Glamorgan travel to Bristol for their first match in the Vitality Blast with their T20 contest against Gloucestershire at the Seat Unique Stadium scheduled to get underway at 1830 on Friday 26 May (writes Andrew Hignell).
Rain last summer marred Glamorgan’s visit to Bristol to meet Gloucestershire and. even though the toss took place during a brief dry spell, a series of heavy showers prevented the players from taking to the field. As the listing below shows of their last six meetings at the ground in Nevil Road, the weather in 2022 also prevented Glamorgan from adding to their decent record in recent times at Gloucestershire’s headquarters.
12 June 2015 at Bristol - Glamorgan won by 19 runs
10 June 2016 at Bristol - Glamorgan won by 6 wickets
25 July 2017 at Bristol - Glamorgan won by 25 runs
29 Aug 2020 at Bristol - Glamorgan won by 15 runs
24 June 2021 at Bristol - Gloucestershire won by 34 runs
18 June 2022 at Bristol - No Result
In 2021 Glenn Phillips’ destructive batting for Gloucestershire saw the West Country side to victory at Bristol and ended a sequence of four successive victories by the Welsh county. Glamorgan’s 15-run victory in 2020 was set-up by some frugal spin bowling by Prem Sisodiya and Andrew Salter, with the latter taking 4/20 after Chris Cooke had posted an unbeaten 51.
The victory by 25 runs at Bristol in 2017 followed a pair of assertive fifties by Jacques Rudolph and David Miller, with the pair of South Africans unleashing some muscular blows before Glamorgan’s attack restricted the home batters.
The six-victory win at Bristol in 2016 was also underpinned by a fine bowling performance which had restricted Gloucestershire to 168-6, before Colin Ingram posted a quickfire fifty to guide Glamorgan to victory.
The game at Bristol in 2015 was a high-scoring affair with the two captains, Jacques Rudolph and Michael Klinger, each posting unbeaten hundreds. But it was the efforts of the Glamorgan leader, with his maiden T20 century, which held sway as the Welsh county won by 19 runs.