The Essex Eagles will be Glamorgan's opponents in their opening home game of the NatWest T20Blast with the contest at the SWALEC Stadium scheduled to start on Friday, May 22nd at 6.30pm
After their record-breaking efforts last Friday night against Surrey at The Oval, Glamorgan meet the Essex Eagles on home soil, eager to put an end to a record which has seen the English county win the last five encounters in the short-form of the game against the Welsh county.
Indeed, the Eagles won by seven wickets when they visited Glamorgan's headquarters last summer, and despite half-centuries from Jacques Rudolph and Murray Goodwin, Glamorgan could not prevent the Essex side from winning. It had been a similar story on the Eagles' previous two visits to Cardiff in 2010 and 2011 when they won by nine and six wickets respectively.
Glamorgan's sole victory over the Eagles in the Twenty20 competition came in their first-ever meeting at Chelmsford on June 11
th, 2010 where a pair of feisty innings by Mark Cosgrove and Tom Maynard laid the foundations for a seven wicket victory.