Glamorgan County Cricket Club

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Glamorgan County Cricket Club
One-day name: Glamorgan
Captain: Wales Mark Wallace
Coach: Australia Matthew Mott
Overseas player(s): New Zealand Nathan McCullum (T20)
Founded: 1888
Home ground: SWALEC Stadium
Capacity: 16,000
First-class debut: Sussex
in 1921
at Cardiff Arms Park
County Championship wins: 3
Pro 40/CB40 wins: 3
FP Trophy wins: 0
Twenty20 Cup/FPt20 wins: 0
Official website: www.glamorgancricket.com

Glamorgan County Cricket Club (Welsh: Criced Morgannwg) is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh national cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire (Welsh: Morgannwg). Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Glamorgan CCC have won the English County Championship competition in 1948, 1969 and 1997. Glamorgan have also beaten all of the major Test playing nations, including Australia who they defeated in successive tours in 1964 and 1968. Its limited overs team is called simply Glamorgan. Kit colours are black and red. Shirt sponsorship is by Capital Law of Cardiff and Cuddy Group of Neath who are involved in civil engineering and demolition.

The club is based in Cardiff and plays most of its home games at the SWALEC Stadium in Sophia Gardens, which is located on the bank of the River Taff. Matches have also occasionally been played at Swansea, Colwyn Bay and Cresselly (despite the latter towns being in Denbighshire and Pembrokeshire respectively).

Honours

First XI honours

  • County Championship (3) – 1948, 1969, 1997
  • Sunday/National League (3) – 1993, 2002, 2004
Division Two (1) – 2001
  • Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (1) – 1900

Second XI honours

  • Second XI Championship (2) - 1965, 1980

Records

Most first-class runs for Glamorgan
Qualification – 16000 runs[1]

PlayerRuns
Alan Jones 34056
Emrys Davies 26102
Matthew Maynard 22764
Gilbert Parkhouse 22619
Hugh Morris 18520
Arnold Dyson 17921
Bernard Hedges 17733
Allan Watkins 17419
Peter Walker 16510

Most first-class wickets for Glamorgan
Qualification – 800 wickets[2]

PlayerWickets
Don Shepherd 2174
Jack Mercer 1460
Johnnie Clay 1292
Robert Croft 1001
Malcolm Nash 991
Frank Ryan 913
Wilf Wooller 887
Emrys Davies 885
Steve Watkin 861

Team totals

  • Highest Total For 718-3d v Sussex at Colwyn Bay, 2000
  • Highest Total Against 712 by Northamptonshire at Northampton. 1998
  • Lowest Total For 22 v Lancashire at Liverpool, 1924
  • Lowest Total Against 33 by Leicestershire at Ebbw Vale, 1965

Batting

  • Highest Score 309* S.P.James at Colwyn Bay, 2000

Best Partnership for each wicket

Wkt Score Batsmen Against Location Year
1st 374 Matthew Elliott and Steve James Sussex Colwyn Bay 2000
2nd 252 Matthew Maynard and David Hemp Northamptonshire Sophia Gardens 2002
3rd 313 Emrys Davies and Willie Jones Essex Brentwood 1948
4th 425* Adrian Dale and Viv Richards Middlesex Sophia Gardens 1993
5th 264 Maurice Robinson and Stan Montgomery Hampshire Bournemouth 1949
6th 240 Jim Allenby and Mark Wallace Surrey The Brit Oval 2009
7th 211 Tony Cottey and Ottis Gibson Leicestershire Swansea 1996
8th 202 Dai Davies and Joe Hills Sussex Eastbourne 1928
9th 203* Joe Hills and Johnnie Clay Worcestershire Swansea 1929
10th 143 Terry Davies and Simon Daniels Gloucestershire Swansea 1982
Source:[3]

Bowling

  • Best Bowling 10–51 J.Mercer v Worcestershire at Worcester, 1936
  • Best Match Bowling 17–212 J.C.Clay v Worcestershire at Swansea, 1937

Earliest cricket

Cricket probably reached Wales and Glamorgan by the end of the 17th century. The earliest known reference to cricket in Glamorgan is a match at Swansea in 1780.

Origin of club

The formation of Glamorgan CCC took place on 6 July 1888 at a meeting in the Angel Hotel, Cardiff.

The club competed in the Minor Counties Championship for many years and then applied for first-class status after the First World War.

