Bragg Targets More Centuries

29 Apr 2016 | Cricket
Will Bragg, who followed up a half-century in the opening game against Leicestershire with a career best 129 at Derby, will return to the ground where he scored 104 in the first innings last year, when Glamorgan play Kent on Sunday.

Bragg, who is Glamorgan's leading run scorer this season so far, is naturally pleased with his early season form, but acknowledges he must continue to convert fifties into hundreds - his current conversion rate is five tons from 29 half-centuries.

He said: "I certainly need to improve my conversion, I have often gone on to score 80s and 90s, but with better concentration, they should have been hundreds."

He is also happy to be batting at Number Three, after alternating between opening and three during his career.

"There is a distinct difference between (the two). I like to sit back, watch and prepare myself rather than opening the batting, especially if there are only a few overs left at the end of the day," he added.

Bragg’s best season was in 2011, when he scored 1033 runs, and although in recent seasons he has started well, he has then failed to retain his form throughout the summer.

He added: “Often I would score 660 runs or more after the first six games or so, but for some reason I have lacked consistency and the required concentration."

Bragg has however displayed admirable powers of concentration namely during the game against Worcestershire at The SSE SWALEC two years ago. Glamorgan were in danger of losing the game but Bragg batted for nearly six hours against an attack that included Saeed Ajmal, the Pakistan off spinner, who that year took 63 wickets at an average of 16.

“That was my best innings, especially in the context of the game and was worth a double hundred in the circumstances," he agrees.

In the corresponding game at Canterbury last year, David Lloyd and Michael Hogan staved off defeat by playing out the final 44 balls of the game, after Dean Cosker, batting as nightwatchman, had made a career best 69 in the second innings.