Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

128 1977 that Glamorgan, after three damp days, defeated Leicestershire in the Gillette Cup semi-final to clinch a place at a Lord’s final for the first-ever time. June 2005 also saw a Twenty20 match at St. Helen’s as Glamorgan met Warwickshire, but this remains the only game in the all- action competition staged at Swansea as, like all of the Welsh county’s other major games, they are staged at the Club’s headquarters in Cardiff. 1. Taken from a manuscript for an article, believed to have been unpublished, written by Wilf Wooller for the Sunday Telegraph in 1979. 2. Western Mail , 18 July 1973. 3. Western Mail , 19 July 1973 4. Ibid. 5. Western Mail , 11 June 1994. International cricket comes to Swansea A view of the Swansea ground in 1990.