Andrew Hignell looks back on some of the collective highlights for Glamorgan in 2025 as well as some of the overall batting records in Championship cricket during the season
A week after the end of the domestic season, it’s a good time to look back on an extraordinary summer for Glamorgan who on 21 April were 25 points adrift at the bottom of the Division Two table after losing to Middlesex at Lord’s. Five months later on 18 September, they clinched promotion into Division One for the first time since 2004, after rising up into second place in the table, besides remaining unbeaten in the County Championship until the final game of the summer.
When Glamorgan were promoted from Division Two into Division One of the County Championship in 2004, the Welsh county won five games having finished in third place in the table. In 2025 they ended up as runners-up having also won five matches.
In the Frizzell County Championship of 2004 Glamorgan accrued 196.5 points having been docked 1.5 points after a slow over-rate against Essex at Sophia Gardens. In the Rothesay County Championship of 2025 Glamorgan amassed 193 points despite having returned home after losing to Middlesex at Lord’s without a point having been docked a point for a slow over rate.
Glamorgan only lost three Championship matches during 2025. There have only been three summers when they have lost even less – In 2009 Glamorgan lost two games. In 2023 they were beaten only once, whilst in 1969 they were unbeaten as they lifted the Championship title.
Colin Ingram was the leading run-scorer with 1076 first-class runs, whilst Timm van der Gugten was the leading wicket-taker with 34 wickets to his name. Colin also topped the Club’s batting lists with an average of 56.63. Five other players ended the season with a Championship batting average over 40 – Ben Kellaway 54.20; Kiran Carlson 46.36; Asa Tribe 45.68; Chris Cooke 43.35 and Sam Northeast 42.04. There have only been a couple of seasons in the past when more than six Glamorgan players have surpassed this benchmark with eight in 1990, as well as seven in 2022.
Colin Ingram also recorded seven consecutive scores over 50 in Championship cricket during 2025 His sequence from 2 May to 23 July saw the experienced batter post scores of 81, 64, 70, 56, 133*, 117 and 87. His overall tally of 608 runs also beat Alan Jones’ record of 527 in six successive innings in 1967.