The 1966 English cricket season featured an entertaining Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 series between England and West Indies. The great West Indian all-rounder Gary Sobers had an outstanding series.

In domestic cricket, Yorkshire, led by Brian Close

Brian Close

Dennis Brian Close , usually known as Brian Close, is a former cricketer who is the youngest man ever to play Test cricket for England. He was picked for the Test team to play against New Zealand, in July 1949, when he was 18 years old. Close went on to play 22 Test matches for England,...

, won the County Championship

County Championship

The County Championship is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales...

 in what would be the first of a hat-trick of titles to 1968. Close finished the season as England's captain too.

Honours

• County Championship - Yorkshire
• Gillette Cup - Warwickshire
• Minor Counties Championship - Lincolnshire
• Second XI Championship - Surrey II
• Wisden - Bob Barber
  Bob Barber
  Robert William Barber is a former English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, Lancashire and Warwickshire from 1954 to 1969. He also played 28 Test matches for England...
  
  , Basil D'Oliveira
  Basil D'Oliveira
  Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE , known affectionately around the world as "Dolly", was a South African-born English cricketer. D'Oliveira was classified as 'coloured' under the apartheid regime, and hence barred from first-class cricket, resulting in his emigration to England...
  
  , Colin Milburn
  Colin Milburn
  Colin Milburn was an English cricketer, who played in nine Test matches for England, before an accident led to the loss of much of his sight and prompted his retirement....
  
  , John Murray
  John Murray (cricketer)
  John Thomas Murray MBE is a former English cricketer. He played in twenty one Tests for England between 1961 and 1967.-Life and career:...
  
  , Seymour Nurse
  Seymour Nurse
  Seymour MacDonald Nurse is a Barbadian former cricketer. Nurse played 29 Test matches for the West Indies between 1960 and 1969. A powerfully built right-hand batsman and an aggressive, if somewhat impetuous, shotmaker, Nurse preferred to bat in the middle order but was often asked to open the...
  
  

Test series

West Indies won the series 3-1 with one match drawn.

External sources

• CricketArchive – season summary

Annual reviews

• Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual
  Playfair Cricket Annual is a compact annual about cricket that is published in the United Kingdom each April, just before the English cricket season is due to begin. Its main purposes are to review the previous English season and to provide detailed career records and potted biographies of current...
  
   1967
• Wisden Cricketers Almanack 1967