Leicestershire are Glamorgan's opponents as the Welsh county head to West Wales for their annual LV=County Championship match at the St. Helen's ground in Swansea, with the contest scheduled to get underway at 11a.m. on Wednesday, August 21st.
Match Preview
The East Midlands side last visited the ground overlooking Swansea Bay in 2010, with the game - like their previous seven visits to West Wales for Championship cricket - ending in a draw. In fact, Leicestershire have only won twice in eighteen visits to the St. Helen's ground with both of their victories - in 1921 and 1926 - coming during Glamorgan's inaugural decade as a first-class county.
The sequence of drawn Championship matches between Glamorgan and Leicestershire at Swansea stretches back over fifty years, with the last positive outcome coming in the contest in 1960 when Glamorgan, thanks to centuries from Gilbert Parkhouse and Allan Watkins, plus returns of 5/25 by Peter Walker and 6/60 by Don Shepherd saw the Welsh county to victory by an innings and 44 runs.
The East Midlands side have lost their last three Championship matches, including their last two by an innings to Essex and Lancashire. The two teams have already been in Championship action this summer with the contest at Grace Road during the final week of May ending in a draw, but with Glamorgan well on top after an unbeaten 138 by Jim Allenby and enforcing the follow-on before rain blighted the contest.
The match with Leicestershire also sees a couple of Glamorgan players approaching important milestones. Jim Allenby needs a further 59 runs to become the Welsh county's first batsman to a thousand runs for the summer - and the first since 2011 to reach this milestone - whilst the game will also be his 100th appearance in first-class cricket. Michael Hogan also needs two further wickets to become the first Glamorgan bowler since James Harris back in the 2010 season to claim fifty wickets in a season.
Team News
Glamorgan's 13-man squad for the match against Leicestershire sees Andrew Salter and Mike Reed being added to the eleven which drew with Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl. The Glamorgan squad in full is - GP Rees, WD Bragg, MW Goodwin, MJ North, CB Cooke, J Allenby, MA Wallace (capt), GG Wagg, JC Glover, AG Salter, DA Cosker, MG Hogan and MT Reed .
