Glamorgan Cricketers 1949-1979 : 3

The third in the series of books celebrating the achievements and the players to represent Glamorgan County Cricket Club covers a period with some of the most successful seasons in the Club's history, as well as some of their worst! It was a period with the daffodil golden summers of the 1960s when the Welsh county defeated the Australian tourists in 1964 and 1968, both times at the St Helen's ground in Swansea, as well as the season of 1969 when, under the captaincy of Tony Lewis, Glamorgan won the County Championship for the second time in the Club's history. Also covered is the summer of 1977 when Glamorgan, after years of underachievement in limited-overs cricket, reached their first-ever one-day final at Lord's, meeting Middlesex in the final of the Gillette Cup. It was also a period when some of the greatest names in the Club's history played for the Club, including Alan Jones, Don Shepherd and Peter Walker, with the years covered by this fascinating and lavishly illustrated book encompassing an important period in the development of cricket in the UK, with the introduction of one-day tournaments, the end of amateur status and the arrival of overseas players and international stars in county teams.