The Yorkshire Vikings will be Glamorgan’s opponents in their final and all-important group game in the Royal London One-Day Cup with the two teams meeting at Sophia Gardens on Thursday, 12 August in a contest scheduled to start at 1100am. (writes Andrew Hignell)
Glamorgan’s comprehensive defeat of the Notts Outlaws on Sunday afternoon made it three wins from three games at home this season in List A cricket, and if the matches at Sophia Gardens from two years ago are also taken into account, the Welsh county have won their last four games in the 50 over competition at their headquarters, with their last defeat on their home patch coming on 21 April 2019 when they agonizingly lost by two runs to Somerset after a doughty last wicket stand between Timm van der Gugten and Lukas Carey seemed to be seeing Glamorgan to a narrow victory, only for Azhar Ali to take a tumbling catch at mid-off to clinch a Somerset win as Lukas looked as if he had struck the winning runs.
As far as List A games between Yorkshire and Glamorgan are concerned, the two teams last met back in 2013. In fact, they played each other twice that year with the Welsh county winning both games, firstly by 28 runs during May at Colwyn Bay, and later by four wickets at Headingley in August, thanks to some withering blows by Graham Wagg, en route to clinching a place in the competition final at Lord’s. Perhaps a positive omen as far as the 2021 competition is concerned, but not a repeat of the result of the final itself with the Notts Outlaws beating Glamorgan by 87 runs.
However, as far as List A encounters between the White Rose team and the Daffodil county, this will be the first time for fourteen years that the two teams have met each other in a one-day contest at Sophia Gardens,. As the list below shows of their last six meetings at Cardiff, Yorkshire won the encounter in 2007 by eight wickets after Darren Gough and Richard Pyrah had each claimed three wickets before Jacques Rudolph – then playing for Yorkshire - and Gerard Brophy shared a stand of 88 to see their side to their victory target.
15 May, 1994 - Yorkshire won by 9 wickets
5 May, 1996 - Glamorgan won by 4 wickets
29 July, 1997- Glamorgan won by 1 wicket
19 May, 1998 - Yorkshire won by 37 runs
11 Aug, 2002 - Glamorgan won by 21 runs
20 Aug, 2007 - Yorkshire won by 8 wickets
Glamorgan had also won a dramatic encounter at Sophia Gardens in the NatWest Trophy in 1997 as a tenth wicket stand between Waqar Younis and Dean Cosker saw the Welsh county clinch a dramatic one-wicket victory. They also won at Cardiff during May 1996 as an unbeaten 53 by Adrian Dale plus a frugal eight over spell of 3/21 by Robert Croft underpinned a four wicket victory