Glamorgan travel to Merchant Taylors’ School for their next match in the Vitality Blast with their T20 contest against Middlesex scheduled to get underway at 1630 on Wednesday, 31 May. (writes Andrew Hignell)
This will be Glamorgan’s first-ever T20 game at the school ground in Northwood with, as the list below shows, the Welsh county having played all of their previous away games in the competition against Middlesex at either Richmond or Radlett.
14 June 2011 at Richmond - Glamorgan won by 4 wickets
3 July 2014 at Richmond - Glamorgan won by 6 wickets
8 July 2016 at Richmond - Glamorgan won by 9 wickets
5 August 2018 at Richmond - Glamorgan won by 7 wickets
27 June 2021 at Radlett - Middlesex won by 7 wickets
29 May 2022 at Radlett - Middlesex won by 4 wickets
Max Holden and Joe Cracknell saw Middlesex to victory last year at Radlett with the latter thumping 47 from 28 balls before being bowled by Marnus Labuschagne, who had entered the attack in the 17th over. Despite some equally lusty hitting by Dan Douthwaite and James Weighell, it was Middlesex who won at Radlett in 2021 with Stevie Eskinazi scoring an unbeaten 91 to see Middlesex home by seven wickets.
Glamorgan’s most recent victory on Middlesex soil came in 2018 at Richmond when Ruaidhri Smith produced a Man-of-the-Match performance taking 4/6 as Middlesex plummeted to 20-4. Timm van der Gugten also claimed 4/31 before Colin Ingram made an unbeaten 46 to see Glamorgan to their modest target.
The Welsh county also won at Richmond in July 2016 after a fine opening salvo from Shaun Tait as the Australian quick bowler removed both of the Middlesex openers. The visiting attack kept the Middlesex batsmen in check and although Eoin Morgan made a forthright fifty, the target of 145 proved insufficient as Mark Wallace struck an unbeaten 69 as Glamorgan completed victory in the 17th over.