Leicestershire are Glamorgan's next opponents in first-class cricket as the Welsh county entertain the East Midlands side in the LV=County Championship, with the match at the SWALEC Stadium scheduled to get underway at 11a.m. on Sunday, May 25th.
Match Preview
When Leicestershire visited the Cardiff ground in 2012 the contest 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 tall seamer David Harrison had seen Leicestershire follow-on.
Leicestershire were trounced by the mammoth margin of 409 runs as the Welsh county completed a sequence of four successive victories that summer in Championship cricket. The architects of this overwhelming victory were centurions Matthew Maynard, Jonathan Hughes and Robert Croft, before the visitors were bundled out for 137 with David Harrison taking 3/17 and Alex Wharf 3/37.
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 as Glamorgan, who were following on, were dismissed for a second time.
The two sides met earlier this season at Grace Road with the game ending in a draw after a defiant half-century from Stewart Walters, following fifties by Jacques Rudolph and Murray Goodwin in Glamorgan's second innings.
Squad News
Glamorgan have named the following 12-man squad for the match against Leicestershire with Tom Lancefield, Ben Wright and Michael Hogan replacing Gareth Rees, Stewart Walters and Ruaidhri Smith from the side that lost to Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl. The 12-man squad in full is TJ Lancefield, JA Rudolph, WD Bragg, MW Goodwin, BJ Wright, J Allenby, MA Wallace (capt), AG Salter, WT Owen, DA Cosker, TG Helm and MG Hogan.