Glamorgan visit the historic College ground at Cheltenham for their next match in the Specsavers County Championship as they meet Gloucestershire in a four-day contest scheduled to get underway at 11am on Monday, July 3rd.
The Welsh county were victorious seven years ago which was the last time they played a Championship fixture at Cheltenham, with Glamorgan winning by 176 runs in July 2010 as Robert Croft dramatically ended the contest with a superb hat-trick.
In fact, Glamorgan have a decent record at the attractive College ground, having had the better of a drawn game at the 1991 Cheltenham Festival, winning by two wickets in 2002, and then in 2006, recording a ten-wicket victory after Michael Powell had scored a truly magnificent 299 – the second highest individual innings for the Welsh county.
For a while, it looked as if the Glamorgan batsman might break both Steve James’ Club record of 309*, besides surpassing the 318* made by the legendary W.G.Grace at Cheltenham in 1876. But on 299 he was caught behind from the spin bowling of Ian Fisher. However, another outstanding bowling performance by Robert Croft, who claimed a thirteen-wicket match haul saw Gloucestershire dismissed twice, before some lusty blows from Brendan McCullum saw Glamorgan home on the final afternoon, and just before the rains descended on the pretty Cotswold town.