(writes Andrew Hignell)
Glamorgan travel to Hove for their next match in the Specsavers County Championship against Sussex with the four-day match scheduled to start at 11am on Monday, May 27th.
After their thrilling two-wicket victory at Derby last week, Glamorgan have risen up the Division Two table and currently occupy fourth spot, one point behind Gloucestershire with Sussex languishing in sixth place after their draw last week against Northamptonshire.
Hove was something of a nemesis last year for the Welsh county who were humbled in their Championship encounter at Hove as they were dismissed for 85 and 88 with Jofra Archer – now in England’s World Cup squad - returning match figures of 8/46 in 19.3 overs in a game which ended inside five sessions with Sussex securing an innings victory.
This was in stark contrast to the game in 2016 which proved to be a high-scoring encounter with Ed Joyce, Luke Wells and Ben Brown all scoring centuries for the South Coast club, before a fine hundred by David Lloyd guided, now the acting captain, Glamorgan to a draw.
Although Glamorgan’s most recent Championship success against Sussex was in 2000 at Colwyn Bay, you have to go back to July 1975 for Glamorgan’s last Championship success in Sussex. In that match forty-four years ago at Hove, Roger Davis scored a fine hundred in Glamorgan’s first innings, before John Solanky and Tony Cordle took four and three wickets respectively to bowl Glamorgan to a 96-run victory.