30 Mar 2016 | Cricket
Glamorgan Head Coach Robert Croft has confirmed the squad for the final warm-up game against Somerset at The SSE SWALEC, which starts tomorrow, 11am.
After sitting out Tuesday's run out against the Cardiff students, James Kettleborough, Will Bragg and Aneurin Donald return to the team for the three-day red ball clash against the First Division opponents, who are fielding a strong team led by new captain and former Australia international Chris Rogers.
There is also a place in the thirteen man squad for two other young Welsh players from the Glamorgan Development programme with both Lukas Carey and Sam Pearce included.
Jacques Rudolph leads the Welsh county again in what's sure to be a stern test as preparations step up ahead of the opening first-class encounters and first Championship game against Leicestershire on 17 April.
Rudolph has returned to Cardiff earlier than before this year as he prepares for his second season as captain and the South African opener is happy with the team's preparations ahead of the new season.
There's a good vibe in the dressing room as we get ready for the new season and we've a new Head Coach in Robert Croft, said Jacques.
Crofty has a wealth of experience and has taken over a 1,000 wickets in his career as a player and scored quite a few runs too, so he gets respect from the players because of what he's achieved.
It's always nice chatting cricket with him and he challenges you about your own game. For him it's a new chapter in his coaching career and all the players are backing him.
We played a strong brand of cricket last year and we won four games in a row which will have given the guys belief that we can achieve something and we had a small squad last year.
In terms of our bowling depth this year we've signed Timm van der Gugten and Harry Podmore on loan so our squad depth is better this year. I'm really optimistic about our prospects for the season.
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Glamorgan (13-man) squad to play Somerset at Cardiff: J Rudolph (capt), W Bragg, L Carey, A Donald, J Kettleborough, D Lloyd, C Meshede, S Pearce, D Penrhyn Jones, A Salter, R Smith, G Wagg, M Wallace (wkt)
Somerset (13 man) squad: C Rogers (capt), T Abell, J Allenby, T Barber, R Davies (wkt), L Gregory, T Greoenewald, J Hildreth, J Leach, C Overton, P Trego, M Trescothick and M Waller.