Lives in Cricket No 1 - Allan Watkins

bloody terrified of him, and I suppose he called me a cheeky bugger. But he was a good skipper. He always spoke his mind. Of course he had a good chap with him in Haydn, but now and again there was a cross word there. Haydn would say, ‘What the hell did you do that for?’ or something like that.” It is nearly sixty years ago now, the day that Johnnie Clay gave vent to his feelings after the years of struggle to keep Glamorgan competing. “It seems that I am in fairyland,” he is quoted as saying. Allan, too, remembers the emotions of that marvellous time as he looks back on the men who brought the title to Wales: “In the dressing room we were a noisy lot. But there was a special comradeship in the team – there’s no two ways about it.” 44 Called Up For England