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England v Sweden (Div.2)
| 1972 | England won series 3-2 | England team manager | |||||
| Sun 25.06 : Workington | England | 55 | Sweden | 52 | (Att: 3,000) | Ian Thomas | |
| Mon 26.06 : Birmingham (Perry Barr) | England | 57 | Sweden | 51 | Joe Thurley | ||
| Wed 28.06 : Bradford | England | 47 | Sweden | 61 | Stan Holey | ||
| Fri 30.06 : Peterborough | England | 48 | Sweden | 60 | Alec Ford | ||
| Sat 01.07 : Canterbury | England | 55 | Sweden | 53 | Russ Osborne | ||
| Sweden team manager : Christer Bergstrom | |||||||
| England | Total | Sweden | Total | ||||||||||||
| Richard Greer © | 10 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 44 | Bengt Larsson | 12 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 9 | 63 | ||
| Paul Tyrer | 15 | 9 | - | - | - | 24 | Tommy Jansson | 5 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 56 | ||
| Gordon Kennett | - | 11 | - | 5 | 6 | 22 | Christer Sjosten | 10 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 51 | ||
| Arthur Browning | 2 | 9 | 7 | 0 | - | 18 | Lars Jansson | 11 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 42 | ||
| Brian Foote | - | 10 | - | 8 | - | 18 | Lars-Inge Hultberg | 8 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 31 | ||
| John Davis | 10 | - | - | 7 | - | 17 | Soren Karlsson | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 15 | ||
| Arthur Price | - | 12 | 5 | - | - | 17 | Karl-Erik Claesson | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | ||
| Graham Banks | - | - | - | - | 15 | 15 | Kall Haage | - | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| Dave Baugh | - | - | 15 | - | - | 15 |  |
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| Ted Hubbard | - | - | - | - | 13 | 13 | |||||||||
| Malcolm Ballard | - | - | 7 | 4 | - | 11 | |||||||||
| John Jackson | 11 | - | - | - | - | 11 | |||||||||
| Bob Coles | 2 | - | 8 | - | - | 10 | |||||||||
| David Piddock | - | - | - | - | 10 | 10 | |||||||||
| Russell Osborne | - | - | - | 6 | - | 6 | |||||||||
| Taffy Owen | 4 | - | - | - | - | 4 | |||||||||
| Geoff Bouchard | - | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 2 | |||||||||
| Barney Kennett | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Roger Mills | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | |||||||||
| Frank Auffret | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||||||||
| Ross Gilbertson | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Mick Hines | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | |||||||||
| 1st Test at Workington 25th June
