Glamorgan will welcome Sussex to The SSE SWALEC for their next match in the Specsavers County Championship, with the contest at Cardiff scheduled to get underway at 11.00 am on Tuesday August 23rd (Gates open – 10am).
Sussex were relegated from Division One of the competition last summer so they have not played a Championship contest at Cardiff since April 2010. On that occasion, they were victorious by 201 runs as Glamorgan, set a notional target of 405, subsided to 34/3 before a defiant stand of 113 between Ben Wright and Jim Allenby frustrated the visitors. But Sussex duly wrapped up a victory on the final afternoon as off-spinner Chris Nash returned career-best figures of 4/12 to see Sussex to their first win in the Welsh capital since they had been victorious at Cardiff Arms Park in 1961.
Glamorgan’s most recent victory over Sussex at their headquarters came in April 1999 when both Simon Jones and Robert Croft each took five wicket hauls, before a superb 153 from Steve James saw the Welsh county successfully chase a target of 336 on the final day to record a comprehensive victory by six wickets.
The two sides have already met in 2016 with the game in July at Hove ending all square after a defiant and unbeaten century by David Lloyd. So far this season, Lloyd has struck 689 runs so another century by Lloyd would put him in with an outside chance of reaching the 1,000 run mark. This is also the target for Will Bragg (859) and Aneurin Donald (849) who are the Club’s top two run-scorers in first-class cricket.