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Glamorgan's First County Championship — 1948
Glamorgan v Hampshire (title-clinching match), Cardiff Arms Park
1948-08-25
On 25 August 1948 at Cardiff Arms Park, Glamorgan beat Hampshire by an innings and 24 runs to clinch the County Championship for the first time in their 27-year first-class history. Wilf Wooller, who had taken over as captain-secretary the year before, lifted the trophy in front of a delirious Welsh crowd. Glamorgan are the only Welsh county to have won the championship; their 1948 title was built on rugby-style fielding, low-budget improvisation (a portable mangle for drying the outfield) and a band of professionals nobody else wanted.
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