Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

116 county cricket club and the national broadcaster with Wilf acting as lead commentator, and also the presenter of Sports Line Up , the BBC Wales’ sports review programme. The involvement of the BBC through their radio and television broadcasts allowed a wider number of people to hear about, and see the delights of cricket at the Swansea ground, and over the years, a number of leading broadcasters have extolled the virtues of St. Helen’s, not least John Arlott who in the years immediately after the Second World War enjoyed his visits to the ground where he met up frequently with his good friend, the poet Dylan Thomas. Arlott had been a supporter of Glamorgan Cricket from the early 1930s. With his boyhood hero being Maurice Turnbull, the self-styled ‘Basingstoke Boy’ had travelled with a friend by bicycle and train to Cardiff to watch Turnbull bat at the Arms Park against Nottinghamshire in the closing game of the 1932 season. With Harold Larwood and Bill Voce in their ranks, Sixes at Swansea JBG Thomas commentates, whilst Cliff Morgan peers through the binoculars from the BBC commentary position on the roof of the Swansea pavilion in 1964.