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Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Museum of Welsh Cricket
160 episodes
6 days ago
Tell us what you think of this episode It was 1956 when Dr Subrahmanyam Ganesh arrived in Wales from India to work in the NHS. He was already a fan of Glamorgan, having followed their 1948 County Championship win on the radio. Wilf Wooller was one of his favourite players. On leaving India, his father told him: “Don't be a stranger in your adopted country. Become a useful member of the community and give something back in return.” This he did – and more! He became a mu...
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Tell us what you think of this episode It was 1956 when Dr Subrahmanyam Ganesh arrived in Wales from India to work in the NHS. He was already a fan of Glamorgan, having followed their 1948 County Championship win on the radio. Wilf Wooller was one of his favourite players. On leaving India, his father told him: “Don't be a stranger in your adopted country. Become a useful member of the community and give something back in return.” This he did – and more! He became a mu...
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Cricket
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Leisure,
Hobbies,
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Episodes (20/160)
Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Glamorgan's Oldest Follower (Episode 157)
Tell us what you think of this episode It was 1956 when Dr Subrahmanyam Ganesh arrived in Wales from India to work in the NHS. He was already a fan of Glamorgan, having followed their 1948 County Championship win on the radio. Wilf Wooller was one of his favourite players. On leaving India, his father told him: “Don't be a stranger in your adopted country. Become a useful member of the community and give something back in return.” This he did – and more! He became a mu...
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6 days ago
23 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Six Sixes, Rusty Nails and Balconiers: Thanks for the Memories St Helen's (Episode 156)
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode, the longest ever in the history of our podcast, we hear almost 50 contributors share their memories of the St Helen's ground in Swansea. Now no longer a cricket venue, St Helen's has been at the heart of Glamorgan's journey as a first class county and has hosted many famous games and famous names as well as cricketing exploits that reverberate through the history of the game of cricket itself. Contributions include those by: Andrew Higne...
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3 weeks ago
2 hours 23 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Winning the Haig: Gowerton Cricketers 50 Years On (Episode 155)
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to the 6 remaining members of the Gowerton Cricket Club Team who made history by being the first welsh club to win the prestigious Haig Village Trophy in 1975. Those players are: John Morris John Richards Mike Rowlands Colin Airey Adrian Daniel and Edward Bevan The players talk about the team as a whole, the reasons for their success in the competition and the different games they played along the way to get to the final at Lords ...
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1 month ago
51 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Swansea Cricket Club and St Helen's: End of an Era, Facing the Future (Episode 154)
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we meet and talk to members of Swansea Cricket Club about their memories of playing at the iconic St Helen's ground, their feelings about cricket coming to an end there and their hopes and plans for a new future for the club. Ex players contributing to the podcats are: Huw Rees Andrew Roe Steve Meredith John Courtney Stuart Owen Paul Jones We also speak to current club secretary Chris Hamilton Smith, Chair Mike Hayden and Treasurer Stev...
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1 month ago
59 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
'We're Going Up!' Glamorgan Promotion Special
Tell us what you think of this episode As Glamorgan celebrate gaining promotion to Division One of the County Championship, we talk to fans about their memories of the season and their hopes for next year. Many of the club’s followers have been attending games since the 1950s and 1960s. They’ve seen the highs and the lows. To whom do they attribute this season’s red ball success and how well do they think the squad is prepared for the challenges of the top tier?
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2 months ago
40 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
The Harrison-Allen Bowl
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to Nick Evans and Bill Carne about the premier cup competition of the Pembrokeshire area, The Harrison-Allen Bowl. We talk, first, to Nick Evans who has served on the Prmbrokeshire County Club Committee for over 30 years and has a cricketing history of nearly 75 years in the County. Then we chat to Bill Carne; reporter, radio show host and driving force behind the website Pembrokeshire sport: http://www.pembrokeshiresport.co.uk/ W...
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2 months ago
30 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Cimla Cricket Club: A Centenary Year
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we meet and talk to Mike Price, longstanding member of Cimla Cricket Club who has researched the club's history and published it in a small pamphlet. Tom Roberts, scorer at the club from its inception in 1925, bequeathed a complete collection of scorebooks for the club to Mike who has taken an interest in the history of the club ever since. He talks a little, first, about the village of Cimla before talking about the history of the club, ...
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2 months ago
42 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Play Up Pompey : A Tribute to Mark Portsmouth of Mumbles Cricket Club
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we speak to the sister of Mark Portsmouth, longstanding Chair of Mumbles Cricket Club, about her memories of growing up with him. She is joined on the recordings by the following: John Blythe (Secretary of Mumbles Cricket Club) Jaimie Thomas (Mumbles Cricket Club) Jerry Steele (President Mumbles Cricket Club) Clive Henson (Chairman, Langland Bay Golf Club) Alan Bagnall (Mumbles Cricket Club) Mike Bagnall (Mumbles Cricket Club) You can...
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3 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Henry Hurle and Cardiff UCCE
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to aspiring professional cricketer Henry Hurle about his development and his success playing for the Cardiff UCCE (Universiytes Centre for Cricket Excellence) In particular, we talk about the team's success this season in winning the British Universities and College Sport Cricket Trophy. If you are feeling brave, below is the 6 hours 29 minute recording of the final at Wormsley Cricket Club: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYkCgYr...
