{"id":4991,"date":"2025-02-01T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=4991"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:03:32","slug":"the-dream-that-died-gwilym-rowland-and-welsh-cricket","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/?product=the-dream-that-died-gwilym-rowland-and-welsh-cricket","title":{"rendered":"The Dream That Died: Gwilym Rowland and Welsh Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Andrew Hignell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What links Wales playing first-class cricket during the 1920s, Denbighshire entering the Minor County Championship in 1930 and the visit to the UK by a team from Germany?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is Gwilym Evans Rowland, a Manchester-born businessman who tried to raise the profile of cricket in Wales by creating a team which played home internationals against Scotland and Ireland and appeared at Lord&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Based in North Wales, Gwilym ruffled feathers at Glamorgan CCC, but paid for matches played by the Wales team and the all-amateur Welsh Cygnets, and the visit by the United Berlin team in 1930. He funded similar footballing activities, but during 1931\/32 his business conglomerate collapsed and went into liquidation.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing extensively on Rowland&#8217;s private papers, this book tells the story of his dreams for Welsh sport and his roller-coaster business career prior to ending a penniless man in Anglesey whose body was found in a ditch in 1938.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4957,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[28],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/4991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.acscricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}