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.
Andrew Hignell is the 1st XI Scorer and Archivist to Glamorgan County Cricket Club which is
Wales’ sole representative in county cricket. He read Geography at Exeter University, before
undertaking a Ph.D in the subject at Cardiff University and subsequently taught at schools in Devon,
Somerset and South Wales, besides working for BBC Radio Wales on their coverage of Glamorgan
cricket.
In 2004 Andrew took up his full-time post with Glamorgan and oversaw the creation of the
CC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket at the Club’s headquarters in Cardiff. In 2014 the Museum won the
Kieran Hegarty Memorial Prize for Innovation at the Celtic Media Festival, whilst in 2018 it became
the first fully-accredited cricket museum in the UK. Andrew is the author of over 30 books on cricket
and is acknowledged as the leading authority on the history of cricket in Wales.
Imprint: Halsgrove. ISBN 978 0 85704 351 1, hardback, 210x148mm, 400 pages. Published October 2020.