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3 months ago
31 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Glamorgan Women's Centurions
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to three of the Glamorgan Women's squad about their batting success, scoring a hunderd during the 2025 season. The three players are Bethan Gammon, Daisy Jeanes and Eve Jackson. You can watch the recorded live feed of Bethan's hundred against Gloucestershire here: https://bit.ly/4cZdl5X The BBC Wales sport report of Daisy's century against Derbyshire, and the scorecard for the game, can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
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3 months ago
52 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
'Cricket has given us a second family': Glamorgan Women's Cricket Team
Tell us what you think of this episode This episode introduces us to three members of the newly formed Glamorgan semi professional women's cricket team. Lauren Parfitt, Nicole Reid and Georgia Parfitt talk about their early experiences, how they have developed as cricketers and how they became involved in this first year of professional women's cricket for Glamorgan. The team's arrival was welcomed on the Glamorgan website in the following way: https://glamorgancricket.com/news/the-first-coun...
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3 months ago
31 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Gorseinon Cricket Club Women's Softball Tournament 2025
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we visit Gorseinon Cricket Club for their second women's softball tournament. We talk to the four participating teams: Gorseinon, Gowerton, Llandarcy and Neath as well as all those at Gorseinon who helped to make it a succesful event. In hot weather, the teams played through a long day and the Gowerton team ran out the eventual winners.
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4 months ago
53 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Cricket Walkabout: Swansea and the Aboriginal Cricket Tourists of 1868
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we meet and talk to a visiting Australian group who are from the Harrow Discovery Centre, a small museum in Victoria Australia. The museum is dedicated to spreading the story of the first touring Australian sporting side, a group of aboriginal cricketers, who came to the UK in 1868. Led by an English professional cricketer by the name of Charles Lawrence they played 47 matches stretching from May through to October and, as part of the tou...
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4 months ago
58 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Hay-On-Wye Cricket Club v The Authors XI 2025
Tell us what you think of this episode Just over a year ago we visited Hay-On-Wye to witness the first ever game of cricket played as part of the Literary Festival between the local Hay Club and a celebrity XI picked largely from the ranks of the world famous Authors XI. This year, the Festival has agreed to making this fixture an integral part of its activities on a day dedicated to a number of sports related meetings and speakers. This episode of the podcast tries to capture the day, talkin...
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5 months ago
53 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Getting to Grips with Cricket: Toby Radford (Part 2)
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we hear Toby talk about about the following: His coaching philosophy The coaching process and, in particular, his use of video analysis The drills he uses with players to correct batting issues or to develop their batting potential The three stages to change for a batter His use of WhatsApp as a tool to keep in touch with clients Toby Radford's Batting Booth His book, Getting to Grips The five fundamentals of batting His best moments as a...
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5 months ago
32 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Getting to Grips with Cricket: Toby Radford (Part 1)
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to ex Glamorgan CCC Coach Toby Radford. He talks about his early learning of the game, being coached extensively by his father and of his early successes in junior cricket. We talk about his first class career and then his embarking on a coaching career at the early age of 26. Toby tells us about how he came to be coach of the Middlesex side and recounts what was probably his gtreatest cricketing exoerience, winning the 2008...
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6 months ago
42 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
The Nantgarw Porcelain Cup: Wales’ Earliest Modern Sporting Artefact?
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we bring together two Andrews. One is Andrew Hignell, curator of the museum of welsh cricket and Andrew Renton who is ex-curator at Amgueddfa Cymru, The National Museum of Wales. Together, they tell the story of a small china cup that was made at the Nantgarw China works at some time between 1820 and 1822. The dates here are important because the artefact may be the earliest known sporting artefact in Wales. It depicts a...
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7 months ago
56 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
335*: An Interview with Sam Northeast
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to Glamorgan CCC top order batter Sam Northeast who, in the first game of last years County Championship went to Lords and managed to compile the highest ever first class innings recorded at the Home of Cricket. He scored 335 not out in a Glamorgan first innings total of 620 for 3. You can take a look at the scorecard here: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/county-championship-division-two-2024-1410192/middlesex-vs-glamorgan-2nd...
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7 months ago
44 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
'Cricket Has Given Me Everything': An Interview with Mark Davies
Tell us what you think of this episode In this episode we talk to Wales Over 50s cricket coach and player Mark Davies. Mark had a very brief career with Glamorgan CCC before being offered the opportunity to play for Gloucestershire, which he did for 4 seasons in the early 1990s. For his first-class careers statistics you can go here: https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/mark-davies-11829 You can also read his profile on the Glamorgan Archives website here: https://glamorgancricketarc...
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7 months ago
50 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
'I was a player' : An Interview with Welsh Women's cricketer, Jill Matthews.
Tell us what you think of this episode This season represents an historic departure for Glamorgan CCC as they play both a men's and women's professional team for the first time in their history. But the path to this point has been a long and arduous journey for women's cricket. In this episode we talk to Jill Matthews who, as a young Jill Ayres, played a significant role in women's cricket in South Wales during the 1950s and 1960s. She gives us an insight into what it was like being a woman i...
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8 months ago
51 minutes

Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast
Tell us what you think of this episode It was 1956 when Dr Subrahmanyam Ganesh arrived in Wales from India to work in the NHS. He was already a fan of Glamorgan, having followed their 1948 County Championship win on the radio. Wilf Wooller was one of his favourite players. On leaving India, his father told him: “Don't be a stranger in your adopted country. Become a useful member of the community and give something back in return.” This he did – and more! He became a mu...