Glamorgan County Cricket Club is delighted to confirm the men's second XI fixtures for the 2025 season, which takes off with a 3-day friendly against Gloucestershire on 14 April at the Home of Welsh Cricket in Sophia Gardens.
The Second XI will play five 4-day Championship matches and five T20 games across the summer, with a host of friendly matches in and around those games. With as many as three 3-day friendlies, eight T20 friendlies and two 50-over friendlies planned between the ten official games, the Second XI is set to play a total of at least 24 matches across all formats in the summer.
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The new Championship Challenge Trophy comes as an exciting new addition to Second XI cricket this year, where teams will play five 4-day games against clubs in their assigned conference groups. Glamorgan will face Kent, Durham, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire in the Conference Group 3. The two teams finishing with the highest points in their 5 games across the three conference groups will play the final at Loughborough.
Speaking on the link between the first and second teams, Second XI Head Coach Steve Watkin said, "Second XI cricket is very important to the Club. Not only does it give us an opportunity to test players who have the ability to make the first team in the future, it also allows some first team players who are not playing regularly to come down and play competitive cricket to continue their development. We have seen this particularly in the T20 format, where first team players have scored heavily for the Second XI, got their form and rhythm back, and get into the playing XI for the first team."
Glamorgan's Second XI made the T20 Finals Day at Wormsley last year after a successful group stage journey. "We like to keep things simple and give our players clearly defined roles", added Steve Watkin. "We have a lot of players in the second team who come in and come out, be it trialists or players who come down from the first team. We always give our pathway players the first priority, so they will at various points during the season play a games for us where we can observe their development. Sometimes we use as many as 30 players across the season, and it helps that all our coaches also work in the pathway so there is a massive sense of familiarity and understanding."
Glamorgan's Second XI will the majority of their home games in Newport, with Abergavenny, Panteg, Caldicot and Sophia Gardens hosting the remaining home games. They will also play two 50-over friendlies against the South Asian Cricket Academy (SACA) at Panteg towards the end of the season.