, Willis 0.
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Tour Officials
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David Clark
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Tour manager
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Bernard Thomas
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Assistant manager & physiotherapist
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The choice of manager was announced on 29 June, and that of his
assistant on 13 July.
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Selectors
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Alec Bedser (chairman), Don Kenyon, Billy Sutcliffe, Alan Smith, Ray Illingworth (captain), Colin Cowdrey (vice-captain), David Clark (tour manager)
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Selection
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The captain
was appointed on 20 July and vice-captain on 30 July
Unavailable : none.
Tour party announced : 19 August 1970.
Not selected: Tony Greig, Dennis
Amiss, Chris Old, Norman Gifford.
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Time between selection and departure from England
60 days
(19 August - 18 October)
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Travel
London Q Sydney
Melbourne Q Auckland
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On 18
October 1970 the team flew from Heathrow Airport, London, (via Zurich, Tel
Aviv, Tehran, Delhi) to Singapore for a 24-hour stopover.
Then to Perth
and Sydney (where the luggage was unfortunately left behind) and reached
Adelaide on 21 October. It was the first tour since 1920-21 not to commence
at Perth.
The team flew from Melbourne to Auckland, New Zealand, on 19
February 1971.
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Time spent in Australia
121 days
(21 October - 19
February)
Time spent in New Zealand
18 days
(19 February
- 9 March 1971)
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On-tour
selection panel
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Ray Illingworth (captain), Colin Cowdrey (vice-captain), John Edrich (senior
professional), David Clark (tour
manager).
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Reinforcements
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The stand-by bowler, Bob Willis, rather
than his more experienced county team-mate David Brown, was flown in to
replace Alan Ward, who broke a bone in his ankle against New South
Wales and returned home.
At one
stage it seemed possible that Tom Graveney,
playing for Queensland, would also be asked to join the party when Brian Luckhurst cracked a finger bone.
Ted Dexter was asked to play in a one-day match against Western
Australia Country XI.
Ken Shuttleworth (groin) and Don
Wilson (finger) each missed a month's cricket.
The tour
selectors, on learning of the prospect of a seventh Test, asked that David
Brown (Wk) and Tony Greig
(Sx), playing for Eastern Province, should stand
by, and even that Alan Ward should be flown back.
Near the
end of the tour injured John Snow and Geoff Boycott returned home early
without replacement. Boycott’s arm was broken against Western Australia at
Sydney, and Snow’s hand fractured during the final (7th) Test.
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Fixtures/Results
The Third Test
was abandoned so an ODI was played on the last day. The upcoming matches against
a Victorian Country XI and against Victoria were cancelled to make room for
an additional Test match at Melbourne
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†Port Pirie
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South Australia Country XI
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Won 10 w
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Adelaide
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Won 7 w
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DRAWN
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DRAWN
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Abandoned
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Australia (ODI) extra fixture
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Southern NSW Country XI
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Won 9 w
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AUSTRALIA Fourth Test
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WON 299 r
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Northern NSW Country XI
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Drawn
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cancelled
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Melbourne
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cancelled
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AUSTRALIA Fifth Test extra
fixture
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DRAWN
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ADELAIDE
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AUSTRALIA Sixth Test
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DRAWN
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Southern NSW Country XI
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Western Australia (knockout cup
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Drawn
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Western NSW Country XI
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Won 7 w
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SYDNEY
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AUSTRALIA Seventh Test
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WON 62 r
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†Dunedin
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Otago
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Won 23 r
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CHRISTCHURCH
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NEW ZEALAND
1st Test
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WON 8 w
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Central Districts
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Won 4 w
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AUCKLAND
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NEW ZEALAND
2nd Test
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DRAWN
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†not first-class
Time
spent in Australia before First Test:
27 days
(21
October - 17 November)
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Test appearances
on tour
v Australia 1970-7 (6 Tests)
v New Zealand
1970-71 (2 Tests)
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8 - D'Oliveira, Edrich, Illingworth.
7 - Knott, Lever, Luckhurst,
Underwood.
6 - Fletcher, Snow.
5 - Boycott, Willis.
4 - Cowdrey,
Hampshire, Shuttleworth.
1 - Taylor, Wilson.
0 - Ward.
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Highlights
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• John Snow started the
series by capturing six wickets for 114 at Brisbane.
• Brian Luckhurst made 74 and 20* on Test debut, and followed
up with a century (131) in his second Test at Perth
• Geoff Boycott, with
scores of 77 and 142* at Sydney, laid the ground for England’s great
victory
• While Lawry carried
his bat for Australia, John Snow ripped through the Australia batting,
taking 7-40 at Sydney.
• Luckhurst
scored his second century (109) and D’Oliveira
(117) at Melbourne but both were injured in doing so
• Geoff Boycott (76*) and John Edrich (74*)
made 161 without loss in England’s 2nd innings at Melbourne
• They both then hit hundreds (Edrich 130, Boycott 119*) at Adelaide, sharing opening
stands of 100 in both innings
• England won the
seventh Test at Sydney (Underwood 2-28 and Illingworth 3-39) to recapture
The Ashes.
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Tour Summary
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F
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W
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L
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D
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Aban
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Canc
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Test Matches in
Australia
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7
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2
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0
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1
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Test Matches in
New Zealand
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2
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1
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0
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1
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-
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Other
first-class matches
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1
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†Minor matches
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9
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All Matches
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13
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Won L Lost
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Canc Cancelled
Aban abandoned
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Return to
England
Auckland Q London
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Alan Ward
returned to England early owing to his ankle injury.
Geoffrey
Boycott and John Snow returned to England after the final Test in
Australia, also because of injury.
The M.C.C.
party left Auckland Airport on 9 March and flew via Nandi (Fiji), Honolulu
(Hawaii), Los Angeles and New York to reach Heathrow Airport, London, on
the evening of 10 March 1971.
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Time away from England
143 days
(18 October -
10 March)
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Finances
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Accounts of the
tour
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"Captains Outrageous" by R S Whitington
(Hutchinson, 1972)
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Postscript
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Other Test tours
in 1970-71
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Indians to West
Indies 1970-71
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