The Kent Spitfires will be Glamorgan’s next opponents at Sophia Gardens in the Royal London One-Day Cup with the 50-overs contest at Cardiff starting at 11.00am on Thursday, April 23rd. (Gates open 10am)
Both teams have yet to taste victory this summer in the 50-overs competition with Glamorgan having lost to the Essex Eagles, Hampshire and Somerset, with the agonising defeat on Easter Sunday by two runs coming in a remarkable game which saw Glamorgan, chasing 262 to defeat the West Country side recover from 41/6 to end on 259.
Kent have been beaten in the competition so far by Hampshire, Somerset and Sussex, and meet Glamorgan at a ground where they have not won a List A encounter since September 2007. On that occasion Martin Saggers, now a first-class umpire, claimed 4/25 whilst Rob Key, now a commentator, struck an unbeaten 107 as Kent won by eight wickets.
The List A match in July 2009 between Glamorgan and Kent was washed out whilst in July 2015 Glamorgan won by three wickets after a game-changing innings from Chris Cooke who blasted an imperious 94* to turn the game on its head after the Spitfires seemed like they were cruising to victory. But, after a brief stoppage for rain, Cooke made 94 from 54 balls with 8 fours and 4 massive sixes to see his side home with two balls remaining.
Kent’s most recent visit to Wales for a List A game turned into something of a six-fest as the match at Swansea in May 2017 saw 35 maximums being struck, with Darren Stevens bludgeoning 147 from 67 balls with his astonishing innings including a record fourteen sixes as the visitor’s attempted to chase a target of 357. However, thanks to a career-best five-wicket haul by David Lloyd, the Spitfires fell fifteen runs short.