Cricket
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| Capacity | 4,500 |
| Owner | City and County of Swansea council |
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| Glamorgan (1890 – present) Swansea Cricket Club (1873 – present) |
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It was in this ground in 1968 that Sir Garfield Sobers hit the first ever six sixes in one over in first-class cricket. Sobers was playing as captain of Nottinghamshire against Glamorgan.
As part of their commitment to the entire country of Wales, Glamorgan County Cricket Club play some of their home matches at St. Helen's, as well as their regular home ground, SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff, and Colwyn Bay Cricket Club's ground in Rhos-on-Sea.
Wales Minor Counties Cricket Club, who have played minor counties cricket since 1988, use the ground as a home base. They are currently the only non-English team in the Minor Counties Championship.
Read more about this topic: St. Helen's Rugby And Cricket Ground
Famous quotes containing the word cricket:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)