Halsgrove Publishing: Glamorgan Cricketers 1921-1948, Glamorgan, 9780857043511

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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.

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