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Garry Sobers Hits Six Sixes off Malcolm Nash — Swansea, 31 August 1968

Glamorgan vs Nottinghamshire

1968-08-31

On 31 August 1968 at the St Helen's ground in Swansea, Nottinghamshire captain Garfield Sobers became the first batsman to strike six sixes in a single first-class over. The bowler was Glamorgan's Malcolm Nash, experimenting with slow left-arm round the wicket as Notts pushed for a declaration. A BBC Wales camera crew, on site for training, captured the fifth and sixth sixes — and Wilf Wooller's commentary — for posterity.

#garry sobers#malcolm nash#swansea

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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.

#glamorgan#county-championship#1948