Glamorgan meet Somerset in their final home game in the Vitality Blast on Friday 16 July at Sophia Gardens, starting at 1830 (writes Andrew Hignell).
The game between the two teams last month at Taunton was abandoned without a ball being bowled but, as the list below shows, Somerset have been victorious on their last three visits to the Cardiff ground, including last summer when a sublime and unbeaten century by Babar Azam helped the West Country side to an emphatic victory.
13 June 2015 at Sophia Gardens - Glamorgan won by 2 runs (DLS Method)
22 July 2016 at Sophia Gardens - Glamorgan won by 7 wickets
15 July 2017 at Sophia Gardens - No Result
22 July 2018 at Sophia Gardens - Somerset won by 30 runs
18 July 2019 at Sophia Gardens - Somerset won by 8 wickets
16 Sept 2020 at Sophia Gardens - Somerset won by 66 runs
Somerset were also victorious in 2019 when half-centuries by David Lloyd and Colin Ingram were trumped by Tom Banton’s explosive 64 from 34 balls before the England international miscued a pull against Andrew Salter and holed out at deep mid-wicket. Thoughts of a Glamorgan rally were then erased by a stand of 69 from 48 balls by Peter Trego (now with Nottinghamshire) and James Hildreth as Somerset reached their target with two overs remaining.
In 2018 a boundary-laden stand of 97 in 8.1 overs between Corey Anderson and James Hildreth helped Somerset recover from slipping to 59-4 after eight overs, with Timm van der Gugten claiming a trio of wickets. Their efforts duly proved to be a match-winning one as Glamorgan failed in their pursuit of a target of 191 to win.
However, Glamorgan were victorious in 2016 when Somerset visited Sophia Gardens with the Welsh county winning by seven wickets after Colin Ingram had taken 3/20 with his canny leg-breaks, whilst Graham Wagg and Shaun Tait each claimed a couple of cheap wickets apiece, before Ingram made an accomplished fifty to see his side to victory.
2015 had also Glamorgan win under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern Method in a rain-affected encounter at Cardiff after their innings was reduced to just five overs, with the Welsh county moving ahead of the par score just before the rain put an end to proceedings, thanks to Ingram drilling a pair of fours in an over from Alfonso Thomas, before a deftly struck boundary by Jacques Rudolph in what proved to be the final over of the floodlit game.