By finishing top of their group in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, Glamorgan have secured a home semi-final against Warwickshire at Sophia Gardens on Sunday, 18 August. (writes Andrew Hignell)
This follows a sequence of six victories out of eight group games, with just one defeat – against Leicestershire at Grace Road – plus one ‘No Result’ against Warwickshire at Edgbaston. This sequence of victories in the 2024 competition saw the Welsh county win their first five List A matches – something they had only ever achieved three times before - in 1990, 2003 and 2004 - but never before in the One-Day Cup competition.
The ‘No Result’ at Edgbaston also brought to an end a sequence of seven successive victories by Glamorgan in List A matches – the last two games in 2023 plus the first five in 2024. This equalled the sequence of seven victories in List A matches between 4 August and 15 September 2002 when Glamorgan won the National League title. The record, however, remains twelve from 6 June until 8 August 1993 when Glamorgan won the Sunday League title.
This will be Glamorgan’s ninth appearance in the semi-final of a List A competition with the previous occasions being:
1977 (Gillette Cup) – beat Leicestershire by five wickets at Swansea.
1988 (Benson and Hedges Cup) – lost to Derbyshire by 14 runs at Swansea.
1993 (Nat West Trophy) – lost to Sussex by three wickets at Hove.
1995 (Nat West Trophy) – lost to Warwickshire by eight wickets at Cardiff.
1997 (Nat West Trophy) – lost to Essex by one wicket at Chelmsford.
2000 (Benson and Hedges Cup) – beat Surrey by 32 runs (DLS Method) at Cardiff.
2013 (Yorkshire Bank40) – beat Hampshire by 31 runs at the Ageas Bowl.
2021 (Royal London One-Day Cup) – beat Essex by five wickets at Cardiff.
They have also appeared in two semi-finals in the Twenty20 competition – both at Edgbaston against the Leicestershire Foxes in 2004 and the Birmingham Bears in 2017. However, Glamorgan lost both of these matches.