then the whole position would be reviewed. Meanwhile, the 1964 matches had continued in their traditional form, the Whitsuntide headlines dominated by clashes between mods and rockers – suit-wearing scooter drivers and black-leathered macho bikers – at Margate, Broadstairs, Hastings and Brighton. The established fixtures for 1965 remained in place. Tony Lewis made big hundreds for Glamorgan against the New Zealanders at Whit and the South Africans in early August, the latter game attracting 30,000 over three days and ending with the tourists hanging on for dear life. Rain interfered with the Whitsuntide games, although it relented at Lord’s where 10,000 onWhit Monday saw a fine display by Dexter. It also curtailed play on what would have been August Bank Holiday Monday, which, with the traditional fixtures still in place, at least, left an impression that nothing had really changed. In some ways nothing had, for many of the agricultural, fruit and vegetable shows also stuck with tradition while others moved forward to the new date. That saw an unfamiliar set of fixtures beginning on Saturday 28 August 1965 – Derbyshire-Warwickshire, Essex-Middlesex, Glamorgan-Surrey, Gloucestershire-Nottinghamshire, Lancashire-Kent, Leicestershire-Hampshire, Sussex-Worcestershire and Yorkshire-Somerset, with the odd county out being Northamptonshire. They also included the final Test against South Africa at The Oval, where England’s effort to make 399 on the Tuesday was ended by rain with 109 needed in 85 minutes with six wickets remaining. In addition, cricket also had to compete with football, the league programme being into its third set of fixtures. The Whitsuntide games of 1966 found Sobers in superb all-round form in the tourists’ match at Derby, Don Shepherd taking seven for seven in Glamorgan’s victory over Hampshire at Cardiff and Sunday play for the first time in the Leicestershire-Northamptonshire game at Grace Road, where Colin Milburn, Mushtaq Mohammad, David Steele and Clive Inman made centuries. This was a season when each county played 12 matches with the first innings of each limited to 65 overs and Milburn’s response was four sixes and 22 fours in a magnificent 171. At Bath, Langford exploited a turning pitch to bowl Somerset to victory over Gloucestershire. And there was a poignant moment in the Roses match at Headingley. Trueman’s Test career had ended quietly the previous season; now against the old enemy and at a pace no more than fast medium but with admirable control of length and swing, he returned a pre-lunch spell of four for seven in 11 overs. Lancashire, 57 all out, Trueman 14-6-18-5, were beaten in two days by ten wickets. Attendances in warm, sunny weather were 8,000 on Saturday and 16,000 on Whit Monday. August 1966 brought an odd mixture of some of the traditional games being played at the beginning of the month and others taking place during the Bank Holiday at the end. Thus the West Indies were at Swansea early on and Southampton at the end. Over the old holiday dates, Yorkshire beat Lancashire by 12 runs at Old Trafford after becoming the first side to forfeit an innings and Worcestershire won at Edgbaston. The Bank Holiday – one of the wettest on record - saw the first County Championship match to be played in North Wales bring victory for Glamorgan over Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay. The New Road crowd was charmed by a huge stand between Graveney and d’Oliveira against Essex, Northamptonshire defeated Gloucestershire by an innings at Bristol, Leicestershire were victorious at Old Trafford, Parfitt, Murray and Suttle made Changing the Dates 181