Glamorgan head to Guildford for their next match in the LV=County Championship in a contest against Surrey which sees the third-placed and second-placed teams in the table meeting each other in a four-day contest starting at 11am on Monday, June 15th.
After their back-to-back Championship victories at the SSE SWALEC against Essex and Northamptonshire, Glamorgan head to Guildford looking for a third successive victory. May 2010 was the last time they achieved this feat as during that month five years ago they defeated both Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire at Cardiff by the margin of an innings and 4 runs, before beating Leicestershire at Grace Road by ten wickets.
Their efforts so far during 2015 have seen Glamorgan rise up to third place in the Division Two table, with the Welsh county having an unbeaten record in the four-day competition - one of only three teams still to lose a Championship match in 2015. Yorkshire in Division One remain unbeaten, whilst Surrey, after their victory this week against Leicestershire, are the other unbeaten side in Division Two. This contest at Guildford therefore sees each side put their undefeated record on the line.
Glamorgan are currently in third place, 60 points behind leaders Lancashire, but with two games in hand over the Red Rose county. Surrey are currently in second place, 29 points ahead of Glamorgan having played one more game than the Welsh county. A sizeable victory therefore for Jacques Rudolph's team over Surrey would significantly help to reduce this gap between the teams in second and third place in the Division Two table, besides closing the gap behind leaders Lancashire.
The Welsh county last visited Guildford for a Championship match no less than 33 years ago, with the contest in August 1982 seeing Surrey win the enthralling three-day contest by two wickets. Glamorgan declared on 360/7 in their first innings with Rodney Ontong and Greg Thomas making 88 and 84 respectively before Geoff Howarth, the New Zealand Test batsman, made 156 in Surrey's first innings. Javed Miandad and John Hopkins then each made centuries in Glamorgan's second innings before Monte Lynch struck an unbeaten 141 to see Surrey home in what had been a high-scoring contest.
The Welsh county did however play at the Woodbridge Road ground last summer in the Royal London One-Day Cup with Glamorgan posting a record-breaking chase in one-day cricket as they successfully a target of 307 runs in the 50-overs competition with Will Bragg scoring 88 and Murray Goodwin 74.