Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Glamorgan County Cricket Club
One Day nameGlamorgan
Personnel
CaptainKiran Carlson
One Day captainAndy Gorvin (LA)
CoachRichard Dawson
Overseas player(s)Ryan Hadley
Colin Ingram
Nathan McAndrew
Mir Hamza
Raymond Toole
Fazalhaq Farooqi (T20)
James Neesham (T20)
Team information
Founded1888
Home groundSophia Gardens
Capacity16,000
History
First-class debutSussex
in 1921
at Cardiff Arms Park
County Championship wins3
One-Day Cup wins5
Twenty20 Cup/FPt20 wins0
Official websitewww.glamorgancricket.com

First-class

One-day

T20

Glamorgan County Cricket Club[1] (Welsh: Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Glamorgan (Welsh: Morgannwg). Founded in 1888, Glamorgan held minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early Minor Counties Championship before the First World War. In 1921, the club joined the County Championship and the team was elevated to first-class status, subsequently playing in every top-level domestic cricket competition in England and Wales.[2]

Glamorgan is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. They have won the English County Championship competition in 1948, 1969 and 1997. 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 simply Glamorgan. Kit colours are blue and yellow for limited overs matches.

The club is based in Cardiff and plays most of its home games at Sophia Gardens, which is located on the bank of the River Taff. Some First XI matches are also played at The Gnoll in Neath. Matches have also occasionally been played at Swansea, Rhos on Sea and Cresselly (despite the latter towns being in Conwy and Pembrokeshire respectively).

Honours

First XI honours

Second XI honours

  • Second XI Championship (2) – 1965, 1980
  • Second XI Twenty20 (2) – 2019, 2022

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 1771 newspaper report about noise levels at matches in Swansea.[3]

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 18–20 May 1921 and thus increased the County Championship to 17 teams. Captained by N.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.

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. 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 2005 captain, off spinner Robert Croft, proved effective on England tours, and was a useful pinch hitter in List A one-day games.

On 20 April 2006, the ECB announced that Glamorgan Cricket had been granted the right to host an Ashes Test against Australia in 2009.[4]

The following month, Cardiff Council’s Planning Committee approved Glamorgan’s plans for the stadium redevelopment, and during the summer, demolition work began at Sophia Gardens.[5]

In mid-September, the old pavilion was used for the final time during Glamorgan’s Championship match against Gloucestershire. By January 2007, construction had begun on the new pavilion complex, the new grandstand on the site of the former pavilion, and the Media Centre complex at the Cathedral Road end.

Building work continued throughout the summer of 2007, during which Glamorgan staged a number of home matches away from Cardiff.

The contractors, Carillion, handed the new stadium over to Glamorgan Cricket on 17 March 2008, and on 9 May, the Welsh county played their inaugural match in the completed stadium — a day‑night fixture against Gloucestershire.

Sophia Gardens became a Test cricket venue in 2009 when the First Test in the Ashes series against Australia was played there.

In 2021 Glamorgan won their first trophy for seventeen years, defeating Durham by 58 runs in the final of the Royal London One-Day Cup.[6] 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.[7]

Glamorgan were promoted into Division One of the County Championship in 2025 after finishing runners-up in Division Two.[8]