Ht 1: Larsson, Hultberg, Owen, Browning (f rem) 76.4 1-5 1-5 Ht 2: Sjosten, Davis, Greer, T Jansson 75.4 3-3 4-8 Ht 3: Tyrer, L Jansson, Claesson, Coles 76.6 3-3 7-11 Ht 4: Larsson, Greer, Davis, Hultberg 76.0 3-3 10-14 Ht 5: Tyrer, Sjosten, T Jansson, Coles 76.4 3-3 13-17 Ht 6: Owen, Claesson, Browning (f), L Jansson (f exc) 78.4 3-2 16-19 Ht 7: Hultberg, Coles, Larsson, Tyrer 76.2 2-4 18-23 Ht 8: Jackson, Browning, Sjosten, T Jansson 76.4 5-1 23-24 Ht 9: L Jansson, Davis, Greer, Claesson 78.6 3-3 26-27 Ht 10: Hultberg, Larsson, Jackson, Browning 76.5 1-5 27-32 Ht 11: Sjosten, Davis, Greer, Karlsson 76.2 3-3 30-35 Ht 12: Tyrer, L Jansson, Claesson, Coles 77.4 3-3 33-38 Ht 13: Davis, Greer, Larsson, Hultberg 77.6 5-1 38-39 Ht 14: Tyrer, T Jansson, Sjosten, Auffret 77.6 3-3 41-42 Ht 15: Jackson, L Jansson, Karlsson, Browning (f exc) 77.0 3-3 44-45 Ht 16: Tyrer, Larsson, Jackson, Hultberg 76.6 4-2 48-47 Ht 17: Jackson, T Jansson, Auffret, Sjosten 77.4 4-2 52-49 Ht 18: Greer, L Jansson, Claesson, Davis (f exc) 78.0 3-3 55-52 |
2nd Test at Birmingham 26th June
Ht 1: Browning, Larsson, Price, Hultberg 64.2 4-2 4-2 Ht 2: Sjosten, Kennett, T Jansson, Greer 65.6 2-4 6-6 Ht 3: Foote, Tyrer, Claesson, L Jansson 66.0 5-1 11-7 Ht 4: Kennett, Larsson, Greer, Hultberg 66.4 4-2 15-9 Ht 5: Foote, Sjosten, Tyrer, T Jansson 65.8 4-2 19-11 Ht 6: Browning, Price, Claesson, L Jansson 66.8 5-1 24-12 Ht 7: Larsson, Tyrer, Haage, Foote (ef) 66.8 2-4 26-16 Ht 8: Sjosten, Price, T Jansson, Browning (f) 67.2 2-4 28-20 Ht 9: Kennett, L Jansson, Greer, Claesson 67.0 4-2 32-22 Ht 10: Price, Browning, Larsson, Haage 67.8 5-1 37-23 Ht 11: Sjosten, Greer, Karlsson, Kennett (exc) 67.2 2-4 39-27 Ht 12: Claesson, Tyrer, Foote, L Jansson 65.8 3-3 42-30 Ht 13: Larsson, Kennett, Greer, Karlsson 65.4 3-3 45-33 Ht 14: T Jansson, Foote, Bouchard, Sjosten (exc) 66.0 3-3 48-36 Ht 15: Price, Karlsson, Browning, Claesson 67.0 4-2 52-38 Ht 16: Larsson, Tyrer, Foote, Haage 65.8 3-3 55-41 Ht 17: T Jansson, Sjosten, Price, Browning 66.6 1-5 56-46 Ht 18: L Jansson, Karlsson, Kennett, Hines 67.0 1-5 57-51 |
3rd Test at Bradford 28th June
Ht 1: L Jansson, Baugh, Hultberg, Browning (f) 68.6 2-4 2-4 Ht 2: Greer, Larsson, Haage, Mills 71.0 3-3 5-7 Ht 3: T Jansson, Price, Ballard, Claesson 71.2 3-3 8-10 Ht 4: Hultberg, L Jansson, Mills, Greer 70.4 1-5 9-15 Ht 5: Larsson, Price, Haage, Ballard 70.8 2-4 11-19 Ht 6: Sjosten, Baugh, Browning, T Jansson 71.2 3-3 14-22 Ht 7: Hultberg, L Jansson, Price, Bouchard 70.0 1-5 15-27 Ht 8: Browning, Baugh, Larsson, Karlsson 71.0 5-1 20-28 Ht 9: T Jansson, Sjosten, Coles, Greer 70.2 1-5 21-33 Ht 10: Baugh, Browning, L