Cricket Witness No 3 - The Daffodil Blooms

3 Contents Introduction 4 Chapter One Fairytale or nightmare? 8 Chapter Two A new dawn? 20 Chapter Three The tricky question of the captaincy 30 Chapter Four A Welsh identity 40 Chapter Five Team spirit 50 Chapter Six Triumph and tragedy 56 Chapter Seven Restarting and regrouping 67 Chapter Eight The Wooller Way 79 Chapter Nine New faces 87 Chapter Ten The summer of 1948 97 Chapter Eleven Clinching the title 108 Epilogue The legacy of 1948 121 Acknowledgements 126 Index 127