Glamorgan will be in action at the SWALEC Stadium as they meet Derbyshire in the LV=County Championship with the four-day match scheduled to start at 11am on Sunday, May 3rd (Gates open - 10am).
Head-to-Head
The Welsh county have drawn their opening pair of Championship games whilst Derbyshire were heavily defeated by Lancashire by 250 runs in their opening contest of the summer in Division Two, before bouncing back with a spirited performance against Gloucestershire at Bristol with Kiwi Martin Guptill, continuing his outstanding batting from in the ICC World Cup, by posting a sparkling double-century which put Derbyshire well into the ascendancy over Gloucestershire.
Glamorgan defeated Derbyshire last September at their Cardiff headquarters with a pair of half-centuries by Chris Cooke and Graham Wagg, supported by some excellent seam bowling by the home side saw them to a rare victory over the Peakites with Michael Hogan taking 4/38 to set-up a 106-run victory.
This was Glamorgan's first Championship victory over Derbyshire at Cardiff since 1992 and it halted a run of victories by Derbyshire in the Welsh capital, with the visitors having won on all five of the previous meetings between the two teams, including on their last two visits to the Cardiff ground. They won the contest in April 2012 by 130 runs after Jon Clare returned match figures of 11/57 as Glamorgan were dismissed for 95 and 102, whilst in June 2011 they won by six wickets thanks to 106 by Wes Durston, 88 from Dan Redfern and another five-wicket haul in Glamorgan's first innings by Clare.
Michael Hogan is set to return to action for Glamorgan, whilst several Glamorgan players enter the contest very close to personal milestones. Mark Wallace needs a further 55 runs to become the Club's first-ever specialist wicket-keeper to score 10,000 first-class runs, whilst left-arm spinner is six wickets away from the milestone of 600 wickets in all first-class cricket. The evergreen bowler has 550 wickets to his name for Glamorgan, plus 44 for other teams.