After their stunning two-wicket victory over Gloucestershire on Friday evening at Bristol, Glamorgan travel to Somerset for their next match in the Vitality Blast with the contest at Taunton on Sunday evening, 28 May, scheduled to get underway at 1830 (writes Andrew Hignell).
Last year, Will Smeed played a match-winning innings of 94* from just 41 balls, with his explosive knock containing 7 fours and 8 mighty sixes as he feasted on the Glamorgan attack which saw Somerset reach their target of 174 in the fifteenth over. Taunton has not been a happy hunting ground for Glamorgan in recent times and, as the list below shows, the Welsh county have not been victorious in this format of cricket on Somerset soil since 2017:
13 Aug 2017 at Taunton - Glamorgan won by 1 run
12 Aug 2018 at Taunton - Somerset won by 29 runs
24 Aug 2019 at Taunton - Somerset won by 25 runs
1 Sept 2020 at Taunton - Somerset won by 8 wickets
19 June 2021 at Taunton - Match Abandoned
3 June 2022 at Taunton - Somerset won by 9 wickets
Glamorgan’s victory at Taunton in 2017 was a nail-biting affair as they won by one run after a maiden half-century by Nick Selman plus a nerveless display by their bowlers during the closing stages with Michael Hogan and Marchant de Lange stifling a late Somerset rally. Their reward was qualification for the quarter-finals of the competition in a summer which saw the Welsh county reach Finals Day at Edgbaston where they lost to the Birmingham Bears in the semi-finals.
The game at Taunton in 2015 at Taunton was also a close contest before Glamorgan won by three runs, thanks to Colin Ingram who posted an imperious 96 from 62 balls and Wayne Parnell who delivered a superb final over. With the home side needing twelve off the final over, Tim Groenewald on-drove the South African’s first delivery for four runs and, after a flurry of singles and a wide, Abdur Rehman was left needing to strike four from the final two balls. But Parnell yorked the Pakistani spinner before Max Waller failed to make contact with the final delivery.