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Glamorgan County Cricket Club

Cricket Club in Wales

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name	Glamorgan County Cricket Club
image	[[File:GlamorganCCCLogo.svg	200px]]
oneday_name	Glamorgan
coach	Richard Dawson
captain	Kiran Carlson
overseas	Colin Ingram
founded	1888
ground	Sophia Gardens
capacity	16,000
first_fc	Sussex
first_fc_year	1921
first_fc_venue	Cardiff Arms Park
title1	County Championship
title1wins	3
title2	One-Day Cup
title2wins	5
title4	Twenty20 Cup/FPt20
title4wins	0
website	www.glamorgancricket.com
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Note

the men's team

Glamorgan County Cricket Club () is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Glamorgan (). 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.

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, 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/One Day Cup (5) – 1993, 2002, 2004, 2021, 2024
**County Championship Division Two Promoted - ** 2025
Minor Counties Championship (0)
- Shared (1): 1900

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 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 18–20 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.

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 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. 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.

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

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	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
5	Kiran Carlson*	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	Club Captain
7	Billy Root*	Left-handed	Right-arm off break
17	Callum Nicholls	Right-handed	Right-arm medium
41	Colin Ingram*	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Overseas player
55	Asa Tribe	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
97	Eddie Byrom	Left-handed	Right-arm leg break	Irish passport
—	Sean Dickson	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	UK passport
—	Jack Hope-Bell	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
8	Ben Kellaway	Right-handed	Right-arm off break
Slow left-arm orthodox
9	James Harris*	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
27	Zain-ul-Hassan	Left-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
88	Dan Douthwaite	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
—	Tom Norton	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
6	Henry Hurle	Right-handed	—
28	Will Smale	Right-handed	—
37	Alex Horton	Right-handed	—
46	Chris Cooke*	Right-handed	—	UK passport
3	Mason Crane	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break
11	Andy Gorvin	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
18	Ben Morris	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
22	Ned Leonard	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
35	Jamie McIlroy	Right-handed	Left-arm fast-medium
64	Timm van der Gugten*	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium
77	Romano Franco	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox

Records

Most first-class runs for Glamorgan

Qualification – 16,000 runs

Player	Runs
Alan Jones	34,056
Emrys Davies	26,102
Matthew Maynard	22,764
Gilbert Parkhouse	22,619
Hugh Morris	18,520
Arnold Dyson	17,921
Bernard Hedges	17,733
Allan Watkins	17,419
Peter Walker	16,510

Most first-class wickets for Glamorgan

Qualification – 800 wickets

Player	Wickets
Don Shepherd	2,174
Jack Mercer	1,460
Johnnie Clay	1,292
Robert Croft	1,001
Malcolm Nash	991
Frank Ryan	913
Wilf Wooller	887
Emrys Davies	885
Steve Watkin	861

Team totals

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

Batting

Highest score: 410* Sam Northeast, Leicester, 2022

Best partnership for each wicket

Wkt	Score	Batsmen	Against	Location
374	Matthew Elliott and Steve James	Sussex	Colwyn Bay	2000
328	Eddie Byrom and Colin Ingram	Sussex	Cardiff	2022
313	Emrys Davies and Willie Jones	Essex	Brentwood	1948
425*	Adrian Dale and Viv Richards	Middlesex	Sophia Gardens	1993
307	Kiran Carlson and Chris Cooke	Northamptonshire	Sophia Gardens	2021
461*	Sam Northeast and Chris Cooke	Leicestershire	Grace Road	2022
211	Tony Cottey and Ottis Gibson	Leicestershire	Swansea	1996
202	Dai Davies and Joe Hills	Sussex	Eastbourne	1928
203*	Joe Hills and Johnnie Clay	Worcestershire	Swansea	1929
143	Terry Davies and Simon Daniels	Gloucestershire	Swansea	1982
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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

List of Glamorgan CCC players
List of Glamorgan cricket captains

References

(1982). "A Guide to First-Class Cricket Matches Played in the British Isles". Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.
(20 August 2021). "Glamorgan clinch the Royal London Cup". Glamorgan Cricket.
(23 September 2024). "One-Day Cup final: Glamorgan beat Somerset by 15 runs". BBC Sport.
"Glamorgan defy early odds to win promotion". BBC Sport.
"Most runs for Glamorgan". CricketArchive.
"Most wickets for Glamorgan". CricketArchive.
"Highest partnership for each wicket for Glamorgan". CricketArchive.

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