Glamorgan meet the Essex Eagles in their next game in the Vitality Blast, with the T20 contest starting at 1905 at Sophia Gardens on Thursday, 2 June (writes Andrew Hignell)
The Welsh county will be looking to bounce back after their back-to-back defeats, each by four wickets, at The Oval and Radlett against Surrey and Middlesex in a match against a team who they defeated by seven wickets at Cardiff last summer thanks to half-centuries by Nick Selman and Marnus Labuschagne, with the pair sharing a match-winning stand of 110 in 13.1 overs.
As the list below shows of their last six meetings in T20 cricket at Cardiff, the Eagles have not beaten Glamorgan at Sophia Gardens since June 2016 when 42 by Jesse Ryder and 41 from Tom Westley saw the visitors to a seven-wicket victory.
22 May, 2015 - Essex won by 5 wickets
1 June, 2016 - Essex won by 7 wickets
23 July, 2017 - Match Abandoned
7 Aug, 2018 - Glamorgan won by 6 runs
9 Aug, 2019 - No Result
13 June, 2021 - Glamorgan won by 7 wickets
Glamorgan were also victorious at Cardiff in 2018, when a forthright 89 by Colin Ingram, plus a feisty 53 from Graham Wagg saw the Welsh county to a six-run victory. Remarkably, this was also their first on home soil against the Eagles in the T20 competition, with the visitors having won five of their previous encounters at Sophia Gardens – in 2010, 2011,2014, 2015 and 2016.