Glamorgan start their Royal London One-Day campaign by playing Warwickshire at Sophia Gardens on Thursday, 22 July, with the 50 overs contest scheduled to start at 1100 (writes Andrew Hignell).
As the list below shows, this will be the first time since 2015 that the two teams have met in a List A match, with the game also being the first at Cardiff since Glamorgan met Warwickshire in a day-night contest during August 2008 and just a few months after the completion of the ground’s redevelopment scheme.
6 Aug, 2006 at Colwyn Bay - Match Abandoned
22 Aug 2008 at Cardiff – Glamorgan won by 130 runs
19 July 2009 at Edgbaston - Match Abandoned
14 August 2014 at Swansea – Warwickshire won by 7 wickets (DLS Method)
3 August 2015 at Edgbaston – Warwickshire won by 9 wickets
Warwickshire have won the last two matches between Glamorgan and Warwickshire with the game at Edgbaston in 2015 seeing Oliver Hannon-Dalby claiming 5/27 before Varun Chopra and Jonathan Trott posted half-centuries to see the Birmingham side to an emphatic victory.
Chopra was also to the fore in the rain-affected contest at St. Helen’s. Swansea in 2014 with the opener helping to see his side race to 90-3 in the ninth over when rain brought a premature end to the 40-overs contest, and after Jacques Rudolph and Murray Goodwin had earlier scored fifties for the Welsh county.
However, Glamorgan were successful in August 2008 defeating Warwickshire under the SWALEC Stadium floodlights by 130 runs after a superb bowling performance by Jason Gillespie. The Australian produced a spell of five wickets for just six runs in 39 balls as the visitors slumped to 29-8 before a late rally saw them finish on the slightly more respectable total of 88.
In all, Glamorgan have played 56 List A games against Warwickshire – the first took place at Swansea in the 1966 Gillette Cup and saw the first of 31 victories for the West Midlands side. Glamorgan have won 21 times against Warwickshire in List A matches with 3 games ending up as ‘No Results’ whilst the Sunday League contest at Swansea in 2000 ended in a tie.