Glamorgan travel to Old Deer Park in Richmond for their next match in the NatWest T20 Blast with the Welsh county meeting the Middlesex Panthers in a contest which is scheduled to start at 5.30pm on Thursday, July 3rd.
Match Preview
Victories last Friday evening for the Essex Eagles and Surrey, plus the Sussex Sharks' six-wicket win over the Panthers at Hove, has meant that Glamorgan have slipped down the table into fifth spot. However, the Welsh county have a game in hand over the Sharks with whom they are level on points so a victory in the match at Richmond against the Panthers would see Glamorgan rise back up into contention for a place in the quarter-finals of the all-action competition.
For their part. the Panthers are enjoying a sorry time this year in the NatWest T20 Blast, currently lying bottom of the South Division with just a solitary victory and eight defeats to their name from the ten contests so far in the competition.
They meet Glamorgan at a ground which has staged two previous Twenty20 matches against the Welsh county. An unbeaten 79 by Eoin Morgan saw the Panthers to a comfortable victory in June 2010 as Glamorgan were dismissed for 129, but the game in June 2011 was an entirely different affair as Glamorgan won by four wickets in a contest dominated by the spin bowlers with Dean Cosker taking 3/11 as the Panthers were bundled out for just 102, before Alviro Petersen struck a match-winning 72.
Team News
With Darren Sammy having returned to the West Indies, and Graham Wagg still injured, Glamorgan recall Murray Goodwin to their squad for their NatWest T20Blast match against the Middlesex Panthers at Richmond, whilst Will Bragg and Ruaidhri Smith are also included. The 13-man squad in full is - J Allenby (capt), JA Rudolph, MA Wallace (wkt), SJ Walters, CB Cooke, BJ Wright, WD Bragg, MW Goodwin, AG Salter, WT Owen, RAJ Smith, DA Cosker and MG Hogan.