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The Last of the Gentlemen: An Interview with Ossie Wheatley (Part 1)

The Last of the Gentlemen: An Interview with Ossie Wheatley (Part 1)

FromCC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast


The Last of the Gentlemen: An Interview with Ossie Wheatley (Part 1)

FromCC4 Museum of Welsh Cricket Podcast

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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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Tell us what you think of this episodeWe talk to Ossie Wheatley of Cambridge University, Warwickshire and Glamorgan.  He won a Blue for cricket at Cambridge University in 1957 and in 1958 when he amassed a record 80 wickets for the University.  After coming down he had a brief but succesful career with Warwickshire for whom he took 110 wickets in 1960.   In 1961 he was appointed captain of Glamorgan CCC as a replacement for the retiring Wilf Wooller and over the next few years he developed a wonderful bowling partnership with Jeff Jones.His fast medium bowling added a new dimension to the Glamorgan attack and in 1968 he took 82 wickets at just 12 a piece.  He was named as one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year in 1969.In this episode he talks about his early life, his cricketing development at school and then University, his move to Glamorgan in 1961, the club's development in the early years of his captaincy and the wonderful victory over the touring Australians in 1964.You can read the text of a wonderful interview between Ossie and Richard Bentley of the St Helen's Balconiers about that game here:http://www.thebalconiers.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/%E2%80%98Ossie%E2%80%99s-Tamed-the-Aussies%E2%80%99-Balconiers-Ossie-Wheatley-article.pdf
Released:
May 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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A Podcast interviewing a range of people from all areas of the great country of Wales who have a connection with or a story to tell about the great game of cricket.