Andrew Hignell Knihy

The second in the series of books celebrating the achievements of Glamorgan's players covers the period from their inaugural first-class match in 1921 to the summer of 1948 when they won the County Championship title for the first-ever time. It contains profiles of some of the legendary names in the history of Welsh cricket, including Maurice Turnbull, Johnnie Clay and Wilf Wooller, as well as yeoman professionals who gave loyal service to Glamorgan. It includes some who went on to win honours in Test cricket, as well as those who appeared in wartime friendlies, plus other lesser lights in the Club's history and one-match wonders, who included a fifteen-year-old schoolboy who appeared in the final match of 1922. Many of the 170 people included in this book went on to fame and fortune in other areas of life, becoming diplomats, politicians, BBC producers, schoolmasters, lawyers, businessmen, journalists or sportsmen in other fields, including football, rugby and golf. Some won military honours during the First or Second World War, whilst others appeared in the Olympics, including one former Glamorgan player who as a badminton coach witnessed the atrocities at the 1972 Munich Games.

The third in the series of books celebrating the achievements and the players to represent Glamorgan County Cricket Club covers a period with some of the most successful seasons in the Club's history, as well as some of their worst! It was a period with the daffodil golden summers of the 1960s when the Welsh county defeated the Australian tourists in 1964 and 1968, both times at the St Helen's ground in Swansea, as well as the season of 1969 when, under the captaincy of Tony Lewis, Glamorgan won the County Championship for the second time in the Club's history. Also covered is the summer of 1977 when Glamorgan, after years of underachievement in limited-overs cricket, reached their first-ever one-day final at Lord's, meeting Middlesex in the final of the Gillette Cup. It was also a period when some of the greatest names in the Club's history played for the Club, including Alan Jones, Don Shepherd and Peter Walker, with the years covered by this fascinating and lavishly illustrated book encompassing an important period in the development of cricket in the UK, with the introduction of one-day tournaments, the end of amateur status and the arrival of overseas players and international stars in county teams.