It is true that the country was in the throes of one of the more important post-war General Election campaign’s that summer, that England’s football team were in Mexico, unsuccessfully defending the World Cup so famously won in 1966, and that there was much interest in the Edinburgh Commonwealth Games that began during the third match, england football kit but the public still seemed to lack a real appetite for the series. They could easily have been four down as Kanhai seemed, initially, to lack confidence in his ability to build an innings. Both West Indians, and Mushtaq were dismissed, all by Snow, but Sobers, fittingly, saw his side home as they won by four wickets.