Glamorgan will travel to the Mansfield area for their opening game in the Royal London One-Day Cup as they play the Notts Outlaws at Welbeck Colliery CC on Sunday, July 26th in a contest which is scheduled to get underway at 10.30am.
This is a great weekend for the Welbeck Colliery club as they host Warwickshire and Glamorgan in back-to-back matches with county cricket being staged for the first-ever time at the ground which is situated off Sookholme Road in the Nettleworth district of Mansfield at the John Fretwell Sporting Complex.
Welbeck Colliery CC were formed in the years around the Great War and until 2007 they played at another ground which they shared with the colliery's football team. The new complex was opened in 2008, with Welbeck Colliery CC playing in the Notts Premier League. As a result, several professionals attached to the Nottinghamshire club have played for Welbeck Colliery CC, but the most famous cricketer to emerge from the Mansfield-based club is former Nottinghamshire and England wicket-keeper Bruce French, whose father and brothers have been stalwarts of the club.
The Welbeck Colliery club have hosted second eleven matches for Nottinghamshire since 2002, with Glamorgan visiting the new ground in the John Fretwell Sporting Complex in July 2014 for a contest in the Second Eleven Trophy which despite Dewi Penrhyn Jones talking 5/47 saw the home side scrape home by one wicket.
This will be the first time that Glamorgan have met Nottinghamshire in a List A one-day game away from their headquarters at Trent Bridge, whilst they have met the East Midlands side in Championship matches at their out-ground at Worksop Town CC. The two sides last met in one-day cricket at the SSE SWALEC last summer with Ajmal Shahzad - now of Sussex - and Steven Mullaney leading a late rally as Nottinghamshire won by three wickets
Glamorgan's last win in one-day cricket on Nottinghamshire soil came on August 27
th, 2006 at Trent Bridge when they were victorious in a rain-affected match by five wickets thanks to an unbeaten 41 by James Franklin plus a spell of 3/27 by Andrew Davies. Glamorgan also won at the Nottingham ground in 2005 when they clinched a nail-biting encounter by the slender margin of four runs, whilst in 2002 they were victorious by 8 wickets.