Glamorgan County Cricket Club

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Glamorgan County Cricket Club
One-day name:	Glamorgan
Captain:	Mark Wallace Marcus North (One Day/T20)
Coach:	Matthew Mott
Overseas player(s):	Marcus North Dirk Nannes (T20)
Founded:	1888
Home ground:	SWALEC Stadium, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
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 [edit]

First XI honours [edit]

• 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 [edit]

• Second XI Championship (2) - 1965, 1980

Records [edit]

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

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 [edit]

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 [edit]

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 [edit]

Glamorgan famously 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 destructive batsmen in first class cricket over the past 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.^[4]

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:^[5]

Players [edit]

Current squad [edit]

• No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt.
• denotes players with international caps.
•   *  denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting Style	Bowling Style	Notes
Batsmen
12	Marcus North	Australia	(1979-07-28) 28 July 1979 (age 33)	Left-handed	Right arm off break	One Day Captain, Overseas player 2013
22	Will Bragg	Wales	(1986-10-24) 24 October 1986 (age 26)	Left-handed	—
11	Nick James	England	(1986-09-17) 17 September 1986 (age 26)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
26	Stewart Walters	Australia	(1983-06-25) 25 June 1983 (age 29)	Right-handed	Right arm leg break
28	Gareth Rees*	Wales	(1985-04-08) 8 April 1985 (age 28)	Left-handed	Left arm medium pace
29	Ben Wright*	England	(1987-12-05) 5 December 1987 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
All-rounders
5	Jim Allenby*	Australia	(1982-09-12) 12 September 1982 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
8	Graham Wagg	England	(1983-04-28) 28 April 1983 (age 30)	Right-handed	Left arm medium pace
Wicket-keepers
18	Mark Wallace*	Wales	(1981-11-19) 19 November 1981 (age 31)	Left-handed	—	Club captain (excl. One Day)
24	Chris Cooke	South Africa	(1986-05-30) 30 May 1986 (age 26)	Right-handed	—
Bowlers
17	Huw Waters	Wales	(1986-09-26) 26 September 1986 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right arm medium pace
21	Andrew Salter	Wales	(1993-06-01) 1 June 1993 (age 19)	Right-handed	Right arm off break
23	Dean Cosker*	England	(1978-01-07) 7 January 1978 (age 35)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox
27	Alex Jones	Wales	(1988-11-10) 10 November 1988 (age 24)	Right-handed	Left arm fast-medium
34	Will Owen	Wales	(1988-09-02) 2 September 1988 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
35	Michael Reed	England	(1988-09-10) 10 September 1988 (age 24)	Right-handed	Right arm fast-medium
36	John Glover	Wales	(1989-08-29) 29 August 1989 (age 23)	Right-handed	Right arm medium-fast
50	Simon Jones*	Wales†	(1978-12-25) 25 December 1978 (age 34)	Left-handed	Right arm fast-medium

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

Club captains [edit]

The following cricketers have captained Glamorgan County Cricket Club in first-class cricket since 1921.

• Norman Riches 1921
• T A L Whittington 1922–1923
• Johnnie Clay 1924–1927
• T Arnott 1928
• Norman Riches, Johnnie Clay 1929
• Maurice Turnbull 1930–1939
• Johnnie Clay 1946
• Wilf Wooller 1947–1960
• Ossie Wheatley 1961–1966
• Tony Lewis 1967–1972
• Majid Khan 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
• Alan Jones 1974, 1976, 1977–1978
• Robin Hobbs 1979
• Malcolm Nash 1980–1981
• Javed Miandad 1982
• Barry Lloyd 1982
• Mike Selvey 1983–1984
• Rodney Ontong 1984–1986
• Hugh Morris 1986, 1987–1988, 1989, 1993–1995
• Alan Butcher 1989–1992
• Matthew Maynard 1992, 1996–2000
• Steve James 2001–2003
• Robert Croft 2003–2006
• David Hemp 2006–2008
• Jamie Dalrymple 2009–2010
• Alviro Petersen 2011
• Mark Wallace 2012–present

Notable players [edit]

References [edit]

Further reading [edit]

• 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 [edit]

• Official website