Glamorgan County Cricket Club ( cy, Criced Morgannwg) is one of eighteen
first-class county clubs within the domestic
cricket
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structure of
England
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and
Wales
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. It represents the
historic county of
Glamorgan ( cy, Morgannwg). Founded in 1888, Glamorgan held
minor status at first and was a prominent member of the early
Minor Counties Championship
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before the
First World War
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.
In 1921, the club joined the
County Championship
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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
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Events January
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and
1997
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. 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
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and plays most of its home games at
Sophia Gardens, which is located on the bank of the
River Taff. Matches have also occasionally been played at
Swansea
Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the C ...
,
Colwyn Bay and
Cresselly (despite the latter towns being in
Denbighshire
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and
Pembrokeshire
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respectively).
Honours
First XI honours
*
County Championship
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(3) –
1948,
1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
,
1997
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* Sunday/National League/One Day Cup (4) – 1993, 2002, 2004, 2021
* 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
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for many years and then applied for first-class status after the
First World War
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.
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
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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
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Maynard was a batsman (and, later in his career, wicketkeeper) known for his aggressive and d ...
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
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,
off spin
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ner
Robert Croft, proved effective on England tours, and was a useful
pinch hitter
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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
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venue in 2009 when the First Test in the
Ashes series against
Australia
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was held there.
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.
Records
Most first-class runs for Glamorgan
Qualification – 16,000 runs
Most first-class wickets for Glamorgan
Qualification – 800 wickets
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
Sam Alexander Northeast (born 16 October 1989) is an English professional cricketer who plays for Glamorgan County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman. Northeast made his senior debut in 2007 and until 2017 played for Kent County Cricket ...
, Leicester, 2022
Best partnership for each wicket
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
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
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– various editions
External links
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