Glamorgan batsmen received some beneficial words of advice from Mark Ramprakash as part of their pre-season preparations today.
Mark visited The SSE SWALEC at the request of Glamorgan chief executive Hugh Morris and Head coach Robert Croft, who spent time with the England squad in South Africa in January.
Ramprakash was one of the most classical batsman in English cricket but never fulfilled his potential at international level, although since retiring he has become an international batting coach.
We've had visits before from Peter Such so for Ramps to come down today is another positive step and it doesn't do our players any harm to see England coaches around the place, said Croft.
After the session captain Jacwues Rudolph tweeted his thanks to Ramprakash, thanks for your time spent with the Glamorgan players today.
Ramprakash won 52 Test caps and scored 2,350 runs, including centuries against West Indies (1998) and Australia (2001), but did not feature after the spring-2002 tour of New Zealand.
He started his career at Middlesex, where he played for 11 years, and captained the side in 2000 but moved to Surrey at the end of the year.
Never far from the top of the first-class batting averages, Ramprakash in 2003 became the first player to score a first-class century against all 18 counties.
After his playing retirement he became Middlesex's batting coach and was awarded an MBE. He progressed to coaching in the England set-up and was appointed the senior batting coach in late 2014.
Glamorgan have also added Adrian Shaw to their coaching staff this season.