Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

134 Michael Holding saw Maynard move suddenly onto the back foot, with his helmet falling onto his stumps. He departed “hit wicket” and as the crest- fallen batsman later recalled, this turned out to be a turning point in the game, as the visitors went on to secure victory: “I was going so well, but then as I played a back foot drive to Holding, my helmet fell off and rolled onto the stumps – something that had never happened before or since! I kept the helmet and the newspaper photographs of the incident, and then in my Benefit Year, I raffled them for what turned out to be a quite tidy sum during a Dinner at the Brangwyn Hall.” 4 Other remarkable hundreds have been scored at Swansea, including an extraordinary and unbeaten 141 by Worcestershire’s Glenn Turner at St. Matthew Maynard’s helmet falls onto the stumps in Glamorgan’s match with Derbyshire at Swansea in 1988. Rapid hundreds, remarkable debuts and great run outs