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| One Day name | Glamorgan | |||
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| Personnel | ||||
| Captain | TBA | |||
| One Day captain | Kiran Carlson | |||
| Coach | Richard Dawson | |||
| Overseas player | Colin Ingram | |||
| Team information | ||||
| Founded | 1888 | |||
| Home ground | Sophia Gardens | |||
| Capacity | 16,000 | |||
| History | ||||
| First-class debut | Sussex in 1921 at Cardiff Arms Park | |||
| County Championship wins | 3 | |||
| One-Day Cup wins | 5 | |||
| Twenty20 Cup/FPt20 wins | 0 | |||
| Official website | www.glamorgancricket.com | |||
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Glamorgan County Cricket Club (Welsh:Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteenfirst-classcounty clubs within the domesticcricket structure ofEngland andWales. It represents thehistoric county ofGlamorgan (Welsh:Morgannwg). Founded in 1888, Glamorgan heldminor status at first and was a prominent member of the earlyMinor Counties Championship before theFirst World War.In 1921, the club joined theCounty Championship and the team was elevated to first-class status, subsequently playing in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England and Wales.[1]
Glamorgan is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. They have won the English County Championship competitionin 1948,1969 and1997. Glamorgan have also beaten international teams from all of the Test playing nations, including Australia whom they defeated in successive tours in 1964 and 1968. The club's limited overs team is called simplyGlamorgan. Kit colours are blue and yellow for limited overs matches.
The club is based inCardiff and plays most of its home games atSophia Gardens, which is located on the bank of theRiver Taff. Some First XI matches are also played atThe Gnoll inNeath. Matches have also occasionally been played atSwansea,Colwyn Bay andCresselly (despite the latter towns being inDenbighshire andPembrokeshire respectively).
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.
The formation of Glamorgan CCC took place on 6 July 1888 at a meeting in theAngel Hotel, Cardiff.
The club competed in theMinor Counties Championship for many years and then applied for first-class status after theFirst World War.
Glamorgan CCC played its initial first-class matchversusSussex CCC atCardiff Arms Park on 18–20 May 1921 and thus increased theCounty Championship to 17 teams. Captained byN.V.H. Riches, Glamorgan won this first match by 23 runs. Only one more victory was achieved that summer; Glamorgan lost 14 games and finished with the wooden spoon.
Glamorgan won the county championship in 1948 under the captaincy ofWilf 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 vNotts at Swansea,Gary Sobers hit all six balls in an over fromMalcolm Nash for six.
Glamorgan won the championship again underTony Lewis in 1969 andMatthew Maynard in 1997. Lewis is the only Glamorgan player to captain England in Tests, when he became the first Glamorgan cricketer to lead an England tour abroad to play series against India and Pakistan in 1972–73. 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 2005captain,off spinnerRobert Croft, proved effective on England tours, and was a usefulpinch hitter inList 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.
Sophia Gardens became aTest cricket venue in 2009 when the First Test in theAshes series againstAustralia was played there.
In 2021 Glamorgan won their first trophy for seventeen years, defeating Durham by 58 runs in the final of theRoyal London One-Day Cup.[2] They followed this up with a victory in the same competition in 2024, winning a shortened 20-overs-a-side game against Somerset by 15 runs.[3]
Glamorgan were promoted into Division One of the County Championship in 2025 after finishing runners-up in Division Two.[4]
| No. | Name | Nationality | Birth date | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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| 5 | Kiran Carlson* |  Wales | (1998-05-16)16 May 1998 (age 27) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | Captain (List A &T20) |
| 7 | Billy Root* |  England | (1992-08-05)5 August 1992 (age 33) | Left-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 17 | Callum Nicholls | Wales | (2004-07-30)30 July 2004 (age 21) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | |
| 41 | Colin Ingram* ‡ |  South Africa | (1985-07-03)3 July 1985 (age 40) | Left-handed | Right-armleg break | Overseas player |
| 55 | Asa Tribe ‡ |  Jersey | (2004-03-29)29 March 2004 (age 21) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break | |
| 97 | Eddie Byrom |  Zimbabwe | (1997-06-17)17 June 1997 (age 28) | Left-handed | Right-armleg break | Irish passport |
| — | Sean Dickson | South Africa | (1991-09-02)2 September 1991 (age 34) | Right-handed | Right-armmedium | UK passport |
| All-rounders | ||||||
| 8 | Ben Kellaway | Wales | (2004-01-05)5 January 2004 (age 21) | Right-handed | Right-armoff break Slow left-arm orthodox | |
| 9 | James Harris* | Wales | (1990-05-16)16 May 1990 (age 35) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 27 | Zain-ul-Hassan | England | (2000-10-28)28 October 2000 (age 24) | Left-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 88 | Dan Douthwaite | England | (1997-02-08)8 February 1997 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| Wicket-keepers | ||||||
| 6 | Henry Hurle | Wales | (2004-11-11)11 November 2004 (age 20) | Right-handed | — | |
| 28 | Will Smale | Wales | (2001-02-28)28 February 2001 (age 24) | Right-handed | — | |
| 37 | Alex Horton | Wales | (2004-01-07)7 January 2004 (age 21) | Right-handed | — | |
| 46 | Chris Cooke* | South Africa | (1986-05-30)30 May 1986 (age 39) | Right-handed | — | UK passport |
| Bowlers | ||||||
| 3 | Mason Crane ‡ | England | (1997-02-18)18 February 1997 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-armleg break | |
| 11 | Andy Gorvin | England | (1997-05-10)10 May 1997 (age 28) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 18 | Ben Morris | Wales | (2003-11-04)4 November 2003 (age 21) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 22 | Ned Leonard | England | (2002-08-15)15 August 2002 (age 23) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
| 35 | Jamie McIlroy | England | (1994-06-19)19 June 1994 (age 31) | Right-handed | Left-armfast-medium | |
| 64 | Timm van der Gugten* ‡ |  Netherlands | (1991-02-25)25 February 1991 (age 34) | Right-handed | Right-armfast-medium | |
Most first-class runs for Glamorgan
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Team totals
Batting
Best partnership for each wicket
| Wkt | Score | Batsmen | Against | Location | Year |
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| 1st | 374 | Matthew Elliott andSteve James | Sussex | Colwyn Bay | 2000 |
| 2nd | 328 | Eddie Byrom andColin Ingram | Sussex | Cardiff | 2022 |
| 3rd | 313 | Emrys Davies andWillie Jones | Essex | Brentwood | 1948 |
| 4th | 425* | Adrian Dale andViv Richards | Middlesex | Sophia Gardens | 1993 |
| 5th | 307 | Kiran Carlson andChris Cooke | Northamptonshire | Sophia Gardens | 2021 |
| 6th | 461* | Sam Northeast andChris Cooke | Leicestershire | Grace Road | 2022 |
| 7th | 211 | Tony Cottey andOttis Gibson | Leicestershire | Swansea | 1996 |
| 8th | 202 | Dai Davies andJoe Hills | Sussex | Eastbourne | 1928 |
| 9th | 203* | Joe Hills andJohnnie Clay | Worcestershire | Swansea | 1929 |
| 10th | 143 | Terry Davies andSimon Daniels | Gloucestershire | Swansea | 1982 |
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