8 May 2015 | Cricket
Glamorgan Head Coach Toby Radford will make an enforced change to the team to face Kent in the LV= County Championship following Andy Carter's re-call to Nottinghamshire.
Carter, who was brought in as cover for the injured Michael Hogan, has done well for Glamorgan with 4 wicket hauls in each of his three first-class matches for the Welsh county, with best figures of 4-53 in his last match against Derbyshire.
Carter was expected to be named in the side for Sunday's LV= County Championship Division Two game against Kent at Canterbury, but instead his place in the team will be taken by either David Lloyd or Andrew Salter who are named in an otherwise unchanged 12-man squad for the trip.
We think we've been playing well so far this season, said Glamorgan Head Coach Toby Radford.
We've scored plenty of runs and I've been happy with the effort of our bowling attack, especially the impact of Andy Carter, so we're disappointed he has returned to Nottinghamshire a little earlier than expected.
He's bowled well with Craig Meschede and he's a strong lad who just keeps wanting to bowl. However, we've got Michael Hogan back now and he's finding some rhythm and there's an opportunity for another player to step in.
The Championship games for the past three years between the two sides at Canterbury have each ended in draws, but Glamorgan were victorious again Kent last summer at the SWALEC Stadium by an innings and 11 runs, with Michael Hogan taking 5/58 and 5/67 to record his first ten-wicket match haul for the Welsh county.
Last year against Kent at Canterbury both Graham Wagg and Chris Cooke scored centuries, so there's lots of positives for us as we go there and we hope to go one stage further than we have in the three opening draws so far this season, added Radford.
The forecast for the weather is good and I'm a great believer that if you keep performing well, the wins will come.
Mark Wallace enters this game still on the cusp of a personal milestone, with the long-serving Glamorgan player needing a further 53 runs to reach 10,000 runs for the Welsh county. If he reaches the landmark at the St.Lawrence ground he will become the first specialist wicket-keeper to achieve the feat for the Welsh county, and all at the ground when in 2012 he also became the Club's first-ever gloveman to score 1,000 first-class runs in a season.
After their draw with Derbyshire at Cardiff, Glamorgan remain unbeaten in their Championship matches so far this summer and travel to Kent for their next match in the four-day competition, scheduled to start at 11am at Canterbury on Sunday, May 10th against the side currently at the bottom of the table, a dozen points behind the Welsh county who are in sixth place in Division Two.
Two other Glamorgan players are also close to personal landmarks with Dean Cosker needing five more wickets to reach 600 in all first-class cricket, and Graham Wagg a further two for the milestone of 350 in all first-class games.
Glamorgan team to face Kent (from): James Kettleborough, Jacques Rudolph ©, Will Bragg, Colin Ingram, Chris Cooke, Mark Wallace, Graham Wagg, David Lloyd, Craig Meschede, Dean Cosker, Andrew Salter, Michael Hogan