The Welsh cricket team has appeared on a number of occasions. Generally however, Welsh players are represented in international play by England.
From 1923 to 1930 Wales played 16 first-class matches, and had some success against touring teams, drawing with the New Zealanders in 1927 and beating the West Indians a year later, as well as losing by only ten runs to the South Africans in 1929. Sydney Barnes, by this time well into his fifties, took 4...
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The Welsh cricket team has appeared on a number of occasions. Generally however, Welsh players are represented in international play by England.
From 1923 to 1930 Wales played 16 first-class matches, and had some success against touring teams, drawing with the New Zealanders in 1927 and beating the West Indians a year later, as well as losing by only ten runs to the South Africans in 1929. Sydney Barnes, by this time well into his fifties, took 49 first-class wickets for Wales, including 7-51 in that 1928 win over the Caribbean tourists.
Wales' next significant appearances came in the 1979 ICC Trophy, a competition for which they had not actually had to qualify but instead appeared to make up the numbers because several ICC members had not entered the competition. Playing in Group 3, they had a reasonable tournament, opening with a win over the Netherlands in a rain-affected game and also beating Israel; they lost to the USA by eight runs and their game against Sri Lanka was abandoned...
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