Jansson, Hultberg 70.8 5-1 26-34 Ht 11: Sjosten, Larsson, Coles, Greer 71.4 1-5 27-39 Ht 12: T Jansson, Ballard, Coles, Sjosten (f exc) 69.8 3-3 30-42 Ht 13: L Jansson, Coles, Hultberg, Mills 71.4 2-4 32-46 Ht 14: Larsson, Ballard, Haage, Bouchard 70.4 2-4 34-50 Ht 15: Baugh, Sjosten, Browning, T Jansson 71.0 4-2 38-52 Ht 16: Hultberg, Ballard, Coles, L Jansson 71.0 3-3 41-55 Ht 17: Baugh, Larsson, Haage, Browning 71.0 3-3 44-58 Ht 18: Sjosten, Coles, Mills, T Jansson (f) 71.8 3-3 47-61 |
| 4th Test at Peterborough 30th June Ht 1: Greer, L Jansson, Kennett, Hultberg 72.2 4-2 4-2 Ht 2: Davis, Larsson, Karlsson, Browning 71.8 3-3 7-5 Ht 3: T Jansson, Claesson, Foote, Ballard 73.0 1-5 8-10 Ht 4: L Jansson, Hultberg, Davis, Browning 71.6 1-5 9-15 Ht 5: Larsson, Foote, Sjosten, Ballard 71.2 2-4 11-19 Ht 6: Greer, T Jansson, Kennett, Claesson, 70.6 4-2 15-21 Ht 7: L Jansson, Hultberg, Foote, Bouchard 72.0 1-5 16-26 Ht 8: Greer, Larsson, Sjosten, Kennett 71.8 3-3 19-29 Ht 9: T Jansson, Osborne, Claesson, Davis 71.8 2-4 21-33 Ht 10: Greer, Hultberg, Kennett, Sjosten (exc) 71.2 4-2 25-35 Ht 11: Larsson, Osborne, Bouchard, Haage (exc) 71.8 3-3 28-38 Ht 12: Foote, T Jansson, Ballard, Claesson 72.2 4-2 32-40 Ht 13: Hultberg, Davis, L Jansson, Browning 71.4 2-4 34-44 Ht 14: Larsson, Ballard, Foote, Sjosten 72.4 3-3 37-47 Ht 15: T Jansson, Greer, Kennett, Claesson 72.0 3-3 40-50 Ht 16: Hultberg, L Jansson, Ballard, Foote 72.0 1-5 41-55 Ht 17: Greer, Larsson, Kennett, Karlsson 72.2 4-2 45-57 Ht 18: T Jansson, Osborne, Davis, Haage 72.0 3-3 48-60 |
5th Test at Canterbury 1st July Ht 1: Sjosten, L Jansson, Piddock, Gilbertson (f) 75.0 1-5 1-5 Ht 2: Greer, Larsson, Hubbard, Hultberg 75.8 4-2 5-7 Ht 3: T Jansson, Banks, G Kennett, Claesson 77.0 3-3 8-10 Ht 4: Hubbard, Sjosten, Greer, L Jansson 76.0 4-2 12-12 Ht 5: Banks, Larsson, G Kennett, Hultberg 76.2 4-2 16-14 Ht 6: T Jansson, Karlsson, Piddock, Gilbertson 75.8 1-5 17-19 Ht 7: Sjosten, Banks, G Kennett, Haage 75.6 3-3 20-22 Ht 8: Piddock, Karlsson, Larsson, Gilbertson (ef) 77.0 3-3 23-25 Ht 9: T Jansson, Hubbard, Greer, Claesson 74.8 3-3 26-28 Ht 10: Piddock, L Jansson, Sjosten, B Kennett (f exc) 75.8 3-3 29-31 Ht 11: Hubbard, Greer, Larsson, Hultberg 75.8 5-1 34-32 Ht 12: T Jansson, Banks, Karlsson, G Kennett 74.8 2-4 36-36 Ht 13: Sjosten, Hubbard, Greer, L Jansson 75.6 3-3 39-39 Ht 14: Banks, Karlsson, G Kennett, Larsson 76.0 4-2 43-41 Ht 15: T Jansson, Piddock, Claesson, B Kennett 76.4 2-4 45-45 Ht 16: Banks, G Kennett, Sjosten, L Jansson 76.2 5-1 50-46 Ht 17: Larsson, B Kennett, Karlsson, Piddock (exc) 75.6 2-4 52-50 Ht 18: T Jansson, Hubbard, Greer, Claesson 75.8 3-3 55-53 |
