Colin Ingram, Glamorgan’s prolific run-scorer in white-ball cricket during 2016, is on the verge of establishing a new Club record having struck five successive half-centuries in the course of the past three weeks.
Colin's purple patch of batsmanship began with Ingram making a quick-fire 64 in Glamorgan’s Twenty20 victory against Gloucestershire at Bristol on June 10th. He followed this up two days later with another blitzkrieg of blows at the Spitfire St. Lawrence ground in Canterbury as his unbeaten 95 steered Glamorgan to an impressive win against Kent in the Royal London One-Day Cup.
Two days later, Colin made 85 against Middlesex in the 50 overs match at The SSE SWALEC before bludgeoning 60 in their Twenty20 win over the Kent Spitfires at the Cardiff ground. Then last Friday evening, the South African hammered an unbeaten 73 from 49 balls as Glamorgan defeated Surrey by nine wickets at The SSE SWALEC in their top of the table clash in the NatWest T20 Blast as the Welsh county moved closer to clinching a quarter-final berth in the competition.
If Colin makes another half-century in Glamorgan’s next T20 game – at Cardiff on July 7th against the Sussex Sharks – he will break the Club’s record for the most number of half-centuries in consecutive limited-overs games. At present, he has equalled the efforts of Steve James who notched up a sequence of 82, 75, 54, 93* and 90 in 1995, as well as Robert Croft who posted 77, 67, 50, 59 and 50 in five successive matches during 1998.