1973 Gillette Cup
Administrator(s) | England and Wales 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 played | 21 |
Most runs | 242 Peter Graves (Sussex) |
Most wickets | 11 Roger Knight (Gloucestershire) |
Official website | CricketArchive tournament page |
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.
Contents
Format
The 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
30 June 1973
(scorecard) |
Bedfordshire
148 all out (54.2 overs) |
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Lancashire
275/3 (60 overs) |
30 June 1973
(scorecard) |
Gloucestershire
230/9 (60 overs) |
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Glamorgan
196 all out (57.1 overs) |
30 June 1973
(scorecard) |
Wiltshire
82 all out (49.2 overs) |
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Hampshire
86/3 (27 overs) |
30 June 1973
(scorecard) |
Sussex
225/8 (60 overs) |
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Northamptonshire
195 all out (56.9 overs) |
30 June 1973
(scorecard) |
Staffordshire
163/9 (60 overs) |
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Dorset
84 all out (45.3 overs) |
30 June 1973
(scorecard) |
Yorkshire
135 all out (58.4 overs) |
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Durham
138/5 (51.3 overs) |
Second round
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Sussex
203/9 (60 overs) |
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Derbyshire
92 all out (47.3 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Durham
134 all out (56.4 overs) |
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Essex
137/3 (45.4 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Gloucestershire
169/7 (60 overs) |
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Surrey
150 all out (54.1 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Hampshire
205 all out (58.5 overs) |
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Kent
206/2 (52.5 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Staffordshire
137 all out (58.5 overs) |
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Lancashire
141/4 (35.2 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Nottinghamshire
162/7 (60 overs) |
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Middlesex
165/6 (54 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Somerset
212 all out (59.1 overs) |
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Leicestershire
215/8 (59 overs) |
11 July 1973
(scorecard) |
Worcestershire
213/9 (60 overs) |
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Warwickshire
200 all out (58.3 overs) |
Quarter-finals
1 August 1973
(scorecard) |
Gloucestershire
236/9 (60 overs) |
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Essex
206 all out (56.5 overs) |
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.
1 August 1973
(scorecard) |
Sussex
263/6 (60 overs) |
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Kent
135 all out (43.1 overs) |
1 August 1973
(scorecard) |
Worcestershire
202/9 (60 overs) |
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Leicestershire
146 all out (53.5 overs) |
Semi-finals
15 August 1973
(scorecard) |
Sussex
174/8 (60 overs) |
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Middlesex
169 all out (59.1 overs) |
15 August 1973
(scorecard) |
Gloucestershire
243/8 (60 overs) |
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Worcestershire
238/9 (60 overs) |
Final
1 September 1973
(scorecard) |
Gloucestershire
243/8 (60 overs) |
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Sussex
208 all out (56.5 overs) |
References
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