Glamorgan travel to Leeds for their next match in the LV=County Championship as they meet Yorkshire at Headingley in a game scheduled to start on Thursday, 4 May at 1100am (writes Andrew Hignell).
David Lloyd's team are currently in fifth place in the Division Two table with 31 points, ten points and two places above Yorkshire who, like the Welsh county, are still seeking their first victory of the 2023 campaign, with the White Roses having been beaten by three wickets by Leicestershire at Headingley as well as being beaten by the weather at Hove in their match against Sussex where they were within 63 runs of their victory target, with seven wickets in hand, when rain washed out the final day of the contest. This was the second time in as many weeks that Yorkshire had been thwarted by the weather this summer as their contest the week before against Gloucestershire at Bristol had been abandoned without a ball being bowled.
The Welsh county held the upper hand on their most recent visit to Headingley in 2021, as they drew their Championship match with Yorkshire having set the White Roses a notional target of 379 from 76 overs after snow had seen the loss of play on the third day. Glamorgan’s strong position after their second innings was the result of an unbroken fifth wicket stand of 212 in 69.5 overs between Billy Root and Chris Cooke, who each scored individual hundreds.
Had it not been for the inclement weather two years ago, Glamorgan might have recorded their first victory at Headingley since September 1999 and a game when Matthew Maynard, now the Club’s red-ball coach scored a majestic 186 before Steve Watkin claimed four wickets as the Tykes were forced to follow-on. Owen Parkin took the bowling honours during Yorkshire’s second innings as, despite a century from Richard Blakey, Glamorgan wrapped up victory by an innings and 52 runs inside three days.
Matthew’s hundred is one of only fifteen centuries to have been scored by Glamorgan's batters on Yorkshire soil in Championship cricket. As far as the bowling records for the Welsh county in Yorkshire are concerned, they are held – like so many in the Club’s annals - by the legendary Don Shepherd, with the off-cutter returning match figures of 9/56 in the game at Scarborough in 1966.