| 1973 | England won series 5-0 | England team manager | ||||
| Sun 30.09 : Eastbourne | England | 54 | Sweden | 53 | Wally Mawdsley | |
| Mon 01.10 : Crewe | England | 77 | Sweden | 31 | Ian Thomas | |
| Wed 03.10 : Bradford | England | 73 | Sweden | 35 | Joe Thurley | |
| Thu 04.10 : Teesside | England | 62 | Sweden | 46 | Ian Thomas | |
| Fri 05.10 : Peterborough | England | 75 | Sweden | 33 | Ron Wilson | |
| Sweden team manager : Kim Malmberg | ||||||
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England | Total | |||||||
| John Davis | 11 | 16 | - | - | 18 | 45 | |||
| Carl Glover | 7 | - | 16 | 6 | 14 | 43 | |||
| Arthur Price | - | - | 12 | 15 | 9 | 36 | |||
| Roger Johns | 2 | - | 9 | 11 | 3 | 25 | |||
| Frank Auffret | 13 | - | - | 9 | - | 22 | |||
| Mitch Graham | - | 7 | 14 | - | - | 21 | |||
| Graham Drury | - | 2 | - | - | 14 | 16 | |||
| Richard Greer | - | - | - | - | 16 | 16 | |||
| Dave Morton | 1 | 15 | - | - | - | 16 | |||
| Bruce Forrester | - | - | - | 15 | - | 15 | |||
| Dave Baugh | - | - | 10 | 4 | - | 14 | |||
| Geoff Ambrose | - | 13 | - | - | - | 13 | |||
| Ray Bales | - | 12 | - | - | - | 12 | |||
| Tony Featherstone | - | - | 12 | - | - | 12 | |||
| John Jackson | - | 12 | - | - | - | 12 | |||
| Bobby McNeil | 10 | - | - | - | - | 10 | |||
| Arthur Browning | 7 | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | |||
| Paul Gachet | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | |||
| Peter Reading | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | |||
| Brian Clark | - | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | |||
| Sweden | |||||||||
| Leif Enecrona | 15 | 3 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 46 | |||
| Tommy Nilsson | 14 | 12 | 6 | - | - | 32 | |||
| Kenneth Selmosson | 14 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 28 | |||
| Peter Smith* | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 25 | |||
| Richard Hellsen | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 21 | |||
| Sven Nilsson | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 20 | |||
| Stefan Salomonsson | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 16 | |||
| Karl-Erik Claesson | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |||
| Borje Klingberg | - | - | - | 0 | 4 | 4 | |||
| * Born in Sweden of USA father. Not the English (Poole) rider. | |||||||||
| 1st Test at Eastbourne 30th
