Wally on Wagg's Heroics

18 Jun 2015 | Cricket
Glamorgan gloveman Mark Wallace described Graham Wagg's spectacular double century in Glamorgan's first innings against Surrey at Guildford as an "unbelievable performance" as the number 8 smashed 200 runs for the first time by any player in the position for 15 years in the County Championship.
We're trying to play a brand of cricket that's entertaining and on the front foot, said Mark Wallace.

We've got ourselves into a few holes this year which happens, but rather than taking a timid approach we've tried to be aggressive with bat and ball and our performance in this current game has been absolutely brilliant.

The guys are playing good cricket, we've a talented bunch of players, but you need that self-belief that you can do it.

As for Waggy I've never seen anything like it, it was unbelievable how he played, but Graham Wagg's knock aside, as it speaks for itself, the effort of the bowlers on a flat pitch against Surrey in this match has been fantastic.

When asked if the recent T20 victories has helped in the team's performances, Wally was quick to point out it was the team's overall approach to all forms of cricket this year that was benefitting both results and performances.

We haven't come across a magic recipe, so defeats do and will happen, but there's two different ways of playing - either be defensive and try and battle through it or take the aggressive way. With players like Meschede and Wagg, who like to play their shots, our side is set up to go out there and do what we do well and so far it's come off.

It is easy to point to when you win and say when a side is good, but the most impressive things about our side this year has been when we've lost.

We've not played our best in a couple of T20s in Cardiff, and its easy to get down on yourself and then begin to struggle, but we've said to ourselves that it's not going to effect how we play.

We accept that we will lose some games of cricket, as we play a lot of games, so we've said 'don't let it affect us' or how we will play, and we've bounced back to win three T20 games on the bounce and a couple of championship games on the bounce and we're in a decent position in this game, so sometimes it's more about what you do when you lose than when you are winning that makes the difference.

Wally who hit 92 runs in the first innings himself to enable Glamorgan's recovery in a 150 run partnership with Wagg, was in bullish mood ahead of the final day's play.

It's a pretty good wicket, said Mark, it's a fairly small ground, bit like Colwyn Bay to give a fair analogy and I think we'll have a go at chasing anything even if gets towards 350.

We're not going to take a backward step, although obviously we'd take their two wickets cheaply in the morning but if they get a partnership then we're not going to back down until late in the day and we'll try and chase anything.

Follow the final day on the Glamorgan website, with Twitter updates and see the players in T20 action in Cardiff on Sunday against Sussex Sharks, with start of play scheduled for 2.30pm and next week there is bumper helping of cricket with a four-day game against Leicestershire starting on Monday 22nd June before Surrey visit the Welsh capital for the sixth and penultimate T20 home game of the group stage. Buy tickets in advance to save here