Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

48 Swansea becomes a county ground England, but it was not to be as Gilbert was dismissed for 0 and 1. However, the game had a happy ending as far as the locals were concerned as, set a target of 250 on the final afternoon, Allan Watkins, happily restored to full fitness after an injury sustained during the closing Ashes Test, made an unbeaten 111 to see the Welsh county secure a two-wicket victory. 1. Western Mail , 7 July 1889. 2. South Wales Evening Post , 27 February 1897. 3. South Wales Daily News , 25 July, 1897. 4. J.H.Morgan, Glamorgan County Cricket (Convoy Publications, 1952). The Swansea ground during the late 1920s, and prior to the installation of the raised seating lining Gorse Lane.