Glamorgan return to Cardiff for their next game in the Vitality Blast with the T20 contest against Surrey on Sunday 5 June scheduled to start at Sophia Gardens at 1400pm. (writes Andrew Hignell)
The Welsh county will be keen to avenge their four-wicket defeat by Surrey off the penultimate ball at The Oval last week as well as the nine-wicket defeat on Friday night against Somerset at Taunton. Last year’s match between the two sides at Sophia Gardens was a crackerjack of a contest with Glamorgan clinching a one-run victory after a contrasting pair of final overs to each innings. For the Welsh county, Billy Root, opened his shoulders to strike four sixes in the last over against Gus Atkinson as his team went from 129-6 to 153-6.
In contrast, Surrey needed thirteen to win from the final six balls, but Kyle Jamieson, the hard-hitting fast bowler from New Zealand plus veteran captain, Gareth Batty, could only muster eleven as Timm van der Gugten held his nerve and parried a drive from the Kiwi to the final ball of the gripping contest before calmly running him out at the bowler’s end as he tried to scamper a single to tie the game,
As the list below shows of the results of the last six matches between the two sides at Sophia Gardens Surrey won on their visits to Cardiff in 2018 and 2019. In the former, Aaron Finch bludgeoned an unbeaten 44 as Surrey raced to 60-0 in five overs to win a rain-shortened contest, whilst in 2019 Mark Stoneman posted an assertive fifty, before a half-century stand by Ben Foakes and Ollie Pope saw Surrey to their target.
26 June 2015 - Surrey won by 19 runs
24 June 2016 - Glamorgan won by 9 wickets
28 July 2017 - Match Abandoned
17 August 2018 - Surrey won by 24 runs (DLS Method)
11 August 2019 - Surrey won by 7 wickets
29 June 2021 - Glamorgan won by 1 run
In all, the Welsh county have won three of their eight home T20 games against Surrey, with Glamorgan being victorious in July 2010 by 10 runs as well as June 2016 by nine wickets following a fine bowling and fielding performance with Dale Steyn, Dean Cosker and Graham Wagg each claiming two wickets apiece as Surrey were dismissed for 110, with Chris Cooke also making a stumping and taking four catches including one high above his head to remove Kumar Sangakkara who top-edged Michael Hogan during a frugal opening salvo. Colin Ingram then made an assertive fifty as he saw his adopted county to an emphatic win.