Cricket Witness No 5 - Whites on Green

92 Championship tricks and a victory over the Boks the Gower Peninsula, the Glamorgan players spent a day at home before heading back to Swansea on the Monday. This time Pleass ensured that he allowed plenty of time for his journey, as he later remembered: “The Bank Holiday atmosphere at St Helen’s was electric, Twenty-four thousand people had crammed into the ground; the weather was fine, and the wicket looked like a ploughed field. Glamorgan started their second innings, and as number three I was at the wicket once again within minutes, with Phil Clift having departed with only three runs on the board.” 8 With the St. Helen’s wicket starting to take spin, Glamorgan’s batsmen knew that they had to be positive in their approach. For his part, Wooller needed few invitations to attack the bowling, and if there was anyone who was not going to go down without a fight it was the Welsh county’s leader. He hit a typically aggressive 46, and together with doughty support from Pleass, Glamorgan were able to set the tourists a target of 147. Wilf Wooller and Jim Pleass make their long way down the pavilion steps as the pair go out to bat against the1951 South Africans at Swansea.