Glamorgan continue their quest of a quarter-final place in the NatWest T20 Blast as they travel to the south coast on Thursday, August 10th to meet Hampshire in a floodlit contest at The Ageas Bowl starting at 6.30pm.
Hampshire defeated Glamorgan by 22 runs in the opening game of the competition on July 7 at The SSE SWALEC but since then the Welsh county have only lost one of their other ten games and then by five runs in a rain-affected contest with Gloucestershire at their Cardiff headquarters.
Glamorgan enter the game in first place in the South Division and know that their sixth away win of the summer – their best-ever tally in 20 overs cricket – will go a long way towards clinching a place in the last eight of the all-action competition. If the Welsh county do come out on top, they will have two remaining games – against Somerset at Taunton and Middlesex at Cardiff – in which to press for a top two position and a guaranteed home draw in the quarter-finals.
Last summer, Glamorgan lost at The Ageas Bowl by 25 runs with Liam Dawson posting a combative fitty before claiming four wickets with his spin bowling. This ended Glamorgan’s winning sequence in Twenty20 cricket at The Ageas Bowl having won in 2015 by 23 runs after a sublime 77 from the bat of Jacques Rudolph plus a disciplined performance by the Glamorgan bowlers and fielders in restricting the powerful Hampshire line-up to just 158-8.
There had also been a fine all-round team effort in 2014, with a haul of 3/32 by Will Owen helping Glamorgan to secure a 10-run victory. Prior to this, Glamorgan had been defeated at The Ageas Bowl in 2011 when they lost by two wickets after being restricted to 120/9 with spinner Danny Briggs claiming 4/24.