Date-stamped : 06 Aug94 - 18:28
CC : Worcestershire vs Glamorgan
played at Swansea, 30 June, 1,2 July 1977

Ahhh, those were the days!  A terrible Worcester side scraping  a
living  at the bottom of the table.  The great Glenn Turner being
our only consolation, while the immortal Dolly didn't distinguish
himself on this occasion.

The rest of the Worcester team was notable mainly for  containing
many  professional  footballers:  Jim Cumbes, Phil Neale, and (my
memory's going) either Ted Hemsley  or  Paul Pridgeon  or   both.
Phil  Neale  was  a successful striker for Lincoln City under the
watchful management of one Graham Taylor.

Jim Cumbes must have been a nightwatchman, but made third highest
score.   Second  highest  was another tail ender, Norman Gifford,
who made 7 in a partnership of 57, I see.

D.N. Patel is the same cricketer who has  been  playing  for  New
Zealand.  He is one of recent cricket's most genuine exports.  He
married a New Zealander after playing there  for several   years.
He  looks  like the only survivor of that Worcester team to still
be playing first class cricket.

Vanburn Holder is now a  first  class  umpire,  by  the  way,  in
England.

And Malcolm Nash's  claim  to  fame  is  not  of  course  helping
demolish  Worcs  that  day,  but as the man who not only conceded
Gary Sobers' six sixes in an over in 1968,  but who went  on   to
concede  34  runs in an over when Frank Hayes went after him.  He
wasn't even that bad a bowler.

<END> Contributed by Ian.Gent (ipg@aifh.ed.ac.uk)