Glamorgan have lost the toss and will bat first in their County Championship match against Northamptonshire at the SWALEC Stadium.
There was good news for the Glamorgan side an hour before the toss when Mark Wallace passed a fitness test on his bruised thumb, allowing the doughty Glamorgan captain to continue his sequence of successive Championship appearances, which will now stand at 184 - the longest for any single county since 1976.
The Welsh county also left out Huw Waters from their 12-man squad, with both Murray Goodwin and Michael Hogan making their first-class debuts for the Club as Glamorgan line-up as follows: WD Bragg, BJ Wright, SJ Walters, MJ North, MW Goodwin, J Allenby, MA Wallace (capt and wk), GG Wagg, DA Cosker, MG Hogan, and MT Reed.
Last season's encounter between the two sides in the Welsh capital city ended in a rain-affected draw, and both teams will be hoping that the weather gods will be kinder on them than in 2012 when Glamorgan lost 103 hours of play and Northamptonshire 94.75 hours in the four-day competition
This is also the fourth time that Northamptonshire have been Glamorgan's first opponents in a County Championship season. All of the previous occasions have been at Northampton with the games in 1929 and 1932 ending in victories for Northamptonshire by 103 runs and 105 runs respectively, whilst the contest in 2001 ended in a draw.
