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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th February 1966 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 8 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | CJ Egar, LP Rowan |
| Close of play day 1 | England (1) 312/5 (Cowdrey 43*, Parks 29*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Australia (1) 101/2 (Lawry 43*, Cowper 32*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Australia (1) 333/3 (Cowper 159*, Walters 35*) |
| Close of play day 4 | No play |
| England first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Boycott | c Stackpole b McKenzie | 17 | 87 | 75 | - | - | |
| RW Barber | run out | 17 | 24 | 55 | - | - | |
| JH Edrich | c McKenzie b Walters | 85 | 226 | 239 | 7 | - | |
| KF Barrington | c Grout b Walters | 115 | 153 | 178 | 8 | 2 | |
| MC Cowdrey | c Grout b Walters | 79 | 143 | 190 | 7 | - | |
| *MJK Smith | c Grout b Walters | 0 | 6 | 4 | - | - | |
| +JM Parks | run out | 89 | 175 | 178 | 9 | - | |
| FJ Titmus | not out | 42 | 128 | 122 | 2 | - | |
| BR Knight | c Grout b Hawke | 13 | 39 | 43 | 1 | - | |
| DJ Brown | c and b Chappell | 12 | 25 | 28 | 2 | - | |
| IJ Jones | not out | 4 | 14 | 15 | - | - | |
| Extras | (9 b, 2 lb, 1 nb) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 127 overs) | 485 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-36 (Barber), 2-41 (Boycott), 3-219 (Barrington), 4-254 (Edrich), 5-254 (Smith), 6-392 (Cowdrey), 7-419 (Parks), 8-449 (Knight), 9-474 (Brown) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| McKenzie | 26 | 5 | 100 | 1 | - | - |
| Hawke | 35 | 5 | 109 | 1 | - | - |
| Walters | 19 | 3 | 53 | 4 | - | - |
| Simpson | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0 | - | - |
| Stackpole | 10 | 2 | 43 | 0 | - | - |
| Veivers | 15 | 3 | 78 | 0 | - | - |
| Chappell | 17 | 4 | 70 | 1 | - | - |
| Australia first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| WM Lawry | c Edrich b Jones | 108 | 256 | 369 | 7 | - | |
| *RB Simpson | b Brown | 4 | 6 | 13 | 1 | - | |
| G Thomas | c Titmus b Jones | 19 | 25 | 31 | 2 | - | |
| RM Cowper | b Knight | 307 | 589 | 727 | 20 | - | |
| KD Walters | c and b Barber | 60 | 201 | 236 | 3 | - | |
| IM Chappell | c Parks b Jones | 19 | 80 | 81 | 1 | - | |
| KR Stackpole | b Knight | 9 | 47 | 56 | - | - | |
| TR Veivers | b Titmus | 4 | 29 | 22 | 1 | - | |
| NJN Hawke | not out | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |
| +ATW Grout | did not bat | ||||||
| GD McKenzie | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 b, 5 lb, 2 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 154.2 overs) | 543 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Simpson), 2-36 (Thomas), 3-248 (Lawry), 4-420 (Walters), 5-481 (Chappell), 6-532 (Stackpole), 7-543 (Veivers), 8-543 (Cowper, 154.2 ov) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| Brown | 31 | 3 | 134 | 1 | - | - |
| Jones | 29 | 1 | 145 | 3 | - | - |
| Knight | 36.2 | 4 | 105 | 2 | - | - |
| Titmus | 42 | 12 | 86 | 1 | - | - |
| Barber | 16 | 0 | 60 | 1 | - | - |
| England second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| G Boycott | lbw b McKenzie | 1 | 10 | 12 | - | - | |
| RW Barber | b McKenzie | 20 | 21 | 22 | 4 | - | |
| JH Edrich | b McKenzie | 3 | 13 | 21 | - | - | |
| KF Barrington | not out | 32 | 50 | 52 | 3 | - | |
| MC Cowdrey | not out | 11 | 42 | 40 | 1 | - | |
| *MJK Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| +JM Parks | did not bat | ||||||
| FJ Titmus | did not bat | ||||||
| BR Knight | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| IJ Jones | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 17 overs) | 69 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Boycott), 2-21 (Barber), 3-34 (Edrich) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls |
| McKenzie | 6 | 2 | 17 | 3 | - | - |
| Hawke | 4 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - |
| Walters | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - |
| Stackpole | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | - | - |
| Chappell | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | - | - |
Notes
--> JH Edrich (1) passed 1000 runs in Test matches when he reached 56
--> KF Barrington (1) 100 in 122 balls
--> KF Barrington (1) passed 5500 runs in Test matches when he reached 108
--> G Thomas made his last appearance in Test matches
--> RM Cowper (1) passed his previous highest score of 143 in Test matches
--> RM Cowper (1) passed his previous highest score of 195 in first-class matches
--> RM Cowper (1) 200 in 535 minutes
--> RM Cowper (1) passed 1000 runs in Test matches when he reached 177
--> KD Walters (1) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 11
--> IM Chappell (1) passed his previous highest score of 17 in Test matches
--> ATW Grout made his last appearance in first-class matches
--> ATW Grout made his last appearance in Test matches
--> RW Barber (2) passed 1000 runs in first-class matches for the season when he reached 19
--> KD Walters achieved his best innings bowling analysis in Test matches when he dismissed JH Edrich in the England first innings (previous best was 1-22)
--> KD Walters reached 50 wickets in first-class matches when he dismissed KF Barrington, his 1st wicket in the England first innings
--> IJ Jones reached 300 wickets in first-class matches when he dismissed IM Chappell, his 3rd wicket in the Australia first innings
--> GD McKenzie reached 400 wickets in first-class matches when he dismissed JH Edrich, his 3rd wicket in the England second innings
Barrington's century won him the Walter Lawrence Trophy.
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