Surrey are the next visitors to Sophia Gardens to meet Glamorgan in the Royal London One-Day Cup on Sunday, April 28th with the contest starting at 11.00am (Gates open – 10.00am)
Glamorgan gained their first point in the competition on Thursday when their match against the injury-ravaged Kent Spitfires was declared a ‘No Result’ with only 15 overs of play being possible at a dank and overcast Sophia Gardens. Their final home match in the group stages of the List A competition on Sunday sees the Welsh county meet Surrey, another team affected by injuries to some of their star names, and a team which has won just one of their four group matches so far in this year’s One-Day Cup.
Surrey have been victorious on their last two visits to Cardiff for a List A match against the Welsh county. In 2017 they eased to an eight wicket victory after Jacques Rudolph and Colin Ingram had each made half-centuries in the Welsh county’s total of 239. Rain then fell leaving Surrey a revised target of 182 from 29 overs but Mark Stoneman’s 74 and Kumar Sangakkara’s unbeaten 81, during a masterclass of batting from the veteran Sri Lankan, saw the visitors ease home with five overs to spare.
On their previous visit to Cardiff during June 2012, Surrey won a rain-affected contest by 57 runs under the DLS Method, after Indian spinner Murali Kartik had claimed 4/27.
Glamorgan’s last victory at home in a List A contest against Surrey came under the Sophia Gardens floodlights in July 2008 as Mark Wallace scored a jaunty 85 to wrest the initiative away from the visitors. Jason Gillespie then dismissed both openers, before David Harrison claimed the important scalp of Mark Ramprakash. Spinners Robert Croft and Dean Cosker subsequently stifled the attempts of the visiting batsmen to re-ignite the run-chase as Glamorgan cruised to a comfortable victory by 78 runs.