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English cricket team in Australia in 1962–63
Ted Dexter captained the English cricket team in Australia in 1962–63, playing as England in the 1962-63 Ashes series against the Australians and as the MCC in their other matches on the tour. In October, the team played a match in Colombo during a stopover on the voyage to Australia. After leaving Australia in February, they played a three-match Test series in New Zealand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''CricketArchive'' )〕
Although regarded as strong in batting, the team had a weakened bowling attack and failed to regain the Ashes despite being the first England team to go 1–0 up in Australia since Gubby Allen in 1936–37. The team included the Reverend David Sheppard (the future Bishop of Liverpool), was managed by the Duke of Norfolk and was accompanied by Ted Dexter's wife Susan, who did some modelling in Australia, all of which created great press interest in the touring team. Although Dexter and the Australian captain Richie Benaud where both committed to attacking captaincy "brightening up" cricket the last two Tests were dull draws. Not everyone was happy with the glamour that attended the tour, Fred Trueman wrote
''The very first press conference was overloaded with questions about whether the Duke of Norfolk's horses would be seen on Australian race tracks. I couldn't believe it. We were there to contest the Ashes, and there was our tour manager talking about horse racing and whether the jockey Scobie Breasley was to fly out and ride for him. Then Ted Dexter's wife arrived in Australia. Ted's wife was a looker and a model. She is a very lovely lady, but on hearing of her arrival, when Ted faced the press, the majority of questions posed were about his wife ... On top of all this we were besieged by clergymen eager to met the Reverend David Sheppard ... In no time at all the news in the press concerning the England team centred on where the Duke of Norfolk's horses were running, what Mrs Dexter was wearing and where David Sheppard was sermonising.''〔p. 274 and pp. 227–278, Trueman〕
==Selection==
''The side that Robins and his colleagues named seemed powerful in batting, and, though the bowling gave less confidence, most judges accorded them a sporting chance of winning back the Ashes, but no more. The weakness of the bowling was its sameness: six fast or fastish bowlers, all right-arm and including two all rounders, and three off-spinners. That was the attack. For the only time in history MCC set off to Australia without any left-arm bowler of any kind, nor even a right-arm leg-breaker to spin the ball away from the bat. Nor again was there a medium-pacer of the stock variety.''
:E.W. Swanton〔p. 120, Swanton〕
The captaincy of the England Test team was in a state of flux in 1962. Peter May had been captain for a record 41 Tests in 1955–61, but had missed two Tests due to illness in the 1961 Ashes series and declined the tour of India and Pakistan in 1961–62, as did Colin Cowdrey, Fred Trueman and Brian Statham. Ted Dexter of Sussex was put in charge and while he beat Pakistan 1–0 he lost to India 2–0, their first series victory over England. Dexter made 712 runs (71.20) on the tour and another 446 (89.20) when Pakistan toured England in 1962 and were thrashed 4–0. Dexter captained England in the First and Second Tests to big victories, but then Colin Cowdrey was put in charge to the Third Test. Cowdrey had been May's affable vice-captain, had a shrewd cricket brain and was seen as his natural successor, but had inherited his cautious tactics and the Marylebone Cricket Club was crusading for "brighter cricket". He had toured Australia with success in 1954–55 and as vice-captain in 1958–59, so he had the edge on experience, but he had the unfortunate knack of being injured or ill at vital moments and withdrew from the final Gentleman vs Players match at Lords because of kidney stones even though he had been appointed captain, which usually indicated the selector's intentions. Dexter was back put in charge (and drew against Fred Trueman's Players), but found another rival his own Sussex captain the Reverend David Sheppard, who was willing to take a sabbatical from his church mission in the East End to tour Australia. He had toured as an undergraduate with Freddie Brown in 1950–51 and had captained England in 1954 when Len Hutton was ill. Sheppard was a favourite with the Old Guard at Lords, who had wanted him to captain the tour of Australia in 1954–55 instead of the Yorkshire professional. They wanted him to captain the Fourth and Fifth Tests against Pakistan, but Sheppard had not played serious cricket for years. He made 112 for the Gentlemen and was chosen for the tour, but Dexter was confirmed as captain for the remainder of the home series and the forthcoming tour of Australia and New Zealand with Cowdrey as vice-captain. The unfortunate Cowdrey never captained England in Australia despite touring a record six times and being four times vice-captain. There were few other surprises in the selection of the team, except that the Surrey slow-left-arm bowler Tony Lock was omitted, which limited Dexter's bowling options. Lock had failed on the previous tour of Australia in 1958–59, taking 5 wickets (75.20) and against Pakistan that summer with 6 wickets (40.16).〔pxii, Moyes and Goodman〕 Lock was hired by Western Australia as their overseas player, helped defeat the MCC at the WACA and captained the state from 1963–64 to 1970–71. The general opinion was that England had a good batting side, but their bowling was unvaried, would struggle to dismiss Australia and that the tourists would be lucky to avoid another defeat.〔pxiii, Moyes and Goodman〕〔p. 120 and p. 129, Swanton〕〔p. 271, Trueman〕
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