29 Dec 2015 | Cricket
A number of Glamorgan players can look back with great pride on events of 2015, not least Graham Wagg who, during a remarkable County Championship match against Surrey at Guildford scored a maiden double-hundred and in the process became the first number eight in the history of the competition to post a double hundred since 2000. During Graham's barnstorming innings at the Woodbridge Road ground, he struck a Club record of 11 sixes and he ended the summer with a tally of 30 sixes - the most in first-class cricket by any batsman.
2015 was a bitter-sweet year for Mark Wallace, the Welsh county's long-serving wicket-keeper, as during the course of the summer he scored his 10,000th run in first-class cricket, but in September, he sustained a calf injury at Northampton, and missed the final Championship encounter of the summer, thereby ending a remarkable run of 230 successive Championship appearances for the Welsh county.
As far as the one-day cricket was concerned, Colin Ingram struck three hundreds in the One-Day Cup, and became the first Glamorgan batsman to score centuries in successive one-day games. Ingram also recorded his maiden Championship hundred for the Welsh county, whilst two younger Glamorgan batsmen each came close to their maiden century as David Lloyd posted a fine 92 at Northampton, whilst teenager Aneurin Donald made 98 in the closing Championship match against Gloucestershire at Bristol.
In the Twenty20 competition, Jacques Rudolph made his maiden hundred in the short-form of the game, as he made an unbeaten 101 against Gloucestershire at Bristol, besides becoming the third batsman - after Jim Allenby and Mark Wallace - to pass the 1,000 run mark in Twenty20 cricket for the Welsh county. Chris Cooke is set to join them in 2016 needing a dozen more runs in reach the 1,000 mark.
2016 could also be a red-letter year for the Welsh county as Dean Cosker, the evergreen spinner needs 8 wickets in Twenty20 cricket to become the first Glamorgan bowler to claim 100 wickets in the all-action competition. During 2015 he went past Robert Croft's record of 87 wickets in Twenty20 cricket and the left-armer is poised in 2016 to write his name into the Club's record books.