Glamorgan return to action in red ball cricket as they welcome Kent to The SSE SWALEC for their next home game in the Specsavers County Championship with the contest scheduled to get underway on Sunday, June 19th at 11.00 am. (Gates open at 10.00am)
The past week has seen Glamorgan and Kent go head-to-head in all three formats of the county game. Last Sunday at The Spitfires St. Lawrence ground in Canterbury, Glamorgan were victorious in their 50-overs encounter with Colin Ingram’s unbeaten 95 from 53 balls helping to propel the Welsh county to victory by three wickets under the DLS Method. On Friday night at Cardiff, Glamorgan won by 55 runs under the DLS Method in their contest in the Nat West T20 Blast, with David Lloyd striking an unbeaten 97 from just 49 balls as his side consolidated their position on top of the group table.
The two teams now return to red ball action as they meet up in the County Championship – a competition in which Glamorgan are still searching for their first victory in 2016, with the Welsh county bottom of the table having drawn three and lost three of their matches so far this summer.
One of their defeats came at Canterbury in early May where they were beaten by ten wickets, with Kent having also defeated Derbyshire by seven wickets at Derby to secure a spot in third place in the Division Two table, eleven points behind leaders Essex and all despite the loss of around 60 hours of playing time in the opening batch of Championship matches, including the total washout of their opening encounter against Worcestershire at New Road.
The past seven matches between the two counties at Cardiff have all ended in a decisive result, with Kent winning on four occasions, and Glamorgan on three times. In fact, you have to go back to 1998 for the last draw between these two teams in a County Championship match at Cardiff.
Kent were the emphatic winners by 316 runs when the two sides met last summer at Glamorgan’s headquarters. To an extent, this compensated for their defeat in 2014 at Cardiff by an innings and eleven runs in a contest which saw Michael Hogan claim 5/58 and 5/67 to record his first ten-wicket match haul for the Welsh county. This could also be a landmark match for the tall Australian as he goes into this match needing two more wickets to reach the milestone of 200 first-class wickets for his adopted county.