Glamorgan CCC played its initial first-class match versus Sussex CCC at Cardiff Arms Park on 18, 19 & 20 May 1921 and thus increased the County Championship to 17 teams. Glamorgan won this first match, by 23 runs, under Captain N.V.H. Riches. Only one more victory was achieved that summer, Glamorgan lost 14 games and finished with the wooden spoon.

Club history

Glamorgan won the county championship in 1948 under the captaincy of Wilf Wooller, whose advocacy of high fielding standards was the key to beating stronger batting and bowling teams.

Glamorgan was the unintentional venue for a piece of cricket history on 31 August 1968 when, during Glamorgan v Notts at Swansea, Gary Sobers hit all six balls in an over from Malcolm Nash for six.

Glamorgan won the championship again under Tony Lewis in 1969 and Matthew Maynard in 1997. Maynard, who retired at the end of the 2005 season, was one of the most successful batsmen in first class cricket over the previous 20 years. The 2005 captain, off spinner Robert Croft, proved effective on England tours, and is a useful pinch hitter in List A one day games.

The club had plans in April 2006 to extend its grounds in the Grade 2 Listed Heritage Park that is Sophia Gardens, with a 17,500 seat super-stadium. This is opposed by local residents' groups and earlier plans were objected to by Cadw and local MPs, Councillors and Assembly Members.[citation needed]

On 20 April 2006, it was announced that, subject to the development being completed, one of the Tests against Australia in the 2009 Ashes series would be held at Sophia Gardens:[4]

Players

Current squad

  • No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
  • double-dagger denotes players with international caps.
  •   *  denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap.
|| Jacques Rudolph double-dagger ||  South Africa || (1981-05-04) 4 May 1981 || Left-handed || Right arm leg break || Overseas player
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
22 Will Bragg  Wales (1986-10-24) 24 October 1986 Left-handed —
26 Stewart Walters  Australia (1983-06-25) 25 June 1983 Right-handed Right arm leg break
28 Gareth Rees*  Wales (1985-04-08) 8 April 1985 Left-handed Left arm medium pace
29 Ben Wright*  England (1987-12-05) 5 December 1987 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
29 Murray Goodwin double-dagger*  Zimbabwe (1972-12-11) 11 December 1972 Right-handed Right arm leg break Kolpak registration
All-rounders
5 Jim Allenby*  Australia (1982-09-12) 12 September 1982 Right-handed Right arm medium pace
8 Graham Wagg  England (1983-04-28) 28 April 1983 Right-handed Left arm medium pace
20 Ruaidhri Smith  Scotland (1994-08-05) 5 August 1994 Right-handed Right arm medium pace
Wicket-keepers
18 Mark Wallace*  Wales (1981-11-19) 19 November 1981 Left-handed — Club captain
24 Chris Cooke  South Africa (1986-05-30) 30 May 1986 Right-handed —
Bowlers
17 Huw Waters  Wales (1986-09-26) 26 September 1986 Right-handed Right arm medium pace
21 Andrew Salter  Wales (1993-06-01) 1 June 1993 Right-handed Right arm off break
23 Dean Cosker*  England (1978-01-07) 7 January 1978 Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
34 Will Owen  Wales (1988-09-02) 2 September 1988 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
35 Michael Reed  England (1988-09-10) 10 September 1988 Right-handed Right arm fast-medium
36 John Glover  Wales (1989-08-29) 29 August 1989 Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
50 Simon Jones* double-dagger †  Wales† (1978-12-25) 25 December 1978 Left-handed Right arm fast-medium

† Played international cricket for the England team, which represents both England and Wales.

Lists of players and club captains

References

  1. ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2012-07-31. 
  2. ↑ "The Home of CricketArchive". Cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 2012-07-31. 
  3. ↑ "CricketArchive". CricketArchive. Retrieved 2012-07-31. 
  4. ↑ "BBC SPORT | Cricket | Cardiff to host Ashes Test match". BBC News. 20 April 2006. Retrieved 2012-07-31. 

Further reading

  • H S Altham, A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914), George Allen & Unwin, 1962
  • Derek Birley, A Social History of English Cricket, Aurum, 1999
  • Rowland Bowen, Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1970
  • Roy Webber, The Playfair Book of Cricket Records, Playfair Books, 1951
  • Playfair Cricket Annual – various editions
  • Wisden Cricketers Almanack – various editions

External links

Glamorgan County Cricket Club – current squad
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