September Ht 1: Enecrona, Browning, McNeil, Claesson 65.4 3-3 3-3 Ht 2: Selmosson, Glover, S Nilsson (f), Davis (exc) 66.0 2-3 5-6 Ht 3: T Nilsson, Johns, Auffret, Salomonsson 64.2 3-3 8-9 Ht 4: Davis, Enecrona, Glover, Smith 64.0 4-2 12-11 Ht 5: Auffret, Selmosson, S Nilsson, Johns (exc) 63.6 3-3 15-14 Ht 6: Browning, T Nilsson, McNeil, Salomonsson (f) 65.0 4-2 19-16 Ht 7: Auffret, Gachet, Enecrona, Claesson 63.4 5-1 24-17 Ht 8: S Nilsson, McNeil, Selmosson, Browning 65.0 2-4 26-21 Ht 9: Davis, Salomonsson, T Nilsson, Glover 64.4 3-3 29-24 Ht 10: Enecrona, Smith, McNeil, Browning 64.6 1-5 30-29 Ht 11: Selmosson, Glover, Davis, S Nilsson 63.6 3-3 33-32 Ht 12: T Nilsson, Auffret, Morton, Salomonsson 64.4 3-3 36-35 Ht 13: Enecrona, Glover, Davis, Hellsen 64.6 3-3 39-38 Ht 14: Selmosson, Auffret, S Nilsson, Gachet 64.0 2-4 41-42 Ht 15: T Nilsson, McNeil, Browning, Smith 64.6 3-3 44-45 Ht 16: Enecrona, Auffret, Gachet, Hellsen 64.0 3-3 47-48 Ht 17: McNeil, Selmosson, Browning, S Nilsson (f) 64.6 4-2 51-50 Ht 18: Davis, T Nilsson, Salomonsson, Glover 63.8 3-3 54-53 |
2nd Test at Crewe 1st October
Ht 1: Morton, Jackson, Enecrona, Claesson 72.4 5-1 5-1 Ht 2: Davis, S Nilsson, Graham, Smith 72.6 4-2 9-3 Ht 3: Ambrose, Bales, Selmosson, T Nilsson (ef) 73.8 5-1 14-4 Ht 4: Davis, Graham, Claesson, Enecrona 73.6 5-1 19-5 Ht 5: Ambrose, Smith, Bales, S Nilsson 73.6 4-2 23-7 Ht 6: Morton, T Nilsson, Jackson, Selmosson 73.4 4-2 27-9 Ht 7: Ambrose, Claesson, Enecorna, Bales 73.6 3-3 30-12 Ht 8: Jackson, Morton, Salomonsson, Smith 73.0 5-1 35-13 Ht 9: Davis, T Nilsson, Hellsen, Graham (ef) 73.4 3-3 38-16 Ht 10: Morton, Jackson, Claesson, Enecrona 74.0 5-1 43-17 Ht 11: Davis, Drury, Hellsen, S Nilsson 74.0 5-1 48-18 Ht 12: Bales, T Nilsson, Ambrose, Selmosson 73.0 4-2 52-20 Ht 13: Davis, Graham, Enecrona, Claesson 74.0 5-1 57-21 Ht 14: Bales, Ambrose, Smith, S Nilsson 72.6 5-1 62-22 Ht 15: T Nilsson, Jackson, Morton, Salomonsson 73.0 3-3 65-25 Ht 16: Bales, Hellsen, Ambrose, Enecrona 73.4 4-2 69-27 Ht 17: Morton, Jackson, Smith, Salomonsson (f) 74.6 5-1 74-28 Ht 18: T Nilsson, Graham, Davis, Selmosson 73.4 3-3 77-31 |
3rd Test at Bradford 3rd October
Ht 1: Glover, Salomonsson, Baugh, Enecrona 70.2 4-2 4-2 Ht 2: Price, Hellsen, Graham, S Nilsson 72.8 4-2 8-4 Ht 3: Featherstone, Johns, T Nilsson, Smith 73.4 5-1 13-5 Ht 4: Graham, Price, Enecrona, Selmosson 72.2 5-1 18-6 Ht 5: Johns, Hellsen, Selmosson, Featherstone 72.2 3-3 21-9 Ht 6: Smith, Glover, T Nilsson, Baugh (exc) 71.4 2-4 23-13 Ht 7: Featherstone, Salomonsson, Enecrona, Johns 72.8 3-3 26-16 Ht 8: Glover, Baugh, Hellsen, Selmosson (f exc) 70.4 5-1 31-17 Ht 9: Graham, Price, T Nilsson, Smith (f) 71.6 5-1 36-18 Ht 10: Glover, Baugh, Enecrona, Salomonsson 71.6 5-1 41-19 Ht 11: Hellsen, Graham, Price, S Nilsson 71.2 3-3 44-22 Ht 12: