Now a nation of 5m Scots have beaten Bangladesh...

[Neil Pickup]

Every year?
Does that mean they never played at Old Trafford?
Was it a traditional "neutral" fixture?

I think it might have been, but I'm not entirely sure.

 

[Richard]

'T'would have been a unique occurrance if it were the case.

 

[marc71178]

Wasn't that in the time of all play all twice though?

 

[Neil Pickup]

First Class Games at Colwyn Bay

1930 Jun 18 Wales v Minor Counties Colwyn Bay
1966 Aug 27 Glamorgan v Derbyshire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1967 Aug 30 Glamorgan v Worcestershire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1968 Jun 22 Glamorgan v Cambridge University Colwyn Bay
1968 Jun 26 Glamorgan v Oxford University Colwyn Bay
1969 Jun 21 Glamorgan v Leicestershire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1971 May 26 Glamorgan v Gloucestershire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1974 Jun 22 Glamorgan v Sussex County Championship Colwyn Bay
1990 May 26 Glamorgan v Lancashire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1992 Jun 12 Glamorgan v Lancashire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1993 Jun 17 Glamorgan v Durham County Championship Colwyn Bay
1994 Jun 23 Glamorgan v Lancashire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1995 Jun 15 Glamorgan v Middlesex County Championship Colwyn Bay
1997 Jul 31 Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1998 Jul 22 Glamorgan v Lancashire County Championship Colwyn Bay
1999 Aug 18 Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire County Championship Colwyn Bay
2000 Aug 22 Glamorgan v Sussex County Championship Divisi Colwyn Bay
2001 Aug 1 Glamorgan v Lancashire County Championship Divisi Colwyn Bay
2002 Aug 27 Glamorgan v Nottinghamshire County Championship Divisi Colwyn Bay

Extract from History of the Rhos Ground: "By the 1960's, the Rhos club were holding a Cricket Festival, attracting top playerts from the Lancashire Leagues, during the peak holiday period in August. The success of these games led Wilf Wooller into considering the viability of county games at the seaside ground, and in 1966 the Rhos ground staged Glamorgan's Championship match with Derbyshire. Over 4,000 people attended the game, so in the period up until 1974 the ground staged either an Annual Champioship game, or a Sunday League fixture.

Taking cricket to the North was quite expensive, so when the club's finances started to shrink during the mid 1970's, Colwyn Bay was deleted from the county's calendar, although it continued to host Benefit and exhibition games, including the 1984 West Indians match against the League Cricket Conference. These games continued to be well attended, so when a sponsorship package was offered to the county, they agreed to return to the North in 1990 for their Champioship and Sunday League fixture with Lancashire. This became a regular fixture until 1995, as Glamorgan began investing in a club base at Cardiff, and it now seems likely that the Colwyn Bay ground will alterante with Abergavenny on the county's calendar. In the past few years, the ground has also hosted several of Wales Minor Counties' fixtures, and in 1996 a new extended Pavilion was opened by a game involving a Glamorgan Past and Present XI."

So, it's something I half remember from when i was six or seven...