Wisden on the Ashes by Steven Lynch

Author:Steven Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Toss: Australia. Australia 358 (R. B. Simpson 59, W. M. Lawry 88, R. M. Cowper 99, B. R. Knight 4-84) and 426 (R. B. Simpson 67, W. M. Lawry 78, P. J. P. Burge 120, K. D. Walters 115); England 558 (G. Boycott 51, J. H. Edrich 109, K. F. Barrington 63, M. C. Cowdrey 104, J. M. Parks 71, F. J. Titmus 56*, G. D. McKenzie 5-134) and 5-0.

Third Test

At Sydney, January 7, 8, 10, 11, 1966. England won by an innings and 93 runs.

Illness kept Simpson out again, and Booth, as in Brisbane, was the captain. On a pitch which turned more and more the toss was the decisive event. Barber’s greatest innings of the tour and the opening stand of 234 made certain that England would not lose the advantage of batting first. Again Australia paid a heavy price for dropping Boycott early. He was missed at backward short leg off the luckless McKenzie when 12. In two hours before lunch he and Barber made 93 off 36 overs, then in the next two hours, before Boycott at last fell to Philpott’s leg-spin, they added 141. When Barber was second out at 303 he had batted four minutes under five hours and hit 19 fours in an innings of magnificent aggression, a match-winning innings.

His wicket started Hawke on a splendid new-ball spell which swept aside the middle order. In eight overs he took three for 14, and with his first ball on the second morning he also dismissed Brown. Despite his fine bowling in conditions which did not materially help pace England made an unassailable total, for Edrich scored a second successive Test century in almost four and a quarter hours. Finally Allen, who made his not-out 50 in 88 minutes, and Jones put on 55 for the last wicket.

On a wearing pitch Australia were always struggling after a second-wicket stand of 81 by Thomas and Cowper. Thomas revealed his wide range of beautiful strokes while making 51 of those runs with seven fours. Cowper by contrast batted four hours ten minutes for 60 and meekly played his side into the hands of the English fast bowlers. On his return to the side Brown took three wickets in his first over with the new ball, and finished with five for 63.

In the follow-on the off-spin of Allen and Titmus was decisive on a broken pitch. The longest stand was 46 for the first wicket by Thomas and Lawry, but Walters was again responsible for the best batting. For two hours he played the turning ball with rare skill, and so for the third time running he came off splendidly when his side were in difficulties. Sincock, the left-arm spinner brought in to increase Australia’s attacking options on the Sydney pitch, had an unfortunate match as a bowler, but in both innings he batted with admirable determination.

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