Glamorgan travel to the Brightside Ground, Bristol to take on Gloucestershire on Sunday and they will have to be at their best to break through a resilient batting lineup, which includes this former New Zealand star.
Despite being 37, Hamish Marshall's form for Gloucestershire has not wavered at the start of the new Specsavers County Championship season. He hit a paitent hundred at Canterbury, helping Gloucestershire to 337 allout against Kent after they had been 14/4 when he joined George Hankins at the crease.
Marshall, a veteran of 13 Tests and 66 ODIs for New Zealand, has called Bristol his home since arriving at the county in 2006.
In that time the experienced New Zealander has become a mainstay of the Gloucestershire batting lineup and the fact that he averages 38 in Test matches and has hit 28 hundreds and 69 fifites in first-class cricket is testament to his measured, composed batting style.
Now batting slightly lower at number five, Marshall uses his nous to guide the Gloucestershire young guns, who include 23-year-old Australian opener Cameron Bancroft, Chris Dent (25) and promising teenager George Hankins.
Marshall boasts a Test highest score of 160 against Sri Lanka and tends to enjoy playing against spin. Getting rid of him will be of paramount concern to Glamorgan's bowlers next week.
Hamish Marshall In Numbers
13 Test Matches
38.35 Test Average
66 ODIs
243 First-Class Appearances
13,685 First-Class Runs