Head coach Matt Maynard has named an unchanged 13-man squad for our LV= County Championship match against Middlesex at Sophia Gardens tomorrow.
After the outstanding seven-wicket victory against Nottinghamshire last week, Glamorgan sit on top of the Division Two table with 34 points from two matches, while Middlesex are in seventh on 14 points having received a bye in round two.
Seamer James Harris has recovered from the illness that kept him out of the side at Trent Bridge and could face his former team. Harris played for Middlesex from 2013 to 2021 before rejoining Glamorgan this winter.
After battling it out less than a month ago during the Pakistan and Australia Test match series, world superstars Marnus Labuschagne and Shaheen Shah Afridi will once again go head-to-head after Middlesex confirmed that Afridi will feature for them.
View from the camp – Matt Maynard
You’d want to try to reproduce the performance against Notts in every game we play, that’s not always the case but going into that game against Middlesex we’ll be full of confidence, not too much but just stick to the basics like we did so well in the game against Notts.
We’ve got one or two players with little niggles so we’ll see, James Harris missed the last game and he’ll be in contention.
It’s tough for any of the frontline seamers to play the six matches back to back, it’s about communicating with them. I might get four games out of one bowler, five out of one bowler, three out of another.
We’ll play it by ear and see how they are physically. The beauty of sport is that if you’re winning, you don’t feel tired so if we keep these performances up, the bowlers will hopefully get enough rest in between so they can bowl their overs in matches rather than in practice.
Head-to-head – Glamorgan v Middlesex
It is 31-years years since Glamorgan last recorded a Championship victory at their Cardiff base against Middlesex, with the victory in June 1991 coming during a rain-affected contest as four-wicket hauls by off-cutter Steve Barwick and seamer Mark Frost saw Glamorgan to a 129-run victory.
This also remains the Welsh county’s sole Championship victory in fifteen matches against Middlesex at Sophia Gardens after the move at the end of the 1966 season away from the Arms Park – a ground where Glamorgan also only recorded one victory in nine Championship matches against Middlesex, with their sole success coming in 1950 when they won by 86 runs.
To view previous results between the two sides, click HERE.
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