Top of the table Glamorgan travel to Bristol for their next contest in the NatWest T20 Blast as they meet Gloucestershire in a game scheduled to start at 6.30pm on Friday, June 10th.
Resounding victories over Surrey and Hampshire have seen Glamorgan rise to the top of the group table and they travel to Bristol to meet Gloucestershire who have also won two out of three games but lie in third place in the table by virtue of their inferior run rate.
Last year’s match at Gloucestershire’s headquarters between the two teams was a high-scoring affair with each captain, Jacques Rudolph and Michael Klinger, posting an unbeaten hundred. But it was the efforts of the Glamorgan leader, and his maiden Twenty20 century, who held sway as the Welsh county won by 19 runs.
The weather had been the only winner at Bristol in 2014 during a rain-affected contest which was declared a no result after a heavy thunderstorm flooded the outfield at the County Ground shortly after the home side had posted 207/3 in their 20 overs. Glamorgan however re-addressed things six weeks later as they won the return game at Cardiff by eight wickets to clinch a place in the quarter-finals of the competition.
Their overwhelming victory at Cardiff in 2014 helped to erase the memories of the previous year when the West Country side proved to be Glamorgan’s nemesis in the competition with Gloucestershire winning at Cheltenham College by ten wickets before posting a nine-wicket win at the Welsh county’s headquarters nine days later.
Friday could be a red letter evening for evergreen spin bowler Dean Cosker who goes into the contest with 97 Twenty20 wickets to his name, and three more wickets for the left-arm spinner would see him become the first Glamorgan to claim 100 wickets in the short format of the game and join the small and exclusive list of bowlers who have claimed over 100 wickets in Twenty20 cricket in England and Wales which includes seam bowlers Yasir Arafat, Azhar Mahmood, Alfonso Thomas, Richard Pyrah and Graham Napier plus fellow spinners Danny Briggs, Samit Patel and James Tredwell.
Travel information for supporters visiting Bristol
Please note that the M32 will be closed on Friday evening and motorists heading to watch the match are advised to find alternative routes to, and from, the ground, besides allowing extra time for their journey due to the anticipated increase in volume of traffic on other roads.