Smith, Johns, Featherstone, T Nilsson 72.0 3-3 47-25 Ht 13: Price, Graham, Enecrona, Salomonsson 73.2 5-1 52-26 Ht 14: Hellsen, Johns, Featherstone, S Nilsson 71.8 3-3 55-29 Ht 15: Glover, Baugh, T Nilsson, Smith 71.0 5-1 60-30 Ht 16: Featherstone, Enecrona, Johns, Salomonsson 73.6 4-2 64-32 Ht 17: Baugh, Glover, Claesson, Hellsen (exc) 73.2 5-1 69-33 Ht 18: Graham, T Nilsson, Price, Smith 73.2 4-2 73-35 |
| 4th Test at Teeside 4th October Ht 1: Enecrona, Forrester, Baugh, Klingberg 68.0 3-3 3-3 Ht 2: Nilsson, Johns, Smith, Auffret (f) 69.2 2-4 5-7 Ht 3: Price, Glover, Selmosson, Hellsen 68.6 5-1 10-8 Ht 4: Enecrona, Auffret, Johns, Claesson 68.4 3-3 13-11 Ht 5: Price, Nilsson, Glover, Smith 68.4 4-2 17-13 Ht 6: Selmosson, Forrester, Baugh, Salomonsson 68.6 3-3 20-16 Ht 7: Enecrona, Price, Glover, Klingberg 68.8 3-3 23-19 Ht 8: Forrester, Smith, Nilsson, Baugh 69.6 3-3 26-22 Ht 9: Johns, Selmosson, Auffret, Salomonsson 69.2 4-2 30-24 Ht 10: Forrester, Enecrona, Reading, Hellsen 69.4 4-2 34-26 Ht 11: Auffret, Johns, Nilsson, Smith 69.6 5-1 39-27 Ht 12: Price, Selmosson, Glover, Claesson 70.2 4-2 43-29 Ht 13: Auffret, Enecrona, Johns, Klingberg 69.2 4-2 47-31 Ht 14: Nilsson, Price, Glover, Smith 69.4 3-3 50-34 Ht 15: Forrester, Baugh, Salomonsson, Selmosson 71.2 5-1 55-35 Ht 16: Enecrona, Price, Claesson, Glover 70.2 2-4 57-39 Ht 17: Nilsson, Forrester, Reading, Claesson 71.4 3-3 60-42 Ht 18: Selmosson, Johns, Salomonsson, Auffret (ef) 70.4 2-4 62-46 |
5th Test at Peterborough 5th October
Ht 1: Davis, Enecrona, Salomonsson, Price 69.6 3-3 3-3 Ht 2: Greer, Glover, Smith, Nilsson (ef) 70.6 5-1 8-4 Ht 3: Drury, Johns, Klongberg, Selmosson 73.4 5-1 13-5 Ht 4: Greer, Glover, Salomonsson, Enecrona 70.2 5-1 18-6 Ht 5: Smith, Drury, Johns, Nilsson 72.2 3-3 21-9 Ht 6: Davis, Price, Hellsen, Klingberg 70.2 5-1 26-10 Ht 7: Enecrona, Drury, Salomonsson, Johns 73.4 2-4 28-14 Ht 8: Davis, Price, Smith, Claesson 70.6 5-1 33-15 Ht 9: Greer, Glover, Hellsen, Selmosson 70.8 5-1 38-16 Ht 10: Davis, Price, Enecrona, Salomonsson 71.2 5-1 43-17 Ht 11: Glover, Greer, Smith, Claesson 72.4 5-1 48-18 Ht 12: Hellsen, Klingberg, Drury, Johns (ret) 73.2 1-5 49-23 Ht 13: Greer, Glover, Salomonsson, Claesson 72.0 5-1 54-24 Ht 14: Drury, Smith, Hellsen, Clark (f) 73.2 3-3 57-27 Ht 15: Davis, Price, Selmosson, Klongberg 71.2 5-1 62-28 Ht 16: Drury, Salomonsson, Browning, Enecrona 73.2 4-2 66-30 Ht 17: Davis, Smith, Price, Hellsen (f exc) 71.2 4-2 70-32 Ht 18: Glover, Greer, Klingberg, Claesson 72.4 5-1 75-33 |
See also 1988 National League v Sweden
| Contributors : David Austin |
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