da stake casino： Mark Wallace, Glamorgan`s 21 year old wicket-keeper, was awarded hiscounty cap before the start of play last night in Glamorgan`s inaugural Twenty20 match at Sophia Gardens
Andrew Hignell17-Jun-2003Mark Wallace, Glamorgan`s 21 year old wicket-keeper, was awarded hiscounty cap before the start of play last night in Glamorgan`s inaugural Twenty20 match at Sophia Gardens.The young wicket-keeper was handed his cap by Steve James shortly afterthe toss for the game with Northants had been made.”Mark has become an integral part of the Glamorgan side”, saidJames, “and he`s thoroughly deserved this award afterkeeping to a very high standard.”Wallace becomes the youngest ever wicket-keeper in the club`shistory to become capped under a performance-based system. The previous youngest was Colin Metson who wonhis Glamorgan cap during the 1987 season at the age of 23.This formal cappingprocedure, based on performances, has been in place since 1945. Before then a Glamorgan player couldconsider himself as being capped once he had played in four consecutivefirst-class matches – under this system wicket-keeper Trevor Every won hiscounty cap during the 1929 season at the age of 19.