Players

Current squad

  • 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
Batters
5Kiran Carlson* Wales16 May 1998Right-handedRight-arm off breakClub Captain
7Billy Root* England5 August 1992Left-handedRight-arm off break
17Callum Nicholls Wales30 July 2004Right-handedRight-arm medium
23Jack Hope-Bell Wales13 July 2007Right-handedRight-arm off break
41Colin Ingram* ‡ South Africa3 July 1985Left-handedRight-arm leg breakOverseas player
58Sean Dickson South Africa2 September 1991Right-handedRight-arm mediumUK passport
55Asa Tribe ‡ Jersey29 March 2004Right-handedRight-arm off break
97Eddie Byrom Zimbabwe17 June 1997Left-handedRight-arm leg breakIrish passport
All-rounders
8Ben Kellaway Wales5 January 2004Right-handedRight-arm off break
Slow left-arm orthodox
27Zain-ul-Hassan England28 October 2000Left-handedRight-arm fast-medium
50James Neesham ‡ New Zealand17 September 1990Left-handedRight-handed fast-mediumOverseas player (T20 only)
88Dan Douthwaite England8 February 1997Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
Wicket-keepers
6Henry Hurle Wales11 November 2004Right-handed—
28Will Smale Wales28 February 2001Right-handed—
37Alex Horton Wales7 January 2004Right-handed—
46Chris Cooke* South Africa30 May 1986Right-handed—UK passport
81Harry Wallace Wales30 October 2008Left-handed—
Bowlers
0Nathan McAndrew Australia14 July 1993Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumOverseas player
3Mason Crane* ‡ England18 February 1997Right-handedRight-arm leg break
11Andy Gorvin England10 May 1997Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumCaptain (LA)
12Tom Norton Wales8 August 2007Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
16Connor O'Riordan Australia16 April 2002Left-handedRight-arm fast-mediumUK passport
18Ben Morris Wales4 November 2003Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
22Ned Leonard England15 August 2002Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
24Tom Edwards Wales11 July 2008Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
26Raymond Toole New Zealand30 October 1997Left-handedLeft-arm fast-mediumOverseas player
34Ryan Hadley Australia17 November 1998Right-handedRight-arm fast-mediumOverseas player
35Jamie McIlroy England19 June 1994Right-handedLeft-arm fast-medium
64Timm van der Gugten* ‡ Netherlands25 February 1991Right-handedRight-arm fast-medium
77Romano Franco England16 March 2007Left-handedSlow left-arm orthodox
83Fazalhaq Farooqi ‡ Afghanistan22 September 2000Right-handedLeft-arm fast-mediumOverseas player (T20 only)
92Mir Hamza ‡ Pakistan10 September 1992Left-handedLeft-arm fast-mediumOverseas player
Source:[9] Updated: 28 March 2026

Records

Team totals

  • Highest total for: 795/5d v. Leicestershire, Leicester, 2022[12]
  • Highest total against: 750 by Northamptonshire, Cardiff, 2019[13]
  • Lowest total for: 22 v. Lancashire, Liverpool, 1924[14]
  • Lowest total against: 33 by Leicestershire, Ebbw Vale, 1965[15]

Batting

Best partnership for each wicket

Wkt Score Batsmen Against Location Year
1st 374 Matthew Elliott and Steve James Sussex Colwyn Bay 2000
2nd 328 Eddie Byrom and Colin Ingram Sussex Cardiff 2022
3rd 313 Emrys Davies and Willie Jones Essex Brentwood 1948
4th 425* Adrian Dale and Viv Richards Middlesex Sophia Gardens 1993
5th 307 Kiran Carlson and Chris Cooke Northamptonshire Sophia Gardens 2021
6th 461* Sam Northeast and Chris Cooke Leicestershire Grace Road 2022
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:[16]

Bowling

  • Best bowling: 10/51 J. Mercer v. Worcestershire, Worcester, 1936
  • Best match bowling: 17/212 J. C. Clay v. Worcestershire, Swansea, 1937

Lists of players and club captains

References

  1. ↑ "The Formation of Glamorgan CCC".
  2. ↑ A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles. Nottingham. 1982. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "Landmarks and Milestones". Glamorgan Cricket Archives. Retrieved 11 March 2026.
  4. ↑ "Cardiff to host Ashes Test match". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 April 2006.
  5. ↑ "The Ground Redevelopment". Glamorgan Cricket Archives. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  6. ↑ "Glamorgan clinch the Royal London Cup". Glamorgan Cricket. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  7. ↑ "One-Day Cup final: Glamorgan beat Somerset by 15 runs". BBC Sport. 23 September 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  8. ↑ "Glamorgan defy early odds to win promotion". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Glamorgan Squad". Glamorgan CCC. Retrieved 28 March 2026.
  10. ↑ "Most runs for Glamorgan". Glamorgan Cricket Archives. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  11. ↑ "Most wickets for Glamorgan". Glamorgan Cricket Archives. Retrieved 7 April 2026.
  12. ↑ "Leics vs Glamorgan, at Leicester, County DIV2, Jul 20 2022 - Full Scorecard".
  13. ↑ "Glamorgan vs Northants, at Cardiff, County DIV 2, Apr 11 2019 - Full Scorecard".
  14. ↑ "County Championship, 1924 - Lancashire v Glamorgan".
  15. ↑ "County Championship, 1965 - Glamorgan v Leicestershire".
  16. ↑ "Highest partnership for each wicket for Glamorgan". CricketArchive. Retrieved 31 July 2012.

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