International Cavaliers
The International Cavaliers were an ad hoc cricket team made up of famous cricketers in order to encourage local cricket. Their teams included many prominent
cricketers from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1970s as many retired veterans and talented young players were in the team at one point or another. International tours were arranged to South Africa in 1960–61, Africa and India in 1962–63 and the West Indies in 1964–65, 1965–66 and 1969–70.[1]
These were usually made up of Test players whose countries were not touring that season (a more common occurrence at the time) or who were not required for their Test side.
History
In England from 1965 to 1968
Brian Moore (commentator) presented the first match before Frank Bough took over)[2]
showed the games on television, providing extra revenue, and the games allowed spectators to see a wide range of famous players at county grounds. In the first season they drew 280,000 spectators, compared to 327,000 on the other six days of the week.[3] Ted Dexter wrote, "We had such an amazing side – Sobers, Compton, Graeme Pollock – I was only able to creep in at 6 or 7. When we went to Lord's for the first time we told them to be ready, there'd be a big crowd. They said 'No, no, there won't'. They sold out of everything by twelve. We took the place by storm."[4]
In 1966 they beat the touring
John Player County League began in 1969, and the Cavaliers were disbanded in 1970.[8]
Players
Further reading
- Ted Dexter and Ian Wooldridge, The International Cavaliers' World of Cricket, Purnell, 1970
- Terence Crosby, "The International Cavaliers 1965–1968", The Cricket Statistician, Summer 2018, pp. 14–21
See also
Notes
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
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- ^ p243, Simon Hughes, And God Created Cricket, Black Swan 2009
- ^ p241, Simon Hughes, And God Created Cricket, Black Swan 2009
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive".
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- ^ p242, Simon Hughes, And God Created Cricket, Black Swan 2009