Cricket Witness No 3 - The Daffodil Blooms

120 celebrations which continued until breakfast time, by which time the wives, girlfriends and families had joined their delighted menfolk. As Johnnie’s wife later told a colleague, “he was quite beside himself with joy and really let himself go that night. I’ve never seen John in such a state. Thank goodness it’s only once they’ve won the Championship!” 15 1. A.K. Hignell, The Skipper: Biography of Wilf Wooller (Limlow Books, 1995) 2. Ibid 3. D. Miller, Allan Watkins – Lives in Cricket (ACS, 2007) 4. The Skipper: Biography of Wilf Wooller , op.cit. 5. Ibid 6. Ibid 7. Ibid 8. Ibid 9. Ibid 10. Allan Watkins – Lives in Cricket , op.cit. 11. The Skipper: Biography of Wilf Wooller, op.cit 12. A.K. Hignell, Lucky Jim Pleass (St. David’s Press, 2014) 13. The Skipper: Biography of Wilf Wooller , op.cit. 14. The South Wales Cricketers Magazine , Vol 1, No. 3. 15. J. Edwards, Dai Davies- 78 Not Out (Dyfed Publishers, 1975) Clinching the title Johnnie Clay returns to Cardiff with the victorious team and is met by jubilant journalists, including Alun Williams of BBC Wales, seen with microphone in hand.