Leicestershire are Glamorgan's next opponents as the Welsh county meet the East Midlands side in the LV=County Championship, with the match at The SSE SWALEC scheduled to get underway at 11a.m. on Monday, June 22nd.
After their superb seven-wicket victory at Guildford, Glamorgan have now moved to within a dozen points of second placed Surrey, and with a game in hand. The Welsh county are sixty points behind Division Two leaders Lancashire, but they have two games in hand over the Red Rose county, who they also still have to play twice - at Colwyn Bay and the Emirates Old Trafford
Glamorgan remain the only unbeaten team in Division Two, with just Yorkshire in Division One also having not lost a game in the Championship so far in 2015. The Welsh county are also closing in on another team record ahead of the match with Leicestershire, as they look to record their fourth successive victory in the LV=County Championship a feat they have achieved on eight previous occasions - 1946, 1948, 1949, 1959, 1968, 1992/93, 2000 and 2004.
Coincidentally Leicestershire were Glamorgan's opponents at Cardiff in June 2004 when they last achieved the feat, trouncing the East Midlands side by the overwhelming margin of 409 runs, with centuries by Matthew Maynard, Jonathan Hughes and Robert Croft, before the visitors were cheaply dismissed in the second innings as David Harrison took 3/17 and Alex Wharf 3/37.
This followed victories by 201 runs over Durham at Chester-le-Street, by 128 runs at Derby and then by seven wickets against Somerset at Swansea. Ironically, the winning margin of their third win in this sequence in 2004 was the same as their victory this week at Guildford, so perhaps history will repeat itself in the course of the coming days.
Bad light and rain saved Leicestershire from defeat in 2014 when their ninth wicket pair were at the crease. The game at the Cardiff ground in 2012 also ended all-square, but on their previous two visits to the Welsh capital, the East Midlands side had been heavily beaten by Glamorgan. In September 2008 Glamorgan were victorious by ten wickets after Gareth Rees had made 140 and Michael Powell 120, before an eight-wicket haul by David Harrison had seen Leicestershire follow-on.
The last time Leicestershire won a first-class game at the Cardiff ground was in July 2001 when they were victorious by an innings and 90 runs after openers Iain Sutcliffe (203) and Trevor Ward (109) had shared a first wicket stand of 198. Phil de Freitas then took 6/65 as Glamorgan followed-on before fellow England fast bowler Devon Malcolm claimed 5/98.
The two sides have already met this season in Championship cricket with the contest in April at Grace Road ending all square.