In his preview of the match for The Times, John Woodcock opined that Kent were the favourites, as long as they could cope with Bill Alley, the Somerset all-rounder.

[2] Kent were in the midst of a successful 1967 season, and started the day with the prospect of winning not only the Gillette Cup, but also the County Championship.

During Essex's reply, Norman Graham bowled well to take four wickets and restrict the opposing batsmen to 19 runs from his 12 overs, helping Kent to a 42-run victory.

[6] In their semi final against Sussex, good batting performances from Luckhurst, Shepherd and Cowdrey helped Kent to a total of 293 for five.

The Somerset bowlers played well in comparison; Rumsey took four wickets, while Alley conceded only eight runs from his twelve overs, and Northamptonshire were bowled out for 148.

[10] Somerset once again had no stand-out batting performance in their semi-final; Kitchen was their highest scorer with 40 runs, as they posted 210 for seven in a rain-interrupted innings which continued into the second day of the match.

[11] Played in front of a sell-out crowd of 20,000 people at Lord's,[12] Kent captain Colin Cowdrey won the toss and chose to bat first.

Denness began by scoring quickly, accounting for 50 of the team's 78 runs after just over an hour of the match, before being caught behind by Geoff Clayton off the bowling of Bill Alley.

Each of the other top-order batsmen made starts, but none could convert them to big scores; Virgin got 17, Mervyn Kitchen 15 and Terry Barwell 24.

[12] Alley, identified by The Times as a key player for Somerset before the match, only scored one run before being caught behind square on the legside by Brown from the bowling of Shepherd.

[12] Derek Underwood finished as Kent's leading wicket-taker in the match, though his three wickets came late in the innings, as he had been held back against the top-order, as Cowdrey was concerned he might concede too many runs.

[12] Umpires: Key Denness was selected by Bill Edrich, a former England Test cricketer, as the man of the match.

[12] Kent missed out on a double, as Yorkshire won their final match of the season to claim the County Championship title,[14] but their Gillette Cup win was the first of eleven trophies between 1967 and 1979; they won the competition again in 1974, the County Championship in 1970, 1977 and 1978, the John Player League in 1972, 1973 and 1976, and the Benson & Hedges Cup in 1973, 1976 and 1978.