After their defeat to Surrey by 65 runs on Wednesday evening, Glamorgan return to action against the Essex Eagles in their next game in the Vitality Blast, with the contest starting at 1830 at Sophia Gardens on Friday, 9 June (writes Andrew Hignell)
Both teams have so far garnered eight points from four victories in this year’s competition, with Glamorgan in fourth place in the table and the Eagles in fifth spot by virtue of their inferior net run rate in comparison to the Welsh county.
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.
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
2 June 2022 - Glamorgan won by 6 wickets
Last year at Sophia Gardens, Michael Hogan and Michael Neser each took three wickets against the Eagles before an innings of 44 by Sam Northeast underpinned their stroll to a six-wicket win. The margin of victory had been seven wickets at Cardiff in 2021, thanks to half-centuries by Nick Selman and Marnus Labuschagne with the pair sharing a match-winning stand of 110 in 13.1 overs.
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.